Games for the PDA, the third week of July

Coming soon: a new RPG-game from PDAMill

PDAMill gaining new heights. Experience with 3D-flight - Game Flux - in my opinion, very successful. According to preliminary data, the company has now taken a role-playing game genre. The website Games-Art published a screenshot of ripening in the bowels PDAMill role-playing game. Unfortunately, no details at this time. We only know that the new product will be ready in September and is available in versions for platforms Pocket PC, Palm OS, MS Smartphone and Symbian.
Games for the PDA, the third week of July
Maybe next week we will be able to get some more information. However, we can confidently say that if another game will be as planned and worked out, like all previous ones, then we can have many entertaining hours.

Coming Soon: Updated Tower Mogul for Pocket PC

ESoftInteractive surprise in store for us. Coming soon upgrade their economic simulator Tower Mogul, which we described in a previous issue playing soft parade. Entering the game as a large landowner and trader of real estate, you design and build multi-storey buildings, develop them, advertising, shall be hotel rooms, apartments and office space to rent, watch out for reviews of their guests, providing them with additional amenities, changing the layout of the commercial zone and m . etc. Your goal - to increase the rating of the building. With each rating point you get more and more opportunities to expand their business. The first version of the game has received excellent evaluation of many reviewers, and was also awarded the title of the best simulation game of 2003.
Games for the PDA, the third week of July
In the new version - Tower Mogul 1.2 - the developers promise a lot of innovations. It is very tempting, considering that in the first version was more than 60 types of premises, a variety of catastrophes, the ability to produce screenshots of your homes and more. Apparently, the release of the game will take place soon enough - the company is already conducting a beta test. We will monitor developments and will inform you as soon as ESoftInteractive determine the day of X.

Coming Soon: Updated Fish Tycoon for Palm OS

New idea! LDW Software Company prepares to release a new version of Fish Tycoon (see Fiction soft parade, or a way to silence: the game of the oligarchs). In the present version, in their search for Miraculous species you are growing, and crosses of fish in their aquariums, sell, derived forms and re-invest money in research and advertising, purchasing necessary equipment and medicines. According to the company, the updated version, you will receive an additional feature: you can sell and exchange new views with your friends and acquaintances. From now on, the game is not limited to a single handheld - with an infrared port you go to the "outer market". Looking forward to ...

New: Street Duel

Version Street Duel for Pocket PC

Announced in the previous issue of our review, Street Duel is already on sale. Unfortunately, the demo version does not. Experience it can only be paid $ 19.95 on the portal Handango. Bandits, cars, car chases, girls ... A variety of tasks: racing through the deserted streets with prize cars, rescue the girl, the transport of the gang members, finding hidden in cars and much more. All this in three dimensions. Judging by the reviews, the game met the expectations that are associated with it. PDA gaming overcame yet another milestone and reached the level of gaming consoles. As the developers themselves, the English company Pixelogic, which had previously engaged in the production of games for consoles, Street Duel exceed those games that they released in time for the first generation of Play Station.
Games for the PDA, the third week of July
A short list of the main advantages of the game, laid out on the site Pixelogic:

- Engine, which provides realistic movement and damage

- 9 different types of cars with different characteristics

- Turns on the emergency brake: the tracks and the smoke from the tires, run stoplights

- 4 rhythmic music video, written by Björn Lin.

Judging by the screenshots, the list is still long. Hopefully, that will soon be able to get the game and appreciate it highly.

New: LoonyHen

LoonyHen version for Pocket PC

Judging by the date on the website, the studio Pocket Hut - new. And although the games they appeared about a month ago, all three games have been widely announced only last week, so introduce them to your attention in this issue of game review. All the toys are rather simple, but attractive, with excellent sound design.

