Mobile games. May 2013, h. 1

Mobile games. May 2013, part 2

Shawl, mobile adherents and just interested! Last month was stingy for large releases. Ball is ruling games on dog license and multi -platform projects. In the first part of the mobile digest, we will look at the game on the cartoon "Epic" , In the second-drift-rainner "Furious 6". But the main games of the month are the adventure " Jacob Jones and the Secret of the Snowman " , which came out on PS vita and restart the creation of maestro Benois Sokal Syberia On iOS. About the latter, we will talk in the henchman "Migratory birds" – do not miss. See you in July! We hope that the next month will be hot in every sense!

Pudding Monsters

A few months ago, Zeptolab proved to the whole world that the Light did not converge on the monster on Montrika, and the casuals about cutting the ropes are not the top of their career. A new word in mobile fashion – skating glare jelly by the refrigerator!

Genre: Arkada, logic

Platform: iOS 4.3 (iPhone 3gs, iPad and newer devices), Android (depending on the device)

The version of the game: Rus

Developer: Zeptolab

Publisher: Zeptolab

Cost in App Store and Google Play: Free (SD) / 31 rubles. 3 kopecks. (HD)

Link to App Store SD / HD

Google Play link SD / HD

Other games of the company: Cut The Rope: Experiments Cut The Rope: Time Travel OM Nom: Candy Flick

Frankly, at first we underestimated the concept, but, as it turned out, the game for a month for a month for a filthy broom will not be leveled from the tops. In May, the developers supplemented the collection of levels with new puzzles, throwing several more logs into the stove of public interest. If you decide to turn to this simple fun, you will be waiting for 125 levels in five worlds: a refrigerator, a room, the surroundings of the house, the city and the view from a bird's eye view. This is the path that has to overcome the revitalized jelly in search of freedom and salvation from the owner-unit, whose formidable shadow constantly flickens in the main menu.

The best tactical move is the unification of forces for a preventive blow. Eyeous pieces of jelly with languishing are looking at the player in the hope of helping in the formation of a single cake of a bizarre shape from them. Pudding moves only in two directions and constantly strives to fly away outside the gaming field drawn to the squares. As they say, you don't lie – you can't eat.

To exclude losses, supports from ice cubes, stands with pencils, books, TVs and other household utensils are used. Some belongings have special properties, and they must be taken into account in the process of moving jelly along the site. For example, ice cubes of long pressure will not stand and sooner or later will be split. And there is also a mechanism for cloning jelly – modern cooking technologies in action.

In addition to standard red lumps of jelly, you have to get acquainted with several exquisite dishes. Blue snoring pudding will not wake up until you get it with another piece of jelly; A large muscular dessert can move interior items; A green sobbing jellied man melts before our eyes, leaving behind a sticky slurry, which plays the role of a barrier. Combining the skills of the whole trinity, you need not only to prepare a powerful dessert, but also to collect all the stars to unlock new stages.

The adventure of revived products is noticeably easier Cut The Rope , There is no thin flirting with physics, no need to calculate the flight path of the unfortunate candy. But just in case, the developers nevertheless screwed paid tips that recharge step -by -step in what sequence to move the heroes with a finger.

The developers were well able to convey the effect of sowing jelly. Filwed pudding shimmers his eyes slightly, mutters something in his pudding tongue and makes a characteristic sound if you poke your finger at it. Zeptolab has developed its own cartoon visual style, which is difficult to confuse with something. On the other hand, this is the main drawback – it is very similar to all previous work of the studio.

Jacob Jones and the Secret of the Snowman

Have you ever been to a pioneer camp? The author of these lines, like a notorious dissident, spent in the nineties in the camp exile for almost five years. Then it was not yet customary to fry the stomachs on the Egyptian-Turkish beaches, I had to feed the blind in their native strip. And therefore, the indignation of the nine -year -old Jacob Jones, whom parents fused for the whole summer in the camp, is understandable and close ..

Genre: Adventure, logic

Platform: iOS 4.0 (iPhone 4, iPad 2 and newer devices), ps vita

The version of the game: Eng, rus

Developer: Lucid Games

Publisher: Lucid Games, Sony Computer Entertainment

The cost in the App Store and PSN: 33 rubles. / 75 rub.

Link in App Store

Link in PSN

Other games of the company: Pixel Smash Christmas Edition

There are no pioneers in free America, scouts are blown up for them. Even on the way to the Orlyn Pen camp, which is at the foot of a dormant volcano, inexplicable events begin to occur. Then the tree will fall on the road in front of the car of the Jay Jei and his parents, then the navigator will disappear, or even the monster in the bushes will be guided.

Jacob is a modest boy and nausea brought up. Parents said to take things out of the trunk – they would go implicitly to solve a suitcase puzzle (with the help of a player); They will ask to collect 130 cans from under soda throughout the camp-this will be selflessly engaged (this is needed as an intra-game currency). Dressed in a simple way, on the head a hood with ears, behind his back a backpack in the form of a bear, and itself resembles a cross of a rag doll and immortal Kenny from South Park.

