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Rats!!

Rats!! is our brand new Run N' Jump, Collect the Pickups, and Kill the Baddies Game* for Windows Mobile devices!

Rats!! features all of the above plus wonderful cartoon graphics, amazing audio, innovative controls and a hilarious story all painstakingly tailored for the best possible experience on a PDA.

Take control of Morty the Rat as he runs, jumps, climbs, and does a lot of damage in the down-town sewer districts, across thick jungles, through evil Cat Villages, many more locales, and help him get back his Cheese!

Features

  • Incredible Graphics and animation that your eyes will thank you for
  • Superb playability, with intuitive controls and menus, No Directional Pad required!
  • Over 35 Beautiful Levels to explore, from the Sewers, across the Beach, and even into a Volcano!
  • Fantastic Music, Sound Effects, and Voices rendered in ultra-high quality to make our best sounding title yet
  • Handy Stats Screen displays how much of each level you've really mastered
  • Auto-save keeps track of your progress whenever you need to put Rats!! down


     *Also known as the Platformer Genre
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    Allen Gall
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    Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine
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    The game I played most this week: Plasma Duel

     

    Brick Pong: Plasma Duel

    Just when we all thought they couldn’t possibly do any more with Pong or Breakout, they went and combined both of them into one game. That’s the really simple idea behind Plasma Duel, the new game from SecretWood. It’s one or two-player Pong, with the added element of bricks behind each player’s paddle. The first player to remove all the other player’s bricks wins the game. Since the basic idea behind Pong is pretty boring in 2007, the addition of Breakout adds some needed life to the game.

    Graphically, the game is right about where it should be: it doesn’t look great, but the colors are pretty good and everything (except the fonts, which look crappy) are about what you’d expect to see in an early 1980s videogame. The audio is at the same level, too: not great, not bad, and just about what you’d expect to find in this type of game. While pretty basic, the audiovisual components of the game do a nice job of evoking the bright, blinking atmosphere of those old machines.

    The game also has a couple of extra features. Keys can be remapped, and you can play the game against an in-person opponent by having one person use the d-pad and another use the stylus. I personally wouldn’t want to play the game this way (two heads peering at a small screen would get tiresome after a while, I would think), but the game is plenty of fun in single-player mode. The price is also right on track. 

    Note: Nova Dawn, another game the company is working on, looks pretty cool.
     
    Title: Plasma Duel Developer: eSoft Interactive
    Genre: Classic Arcade Demo: Y
    Platform: Pocket PC 2002+ Price: $9.95
    Discuss this game Rating (of 4): 3.3

    Addendum

    My review of 3D Lawn Darts last week ended up receiving some feedback from a couple of people. I failed to mention in my review that the game has a really neat motion sensing feature (based on the circuitry contained in camera-enabled Pocket PCs and Smartphones) that allows you to swing and rotate your device to throw darts, sort of like a Nintendo Wii. Since my current device doesn’t have a phone, I wasn’t able to test the feature out. While I stand by my opinions on the game, the motion-sensing feature is worth knowing about if you’re thinking about trying out the game.

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    News - PDAMill

    PDAMill is having a 50% off sale on all their titles. That’s pretty amazing… companies don’t usually have sales like that unless they’re going out of business. This huge sale includes their newer titles, as well, including the just-released The Corsair. Wouldn’t it be neat if, say, Handango had a similar sale?  Not likely!  Or how about your favorite hardware seller?  Not likely, either.

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