Whack A Friend
Whack A Friend is a whackamole arcade game which lets you use your own photos as the things you try to hit.
How To Get It:
You can download Whack A Friend from Ovi Store by selecting your phone's Ovi Store icon, or by going to store.ovi.mobi on your phone's web browser.
Alternatively you can go to store.ovi.com on your computer's browser.
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Ovi Gaming Review:
Phone Used For Review - Nokia 5800 XpressMusic (games may be different on different phone models)
Gameplay - This is a Whack A Mole clone, you have to hit as many moles as possible within a time limit, with higher scores for chains of uninterrupted hits. The twist here is that you can load your own photos into the game so you see a real person instead of a mole. You can also extend the time limit by hitting alarm clocks.
Graphics - Simple 2D stuff, but the clever part is the method for integrating your own photos into the game, which is amusing and easy to use. All you have to do is choose an image file and then zoom in so that the face fits into the predrawn template, which works best with photos where a person is looking directly at the camera. See the gameplay video below for an example of this in action. One annoyance is you have to re-zoom the photo every time you play the game, you can't use the photo from last time.
Sound - None.
Multiplayer & Online - None.
Overall - As the game's name suggests, this is one of those things that's a lot more fun when played with your mates, passing the phone round hitting photos of each other or perhaps some common enemy. It's a good laugh and that's why it gets a fairly solid score, but don't expect any depth in the gameplay beyond this feature.
Score - 60%
Ovi Gaming Video:
Ovi Gaming Screenshots (taken on a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic):
