Alright, I bought 15 games for the my N-Gage, you can see them below: So far, i've tried out almost all of them, and they all suck. Splintercell runs at roughly 1 frame per second, KOF doesn't actually have any cells of animation its just stick figures hitting each other, Xmen legends is damn near impossible I spent an hour trying to beat the first level, The Roots is a piss poor clone of Dungeon Seige, moto gp has a draw rate worse than anything i've ever seen, pocket kingdom is a stupid version of rock paper scisors... So far, the only decient games i've found are bomberman and Glimerati. I have about a dozen other titles, but they're all protos so i won't pass judgement on an uncomplete game. So my question is what N-Gage games suck the least?
I really thought about it, and I can't think of a single N-Gage game that I liked. Most of them were poor shadows of their original selves.
First off you definatly want to try Pathway to Glory, a turn based ww II game set in Europe. You control a squad of soldiers and each one has a different job (rifleman, sniper, radioman , etc), diff weapons and you can use vehicles. Rifts is a strategy RPG based on a old pen and paper RPG, its pretty cool with all the races you can choose and such, definatly worth a try. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm is very nice for multiplayer, single player is ok. Also if your a Civilization fan civ is coming out on the n-gage this month, they ported civ 2 with some civ 3 features, no multiplayer though!
Pathway to Glory was the N-gage killer ap.Glimmerati is suppose to be good aswell but I didnt dig it.Asphalt 2 is a solid Arcade racer.You bought a bundle of bad games.
The best N-Gage games are imho Pathway to Glory, Pathway to Glory: Ikusa Islands (must have on the system), High Seize, One, Mile High Pinball (very addictive), The Rifts... I like too Ashen, Colin McRae 2005 and Worms World Party. On the other hand if you want to see the worse N-gage game: Sega Rally... It was released only in Asia & Australia, is so bad that someday it will be mythical.
:dance: This guy is right on the money. Pathway to Glory & Ghost Recon are the only good n-gage games. Both are well worth a play (on top of it pathway to glory suports online play over gsm). Also while it pails in comparison to THPS2 or 3. THPS1 for n-gage is still actualy quite fun (the reason i bought the n-gage in the first place). Hehe actualy I have the e3 THPS beta but sadly it wont boot on comercial phones.
Sonic N is OK, if you haven't played through sonic advance on the gameboy then give it a go (they're the same games). The free snakes game from nokia's website is worth a play too.
Yeah I forgot about that game. Snakes is not that bad for a free game. Just dont touch that stupid snowboarding game that came out for s60 phones by nokia. I never could get the files deleted fro my memory card. (had to format).
tomb raider is okayish, have you played youy copy of virtua tennis yet, good god that game is awful, how can you fuck up virtua tennis?
I had to have have a car crash look after whats said about Sega Rally Looks awsome http://www.ngageworld.com/sega-rally-championship-nokia-n-gage/
I'd say it's pretty good. (Pocket kingdom) As for the some others; *Snakes is good for a free game. *Puyo pop isn't very good *Sonic N is just about bearable *Virtua Tennis sucks bigtime (just like everyone else says) *I quite liked System Rush. *Colin Mcrea 2005 was pretty good. *Super monkeyball should be pretty good. I was waiting for Taito memories with Qix , Bubble bobble and stuff.. but they cancelled it :noooo: Oh and I'm looking for Sega rally.. someone sell it to me
Would have grabbed Pathway to glory, but they wanted $6 for it. All the other games were $3. I'll have to go back and get it. That's weird that your phone doesn't play the Tony Hawk beta, i thought retail phones would play dev cards? My phone was built to play betas (that's why it doesn't need a sim card). Any chance you want to sell? Oh, and i have a beta for Sega Rally... um... it's bad... really bad... i guess the final build wasn't any better.
Suposetly something is a little different that causes all beta's to be locked out. So it probably would work on yours. Not sure if I will sell it or not. The e3 build is on the stick (i can read all the data, just cant run it). Also if you wish, There is a demo for pathway to glory on the Nokia site. I sudgest downloading it and giving it ago before you run out to buy. It might help make your desision easier. --edit-- Go here. There are tons of free demos. http://arena.n-gage.com/n-gage/web/en/play/downloads/downloads_games.jsp
Retail N-Gage phones will play betas just fine. If it doesn't boot, the card is likely defective. As for not requiring a SIM card, do you have any photos of that PA? I know you can use a dummy SIM, but I've never seen a unit that doesn't need to have a SIM of some sort installed. -hl718
Not the e3 betas from before the system launched (I actualy checked into that). The mmc is not bust (as all can be read just fine and dandy).
My unit goes into demo mode if there is no sim, but in that case it disables the gprs and can only play what game is in the drive. It won't exit back to the main menu. If i put my sim in there, it'll run just like a normal phone. As far as i can tell, they N-Gage is identical to the retail model just with different firmware, here's a crappy pic, i'll take a better one if you need me to. I did find a few more of those proto games, i'll try to take pics tonight. EDIT: As for why it might not play in a retail model, all of the games should be encrypted. The retail phone is looking for the encryption whereas my phone is built to ignore it. When the encryption was broken, that was what let other phones run the N-Gage games. My guess is that your E3 demo wasn't encrypted.
Actualy I am currious to test this. I am gonna try to find my mmc tonight and maybe you can test out the bin to see if it executes.
Found this digging around the net. Thought it was an interesting interview about the future of the N-Gage... http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20060220/simons_01.shtml
Of course, theres always the emulators, for which the n-gage actually makes quite a nice system. ...theres at least Mega Drive, MSX and NES ones, and probably a whole lot more
