Time to address the Hexage catalogue! While we do admire the technical performance and presentation of Android darling game Radiant, the simple fact is Radiant’s left/right touch controls are too vague to make it a proper contender as a serious ‘twitch’ based shooter. It’s also less than smooth on the EuroDroid Android 1.6 HTC Magic.
But there are no such problems with Hexage’s other Android big-name-game, though – everything about Buka suits touchscreen play to a tee.
All you do is hammer away at the screen, with your presses keeping bad guys away from your friendly and delicate blue sphere – and long presses ‘charge’ a super beam mega attack weapon.
That’s all you do. Anyone who says you need more than this is using the wrong hardware platform for games – mobile products need to be simple, so you can play them for three minutes while being bounced around on a train. That’s it. Simpler the better. If you want overly-complex games that don’t suit the hardware format, get one of Sony’s PSPs. Sony’s been making a mess of that for years.
And there you go. If you haven’t tried Buka, please do so – it’s such a cute and well-meaning little game. You will love it, especially if you’re a girl.
HTC’s 4.3″ dual-core Android model, powered by Qualcomm’s all-new S4 processor. It’s smaller than the enormous One X, but is it as nice as its bigger brother? (SPOILER: Yes it is).
HTC is very much B-A-C-K at the top of the Android world with this, its quad-core flagship for 2012. Great camera, huge 4.7″ display and Android 4.0 running beautifully well.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
anakin78z
/ January 22, 2010I do love this game. Just be aware that in the later levels it will become impossible to look away from the phone for minutes at a time, as doing so will mean certain death of your character. Frantic. Fun.
-z