Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
Yes it’s another vertical shooter [to be reviewed on All About Symbian], a genre that demands solid controls, a smooth gradient curve, the ability to keep everything legible, and to put a lot of graphics on the screen while not having any frame rate issues in terms of stuttering or slowing down of the action. The Visiting of Turjah might not have the speed, but she’s got it where it counts.
One of the classic arcade games is Qix, where you have to move your cursor around, creating rectangles and filling up the playing field. Hit a pre-defined percentage and you’ll clear the level. The key is to do that safely and not be killed. But can it be updated for a smartphone and changed from rectangles to circles? Bubble Filler is about to answer that question.
Bejeweled 2? After all this time, only now does it get a review? Yep, and that’s for two reasons. The first is the rather obvious “we haven’t done it yet” and the second is that there may have been many java versions from EA, there might have been a raft of clones that have come close, but this is the licenced Popcap version, with the “HD” optimised for Symbian tag, and given the playing field of the Ovi Store, I suspect this is the one that many people will flock to.
[audio:http://mediafiles.allaboutsymbian.com/aas_podcast_20110912_247.mp3] This week’s All About Symbian podcast, with more Anna roll-out news, Microsoft apps for Belle, Nokia’s NFC plans, Essence and using smartphone sensors for sport.
[audio:http://mediafiles.allaboutsymbian.com/aas_podcast_20110906_246.mp3] As for our new code-names, you’ll need to listen to the All About Symbian Insight podcast to find out what they’re for, alongside discussions on Vision Plus, new Symbian software titles, and where Nokia stands in the recent and upcoming patent wars.
Reviewed on AAS: Imagine a world where you had to get to the exit. A world of squares in a grid. A world where you could never set foot on the grid but have to create safe havens by pushing over tower blocks. That’s the world of Ming Zhu.
