Nokia N96 N-gage Review – Tomb Raider

Name: Tomb Raider Underworld

Genre: Acton/Adventure

Summary: The Tomb Raider series has been very popular in the past few years manly from horny boys wanting to see a girl in tight clothes running and climbing. The Tomb Raider series has now decide to join the mobile world with this n-gage game for the nokia N96. I know that normal Tomb Raider games are all about getting the best graphics for Lara and then quickly designing the levels and challenges but with the lack of graphical power I don’t thing that’s going to be the case. Now about the game, Tomb Raider Underworld is all about navigating your way through the levels and defending yourself from attackers. There are plenty of features missing like being able to turn left and right so your stuck either going forward or backwards so the only real objective is to think of how to deal with the obstacle in front of you.

Overview: Theres too many things to list thats wrong with this game but I did manage to find one good thing and that is the 3rd person camera but I don’t thing that adds to the gameplay. It looks like the desingers were ambious with the levels to make them big but the graphics suffered too much, at least the game runs fine but could be that little bit smoother. All other reviews for this game are pretty bad and I would suggest to give it a miss, but If you don’t want to listen to me you can download the trial of the game below. Read more

Nokia N96 N-gage Review – Guitar Hero

Name: Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile

Genre: Music/Action

Summary: For some reason the n-gage console feels like its dieing for quite some time so its always a good sign to see new games coming out. Guitar Hero is a very popular platform game and has been ported to devices like the IPhone so it was inevitable for some version would to be released for symbian OS. One of the greatest thing about Guitar Hero is that it uses very simple graphics and its packed the great music so it makes for a great nokia n96 game. The whole point of the game is to press the buttons in rhythm with the song, you can play both guitar and the difficulty can make turn it from a bit of fun to a seriously competitive game.

Overview: So far the reviews for this game are pretty good and there’s no obvious problems or draw backs except that it only uses three buttons. I’m not really a fan of the platform version I guess it has something to do with controllers but since there is only the keypad I think it could be a bit of fun. I really think that this game will be one of these must have games for the nokia n96 Read more

More Ducati Moto screenshots

Patrick Campbell, our senior reviewer and writer here at Nokian96.net took out some vacations and will be out until the end of August, we will be back with fresh and new articles regarding the Nokia N96 and Nokia N96 applications. Today, I will bring you some screenshots of the Ducati Moto for N-Gage devices, like Nokia N97 or Nokia N96, so that you can have a deeper insider look at this Ducati Moto game, that will be out in a few weeks. For now, let’s appreciate this screenshots and as soon as we have more screenshots we will publish them here at the website.

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Road Racing Action on N-Gage with Ducati Moto

We have been informed that the Ducati Moto game is just coming to the Nokia N96 and to all N-Gage phones. After the release of  Million Dollar Poker, these are  first hand news/screenshots of this new featured game, Ducati Moto, and it’s time for mobile gamers to don their leathers, hold on tight and brace themselves for the most fun they can have on two wheels as Vir2L Studios’ Ducati Moto screams onto N-Gage.

Click on the image to see a better quality and expanded image.

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Nokia N96 N-gage Review – Sims3

Name: Sims3

Genre: RPG

Summary: There have been a few sims games out for the nokia n96 but I never played any of them so I can’t compare it to any of them so I’ll compare it to other n-gage games. Before I tested this game I read lots of reviews say how boring and lame this game was so naturally I thought its going to be a bad game. When the game first loads you get to customise your characters and then its traits and then its of to its virtual world and you can get on with life. From the reviews this is where I expected the game to be useless but I was wrong the game has all the available options that you could ever want from buying a new house to listening to music. The main complaint everyone had with Sims3 is that it was boring but if you thing its as boring as any sims game but they still appeal to many people and I can’t see why this one won’t.

Overall: The first thing I should tell you is that the game play is a bit slow but the game runs very smoothly and the graphics are fine. The game is surprisingly small at 2MB and and there’s a great trial that’s about 15mins of game play but can be a bit of trouble to download so I have the .sis file in the download. Overall its a good game and will probably entertain you for a good while but you mite get bored of it quite quick. Read more

Nokia N96 contest winner revealed!!

And we got the winner of this great contest we run at NokiaN96.net, as you can see on this page. We will now reveal the winner that will get this fantastic price. We have not yet contacted the winner, we will make the post first and then contact him regarding this fantastic prize. The winner will receive on his home a fantastic Nokia N96 device, a copy of Million Dollar Poker and other nokia goodies, the lucky guy or girl just needs to wait for “the e-mail”.

Overall we got more or less 200 valid right answers, many of you answered C, as the correct answer, but the right one is A) Denmark. The poker star Gus is from Denmark. At the list you can see in the left side is the winner and the next 9 people  that have the chance to win if the winner doesn’t replies to our mail in 5 days.

And I would like just to finish by saying thank you to Nokia N-Gage and Gameloft for giving this prize to our readers. Thank you!

