Hit Parade: 1 st week of August
We present a brief hit parade of games released in the first week of August and described in the previous issue of our review. Hit parade based on the number of downloads of software users of the site HPC.ru. Thus,
- Street Duel for Pocket PC. Nesomenny and fully expected the leader of our hit parade.
- Poker Guide for Pocket PC.
Thirst for knowledge took her. - Revolution Air Hockey for Pocket PC.
Well, I did not expect to see this game in third place. - BS Hacker for Pocket PC.
Hacking is in fourth place? Nostalgia, I guess. - Plant Tycoon for Pocket PC.
Seen yunnatstvo nonche not in vogue. Incidentally, the version for Pocket PC last week won a third of the number of downloads for Plant Tycoon for Palm OS, posted in our catalog in April. Pull, gentlemen, tightens. - Snabbo for Pocket PC.
- Football Director for Pocket PC.
Frankly, I expected that the Football Director enters the top three. Do not guess. - Greed for Pocket PC.
Greed was unseemly for gamers. - Spheroids for Pocket PC.
Spheroids with all clear. They - the weakest link. Did not survive the competition. Although ... May be the whole picture is changed with time? We'll see.
New
Tradewinds: A novel about the life of adventure
Version of Tradewinds for Pocket PC version of Tradewinds for Palm OS once was an interesting time. People were allowed into the sea for discovery, for research, and incidentally for profit. There were those who did it for the glory of the crown, but there were others - people are adventurous, hunters, adventure, the masters of their destiny. The main characters Tradewinds - just like that. As his character, I chose Douglas MakGouena, at one time a successful merchant who climbed the corporate ladder from a simple clerk to the owner of a trading company, is going through hard times. I shot at, robbed, robbed of my stores, I had to borrow money at interest from the Chinese money-lenders and even smuggling. Share experiences.
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| Tradewinds: Port, the view from the sea. Route, the view from space. |
Getting the game in Port turmoil. All the running, rushing, shouting. Almost in every port - its market. Shop around and be guided quickly - the prices change almost every month. Purchase and Sale - is your main way of earning money. You can also earn, drowning pirates. In this case, you get what was on their ships, as well as compensation from the authorities, if you managed to defeat the raging robber, suggestive of fear in the captains. At each port there is also a bank, where you can save money, officials from whom you get remuneration for sunken pirate (Collect bounty), a pub, where you can learn a lot of useful information, buying booze sailors (Buy round), as well as lenders and shipyard. In shipbuilders you can repair a battered sea battle ship, buy more guns, as well as new ships. Your goal - a billion dollars. And the thorny path to them, but not uniform. This - the life adventurers.
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| Tradewinds: Market Information and skirmish with pirates |
Tips. Among the items you will find the "Powder Dreams» (Dream dust). He brings the most revenue with the right approach, but be careful when entering certain ports authorities are conducting a search. You will be fined a large amount is locked away in the transportation of drugs. Further, the more guns on the ship, the less room for cargo, respectively, the lower the income from the expeditions. Leave the money in the pot. This will help you, if pirates overwhelm one of your ships. Pluses. Fascinating scenario. Good performance.Ever-changing situations that keep the tension and make return to play again and again. Perfectly designed components are harmonically related to each other - sea battles, trade routes - all of them - part of a single race for a Billion. Cons. Several are difficult to save games. Also, complete lack of control over the course of the battle with the pirates. In fact, the outcome decided only by chance.
GameBox Gems: Gems on the palm
Version GameBox Gems for Pocket PC Version GameBox Gems for Palm OS Games PDAMill knowingly popular. They are always beautiful, accurate, exciting. Last week, one of their gems (literally), was released for Palm OS. Wonderful wonderful music, excellent content-employed, many variants of the game with clearly defined goals and objectives. Thus, an anthology of gnomes! Everything you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask! Excursion to the underground work for the extraction of precious stones! As many as 8 games. 8 different jobs in the mines. The main goal of the game is to destroy the field of precious stones. In order to remove from the field one or a gem, you want to group it with two or more identical gems. All other conditions vary depending on the selected game. Thus, in the Jewel Master we get into the mine, where the extraction of precious wood, simply mark the blocks surrounding the same-colored with two or more stones, without, however, we can not allow the wall was not extracted at least one gem. In Raising Diamonds - sorting - all on the same principle with the only difference is that here in the screening (the destruction of the field) have the same colored stones, adds another number. At the same time to avoid contact with the upper limit of gems field.
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| GameBox Gems: Main Menu, Rising Diamonds |
At each level, you meet a dwarf-guide, which details the activities of his, shall we say, a department that makes it easy for you to orient in the game. By the way, depending on the scored points in the mines, you move up the career ladder. In the short time I got to junior miners. Pluses. Excellent graphics! Good sounds and music. A remarkable animation. Well-designed content of the game, its text content, well-seasoned style. Variety of games does not seem chaotic, they are all fit into a single scenario, they can easily understand, thanks to a well-written instructions. Very good idea - the voice instructions play: someone baritone encourages you in case of failures and rejoices in the case of a good move. Cons. The original approach to the interface and the absence of the usual main menu, while interesting, however, leads to a slight inconvenience. For example, at the time of writing I have not found how to get points earned on the server.
Brief updates on other
PAjDAX
PAjDAX version for Pocket PC Version PAjDAX for Palm OS Czech puzzle. Version for Palm OS was released by Czech designer Juraj Cibula, known as PajDA, back in May and enjoyed success on the portal PalmGear (800 downloads in 2 months). And now - the version for Pocket PC is also ready. Your task - to move all the items on the field so that the same were next to each other, thus they are eliminated, and you get points. Note - items can also be combined, placing them in the form of letters, more than 150 levels in full version and 12 in the demo.
