Review: Brothers In Arms

This is another N-Gage game I was looking forward too but also I was expecting the worse. Why you ask? For starters it’s Game loft who made the game and so far there games haven’t been to high standards and 2 because it’s another port of a 3 year old Symbian game. Was I to be this worried or should I relax a little? Read on….

The first thing that got my attention was the game’s size, its 25 MB to download compared to the symbian version being around 2-3MB so whilst downloading I’m sat here wondering what’s so different from the symbian version and this version? Let’s find out.

We start off with a nice clean menu, with a decent soundtrack – This menu does give you the feel of a proper game, and not a typical phone game, I’m already having good vibes from this point already.

The game is a rather deep game for a mobile phone, Think COD for mobile, deep rich levels with different levels of difficulty. There’s not really a story line to the game, complete the level move onto the next one though they all do follow in order, so in some ways there is a tiny bit of story added in – nothing too big though. The levels are fantastic, all take a good bit of time to get through them – and the game just wants you back for more, fantastic replay value.

The game is default in landscape, but can be adjusted to portrait and like all other N-Gage games it isn’t using the 3D chip, but the graphics are rather impressive – You cant tell much difference between the Symbian version and the N-Gage version but there are some small details there that make a tiny difference.

The details of the levels are rather impressive, the 3D models are very good indeed but I think if A bit of tweaking was to happen you could get a slightly more polished look from the game but overall very nice with a good frame rate too.

The sound is where its let down, Very nice menu music – but when In-Game, it isn’t exactly what we call smooth (It seems a few devices are not affected by this problem) when it does decide to work smoothly it is very good indeed, all the officers shouting orders, all the explosions etc and its at a decent level of quality too. The sound overall is impressive, but the game is buggy for some people which could be causing some conflict with the sound lagging out.

The multi player part is once again rankings, this is a game that would have been amazing on line, Game loft could of took it to the next level and created something close to Battlefield but mobile!The possibility’s of half the N-Gage games have just been wasted when it comes down to the on line factor – lets hope future releases see some new on line features.

Overall, after being worried about the quality of the game I wasn’t let down too much, I think the game being another port is the worst thing about the game, If they created a N-Gage only version from scratch maybe it would be worth more but overall the game is decent enough, great sounds (when it wants to work) and Rich deep levels makes this game worth that £8.