Next Gen Hors D'oeuvre 3: Frozen Bubble
What is it?
A free arcade puzzle game based on the classic Puzzle Bobble (Bust-A-Move) series, but with completely original graphics and levels. You have to match up three or more bubbles of the same colour, and when you do they fall off the screen along with any bubbles clinging to them. To win a level, you have to clear the screen of bubbles.
Frozen Bubble is quite unusual, it's an open source game so anyone can download the game's source code and modify it if they want to. This has meant that the game is available on a huge range of computers and phones including Symbian S60 3rd Edition, the platform used by Next Gen N-Gage compatible phones.
Why should I get it?
Because it plays really well, it's totally free, and it features cute animated penguins.
Note that you can only play this in vertical mode, partly because the game itself involves vertical gameplay.
You can read All About Symbian's review of Frozen Bubble here.
You can see a video of Frozen Bubble running on an N95 at the Unofficial Nokia Gaming Blog.
You can play Frozen Bubble through a television if you have an N93, N93i, N95 or N95 8GB.
Getting hold of Frozen Bubble
You can download Frozen Bubble from the link below. The version suitable for Next Gen N-Gage compatible phones is the one labelled "Binary for ARM device S60 v3 (240x320)":
Get Frozen Bubble here!
To install Frozen Bubble, download the SISX file from the link above onto your PC, then open Nokia PC Suite and click on the application installer icon, with the phone connected to your computer by USB cable or Bluetooth. If you don't have PC Suite installed on your PC, it's a really good idea to get it. You can download the latest version from the Nokia PC Suite page.