Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Ever since I got my new shiny Nokia 6600, I've been trying to find a good game to while away the hours with. I started out with Tony Hawk Underground, which sucked, and for £2.50 only provided an hour of gameplay before it was finished. Then taking O2's recommendation I splashed out a fiver on Trivial Pursuit. The game is sweet, good design, graphics, and gameplay. Unfortunately they only thought to include 200 or so questions in the question bank, so that was mucho short-lived fun too. Another fiver wasted on Lemonade Tycoon, which I had previously enjoyed at Yahoo games, and I was starting to feel pretty angry at the whole mobile games business. Then all of a sudden I chanced upon the as yet unreleased Pax Athletica. This game uses the genius pixel work of Flip Flop Flyin, combined with the street cred and threads of alife and adidas, to recreate the 7 most historical moments of Olympic glory. It seems to have all the joys of Epyx's 1987 classic California Games, without the hassle of trying to run an Amstrad emulator on your mobile phone. I'm not the only one buzzed about the game either; it's getting major hype in Rolling Stone and the next issue of Tokion too. Shame its only planned for Verizon, and a bunch of dipshit handsets, because it sure looks neat.
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