For five episodes – Lucid Games They adopted the episodic model of distribution – the boy will have to survive surrounded by other voluntarily prisoners and their overseers. A local tyrant – a swooped physical fitness with a square muzzle, will more than once give young talent a trouble in the case of the capture of Yeti ..

PS vita vs. IOS: There are no differences in versions. Is that a flame engine Unreal Engine Warm up a mobile phone to the temperature of the Soviet soldering iron and completely eats the battery twice for passing; And the version for the portable console Sony for some reason is noticeably more expensive.

The same monster that Jacob noticed from the window of the car is not a fruit of fantasy at all, but a completely real reasonable creature. The first episode, currently available in the App Store and PSN, is entirely dedicated to the acquaintance.

The game is perceived as an interactive cartoon – juicy, colorful, with non -sounding jokes. Good three and a half hours (this is how much you need to master the first episode) you will listen to the characters' conversations and rub your finger at the screen so that the main character moves from one interlocutor to another. Good news for those who are not in the wretches with English – the developers released an update that Russian subtitles added.

Actually we play only in moments when the hero is asked to do something or help in something. To do this, you need to solve a puzzle, a cunning mathematical problem or fold a picture of pieces. There are more than twenty puzzles here, but not everyone is closely woven into the narrative and may just not get caught.

Camp life is inconceivable without horror stories for sleeping. And one of the puzzles is connected with the story of the Aztec Temeta, which was installed in the House of Girls forty years ago. On one lunar and by no means a beautiful night, the decorated column rebelled and flattened all the inhabitants of the room. Jacob's task is to restore the chronology of bloody reprisals against the Chirler-and-Belieders on a special game field.

Absurd and by the ears of attracted puzzles are much more than logical and thoughtful. On the other hand, we have an interactive cartoon in which everything is possible. The developers painted a cozy world, where it is very pleasant. Stunning voice acting adds sensations of the children's matinee, and the story intrigues the uncomplicated (at first glance), forcing him to wait for the second episode.

Special guest: from cinema screens on mobile phone displays

Epic

Bluesky Studios – authors of the cult “ice age” and a solid “Rio” – with the money 20th Century Fox sent a new cartoon for the whole family – “Epic” to the world film.

Genre: arcade

Platform: iOS 5.0 (iPhone 3gs, iPad and newer devices), Android 2.3

The version of the game: Rus

Developer: Gameloft

Publisher: Gameloft

Cost in App Store and Google Play: Free

Link in App Store

Link in Google Play

Other games of the company: " Green Fermat 2 " Wonder Zoo: Animal & Dinosaur Rescue "Ice Age: a village"

Contrary to the name, the picture came out not that epic, rather … peculiar. In some places here it blows psychedelic. However, it is not for us to judge, we will provide this to professional film critics. We gathered here to find out more about the namesake of the cartoon – a game for mobile devices, which in the bowels Gameloft They stuck exactly by the beginning of the world film distribution.

Not very rainbow news for lovers of games with a serious face – we have a variation on the topic of "farm". However, it is difficult to imagine a level of level Modern Combat Based on the cartoon about flowers, a girl and slugs with bulging eyes. According to the canons of games about the "landscape design", one of the key tasks is to cultivate grain and planting chernozem with plants that give nectar. In the Forest Kingdom of Ginov-men the size of Gubin and even less-this is something like oil with gas. Biologically clean resources are spent on the construction of huts for the working class, grain storages, temples, amphitheaters and military structures.

The latter are a special strategic value. The game makes it possible to feel not only a simple collective farmer, but also a military leader. Forest residents are waging a permanent war with bastards – beetles, destroying the flora in the bud. You have to support the fighting spirit of soldiers, constantly engage in recruiting sets and training of recruits. You have to go to the habits of the great swamps, where evil bark beets were barricaded, but first you need to win in nine dozen battles!

Control: Everything is tied to simple “taps”, for approaching and removing, the movement familiar to all owners of modern devices by two fingers is used. From time to time, the interface elements show thoughtfulness.

Before each battle, you need to place the fighters for advantageous positions, depending on their skills and level. If there is no desire to juggle with Kasky independently, the game will do everything for you. The battle is furnished as if in some anime: the screen is divided into two parts, and the warring troops rush towards each other. Only the cries, hooting and waving sabers are missing. Tumaki soldiers give each other in a leisurely step -by -step regime, constantly chasing through the “double continuous”, which will call the eyes throughout the session. The player at this moment is free to strengthen his army with magic and pretend to be a divine doctor, helping the fallen heroes to resurrect.

To be God is expensive. The most valuable points of the Auras are spent on this – another built -in currency. Without them, the game turns into an endless forced pause Love Casino. For each action, whether it is the construction, improvement of the skills of the hero or the creation of a spell, a real time is spent. And if thirty -second delays in the first stages can still be endured, then a senseless spending of fifteen minutes on the cultivation of the next bush pushes the thought of suicide.

