We’ve been playing a game again. This time it’s Abduction! 2, which maker Psym Mobile kindly sorted us out with a review copy of a few days ago. It’s just gone live on the Android Market this morning, and here’s what it’s like.
You should know what Abduction’s about – the original has been downloaded through the Android Market more than two million times, and is a superb accelerometer-controlled platform game in which you bounce silly animals up through increasingly complex levels.
What’s changed in Abduction! 2 is mostly visual, with the look of levels given a massive overhaul and the general front end and presentation upgraded loads. You get new character customisation options, a much prettier and larger world map to travel around, plus the level backgrounds are more detailed and filled with silly little weather effects.
We’re no fans of motion controlled games in general, but Abduction’s system works. Because you’re only making small movements left and right, it’s easy to control to a high degree of accurately. Also, you can’t argue with a game that lets you buy a top hat to put on your seal. When people say there are no polished, professional games on Android, show them this.
We’ve been reviewing Abduction! 2 on an HTC Desire, where it runs without glitch. We also gave it a spin on our older, Android 1.6-powered HTC Magic and it worked on that, too, although there’s a weird bug – acknowledged by the developer in an on-screen tip – that stops the world map displaying on older phones. So you have to disable the map and access the levels through a list instead.
Apart from that weird little technical wobble, Abduction! 2 is a great, stylish, fun little game that deserves to be HUGE. Out now for £1.95 on the Android Market.
It’s smooth to use, the 1080p display is sharp, clear and bright, the device is extremely light and thin and therefore very pocketable and portable — much more so than other 5-inch phones we’ve used. And yet… we’re a bit unimpressed by the overall package…
A relatively high-spec smartphone, with a 4.5″ display running at 480 x 854 resolution and powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, plus the Ascend G510 arrives running Android 4.1.1 — albeit potentially hindered by Huawei only sticking 512MB of RAM inside it..
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
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?
Bastiaan
/ September 10, 2010Ohh I was looking forward to this, but it doesn’t seem to work on my desire with 2.2.. Once I start a level I get a white square, and thena completly white screen.
Anyone with the same experience?
Gary C
/ September 10, 2010That’s odd. My Desire is on 2.2. Perhaps it’s an OLED/SLCD issue? Mine’s an SLCD model. Seems unlikely, though.
penhapus
/ September 10, 2010No problems with my Desire 2.2; all good so far. Now for the commuting test!
DailyTechPost
/ September 13, 2010Nice list ..I was looking for some good games for android, then I found your site …thanks for sharing this
e-okul
/ October 10, 2010Very nice read I am in a class that I have to start creating blogs and using them I am all new to the idea
Terumi
/ January 6, 2011Cant pass the presidential run in USA keep on getting stabbed by invisible things can you tell me why? thanx
Gary C
/ January 6, 2011Er… little spikes on the bottom of the platforms?
lilly540b
/ December 16, 2011I bought the Abduction 2 for my HTC Incredible and i loooove it!! Although i seemed to beat all the levels available and collected all 3 cages in every level, but it is saying that I am only 69.4% complete. What is left for me to do?! No new levels opened up
I still have 30.6% to complete. Can anyone help me?!
THANKS