MOBILE PHONE GAMES MIGHT BE ABOUT TO GET A LOT BETTER
Thanks, obviously, to the arrival of SEGA games and the input of SEGA-affiliated developers. The efforts of which could even make PlayStation3 look half-decent. That’s our ‘angle’ at least.
Like Project Gotham Racing Mobile, which is coming soon. It excitingly embraces the thrilling communication device medium by letting you download ghost cars of other racers and upload your own. The kids will go mad for that, at least they will when they’re not exchanging weird smiley faces and photos of their genitals on MySpace.
It’s got corners and straights, plus words that come up on the screen to reaffirm what you’re doing. That one on the right is a bit of London!
Not sure where that one on the left is. It looks like a bit of France stuck in a bit of America. Perhaps it is. The thing on the right is the ‘box’, not that downloadable mobile games really come in boxes, so they wasted their time putting that together. We wonder if Richard Jacques, our best MySpace friend had anything to do with the sound?
Then there’s the KING OF THE WORLD. Sonic’s been out for a while – but it’s SONIC. Its one-button style actually works on a mobile, and it’s always – literally always – a joy to play Sonic 1 again and relive (a) youth, and (b) Sonic not being in 3D and shit.
Games won’t ever be this good again. All you’re getting from now on is war and ‘sandbox’ crime games. That’s it. It’s your own stupid faults. We’re not getting another Space Channel 5 because everyone else decided they’d rather baseball bat prostitutes to death instead. Thanks, cruel, miserable world.
There’s also ChuChu Rocket. Arguing with games of this quality is pointless. You can try, but you’d look really stupid and like you were arguing with a telephone.
And Super Monkey Ball Tip ‘n Tilt. Which, ironically, has seen the makers take a perfectly good 3D game and make it 2D. Like what’s happened to Sonic recently only in reverse.
If only SEGA would still take risks on exciting new ideas like Monkey Ball. It wouldn’t get made today, would it? Poor old Nagoshi-san would get told to go back to his little office and have a more commercial idea, preferably one to do with earning ‘turf’ and ‘respect’ in a city environment.
You can try out java versions of all these mobile games for free here. There’s also one called Sexy Babes Wild Waterslides which we have requested a full version of for review.
filed in ENTHUSIASM on Feb.05, 2007
February 5th, 2007 on 4:15 pm
I love that you have to take a picture of their tits as they slide down. This is better than bitmap brothers early work.
February 5th, 2007 on 5:55 pm
the top-right picture of PGR Mobile looks like it’s come straight from San Francisco Rush…
February 5th, 2007 on 6:03 pm
my previous comment was about Sexy Babes Wild Waterslides. Not Sonic.
February 6th, 2007 on 5:02 am
Good job you cleared that up Jawa. I shudder to think that Sonic was gay, unlike his friend Miles.
February 6th, 2007 on 11:49 am
Tails isn’t gay :( He just ADMIRES Sonic, OKAY?!
February 6th, 2007 on 1:21 pm
You guy’s want to try out PPG Snowboarding – I know it sounds girly but actually its a really fun game.
February 6th, 2007 on 2:10 pm
I think Ben Davis is coming onto us. Like Tails came on… oh hang on.. wrong comment box.
February 7th, 2007 on 3:56 am
In my day we had to earn our chaos emeralds and not just doled out at the end of the level. Then again, we didn’t have Simon “Sexy Babes Wild Waterslide” edition, either.
February 7th, 2007 on 2:14 pm
I like busting some hookers brains out, but Sonic still gets major respect. He was there first- you know?
February 12th, 2007 on 4:52 am
They should have got Lego to sponsor this new PGR. :-o