Games for handhelds and smartphones, 3 rd and 4 th week of August

Discussion

Let yourself before you begin the next review, make a small digression on the subject and provoke you to the discussion. In the discussion forum of one of the previous soft-revue was raised an interesting question: "Why for Pocket PC good games than for Palm OS?" This can be explained as some of the technical superiority of Pocket PC, and some of the advantage of the benefits in terms of programming. However, "if the dog is buried here?" According to my observations, games for Pocket PC download at least two times greater than for the Palm OS. Could it be that gamers among users of Palm less? Speak! Use the link at the bottom of this page.

Hit-parade

At this time - with virtually no surprises. Alignment is quite expected. The only thing that surprised me a bit - a small number of downloads GameBox Gems for Palm. And this despite the fact that the forum is often heard grievances about the lack of good games for this platform!

1. Tradewinds 1.0 for Pocket PC. The undisputed leader of our hit parade. Comes with a large margin from the nearest pursuers. The success of the grandiose.
2. Tradewinds 1.01 for Palm OS. Tradewinds is just two places: the second place of honor has passed to the version of the same game for a platform Palm OS.
3. Allure Reversi 1.0 for Pocket PC. Klascicheskaya board game for the Pocket PC. Re-working the postulate about the popularity of older games. Reversi firmly holds its position: it seems the passion for flipping chips indestructible enemy.
4. Foo Fighter 1.10 for Pocket PC. Space arcade shooter. Well ... yeah ... interesting too ... Anyway, more colorful and interesting than many similar shooters.
5. Japanese Crossword 1.0 for Pocket PC. Nonogrammy. Puzzle with drawing pictures. The first three did not get. A pity. It was interesting. Probably quite tricky.
6. GameBox Gems 2.1 for Palm OS. Puzzle, an 8-entertaining games. Total fifth place! I am puzzled. Really, everything is so sad? Because the game is really good, well thought out, colorful, beautifully voiced by ...
7. PAjDAX 1.1.2 for Pocket PC. Czech puzzle. Too bad result.
8. Allure Reversi 1.0 for Palm OS. Version for Palm lags far behind its PPC-brother. Pull yourselves, comrades, tightens.
9. Foo Fighter 1.10 for the Microsoft Smartphone. Well, here is understandable. Smartphones. Well, that did not last. It is true joy.
10. Clot 1.1 Pocket PC. Congratulations, Clot, you - saaaamoe weakest link!

Soon

Dark Summer

For Pocket PC Announce upcoming games please me more and more. On the background of the once dense gray walls of tetris, tic-tac-toe and monotonous arcade game keeps popping up with new ideas, new fantasies and ideas. Sometimes this whole stories, amazing attention to detail worlds in which you - the protagonist. Dark Summer of Absynth Interactive company promises to be a shining example of such a game. Made through the engine, Quake, ported to the Pocket PC, Dark Side is a three-dimensional Quest-RPG, where your character gets sucked into the mysterious history of unusual incidents. One on one with the fear of the unknown, the mysterious and unpredictable evil. His name is Devin Smith, he was thirteen. The action takes place in the town Niermayer where Devin and Uncle David were forced to move because of family problems. Strange city, class of hostile, unfriendly teacher ... All attempts to Devin's friends with someone to fail. And, behold, there comes the same fateful day, when started this strange story - the last day of school before summer vacation. Devin finds a note, where a certain Brian asks him to find a wooden hut in the woods behind the school and help him deal with the strange situation in which he missed. Devin does not hesitate for a second and to the rescue ... Linear plot, the ability to communicate with the townspeople and interact with many objects in the game - promise to make Dark Summer is extremely exciting. The quality of three-dimensional graphics can be seen on shared screenshots. With all this splendor, the minimum requirements for the device are modest: ARM-processor (at least 206MGts), 32MB of RAM and operating system Pocket PC 2002 and above. The developers promise a modest price and a free copy of the beta testers. Unfortunately, no data on the specific time period of the game, we only know that the beta version still in development.

