We waited and we waited, we was then teased, and teased to a point were we grew angry, and rebellious and now it’s here – does this game live up to the hype? Worth all that excitement? I’ll give you a hint “Epic”. Read On…
Now before we start I shall tell you my first impressions, because I was so hyped for this game I did not know what to expect so I was a little worried if the game was a complete letdown, Yet I got to sample the single player demo they released on File planet, and it was bloody fantastic left me gagging for more, and gave me a feeling that the real deal shall be here soon. I was extremely excited, but that being a web browser version wasn’t going to show off its true potential, I expected more of the real thing for the N-Gage platform – And now its here, and what was delivered was truly more than I bargained for, A truly epic title.
When the game first starts, Your greeted by a nice little intro movie – which shows off all the characters that are within the game – and even from this point, it shows care and time was taken into producing the game seeing as the intro movie was at a high standard already.
The menu was also very nice, felt like a proper game, not a java game with a cheap menu very nice indeed.
Already by just being on the menu gives me the feeling this game is deep, complex yet exciting, waiting to be torn apart by fellow N-Gagers – This is “the” title N-Gage needed, at they got it.
The way the game plays, is that you’re on a grid – using Tetris style blocks to mark your paths, and if you haven’t of guessed already using slightly modified gaming heroes from the past, including Sonic, Mario, Princess and much more.
The aim of the game is to rescue the princess from the castle, doesn’t sound a lot but there’s so much to just rescuing the princess – there are different ways of doing so, blowing up the paths of each teams so they can’t get that princess you just stole from them, different unique power ups for each unique character – you will not be bored.
The game is in portrait, and this isn’t a bad thing – it wouldn’t look right in Landscape. Yet the graphics are stunning, bright and vibrant full of colour, the sprites are fantastically animated making this game visually great – I’m rather glad this game is in 2D. 3D just wouldn’t suit it at all, maybe would of ruin the game but Red lynx being Red lynx know 2D, No one could beat them easily.
Now the sound, So far not many N-Gage games have perfect sound or even a decent soundtrack – This stop here. The soundtrack for this game is amazing, it’s retro yet modern at the same time – Pure genius, and Red Lynx have even been kind enough to let us download the Soundtrack … For free (From IGN). It’s catchy, effective and suits the games aim and genre very well.
Now the point where everyone gets excited with an N-Gage game, multiplayer. Now multiplayer in this game is Rankings and real time online play which everyone will be happy about, the best part is that there are people online – ALL the time! This is fantastic news.
With the multiplayer mode, you do exactly what you do in Single player but in multiplayer – don’t sound exciting enough? Just play it – You will not know what just hit you, you will be shouting in anger over loosing your precious princess, but then smug when you get another princess in your life – this game is about to make you waste away, your going love it!
Overall, well this game certainly lived up to the hype if more if that’s even possible, All I can say really is that…. Red Lynx did it again. Epic.
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