Review: Bounce Boing Voyage

Remember the classic version? Everyone loved that game – The fantastic simple 2D plat former that ruled many mobile devices – But can this hold the same fame as the original? Can it improve what its older brother did so well? Does the transition into 3D work for this game? Read on…

My first impressions for this game were rather high yet rather low at the same time, so I had mixed feelings but when I first started the game, I was impressed by the nice clean menu, it was not too exciting yet It wasn’t too basic – was mediocre, and that soundtrack did slightly put me off.

The games size did put me off being a mere 5MB but that wasn’t enough to make me think it was a waste of time, seeing as other small sized N-Gage games were good.

Now if you remember Pandemonium for the Original N-Gage – it may remind you of it, because of the similarities between the two games -The fairytale land, the 3D run and jump platform action etc like any good plat former should have.

The game is default in Landscape, and it’s defiantly best for it with the cinematic cut scenes in wide screen-like format – but like all other N-Gage titles, it isn’t using the 3D chip as of yet but from what the developer has achieved is impressive indeed – being very smooth 3D effects, a very fine frame rate that never suffers from slowing down and a nice level of detail to each level – Though I cant help but think the style of graphics are aimed for the younger audience.

The aim of the game is well to basically roll your ball around the various levels that vary in difficulty, doesn’t sound too interesting – but the different levels have different obstacles, a different puzzle etc but despite all this varying the game is still rather short depending on how well you adapt to it.

There is a story line to the game, and it does get rather deep but just as your getting into it, your getting out of it due to the games shortness.

The sound of the game isn’t really the best. It’s far too repetitive, boring and in some cases doesn’t match/suit what’s happening on the screen. The further levels do get a little better with the soundtrack but other than that the sound effects of everything else are nice enough, its good quality too but still not the best of what the devices are capable off.

Now like near 96% of N-Gage games so far the multiplayer is just rankings, with this game the multiplayer could really have been expanded a lot – Who remembers Shadow racing? Not really the best way but still an idea that could have been implemented into most Arena enabled games a definite let down.

Overall for those who want to enjoy a solid single player game, get it – it’s a nice enough game with nice enjoyable graphics and a rather decent story line and for just £6 it’s a definite bargain, but for the more hardcore gamers you will be disappointed by the short story line – your choice.