Games for the PDA, the third week of July
So, "Crazy Chicken". With the chickens on your farm is something strange. They carry, without ceasing. Peculiar form of egg incontinence. While doctors understand that you are coming from, you sly use the moment and run around with a basket under the chicken on the roost, trying to catch demolished to perch eggs. A hen at roost also can not sit still - she is fidgeting, then crawling on it ... All that is required of you - just move his fingers with clenched in their stylus to move the cart. Do not pick gray eggs are rotten. And be careful, sometimes the chicken lays the golden eggs. And so, disease, cackles ...

New: Popcorn Boy

Version of Popcorn Boy for Pocket PC

Another game from the Pocket Hut what is called the speed. At this time, you - the peddler of popcorn. Runs on the ladder the stands, responding to the whistle, and throws in whistler packet of popcorn. He politely answers you empty bags. All content and happy. Remember whistlers during the high demand will not have to, they checked. Note that a long wait no one likes, and check boxes, depending on the mood of waiting, gradually darken. Do not have time to deep cream, dissatisfied runs into you by some hard object, after which the game begins.
Games for the PDA, the third week of July
Unfortunately, the game is devoid of any instructions, so to share experience. Management - a joystick. Up, down - move the ladder. Left - Start pack of popcorn. Do not rush to those who did not wish - to answer them will not rust! And do not forget to replenish stocks of popcorn in a stall under the stairs. The game is accompanied by great music, creating a mood.

New: Poon Tank

Version Poon Tank for Pocket PC

Unfortunately, all research and attempts to somehow explain to the title game to nothing lead. The nature of our adversaries in the game, too, remained outside of awareness (judging by the picture - toothy gnats). And still they come, and come from different corners of the display. Expand our tank, and - fire! Again and again, until all have been destroyed. Not hesitated - as soon as they get closer to a sufficient distance to you - you get hit by laser (I wonder where he got kozyavok lasers:).
Games for the PDA, the third week of July
Overcome the levels one after the other and gain new enemies - circles and strange objects, vaguely reminiscent of the elevator door (gnats are canceled, the biological diversity of an enemy race just scary).With the advent of new facilities and changing weapons. Today reload button and remove the scum laser. Newly Today - and the bullets tend to save the Earth from uninvited guests (that's it! They are "people unearthly"). Poon Tank of those games that are easy to lure early, delaying the game for long clear graphics and a full set of sounds. The only pity (or maybe fortunately), that the demo ends fairly quickly.

New: Darts Deluxe II

Version Darts Deluxe II for Palm OS

At that time, when one of the main weapons of warriors good old England were bows and arrows, archers continually trained hand and eye. Whiling away the long winter evenings in the taverns, they found a way to improve their skills and here: shortening their arrows, they began to hurl them into the wall nailed to a wooden block. Soon engulfed the whole fascination with Britain, and even went beyond its borders. The King of France Charles VI and his Majesty King Henry VIII English were big fans of "Darts" and excellent thrower. Sometimes uluchat minute, pick up the floors of the mantle - and the sniffing of public affairs to the board of the target!

Games for the PDA, the third week of July
In 1908, the "Darts" was recognized as a popular sport and recreation. Have been held official competitions, the first champions. In our time, is very popular in the UK, USA, Germany and Australia. Darts Deluxe II by Deluxeware - a great way to learn how to play, to develop its strategy and acquire the necessary skills before taking the hands of a real dart. All is not as easy as it seems. Go through the rules. Your goal - a round board, divided into sectors, called dartbord. Hit in the sector gives you a specified number of points on the board. In addition, it also has two variegated red and green rings. When injected into the sector of the outer ring scores double. If your dart hit the sector of the inner ring, your points are multiplied by three. Caught in the heart (or, as it is called, the bull's eye - "bull's eye") - 25 points for the green circle and 50 in red. Two basic types of games - x01 and cricket. They are based on all 11 varieties are available in Darts Deluxe II. In the x01 to score points, which is deducted from a certain number, depending on the selected game. Your goal - to reset the given number. In order to win in cricket you have to "knock out" the sectors from 20 to 15, including a bull's eye. "Knocked out" is the sector in which you hit three. Here, too, are doubling and tripling of the points in contact with the outer and inner rings respectively. There are here and one little trick: If your opponent "knocks" sector first, then any additional hit it will add points to it. So try to knock out first the sectors with the most points. Not bad. Very informative. Fans of sports games like that. Lovers of novelty - too. The game is made so that the throw to a certain point. Many opportunities to test their skill and ability to shape strategy. Personally, I liked the level of play of artificial opponent. He does not play so bad and is well within the specified level. Unfortunately, little attention was paid to the entourage: sound, sporty atmosphere and everything that makes us worry, nervous, take some time to leave the game with a head ...

