Digital Legends: ONE for N-gage 2.0 cracked Binpda...
The second 'One' (for the new N-Gage platform phones) is actually better than the first 'One' (for the original N-Gage). While the debate over Highlander II: The Quickening will rage for years, the improvements made by Digital Legends in the 3-d Fighting game for the N-Gage platform is all up on the screen, and kills the opposition stone dead.
And that takes some doing, because the original N-Gage 'One' was close to being one of the best fighting beat-em-ups on a mobile platform... ever. Looking back on that review (where it scored an impressive 83), there's a lot of things said then that are true now. The main one that caught my eye is in the opening paragraph. Then, One was being heralded as the saviour of the N-Gage, and to a certain extent it was, being in a wave of first party titles that proved the N-Gage concept.
Now, it's not so vital, as the Next Gen N-Gage platform is a little bit more varied, and has critically lauded titles, mainstream titles, and third party developers lining up to do a second wave of releases and development. So One is not as pivotal this time around, but it's certainly a title that those following the N-Gage been waiting over. Delayed countless times, now it's final here, is it worth the wait?
Yes.
The first thing that hits you are the graphics. There's been a lot of heated discussion, to put it mildly, on whether N-Gage can 'work' without using a 3D Chip, and One is going to make the two camps further apart. Some will point to One and say, well how much better-looking than that do you want a mobile game to be? Others will talk about the cost in CPU time, and that it could look 'even
better' if a separate chip was doing all the triangle drawing.
Finally, most people will do most of their 'One' adventure in the story mode - this takes your character around the world, introducing first the idea of an underground 'winner takes all' competition to find the 'one' best fighter, but also gives you steadily more impressive AI opponents to fight, and unlockable clothes and items to customise your fighter
on screen. As you go along, this also brings up your score, and rather like ELO chess rankings, you'll get more points for defeating a better fighter than you, and less points if you're expected to win. This means that just because you have a ninja fighter in the later stages, it's not so easy to amass the points you need by grinding out fights on lower opponents - and you'll need those points as they are the online 'currency' of One.
Setting yourself up for online play is easy - just let the Arena know your location, and your fighter data is uploaded to the service. Going online after that will upload the score of your fighter, and allow this to be compared to others for the global ranking.
There's no online fighting (more's the pity), this is only available over Bluetooth with local opponents. I'm guessing there are latency issues trying to fight online, but
the ability to compare yourself with anyone else in a realistic way is a great addition, and of course means there will always be someone at the top of the table as the best of the best for people to aim for. And that one person is going to have to work hard to stay there. It's well suited to mobile gaming, implemented well, and is sure to add to the longevity of a game built around 90 second fights.
Right then, time for the bit that many will not like to hear. This game is a technical marvel, and it's surprisingly effective when compared to other modern beat em ups, especially those on other mobile platforms. It's also definitely an improvement on the original in many respects.
But it's going to miss out on our rare Mega-game award by the smallest of margins. The fighting genre is one that does not have mass appeal, and there's little in the way of introduction for the casual gamer to allow them to be immersed into the game world in the way that, say, Reset Generation has managed. Is there a good reason why 'training mode' is not available in the demo? I'm still not convinced that generic phone keypads are suited for any game which looks and acts like a console game - and make no bones about it, One is console quality - but a console where you have to use a TV remote control rather than a dedicated gaming controller.
This game is cracked by BinPDA and can only work in hacked s60v3 phones.
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