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

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 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