Discussion
Recently, looking through announcements of games for the platform Symbian. The devices themselves do not possess the rich graphics capabilities, but on a variety of games they are a step ahead. Here and Splinter Cell, and Prince, and many other games already gained popularity on the PC and gaming consoles. I think this is because the games market for mobile phones emerged earlier, thanks to the efforts of the operators. Nevertheless, the market for handheld gaming is already growing rapidly. The really good games are still few, but the potential is great, and judging by the increasing diversity, we are getting closer and closer to the cherished moment, when the handheld is a lot of games - "good and different." According to the plan, which appeared in the last issue heading "Discussion", aims to accelerate this process, providing a means of communication between players and developers (I'm sure that among our readers there are those, and others). I really hope that this venture will benefit. In each new release, we will discuss various topics related to gambling. Send us your suggestions for topics of discussion, we will take them into account. In this issue we would like to hear your views about what, in your opinion, not enough current generation of games for PDAs? Use the link below the text of the article to enter the forum. And now we go to the review. You waiting for something really interesting.
Hit-parade
As always, we begin our review of the charts last issue: look at what games were most popular.
- BoxWorld for Pocket PC. Popularity Sokobana simply inexhaustible. I'm amazed. This game - an absolute record for the results of the first week among all the titles, which we have been told before.
- Jet Ducks for Pocket PC. Duck duel took a strong second position. Moreover, this time not even a frightening gap between the number of downloads for the Pocket PC version and was ranked third version for the Palm OS.
- Jet Ducks for Palm OS.
- Acky's XP Breakout for the Pocket PC. Despite his brilliance and variety, the game does not hit the top three. It can be seen, the collapse of the bricks in a dark atmosphere had no liking for our readers.
- Pocket Bar Billiards for Pocket PC. Wow! Billiards is not justified. And there was a time ...
- Battle Planet for Pocket PC. Fighting at night is no longer in vogue. The game scored quite a few admirers.
- Space Snake for Pocket PC. Finally, Snake! Judging by the number of downloads, it is all fed up. Say goodbye to this lovely creature, and friends. She serves on the pension.
Soon
Duke Nukem 3D
Platform: Smartphones based on Windows Mobile and Pocket PC More recently, a message about porting Duke Nukem 3D for Smartphone and Pocket PC aroused skepticism "smiles" at the convention participants. And now, the developers placing the first proof of the validity of its bold announcements - Forum MoDaCo is laid out a test version of the game for smartphones, in which our blond with a black pistol (gun, machine gun, a rifle and other shooting flames and spewing water pipes of different configurations) already running , jumps and shoots, district by district purifying his city from the alien scum. Moreover, some inconvenience (trouble with management) you can even shoot a few aliens and on Pocket PC.
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By registering on the forum, you will have access to the package archive files spvDuke3d.rar. Unpack and copy files to your smartphone, add a number of other files from the archive DukeNukem3dShareware, shared the same topic (a list of required files listed in the forum). Procedure is somewhat strange, but all eventually works, and even set up: as, among other things, you can change the level of detail in graphics, change the screen size and brightness. Through the file Duke3d.cfg can even reconfigure the control keys on the smartphone. Run and enjoy on your smartphone one of the most popular PC-games of its time. Agree, this is a breakthrough.
New
Owen's Monster Truck
Version of Owen's Monster Truck for Pocket PC version for Smartphones (Windows Mobile) - Coming Soon! Hello, dear fans of racing! Begin our broadcast from the events of the month - check Owen's Monster Truck. Thanks to modern technology, you can not only watch the three-dimensional racing, but also take them most directly involved. At the starting line lined up jeeps with huge wheels (Monster Trucks). Under number one - the machine itself Owen - race organizers and the current champion. After him - cars, "monster" of his main rivals. Of the commentaries cab I could see two wonderful racers - as contenders for the victory.
Judging from the revival, soon to be launched. Just add that today we are waiting for an unusual spectacle - as decided by the organizers, the rules of this race is very different from other events of this kind. Thus, in accordance with these rules, introduced a number of technical changes to the design of automobiles:
- Mounted on a body of a small turbo setup that lets you quickly accelerate to sufficiently high speeds (Turbo)
- Permission weapons, allowing the rider to run ahead of a small core weight, leading out car rivals from building (Shell)
- Added scoop like the bulldozer, which will sweep away the obstacle from the road and rammed a rival car without damage to their own jeep (Plow)
- Boxes are removed. From now on every jeep will take on board a whole set of necessary tools and spares. parts and carry out necessary repairs on the move (Tools)
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In each race involved four vehicles. Let me remind you, the race held on the City highway, two laps to go. Here I see a track suited man with a green check mark. Wag ... The roar of engines, the smoke from the exhaust pipe ... Machines broke down from their seats. Good luck to all participants!