Free N-gage Game In the UK

N-gage are giving away one free N-gage activation code for anyone living in the UK, this code will turn any trial game in to a full version. Unfortunately for any living out side the uk there is no plan to provide this service to other countries but you can always hope. To get this free licence code then you have to go to http://www.n-gagewizard.com/ and follow these simple steps. Read more

Exclusive: Win a Nokia N96 and more with “Million Dollar Poker”

Million Dollar Poker is now available for Nokia N-Gage and to celebrate, nokian96.net has teamed up with Nokia N-Gage and Gameloft to offer one lucky reader of this blog a fantastic Nokia N-Gage prize including:

1x Nokia N96

1x copy of Million Dollar Poker

And other Nokia Goodies

The actual Nokia N96 price is around 500$ and is one of the best devices from Nokia as you have been seeing if you followed us on this blog, and with this contest you get the chance to win this great device for free. Remember that this is only for NokiaN96.net readers. Indeed a contest like this was promised to you on the last posts and now you have the chance to win it!

With MDP, Million Dollar Poker, the game that will be included in this giveaway you will be able to play against  sophisticated AI opponents ‘trained’ by poker master Gus Hansen or compete against real poker buddies by challenging up to 5 players to a tournament via the multiplayer platform on N-Gage. There are four main play modes:

• Online Multiplayer;
• Exhibition;
• Career (mixing cash games and tournaments) and;
• Heads-Up Duels.

And just like real world poker, players need to prove themselves in tournaments before they get to sit at the big money tables.

Million Dollar Poker is now available at http://www.n-gage.com

To join this contest and to win a fantastic Nokia N96 you won’t need to know how to play poker, but to answer just a little question. Here it is:

Million Dollar Poker features Gus Hansen, but which county is Poker star Gus from?

a) Denmark

b) Australia

c) U.S.A.

Use the form below and answer ONLY with A, B, or C, add your e-mail so that we can contact you and your name.

Then, a winner will be picked at random from the users who got the correct answer. We will use random.org to do this.

and….to join this contest, that’s all!

Dates:

The contest starts from now and ends by 22nd July at 8:00 PM GMT time. The winner will be posted in the website by 23rd July 2009 (we will not reveal e-mail winners neither the first part of their e-mail, of course, only the name).

Follow the rules below:

-You are able to send one answer, if you send more than 1 answer and that answer is different from the prior you will be disqualified. If you send more than 1 answer but they are all equal, then your e-mail will be counted and, but only once.

-If the winner will stay in touch with the folks from “Million Dollar Poker” to send the details to win the prize.

Well, Good Luck to everyone!

Nokia N96 N-gage Review – Million Dollar Poker

Name: Million Dollar Poker

Genre: Sport, Cards

Summary: There are a few poker games out on the n-gage and very few of them are any good. Million Dollar Poker is heading in a different direction first they made the graphics perfect then they made the game-play perfect and then made the game with a detailed multi-player. With that recipe its hard to end up with a bad game and in fairness it’s a pretty good poker game maybe the best so far. The game itself is quite fluent with the nokia n96 and the graphics look great for an N-gage game, I’m sure the creators are happy but I still can’t figure out why they bothered making it, it’s a nice game and all but it just doesn’t feel competitive or fun. In the end of the day this could be the best poker game but it won’t entertain you anymore than an older game, so anyone actually into poker probably have a poker game and there’s just no need to get this one.

Overview: If anyone who likes poker that doesn’t have a poker game already and are looking to buy one then yes this game is great other wise don’t bother. There is a trail for this game but I’m not crazy enough to advise anyone to download it because you’ll spend 10-15 minutes to find and download it for a whole 60 seconds of play which you can play all of two hands with. If anyone dose want to try it ill help you out and provide the sis file in the download link but expect a long game. Read more

Nokia N96 N-gage Review – AMF Bowling

Name: AMF Bowling

Genre:  Sport

Summary: N-gage has been trying to release a bunch of games recently which are all much bigger and seem to have much more detail in certain areas. AMF Bowling is the latest N-gage game for the Nokia N96 and is a relatively big at 17MB at installation. AMF Bowling as a game has its ups and downs, the “ups” are the graphics with lots of detail for the locations and players also it requires a knack to be good at this game split second control means the difference between hitting them and getting a strike. The multiplayer is set to be probably the most competitive N-gage arena game yet. The bad points are the lack of realism in the sense that it appears that no location seems to be in a bowling ally, they all seem to be in abstract places also the game has trouble running smoothly. Another down side is that the single player doesn’t look that great.

Overview: AMF Bowling has gotten lots of mixed reviews so I guess its up to you to decided if you want it. I will say that normally I don’t like bowling games but as far as bowling games go this is one of my favorite one because I couldn’t find a sure way to get a strike. Recently the games have had a very detailed menu and AMF Bowling is the same but the game play graphics still need to improve, I thing soon nokia will come up with a more powerful phones that will have graphics like the “Nintendo DS” but we will have to wait a few years for that. Read more

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