3 great, new games coming: a Prehistorik and a WarCraft III clone and Doom for 2700G!

Menneisyys · 11-20-06, 11:29 AM

A promising Prehistorik clone!

There are very few really good platformer games for the Pocket PC: SuperTux, Gold Miner Joe, the free OpenJazz, Bayside Studios' Quigley's Quest 1.10, the not-sold-any-more Rayman Ultimate by Gameloft or the non-WM5-compliant, now-free Tommy Kombat come to mind as examples.

Computing old-timers surely remember Prehistorik 1 and 2 by Titus. I've loved these games; they were one of my favorites before the coming of Risky Woods, the, IMHO, best PC-based platformer game of 1992.

I have very good for you all: Bonanza Interactive is working on a Prehistorik-alike. The main page of the game can be found here; a related discussion here.

At last: Doom for 2700G-enabled Pocket PC's!

Another very good news item is Doom for Dell Axim x50v and Dell Axim x51v devices. Sure, we do have the 2700G-optimized, great Quake Mobile and the, on x51v Dell Axims, due to RAM memory shortage, non-running Quake 3; this title, however, is the first Doom port to make use of the excellent 3D acceleration capabilities of the 2700G.

Here's the related PocketGamer thread and here the official homepage of the game.

A WarCraft III clone!

Russian coders are just great. It was a few days ago that I had the pleasure to report on the commercial-quality, free Death Drive from Russian developers; now, great German Pocket PC gaming site PocketGaming has reported (related PocketGamer thread here) on Warcraft III being ported to the Pocket PC, of which tomorrow or the day after a playable aplha will be released. The latter may also mean this isn't hoax, as opposed to different Warcraft II port announcements in the past.

My only concern is that of Copyright. I, a real StarCraft-freak and hardcore (ex-)player, who has heavily distributed to some localized add-ons and translations, know how hard-headed the Blizzard folks (the original authors of the WarCraft-series and StarCraft) are, Copyright-wise. It's very hard to get even a simple, free (!!) localized add-on, not even containing a bit of their original artwork, through with them - let alone a reimplementation on a different platform. Let's hope, however, for the best - and make sure you stay tuned, I'll post the link to the downloadable Alpha as soon as it gets released.

11-21-06, 07:28 AM

Can't wait for the warcraft III clone to come out. Keep us posted...!!

11-21-06, 09:59 AM

Awesome. Thanks for the heads up.

player911 · 11-21-06, 12:10 PM

I bet Doom will be fun. The screen shots look amazing. I'm looking forward to playing all 3 of these games.

Paul123 · 11-21-06, 06:54 PM

The download is up. (the warcraft 3 demo)

11-21-06, 07:35 PM

How do you play first person shooting games on your Axim though. I saw Wolfenstine that day and it didn't look fun with a stylus and the D-pad.

player911 · 11-21-06, 10:54 PM

3D shooters are great with the stylus. You use the Dpad to move, while using the stylus to point and shoot.

I use the middle button to shoot or jump(if applicable). Quake Mobile will really break you in.

11-22-06, 06:01 PM

But I don't really like using the D-Pad. I've played quite a few games using it and didn't really enjoy it.

Maybe I'm just not used to it.

uMP2k · 11-22-06, 10:35 PM

Originally Posted by player911

3D shooters are great with the stylus. You use the Dpad to move, while using the stylus to point and shoot.

I use the middle button to shoot or jump(if applicable). Quake Mobile will really break you in.

That is exactly how I do it too. Cannot wait to try out the WarCraft III clone and Doom.

As a long time player of PocketQuake I really got used to stylus control. It wasn't until this feature was incorporated in MobileQuake that I found it playable at all.

Menneisyys · 11-23-06, 03:40 AM

In the meantime, a downloadable alpha of WC III has come out (it's available here at PocketGaming.de).

It's certainly a WC III clone (most icons / units are the same) but still lacks a lot of essential WC III features. For example, dynamic terrain levels - now, it seems it only has two terrain levels (as was the case with Starcraft but unlike WarCraft II, which had no notion of heights and for example the range / visibility implications of putting units on a hill).

Menneisyys · 11-23-06, 03:44 AM

Originally Posted by ktvyeow

Can't wait for the warcraft III clone to come out. Keep us posted...!!

It's, to put it mildly, far from perfect - but may be worth giving a try.

watercayman · 11-24-06, 04:48 PM

Originally Posted by Menneisyys

In the meantime, a downloadable alpha of WC III has come out (it's available here at PocketGaming.de).

It's certainly a WC III clone (most icons / units are the same) but still lacks a lot of essential WC III features. For example, dynamic terrain levels - now, it seems it only has two terrain levels (as was the case with Starcraft but unlike WarCraft II, which had no notion of heights and for example the range / visibility implications of putting units on a hill).

Freezes my X51v. I just copied the files to my axim - I'm assuming there is some other way to install that I've missed? I don't read Dutch, so no idea - anyone get this to work on the Axim? :)

Michu · 11-25-06, 09:03 AM

Well it's German and there is a known bug under wm5.0
you can still try out the PC Version

watercayman · 11-25-06, 10:23 AM

Originally Posted by Michu

Well it's German and there is a known bug under wm5.0
you can still try out the PC Version

Hehe Dutch... Deutch ;) Thanks for the info - at least I know it's not my axim.

Michu · 11-25-06, 11:29 AM

Deutsch ;)