Update: Atari Retro

Version of Atari Retro for Pocket PC

Version of Atari Retro for Palm OS

Version of Atari Retro for Mircosoft Smartphone



Atari Retro - a suite of 7 licensed Atari 2600 games have been ported to PDAs. Among them - Adventure, Asteroids, Breakout, Centipede, Missile Command, Pong and Yar's Revenge. Its main difference from many other attempts to port the Atari game is that Atari Retro is actually a simulator optimized for a variety of models of handheld computers. Moreover, the emulator worked fine - no glitches, the differences in graphics and sound. The game is not for nothing was the winner of Handango Champion Awards 2004 in the category of Best Game Application - it is really well done.
Games for the PDA, the third week of July
In last week released the second version of the game realizvon number of improvements that have increased usability of the program:

- Full screen emulation

- Redesigned user interface / menu

- Added support for Microsoft Smartphone and Windows Mobile 2003 SE.

Update: Aeon of Discovery

Version of the Aeon of Discovery for Pocket PC

We are entering an era of discovery, the era of the conquest of lands of the New World. Choose a country (in the demo comes into play under the flag of Spain). Getting to the development of land. At our disposal - the soldiers, colonists, who master the new land, a fleet for the conquest of the islands. Our task - to explore the lands, to conquer them, to manage their colonies, monitor resources, and sentiments among the local population, which can sometimes rebel, and sometimes be a miracle as an obedient - depending on your generosity;) Plague, the expedition goes missing, the permanent Battle over land and resources, pirates, internal divisions ... We alone are responsible for everything. In addition, we are also responsible for communication with higher authorities. Say, not only locals but also the King of Spain wants money, otherwise we will be reinforcements from their native lands.
Games for the PDA, the third week of July
In the update, resulting in just 3 weeks after the initial release, fixes some bugs and introduced a variety of the game:

- A new randomly generated event - the discovery of gold deposits in the colonies

- The possibility of withdrawal of troops, ships and their redeployment

- Possibility to stop reporting on the activities of opponents (formerly messages flashed across the screen and there was no way to browse and read them to sorientirovtsya)

- Garrison soldiers can now attack the local population and to expel him from the colony

- As many as 5 new soundtrack

- Reduced the amount consumed by the device.

Update: MicroQuad

MicroQuad version for Palm OS

MicroQuad - Racing ATV from a company Viex. At your disposal - 20 tracks, divided into 5 categories. Access to each successive track is given after a certain number of races on the track of the previous level. 6 different types of ATVs. Each of them gives an advantage to a particular route: on the grass, snow and asphalt highway. Some people - faster, while others - grip better. Well thought out and control system: you can play either the buttons on the panel, PDA or soft buttons on the display screen, and you can rearrange the management system at your discretion. Dramatic reversals, such as those described above for Street Duel - for a sharp turn, you can use the so-called "Militia" maneuver - by pressing the button changes the direction and brakes.
Games for the PDA, the third week of July
MicroQuad - a great opportunity to compete with other racers via Bluetooth: up to 6 players can participate in the race. To do this, however, need to acquire at least one licensed copy of the game, which later would serve as a server. The new version of the game - MicroQuad 1.1 - developers added 4 novye tracks, extra quad, as well as the ability to upload scores to the server. The authors, translation:

Vladimir Ghukasian