Actual Crimes: Jack the Ripper is a Hidden Object Game (HOG) originally called Real Crimes: Jack the Ripper on other platforms, but brought to Minis with the name change by Sanuk Games. Other than the gruesome theme (which is glossed over, there’s no gore or anything), it’s pretty much a standard hidden object game. Basically you are given a list of items and shown a scene. The goal is to find those items in the scene, and then you move on to another scene. Sounds pretty basic, and I guess it is, but it can be surprisingly fun and is to casual gaming what FPSes are to hardcore gaming.
As the name implies, it’s about a real actual crime, the murders committed by Jack the Ripper. It’s even actually based on a real life, albeit after the fact, investigation of those murders by Sir Melville Macnaghten, though they heavily fictionalized the details for the game. Modernized, really, using relatively recent theories about the Ripper’s identity. Read the rest of ”Actual Crimes: Jack the Ripper Review – Good Game, Great Port” »
Icon Games Entertainment previously offered us Arcade Darts, a great mini clamped down by a suspicious control scheme. With their Air Hockey And Bowling, the controls are smooth and absolutely fantastic. Add the robust content, I’m not just talking about the fact that this is a 2-in-1 game, this game is hitting the right notes. And I tell you in advance that these are only a couple of things that make this game incredibly awesome.
The in-game graphics is good, the menu interface is better. Several of the minis out there don’t even pay attention to their menu interface but this game in particular implements an edgy and modern one. Opening the game for the first time, you’ll be asked to create a profile and choose one among a number of varied avatars to represent yourself, and after that it will be all fun.
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Immersive Game’s Fort Commander: King’s Gambit is a twist to the tower defense genre. In fact, they twisted it so much you are not dealing anymore with towers but units. The game has Mogul Empire theme but it does lack enough “Mogulianess” in it. Sure the units has Mogul Empire written all over them, but that’s all to them. You are thrown into a war without knowing a thing about it.
The game has great graphics, not mind-blowing great, but it is great for its own sake. However, the main menu reminds me of a Sega Genesis game, not that it’s bad but it’s dull. Right after opening the game the game mechanics greets you, without finesse. You will then conclude right at the beginning that you’re in for a great disappointment.
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When Sony announced the Minis program, they announced a lot of games that never came out, some despite having descriptions and screenshots released for them. But perplexingly to me, we’ve also gotten the complete opposite of that, games that just come from out of nowhere. Hive Sweeper is one of those games, coming from Skylon Games. They have a website, but it’s almost completely blank, no mention of this game at all. So apologies for the screenshots from my digital camera, I couldn’t find any proper ones.
Still, the name is a pretty big clue as to what the game is about. It’s essentially Minesweeper, the game included with Windows. But with a bee theme. If you aren’t familiar with it, basically it’s a sort of logic game where you have to figure out where there are mines and where there aren’t, by sort of deducing it. You are given some clues in the form of numbers on the squares, which tells you how many mines are adjacent to it (including diagonally). Read the rest of ”Hive Sweeper – Minesweeper With a Bee Theme” »
Before I begin, let me remind you that Beatshapers’ Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter is not Rambo Versus the Dinosaurs. This is a hunting game, of which you’ll be more of a conservative hunter rather than a testosterone–filled action star.
This game is based on the 1998 PC title and was ported to the iPhone. The PC is arguably the best platform for First Person Shooters, I had my doubts on how can this game translate to the PSP. I had bad experiences in playing FPS in the PSP since I always find myself twirling slowly in the middle of the crossfire. Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter surprisingly implements great controls.
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Frima studio is back with the sequel to their summer puzzle space adventure game Widget’s Odyssey 2. For those of you who missed the first one, it was a puzzle/adventure game which although had a funny and attention grabbing story the game suffered from being way to short and just extremely easy.
Instead of starting a completely new story or adventure Widget’s Odyssey 2 picks up from where the original had finished. After the crew (the same five robots from the original game) return to their home planet only to find it in complete ruin’s from the cosmic sneeze, they set out to find whether this was a natural phenomenon, only to find they are not the only remaining members of their kind, in fact there are three orphan’s who are being held captive by none other then the evil Yagor.
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