Next Gen Hors D'oeuvre 4: Return To Mysterious Island
What is it?
A Myst-style graphic adventure game inspired by a Jules Verne novel, where you are shipwrecked on a desert island and your initial task is simply to survive.
Once you have a food supply you can explore the rest of the island, where it becomes clear that the place was once inhabited but is now totally empty. What happened to the people? How will you get home?
Why should I get it?
This is one of the best adventure games ever released for a phone. It has gorgeous wraparound panorama graphics, and it's "player-friendly" so you can't die (at least not easily), which makes it more fun to explore places and try out ideas.
The game world is huge, just when you think you've cracked the game a whole new area opens up full of unsolved puzzles. There must be tens of hours of gameplay here.
It's also astonishingly good value, it costs just €7.50 / $9.99 / £5.00.
You can read All About Symbian's review of Return To Mysterious Island here.
You can see a video of Return To Mysterious Island at the Unofficial Nokia Gaming Blog.
Getting hold of Return To Mysterious Island
RTMI is a commercial smartphone game which comes in many different versions. The version suitable for Next Gen N-Gage compatible phones is Symbian S60 3rd Edition, which you can buy at the link below:
Get Return To Mysterious Island here!
To install RTMI, buy and download the RTMI SIS file from the link above, then use the Nokia PC Suite's application installer program with your phone connected to your computer by USB cable or Bluetooth. If you don't have Nokia PC Suite installed on your PC, it's a really good idea to get it, as it lets you do lots of cool stuff with your phone. You can download the latest version from the Nokia PC Suite page.