There is nothing more expensive than free. In this way, Gameloft draws money out of us. A handful of "aura" will cost unthinkable 1600 rubles. It is difficult to say what can prompt to spend such an amount in their right mind and solid memory. As a rule, mobile specialists were looking for alternative (let's call it so) ways to obtain intra -game wealth. Now the French have covered the bench: the game requires a constant connection to the Internet, the slightest interruption of communication leads to a reboot. The most terrible ideas Microsoft , not confirmed during the announcement of the Xbox One, adopted Gameloft. One thing is bad: the need to sit in an embrace with a Wi-Fi Router kills the concept of a mobile game as such, and 3G-technologies are still not available to everyone.

The funny thing is that we were not able to try out PVP-Boys nominally present in the list of advantages of the game. Despite the constant connection to the network, the multiplayer flatly refused to work. To go through a campaign in which one network battle is required, it turned out to be impossible. Perhaps you will be lucky?

Redline rush

Rannemes on mobile shelves are a great many. The developers implant the concept of "endless running" into a variety of genres. Redline Rush – representative of the car early. If desired and remarkable dextering, the race will last forever.

Genre: Arkada, cars

Platform: iOS 4.3 (iPhone 3gs, iPad and newer devices)

The version of the game: English

Developer: Dogbyte Games

Publisher: Dogbyte Games

Cost in the App Store: 33 rubles.

Link in App Store

Other games of the company: Offroad Legends Offoad Legends Sahara 8BIT NINJA

For this Dogbyte Games (authors are mediocre Offroad Legends – Games in the spirit Trials ) laid three endless straight routes: a modern auto track, a suburban highway along the forest and a concrete channel. Miles will burn under the wheels of one of the sixteen supercars until the car crashes into the chipper or car of another participant in the movement.

During the interval from the start to the accident, you need to have a lot: collect a million or two of gold coins, grab a couple of bonuses and temporary accelerators, and slip past a dozen police barriers. Nominally cops in the game are present, but they are not trained and fulfill only the role of static obstacles.

Accumulate money for a brand new pseudo-Ferrari (there are no real cars in the game, only their prototypes) is unbearably difficult. Will have to wrap a distance equal to two equators of the Earth, no less. Or invest a sonorous ruble – they are these free games.

THIS IS INTERESTING: There is also a considerable money that comes down to the interrogation of the body and apply the fire strips on the hood. The remaining nodes of the machine do not require, they decided in Dogbyte Games.

At the same time, there are no differences between cars: they are equally quickly worn, identically controlled and deliciously fall apart into pieces in the event of an accident. It is impossible to break the car while driving. There are only two states: ideal – before the accident, a bunch of scrap metal – after. The hood and trunk fly off, the wheels roll in different directions, the machine makes somersaults in the air and in the spirit of the classic parts Grand Theft Auto Detonish. The explosions, however, look like in the same GTA.

The picture is drawn by a common rainbow palette, but technologically it is far from the level of locomotives of the mobile racing genre: Real Racing 3 or Asphalt 7: Heat. Management options only two. And both are tied to virtual buttons. Steering a gyroscope – impermissible luxury.

However, it is not worth demanding serious racing habits from time-killer. Fifteen minutes have entertainment before us to pass the time. And the game copes with its task.

Migratory birds

An enchanting quest Syberia Last month, reborn to iOS. The melancholy world, invented by the Belgian artist Benois Sokal, is fascinating today, eleven years after the debut release of the game on the PC. The adventure of a young-adulterity girl Kate Walker, who arrived in a small town in French Alps, to draw up documents on the sale of an old toy factory, everyone who loves amazing stories should survive. The perfect reason to recall the emotions that this game gave, or get acquainted with a living classic if you belong to the new generation of players.

Price Syberia – Part 1 HD In App Store: Free Link to App Store

Poker simulator Poker Night 2 from Telltale Games He looked at iOS. Heroes of different games and films (Claptreep from Borderlands , Rabbit Sam from SAM & Max, Esh Williams from the film "Evil Dead" and others) They will be disturbed again at the playing table to find out whose “poker's” is cooler.

Price Poker Night 2 In App Store: 169 rub. Link to App Store

SEGA decided to reanimate the classic game about blue hedgehog. Familiar to the millions of the platformer Sonic the Hedgehog , The Sega Mega Drive console in 1991, at one time became the founder of one of the largest series in the video game industry and a symbol of games as such. Restation on mobile platforms is a great occasion to remember how it all began.

Price Sonic the Hedgehog In App Store and Google Play: 99 rub. / 94 rub. 12 kopecks. Link to App Store and Google Play

Another dinosaur of the industry decided to argue for a place under the modern mobile sun. Japanese martial art simulator Karateka The first time I saw the light – terribly imagine! – In 1984 on a dozen ancient systems. The reincarnated version has retained the previous appearance and acquired virtual control buttons. Scientific interest is considerable, although prolonged game sessions are hardly possible.

Price Karateka Classic In App Store and Google Play: 33 rubles. / 31 rubles. 33 kopecks. Link to App Store and Google Play

Drift and winking by neon from under the body, the arcade simulator of street racing is included in the Android Help. On iOS Race Illegal: High Speed ​​3D I came out back in 2011 and in a new reality looks a little battered. However, it is still playing vigorously.

Price Race Illegal: High Speed ​​3D On Google Play: Free link to Google Play