Allure Reversi
Printable Allure Reversi for Pocket PC Version Allure Reversi for Palm OS Intorine Company introduced its version of the very popular board game Reversi. To win, you need to take most of the playing field for its chips.With each move horizontally, vertically and diagonally disguise all the chips of the enemy, which are located between the set pieces and your other chips on the field. Try to take the extreme series - it will help you win. At your disposal:
- Two Varant initial layout of chips
- Well done AI-engine, high-third level of complexity must be very carefully considered the moves.
- Reversi for two players on one device
- Available moves tips
- Undo last move.
Clot
Clot version for Pocket PC Coming Soon: version for Symbian Series 60 phone and N-Gage in a certain kingdom, in some states were released a number of jet particles. And if they no longer collect and send in the right direction, the temperature in the storage tank will rise, and the radiation level is raised to mark the catastrophic and tragic consequences are not inevitable. So, pressing the stylus to create the reservoir flows by directing particles of different colors in the corresponding pipe. I remember in my childhood were distributed similar toys - only there in liquid glycerol had to impose a ring on rods. Perhaps the game will be interesting to children, but hardly anything to teach, but certain patterns of movement.
Japanese Crossword
Version Japanese Crossword for Pocket PC turns in Japan, held contests for the best picture. And not just an image, a figure made up on a skyscraper of dark and lighted windows. In 1987, the prize for such an image has received a Japanese designer, Non Ishida. Soon after she published her first tasks, in which zakrashivaya cells in the field, it was necessary to get a certain figure. Puzzles and tasks that are on the author's name were called Nonogrammami appeared first in Japanese magazines, and then in the extremely popular English edition of The Telegraph, where they began their march around the world. Principles are simple - paint the cells in the field, based on numbers, located on the axes. The figures indicate the number of cells in the row or column. If the specified number of digits, they show a few blocks from a given number of colored cells, between which there is at least one empty square. All cells in the field have three positions: shaded (black), blank (white), questionable (cream color). The final figure all the cells must be either white or black. With the right decision before you appear interesting picture. To practice really helps to see several purposes, at the same time enjoy the interesting Nonogrammami.
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Updates
Foo Fighter 1.1
Version of the Foo Fighter for Pocket PC version of Foo Fighter for Smartphones OS Space "band shooter." You fly over an infinite galactic corridor, destroying the path of all foreigners and their facilities. The old idea, quite popular even in the era of game-rides. Companies Elements interactive, put a lot of effort to diversify it and bring something new. So, in a game you can choose you like the spaceship, as well as any trip to the five planets. Beautiful graphics, good music and sound effects and the ability to reconfigure the buttons, as well as surprises that are only available when passing a certain level. As always - "the boss" at the end of each level, try to defeat these giants.
In the new version - a slight improvement. The most significant - while using the demo version has been significantly increased.
Space Treker 3.0
Version Space Treker for Pocket PC released the third version of the game, in which virtually remade all the graphics and refined some of the elements. Now you terhmernye animation flight and space battles, new orbital station, the colorful interface of trade, the refined elements. In Space Treker 3.0 is used the most powerful of the currently available 3D-engine for the Pocket PC - PocketGL 3D.
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"The totality of all our material needs are many times greater than the productive capacity of our limited resources, and it is - an indisputable fact", - reads the books of the economy. Someday, our resources will run out. And then in the quest for material things we'll have to wander to different galaxies, to establish trade contacts with persons of alien nationality, as well as a variety of laser otbrykivatsya means of cosmic enemies, robbers and other persons employed in the galactic wanted. That is the distant future and you find yourself in a Space Treker. The flight duration is sufficient to pass the "Course for Young Amateurs" and be ready for anything. More than 400 sectors, you will have to explore in search of "wealth". It all depends on your ability to intergalactic commerce. Necessary to strictly control the level of fuel, planning to trade. If in the course of commercial activities, you suddenly discover that the fuel is at zero, consider the game is lost. A number of clues, not mentioned in the media about the game (Game manual), which, however, may prove useful:
- orbital station, where you can purchase fuel, repair the damaged ship in the battles and gain a powerful weapon marked on the map sectors icon resembling a bathyscaphe
- to be able to trade with a planet, it is necessary to enter its orbit. For this otpilotiruyte his ship into the dock lines - three rings located at the planet. All indicators on the right should be nulled to entry into orbit was considered a success
- when piloting the ship, you can move it in a vertical plane. Next to the buttons on the control panel there are two stripes. After clicking on the top, middle button (or pressing the joystick) to move the vehicle up, when you click on the bottom, the center button will take you down.
Crazy Athletics II
Version Crazy Athletics II for Palm OS Coming Soon: Version Crazy Athletics II for Symbian Series 60 At the threshold of the Olympic Games, the company CrazySoft has released a new version of its Crazy Athletics, on which we are told in one of the first issues of our review. In the second version before the many innovations that the company sees it as a separate version and does not offer it as a free update for its customers, will have to fork out.
So, in the second version:
- new design
- to existing competition (one hundred meters, steeplechase, hammer throw and the nucleus, long jump), added a swim in the 100 meters
- opportunity to train your athlete (Train your athlete)
- Upgrade your athlete, unfortunately, was not available in the demo, I think that here you can get your champion a variety of sporting equipment, earning him at various events (Events)
- 24 kinds of competitions in 18 leagues.
By the way, in a window of training I was finally able to get acquainted with their athlete. And he okazyvetsya, mustachioed! Not every day you meet a mustache champion, especially in swimming. Aerodynamics, you know, is deteriorating. Interestingly, the next version it will be possible to shave?
