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

Menneisyys · 11-20-06, 11:32 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.

Pocketbrain · 11-20-06, 08:38 PM

WCIII clone. Drool. Drool some more.

Kulnet · 11-21-06, 09:44 AM

Awesome. Thanks for the heads up!

Menneisyys · 11-23-06, 03:41 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).

imported_runnr548 · 11-23-06, 10:16 AM

Menneisyys rocks once again! Thanks!