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Publisher: Hudson Ent.<br />
Developer: Hudson Ent.<br />
Release Date: 4/2006<br />
Genre: Racing<br />
Category: Kart<br />
# of Players: 1<br />
Bomberman Kart has<br />
you zooming down the<br />
speedway, avoiding<br />
obstacles, jumping over<br />
traps, and collecting<br />
power-ups and weapons<br />
to use against your rivals.<br />
Unlike other mobile<br />
phone kart games, your<br />
rivals will be looking to do the same to you. Power-ups include Turbo and<br />
Invincibility while weapons include rockets, oil spills, mines and more.<br />
There are six different-colored Bombermen to choose from as your racer<br />
and each will be rated with a variety of qualities to suit your driving<br />
style. Furthermore, three types of karts are available that are also rated<br />
differently so that there are a total of 18 possible driving combinations.<br />
Racing takes place in three GP Circuits, each more difficult than the<br />
other. The first two Circuits will have three tracks each and the final<br />
Circuit will include all six. As is common, winning each race in the Circuit<br />
will give you points. Whichever Bomberman has more points at the end,<br />
wins that Circuit. Be aware, however, that you must win<br />
the first Circuit before the next one is unlocked. (A Time<br />
Attack mode will also be unlocked.)<br />
The competition is pretty fierce as drivers battle for<br />
position and use whatever means necessary to come out<br />
on top. We had a hard time keeping up early on until we<br />
became used to the steering, the blazing speeds of the<br />
karts on a small screen, and remembered to watch out<br />
for obstacles. These dangers are just about everywhere,<br />
but it also helped that we found the right combination of<br />
Bomberman and Kart to help us win in the end.<br />
Bomberman Kart isn’t the perfect Kart game for mobile,<br />
we doubt there will be, but it’s certainly the best up<br />
to now. This isn’t just because there are a variety of<br />
tracks, drivers and cars, but mainly because it finally<br />
felt like the game was intelligent enough to have us<br />
worry about other things besides just taking the turns at<br />
the right speed. Like a true Kart game, the opponents,<br />
the weapons and the obstacles were the challenge. Kart<br />
racing fans finally have a genuine experience to play<br />
with on their phones.<br />
3.5 of 5<br />
Publisher: Capcom<br />
Developer: Capcom<br />
Release Date: 4/2006<br />
RESIDENT EVIL<br />
T H E M I S S I O N S<br />
Genre: Survival Horror<br />
Category: Action/Adventure<br />
# of Players: 1<br />
It took a while, but the franchise that unleashed the Survival Horror genre<br />
has finally landed on mobile phones with Resident Evil: The Missions. As<br />
the name implies, it’s not a full-blown adventure but more a collection of<br />
entirely new objectives to clear.<br />
Resident Evil’s missions range from simply blowing away enemies to reaching<br />
locations in a certain amount of time. And though they aren’t very long,<br />
there’s still plenty of horrific action to be seen. A branching pyramid showing<br />
100 possible missions will give you a solid selection to choose from. As<br />
objectives are cleared, new ones will open. Completing them successfully<br />
will not only give you a grade to determine your score, but whether other<br />
missions are opened. In addition, by collecting certain items throughout,<br />
special missions can be unlocked. Given that all of the missions are<br />
branching and unlocked at different times, there will always be a different<br />
path to complete them all.<br />
Players will have to navigate RE’s trademark crumbling mansion through<br />
zombie-infested hallways and rooms using S.T.A.R.S officer Jill Valentine.<br />
She can run and walk, but to shoot at enemies you’ll have to enact the<br />
Attack Stance using a soft key. When in Attack Stance, the aim will autotarget<br />
enemies, and since ammo will be in short supply, the decision to fight<br />
or flee will always be a critical concern. Thankfully, the controls have been<br />
re-tooled for mobile handsets and therefore the game will not suffer when<br />
moving Jill around. Just press the direction you want her to go and she will<br />
move instead of having to rotate her body and then pressing forward.<br />
The game uses fixed camera angles to show the action and the backgrounds<br />
recreate the original mansion in creepy detail. The characters are large<br />
and move well, but more impressive is the fact that they look very good<br />
considering it’s a mobile phone screen. A lot of detail is captured here and<br />
even the sound is on target to create a grimly fiendish atmosphere. By no<br />
means is it as scary as console versions, yet it feels right for mobile.<br />
Resident Evil: The Missions unfortunately doesn’t have a storyline to tie<br />
everything together, nor does it have a map feature that would be helpful to<br />
those who are unfamiliar with the mansion. Nevertheless, it does a bang up<br />
job of delivering the franchise to wireless phones with good controls, tons of<br />
missions and solid game play. Fans of the series will enjoy this supplemental<br />
title and mobile gamers in general should definitely consider this download.<br />
3.5 of 5<br />
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