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Tips. If you do not want to play a joystick, you can use the so-called virtual T-Pad-ohm. It can be enabled from the settings, it can also indicate the place of removal of T-Pad-and on display. Another small convenience - automatic gear box. In the dispersal of the machine until a certain speed, the display shows a green arrow. If you click it, you no longer need to put pressure on the gas, it remains to maneuver between obstacles on the road. Be careful on the turns, Reduce your speed, or at least clear the foot off the accelerator. Pluses. This is a full 3D-game. The developers decided to even demonstrate its capabilities by adding a preview mode, where you can be a spectator at races broadcast cameras from different points of the route. Try to select Watch - very interesting. Incidentally, such a demonstration is provided in other three-dimensional games OmniG Soft. User-friendly interface, providing an opportunity to drive and use all the advanced settings directly from the display. In this case, all the buttons are located so that you do not have to hide the track when they are used (I have often seen such a lack in other games). Finally, I should note that, even using the same engine, the game does not suffer OmniG Soft monotony. Cons. Music and sounds. The only available music videos - is too harsh, and sounds do not exist. Other games from the developer OmniG Software
- Nine Hole Golf for Pocket PC
- 3D Mini-Dogfight for Pocket PC and Windows Mobile smartphones
- 3D Mini-Sportsbike for Pocket PC and Windows Mobile smartphones
Giza: each Pharaoh - on a personal shrine!
Version Giza for Pocket PC Hot, dry desert - earth, cracked by the drought, sand and hot wind. There, on a "parade ground of the sun" vzydmayutsya up dozens of pyramids - tombs of the kings of the monstrous, their refuge and protection, where they await their resurrection.The construction of only one of them took two and a half million stone blocks. Hundred thousands of slaves during the long twenty years, erected it, sacrificing oneself for the sake of one, for the sake of the Pharaoh.
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... The reign IV Dynasty in Egypt - the time of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure. So, it is time your reign. Now you - the master of Egyptian land, and as governor, you should strengthen the greatness and power of Egypt, construction, trade and agriculture. And before you go to the west coast of the Nile, among the dead, you should build there is another wonder of the world - his pyramid. Only when the great construction is complete, you will become a winner and can safely serve to Osiris - god protector of the dead. Giza - the game of the genre of "economic strategy". To control the kingdom are at your disposal four interfaces: "Navy", "Trade", "Taxation and zemeledelie" and "Construction". To start trading, you need to build yourself a ship that will sail the Mediterranean ports, selling and buying silk, spices, jewelry and much more (in total - 8 types of goods). You set the level of taxes in the kingdom, allocate land for seeding and sacrifice to the gods so that they may have compassion on your trading ships (I'm greedy, cheated Gore with Osiris, they resented and sank my ship). And finally, through the interface "Construction", you send people to build pyramids and track its progress. Finally, if under 75 years old you are finished building, the time will come when, O Pharaoh, a winner, "the sky straighten the sun's rays for you so that you ascended into heaven, like the eye of Ra."
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Pluses. For all its flaws - is an economic strategy - the genre, unfortunately, quite rare. The emergence of such games happy, especially since that story became the basis Giz'y Egypt, have long conquered the cinema for its mysteries and wisdom and modern art design of its architecture and traditions. In addition, the Egyptian strategy there is an excellent musical accompaniment provided by Jaybot7 (composer Jason Surguine, is also collaborating with PDAMill). Also among the virtues - not a bad engine, which keeps the voltage and can not relax attention throughout the gameplay. Cons. Graphics, in my vzlyad, leaves much to be desired. There are also some shortcomings in the interface - it is impossible, for example, to make both the sale and purchase, even in the same port, and this - the loss of precious time. There is no way to see what is stored in warehouses - you have to go a roundabout way - to find the goods at another port, only when it displays information about whether there is in the midst of your stocks. In addition, the authors studied or poorly thought out story line game. To paraphrase a famous kinogeroya, we can say: "Comrades, stop gag! In the days of ancient Egypt was not of galleons and frigates! Was not! "Other games genre" economic strategy ".
- Tradewinds for Pocket PC and Palm OS
- Age of Empires for Pocket PC
Other games from the company Trisystech
- Aeon of Discovery for Pocket PC
Brief updates on other
Space Balls
Version Space Balls for Pocket PC version of Space Balls for Smartphone Windows Mobile Lines is very interesting variety of developer AIM Productions. Your gun, shooting colored balls located in the center. Bottom of the spiral is moving slowly at you with an innocent mind, but "tailed" soul insidious and aggressive snake from balls of different colors arranged randomly.You are defending, shooting balls at the snake so as to bring the number of consecutive same colored balls to four. Then, as a result of complex biological changes, they disappear, reducing the body of the snake. With each level of complexity (and all three of them) add new color and increases the rate of the snake. Try it to win the most difficult level (Hard). From the first time will come ...