Brad Mitchum

For Pocket PC authors Observation PocketGamer.org found was announced on the forums of the game Int13 Brad Mitchum. France Quiquere the company Int13 kindly informed us that the game will be based on the once popular Pang, existed for a number of game consoles, in particular, for the Amiga. I rummaged through the network, and finally found the kind of flash-Pang, who spent over an hour and a half (!). In Pang your character runs across the field, shooting at jumping balls. Shot - and a big ball burst, releasing two smaller ones, another cotton - balls are fewer and more - and, finally, the next hit destroys the balls of the smallest diameter. In this case, beware - the touch of the ball carries you to death. The game is interesting and - focusing on the trajectories of balls, you need to move fast, shoot, dodge, catch falling from the sky prize points and new weapons. In Brad Mitchum main fighter balls is the eponymous hero. According to the script, he got lost in time - at different stages of the game you have to beat off the ball against the background cromlech Stonehenge, then in the vast landscapes of nuclear winter in the distant future ... The game is currently in development, release date is not specified, but the company has kindly agreed to keep us informed.

Li-Nuggz

For Pocket PC, Microsoft Windows Smartphone, Series 60, Symbian UIQ Unfortunately, very little information was found in the Elements Interactive gotovyasheysya new game. In Li-Nuggz your little darling hero, wielding a pretty handmade bazooka, clearing a path to the volcano, where it waits for the last decisive battle. Unknown motives which prompted him to climb the volcano, it is unclear who and why "climbs the bare heel against the hero of the revolution." Matters a lot. However, the company promises, the game will be released in September this year. It remains to add that games of this developer are successful in our catalog, for example, S-Tris May downloaded 970 persons. Let's see how the upcoming new product will meet the expectations of our readers.

Mario Docker

For Pocket PC Port docks. Set of vessels, uninterrupted flow of goods, the sea of ​​boxes. Loaders have unsweetened. Mario, for example, had to run across the pier and catch the dropped drawers. Not only that, they still need to add, incidentally picking up new ones. Game attentiveness, quickness and ability to playfully calculate their actions. That's all the minimum information that has managed to squeeze out a video presented by Ballshooter.

TunnelX Evoluzione

For Handheld PC 2000 Marrisoft Company prepares to release a game TunnelX Evoluzione for the Handheld PC.This arcade game will be released in November 2004, but now it can be ordered on the website of the company, moreover, you can even win a free copy! The developers promise a high-end graphics, quality music and sound effects (according to the last post in TunnelX Evoluzione will use audio engine Fmod). You are also waiting for the explosions, vivid sensation of flight and, of course, a fascinating story. This concludes about the announcement and go to released new products.

New

Jet Ducks

Version of Jet Ducks for Pocket PC version of Jet Ducks for Palm OS month ago in a studio Absolutist does something unbelievable - the sound of hammers, shots, screams cut metal, cracks duck feathers, fluttering around the office: to develop a new game. And now - the studio finally released Jet Ducks. What changes in the studio? Nothing - the same shots, same duck ... Only this time, all employees are immersed in the exciting hunt. A hunt is really exciting. And chances are equal. Because the ducks are now not so harmless. "Every fall you arrange for us to hunt. Frankly, we are satisfied that most of their beaks. From now on, we are protected: We have helmets, parachutes and other military human drebekryak. On your every shot we'll answer a dozen "- said in a memorandum released. What they're shooting - you know. These birds are all sin. However, I personally such hunting for the soul. Miss - are to blame. Nothing with a gun on the little quacking! Ducks take up their existing intelligence and conducted military training. Now in their armed forces:

• the usual and ordinary, the most innocent among staff
• Asas-acrobats, flying in zigzags
• supersonic Uchi - from time to time rushing past you, leaving a white trail in the sky
• and finally, the most dangerous - the arrow-commandos.

