Posts Tagged ‘game review’

Nokia E55 Game Review: Metal Gear Solid Mobile

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

Metal Gear Solid is one of the most popular stealth game series to date. Up until now most of the games were released on gaming consoles. But since 2008 there are some mobile releases of this series such as the Metal Gear Solid Mobile game for N-Gage. Being an owner of all three Playstations aside from the PSP I am very familiar with the major Metal Gear Solid games. The N-Gage release of Metal Gear Solid is not as great as the Playstation releases but in my opinion it is a satisfying game and worth playing. Metal Gear Solid Mobile relies heavily on stealth game play so if you want a game where you have to shoot everything that is on the screen then this game is nothing for you.

mgs copy Nokia E55 Game Review: Metal Gear Solid MobileThe game has two viewing modes. The first being a top down view and the second one being a first person view. In the first person view you can’t move around but only look around you by moving your cell phone or use the cursor keys. The controls are fairly easy. Most of the time you hide behind boxes and take out guards without making some noise (just things that you would expect from a stealth game). You are also able to jump.

Like all of the Metal Gear Solid games this one also has a pretty interesting plot. The story takes place between MGS and MGS2 and is based around Snake.

The game isn’t too hard and if you are a fan of the MGS series you should at least try out the demo.

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Nokia E55 Game Review: MicroPool 2007

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

MicroPool 2007 by Gabor Fetter is a nice pool game for S60 cell phones. I’m really fond of MicroPool since pool is one of my favorite games.  If you are a fan of pool games you should take a closer look at this.

table2 Nokia E55 Game Review: MicroPool 2007

MicroPool contains four different gaming modes. Those are US 8-Ball (where you have to pocket all your striped/ solid balls and then have to move on to the solid black ball to win), 9-ball (where you have to pocket the balls in a specific order), Killer (you and your opponent are allowed to miss five times after which one of you looses) and Speed (where you have to pocket the balls as fast as you can). Besides choosing one of the game modes you also have to choose your opponent when starting a new game. You can choose to play against the computer or against a friend of yours.

In settings menu of MicroPool you can change the computer strength, the sound effects and the color of the pool table.

The game is mostly controlled with the d-pad. To apply spin on the ball you have to use *,# or 0.

MicroPool is a top-down game like most of the cell phone pool games. Because of its graphics this game looks really great and its realistic sound effects are also very nice. The most important things in a pool game are the ball physics and the animations. MicroPool does a great job in generating precise and realistic physics. The animations are decent but not very close to the reality since the balls don’t move as fast as they should.

The full version of this game costs $9,95. There is also a demo verison available here.

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Nokia E55 Game Review: Spb Brain Evolution

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Nowadays „Brain Training” games are really popular. So it is not really surprising to see such a game for S60. Spb Brain Evolution contains of 10 mini games. Those mini games are supposed to help you train your brain, improve memory, logic, arithmetic and puzzle-solving skills. After you play some of the games your score will be analyzed and you have to improve the score in your next gaming session. The ten games have to be played in sequence and when you reach a certain score you will be able to move to the next game.

spb copy Nokia E55 Game Review: Spb Brain Evolution

There are three categories in which the games are arranged. Those are Logic, Orientation and Pattern, Memory and Calculation.

Logic contains of the games Sudoku, Quadronica and Matches. Orientation and Pattern contains of Minsweeper, Balltracker and Guess Who. Memory and Calculation contains of Numbers, Memorica, Encyclopedia and Arithmetics.

spb games copy Nokia E55 Game Review: Spb Brain Evolution

Brain Evolution has 2 different game modes, Brain Marking and Brain Training. Both of them have the same 10 mini games. Brain Marking has a skill evaluation mode and is able to present you progress reports. In Brain Training mode the games are unlocked step by step and the difficulty increases with time. In a Brain Training session you are allowed to play a mini game only once which forces you to play every mini game at some point making Spb’s Brain Evolution a challenging game.

Brain Evolution has ten different in game awards like the Nobel Prize Winner certificate (Brain Marking) and the Training completed certificate (Brain Training).Overall this game is fun to play though it is a little bit too expensive in my opinion.

If you are interested in this game you can download the 15 day trial version here. You can get the full version for $14,95.

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