Other games from the company's AIM Productions:
- Done in 50 seconds for Palm OS
- Chopper Rescue for Pocket PC
- Toki Tori for Pocket PC
- Pool Challenge for Pocket PC
Invaders 3000
Version Invaders 3000 for Pocket PC It looks like aliens obsessed with our green planet. Who just do not send in a fantasy land developers. And almost everything - angry to the disgrace, obsessed with destruction. But always there is a lone hero, the last hope and bastion of earthlings. Here it is - square cheekbones, an aquiline nose, a determined look, machine-gun belts and War Paint (some more and feather in her hair for greater effect). And so, after a long lull, "strangers" again arrived. At this time, our hero-savior sat down to a laser gun with the intention of firing back to the last. A scary green creatures are getting closer and closer, "they shake and make noise and wiggle his mustache." It's very simple - you expand the gun by pressing the joystick "right" and "left" shooting bullets by pressing the "up" and grenades by pressing the "down". New grenade appears after every 3.000 points. By the way, do not throw a grenade close to her - would undermine themselves. That's all the rules. Proceed to the rescue ... We all look to you.
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Other games like Invaders:
- Shattered Worlds for Pocket PC and Palm OS
- Alien Terrain for Palm OS
Pocket Griddler
Pocket Griddler version for Pocket PC in 1987, a famous Japanese designer, Non Ishida published several puzzles invented it in the local press. Puzzles were a resounding success, and soon nonogrammy, named in honor of its creator, appeared in the pages of the English «The Telegraph», a later and game consoles («Mario's Picross»), from which began its march across the globe. Rules Griddlers, as they call nonogrammy in England are pretty simple - you need to calculate the correct location of chips on the field, based on numbers, located on the axes. In the Pocket Griddlers figures indicate the number of purple chips in the row or column. A few figures on the same line indicate that, at present vertically or horizontally are several groups from a given quantity of chips, separated by at least one empty cell. In order to finish the game, you must click on the purple box, changing the color of the balls on the green and fill in all the remaining free cells. With the game on time, every error reduces the number of minutes allocated to you. David Pierron has done a really good job. The game is fully customizable: you can change the value of the playing field, change the difficulty level, choose your language (English or French) and many more. The website of the game is available even access to development environment - CVS, where you can make suggestions on the game and write about bugs. And note - it's all free.
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Other nonogrammy:
- Japanese Crossword for Pocket PC
Joggle
Joggle version for Pocket PC version of Joggle for Palm OS New Idea! In this vivid and colorful puzzle is now available on Pocket PC, you need to remove all items from the playing field, grouping the three-color pieces horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Multi-colored elements can be moved on the field upward and outward. Be very careful - after each unsuccessful move on the field of new elements are added.
Other puzzles
- Amazing World for Pocket PC
- GameBox Gems for Pocket PC
- Pobble for Palm OS
- Make a series for Palm OS
Teddies' Revenge
Version Teddies' Revenge for Pocket PC I've been trying to find games for kids - good, developing, funny. Unfortunately, very few of them. Seeing a teddy bear as the main character, I was delighted with another rare instance of such a game. However, the name of the game and a brief description to quickly dispel any illusions. By a strange idea creators, Teddies' Revenge - a game about once beloved and now abandoned toys. They were preparing for a long time and now have decided to take revenge on their fleeing owners. Dense units are looming on your fence, built of bricks, and you shoot them from the object remotely resembling an aerosol spray. Edakii "dichlorvos" for the cubs. No instructions for the game, to help with the keys you need some time to wait after starting the game - tips on the screen. There are, however, one undeniable advantage - play for free.
Other arcade shooters:
- Galactic Assault for Pocket PC Free!
- Space Invaders for Pocket PC
- Foo Fighter for Pocket PC and Smartphone OS
- Sky Force for Pocket PC
- Vyper for PalmOS
- Interlopers for PalmOS
- Earth Defender for Pocket PC
Updates
All-In Hold 'Em v1.2
Version of the All-In Hold 'Em for Pocket PC «Lord! Please make room, and stop smoking at the table. To us prosoedinilas lady. Anna, welcome you. Lance, welcome. I hand over the card. "Two new players added BirdSoft company in the next update to its excellent Poker All-in Hold'em. In addition, the new version significantly improved engine and game interface - now you can customize all the colors.
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The game is a perfect example of how little preparatory work could change the outcome. Developers have watched TV games, learned the rules of competition, talked with the players and voila - we face a well-designed game with a wonderful engine. Under the rules of All-in Hold'em, each player receives two cards. After betting on a table laid out three face down, then after the next round - two more. If the total, with open cards, your two form a winning combination - to raise rates (Raise). There is also a possibility poostorozhnichat, taking a bet (Call) and fold (Fold). The authors, translation:
Vladimir Ghukasian