As you can see, ducks, and there is not flashed the mind - in spite of his belligerent attitude, only one of an elite unit fighting with you a very special way. But so much joy brings a wounded duck ... And it's not a trophy - the equipment protects them, but how funny they are falling - some with a parting descend by parachute, some with roaring engine dive into the reeds, and some brave emit a cry of Tarzan ... Several game modes. "Blitz" (Blitz) - game for a while, where your goal is to line the maximum number of ducks. "Sniper" (Sniper) - you have a limited number of bullets to aim carefully. "Crossfire" (Cross-fire) - for unknown reasons, it is in this mode, the ducks will not shoot at you. So a "windshield" of your device will remain untainted ducks commandos. And finally, "KryakBum" (CliKill) - shoot a stylus, but this time do not have to aim carefully, it is important only in time to poke the stylus in the passing prey. Frankly, although I'm not a big fan of shooters, however, while I was going home the same as in the studio of Absolutist: the shots, funny sayings ducks, cracks, feathers all over the room ... Pluses. Absolutist as always founder. Great sound, great idea, you will appreciate the fans of shooters, well-chosen level of difficulty, great graphics funny. As many as three interchangeable control systems: the joystick, stylus and arrows on the display. And, of course, a wonderful sense of humor razrabotchkov. Cons. Office of the stylus on my iPAQ 2210 was rather complicated. Could not manage to bring a gun, the animation freezes.

Acky's XP Breakout

Version of Acky's XP Breakout for Pocket PC inexplicable magic attraction Arkanoid ruined not one soul. Just a ball, and you managed platform - and the thirst for destruction of bricks of various origin covers you for a long time.As many as 150 levels await you in Acky's XP Breakout, also - great graphics, funny sounds, as well as long 30 minutes, good background music. Your task is simple - you need to destroy all blocks on the field, beating the ball platform, moving at the bottom of the screen. A great many surprises awaiting you in the game. From time to time they will be showered upon you from heaven, by adding your strength, energy, opportunities and points. Your goal - beads with blue and red liquid, the so-called "ether." Of these liquids subsequently spectacular electrical discharge creates a new ball ... Euphoria entourage is very similar to Hollywood movies, in which the main characters in suits with a straight face speak a language full of suggestive own terms, such as for example, DNA, genes and chromosomes. All of this is so delusional context, causing a rolling laugh even slightly versed in the biology student. Well, okay ... But all the colorful, gamble, variously, as an enemy ship, from time to time, flying over the blocks, forcing a smile, letting funny call signs. U-hm-hm "- he tells us, mired in a thirst for destruction of blocks. Hooked on, we certainly do not notice it ... And yet, and it should be wet, wet, wet! Pluses. Set of well-made levels. Sea novovedeny interesting, good music, great animation. Virtually everything in the game customizable: the quality of animation and audio control buttons, the level of rendering graphics ... Very good level editor allows you to diversify an already rich game. Cons. Incomprehensible, somewhat strained entourage games. Complex, visually unattractive menu system.

Brief updates on other

BoxWorld

BoxWorld version for Pocket PC first invented in 1982 by a man named Hiroyuki Imabayashi, the game eventually became one of the most popular and its variations - a great many. "Sokoban" in Japanese means "the storekeeper." In the vast storehouses of unusual shape you need to move the boxes to the marked places. It's not done too easily, considering that the boxes can only push but not pull. In BoxWorld you the opportunity to save and load the game, play this level. In addition, at your disposal four different graphic design games - from classic to phone boxes, a porter in the form of crazed Neo and a stream of characters a la The Matrix. Copyright of this game owned by a Japanese company Thinking Rabbit, however, according to the law on Copyright and Related Rights, the subject of copyright is the final product, we can not only use the level design from the original game Sokoban. Authorship of the levels from 1 to 11 belong directly to the developer, and from 12 to 62 - Yoshio Murase. So - all legally and absolutely free. Other versions of the game Sokoban

• Boxes for PalmOS. Free!
• Sokoban 1.1b for Palm OS
• Soko 1.0 for Pocket PC
• Pocket Sokoban beta for Pocket PC
• Gangsta Act 1.0 for Pocket PC

