Ewan revs up his bike and roars out onto the circuits of Ducati Moto, the latest N-Gage title. Unfortunately, despite largely competent graphics and a full complement of features, the gameplay's way too easy, the bike handling is on rails and there are graphical glitches. Which is, yet again, a shame for N-Gage. Ewan wonders if anyone actually play-tested the title and I have to agree.
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"It's a rubbish game"
and it gets a 61??? booq
if its a rubbish game it would get maximum a 40 not a pass for sure.
Just tried to select "N-Gage Games - Recommended" from the site menu system and get an error "The requested URL /games/all/Recommended was not found on this server.".
Is that a site error or a wry comment on the state of N-Gage?
Let me address the "it's rubbish" comment. Ducati Moto has some redeeming features, it has a full set of what you;d expect from teh game, and I know that some people will still love the grind of that. Yes it has graphical flaws, but you can see the game - and many people appreciate an on-rails racer. So it's not a total fail. I'd recommedn it with very very big reservations, so it scores above 50, but not by much.
the graphics ... [is] comparable with the likes of the Nintendo DS.
The game is ported from a Nintendo DS game of the same name.
It is a shame what potential Nokia wasted with N-Gage. Just look at some of the iPhone games today, they look very pretty and are fun to play. But Nokia had the same hardware as the iPhone (including 3G and iPod touch 1st and 2nd gen.) since the Nokia N93, and it was released in Mid 2006(!!!).
It is a shame that they did not create an environment that encouraged developers to push their efforts like Apple did with the App Store. Nokia had the market position, Nokia had the hardware, but they did not succeed with Symbian. I hope they have more luck with Maemo.
OMG Nokia is Very SUCK in game!! N95 with 3D Hardware Acceleration is useless because to few Symbian S60v3 Smartphone with 3D Hardware Acceleration that make developer not interest. Hope Nokia will fix it on Symbian Open Source Smartphone.
I was hoping that you would take on other aspects of the game instead of just the arcade. It would be fun to see some info about the stunt challenge as this seems to be the only highlight of the game.
And I have to agree on the graphics, they are horrible and the bike almost "driving through the wall" is ridiculous.
I also don't like that in the game you can't crash into your opponents even if you try really hard. (You simply drive through them).
Neither can you purposely drive the wrong way. It resets itself to turn the biker the right way after 2 - 3 seconds if you drive the wrong way. (Very typical for all new games, but a feature I personally don't quite like).
This game is absolutely dreadful! Easily the worst N-Gage 2 game I've played, maybe even below Tomb Raider Underworld! Both that and this deserve far lower scores than they got. =P