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Slightly strange topic here, but I thought I'd share with you my views on gaming - in a 128bit world, how can such a graphics light game like Snake manage to compete with the latest games on the newest games consoles?! I mean, is Snake and the other mobile phone games anything more than 2bit? 4bit perhaps? Well, I just have to say that graphics mean absolutely nothing if a game is a dog to play. You know it's true really...
Last June I bought the visually stunning Ecco the Dolphin, was pretty impressed, but I gave up trying to get anywhere because it just didn't play to my liking - aside from the fact that it was one of the most incredible looking and sounding games, where the word 'ambience' fits like a glove, it was and is incredibly difficult, frustrating and just not something you need when you're trying to progress!! So where am I going with this? Who knows, but as mpst will tell you 'graphics maketh not a great game' and it's true. Look at the current crop of PS2 titles. I don't see an awful lot of cream from the odd 70 games available for it!!
So Ecco may suit some, but can you imagine a game with such amazing, mind boggling, jaw dropping and palm sweatingtly good looking with sound and everything presented in the best way, only for you to find that the control system may as well have been designed by Mike Tyson, and that it's practically unplayable?! That'd suck, that'd hurt big time, because a game that looks great deserves to be good to play too. So, what's all this about Snake? Well...
I've 'just' got a mobile phone (oh dear), and Snake 2 is one of the mini games available to play on it - one of the only things you can do without spending 40p a minute, or something similar, and so I've ended up playing this far more than anything out of my real games collection, and why? Ok, so I was boredm, but the simple things in life do entertain, they are addictive and the original concepts are the best. Tetris, Pack-man, even ChuChu Rocket - aren't they all just great! So anywho, I have been playing Snake, it's a cracking game that I recommend you all have a go should for some reason you haven't played it yet, and forget graphics - this is pure addiction from a 2D (if that), with one line that gets bigger every time you eat a little dot, with the occasional bonus points from larger funny shaped creatures, and it really is a very good game. Free with most mobiles!
So whilst games like SSX are also good fun, and offering up to date graphics, it just goes to show, you don't need a £300 PS2, just get into..Snake....
Dan2K1
Last June I bought the visually stunning Ecco the Dolphin, was pretty impressed, but I gave up trying to get anywhere because it just didn't play to my liking - aside from the fact that it was one of the most incredible looking and sounding games, where the word 'ambience' fits like a glove, it was and is incredibly difficult, frustrating and just not something you need when you're trying to progress!! So where am I going with this? Who knows, but as mpst will tell you 'graphics maketh not a great game' and it's true. Look at the current crop of PS2 titles. I don't see an awful lot of cream from the odd 70 games available for it!!
So Ecco may suit some, but can you imagine a game with such amazing, mind boggling, jaw dropping and palm sweatingtly good looking with sound and everything presented in the best way, only for you to find that the control system may as well have been designed by Mike Tyson, and that it's practically unplayable?! That'd suck, that'd hurt big time, because a game that looks great deserves to be good to play too. So, what's all this about Snake? Well...
I've 'just' got a mobile phone (oh dear), and Snake 2 is one of the mini games available to play on it - one of the only things you can do without spending 40p a minute, or something similar, and so I've ended up playing this far more than anything out of my real games collection, and why? Ok, so I was boredm, but the simple things in life do entertain, they are addictive and the original concepts are the best. Tetris, Pack-man, even ChuChu Rocket - aren't they all just great! So anywho, I have been playing Snake, it's a cracking game that I recommend you all have a go should for some reason you haven't played it yet, and forget graphics - this is pure addiction from a 2D (if that), with one line that gets bigger every time you eat a little dot, with the occasional bonus points from larger funny shaped creatures, and it really is a very good game. Free with most mobiles!
So whilst games like SSX are also good fun, and offering up to date graphics, it just goes to show, you don't need a £300 PS2, just get into..Snake....
Dan2K1
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My top score on my Nokia 3310 - snake 2!
My top score on my Nokia 3310 - snake 2!
Snakes a great game, although on my sisters mobile you have to press 4 keys(i.e. up, down, left and right) to play the game. Which is really frustrating as I loved the old system (left and right only). 4 key control is annoying which goes to show that even Snake can suffer from a dodgey control system :-(
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