Pocket Bar Billiards

Version Pocket Bar Billiards for Pocket PC is something new for fans of billiards on the Pocket PC: Bar Billiards, which, incidentally, is also called the "Russian billiards. In the 30's had brought into vogue a certain English gentleman, David Gill on the basis of common rules in the Belgian species pool, called the Russian. Several sources, however, it is assumed that named him as to attract attention to the game - an exotic, gentlemen! The game soon caught on among the same gentlemen, as the venerable Mr Gill - the first team on Billiards Bar have come from Oxford. Bar Billiards table for a few unusual pockets are placed directly on the field and not in the corners of the table, as in classical billiards. Cue ball each hit is located in the so-called point D. Depending on the pockets, if it enters into it as a cue ball and object ball the player is charged a certain amount of points, and, in the second case the number of points given pocket doubles. The game is complicated by the fact that pockets with the most points are the pins, hurting that player gets a foul, penalty points. The main advantage of Pocket Bar Billiards - the possibility of doubles as a single device, and via WiFi. Detailed instructions can be found in the document, supplied from himself only add that, although the game is inferior in such masterpieces as such, Virtual Pool Mobile, but has added some new wave in the range of billiard games already available on the PDA. Other games from the developer Parys Technografx Ltd.:

• Tower of Souls 1.0 for Pocket PC

Battle Planet

Version of the Battle Planet for Pocket PC - Houston, we have a problem! Enemy ships in this space. Base "Spider" in jeopardy. Please confirm the discovery of fire! - Fire certify! And here is started! .. From the creator of Pocket Battlefield - space shooter in the image of the old Battle City. Detachments of aggressive creatures invade your base. You move your ship and shoot them. Some are killed by one shot, others will have three to put the charge in order to save mankind from their presence.

• Level 4 in the demo version and 25 levels in the full version
• 3 degrees of complexity
• customizable game speed
• statistical reports on the results of each bout
• table the best results.

Good, understandable at first glance interface, a simple task. Why are you more? Know yourself, to push buttons. More than anything in this game you are not required. Other games from the company KITCOM Ltd.:

• Pocket Battlefield for Pocket PC

Space Snake

Version Space Snake for Pocket PC grandmother of modern games. Her snake pelt, I believe, is decorated for more than a dozen veterans' medals - the heroine of the game traveled to different parts teries changed more than one guise, and that's - it again in the arena. At this time, "Snake" conquered space. Should pay tribute to the company Epsena, she tried to diversify the game, and she succeeded. Now you'll have to contend not only with a long, ever-growing tail of your little yellow snake. In the vacuum of interstellar space meanders another, a blue snake, a fair chance with you for scarce space write something here and there arises on the playing field. And all around - the nebula, meteorites, asteroids ... You can play as a stylus or a joystick. Stylus, however, play a much more complicated: the whole field is divided into four zones. To manage your snake, it is necessary to poke a stylus across the field. Taking into account that the game is to move faster, this alignment reduces the chances of winning. Other versions of the game Snake:

• Snake 1.2dlya Palm OS
• Snake Byte 2.2 for Palm OS
• Snake 3.52 for Palm OS
• Snake Deluxe 1.0 for Palm OS
• Vital Snake for Pocket PC
• Snake for Epoc, Nokia 9210 and Nokia 9210i

Updates

Games PDAMill: fresh paint!

As true masters, from PDAMill not leave unnoticed or one error in their beautiful games. Busily rolling up his sleeves, they spent a week twisting screws. And - voila! Meet these brand-new, polished version of their games. All neatly twisted, podvincheno and touched up. Call for the rapid manifestation of joy holders Devices Palm. Against the backdrop of recent discussions scarcity of games for Palm, such extravaganza worthy of the admiration.

• GameBox Solitaire v1.2 for Palm OS: corrected several errors of cross-platform, adds support for palmOne Zire 31 and Treo 600, reduced memory requirements.
• GameBox Gems for Palm OS: Added support for Tapwave Zodiac, reduced memory requirements.
• Snails 2.1 for Palm: Added support for palmOne Zire 31 and Treo 600, is reduced in the occupied memory space, added hardkey control, bug fixes.
• Snails 2.0 for Pocket PC: Fixed problem in multiplayer mode, improved AI, as well as a number of bugfixes cross-platform.

Football Director v1.1

Version of Football Director for Pocket PC InfiniteVentures company announced a new version of the simulator management of football club. The update - a number of minor amendments listed on the website of the game. By the way, on the same site as the company opened a forum where you can find answers to all your questions on the game, as well as chat with soccer fans around the world: Topic Football Fanaticism - one of the most popular on the forum. The authors, translation: