Free Polarbit games available in Ovi Store
Published by Rafe Blandford at 23:06 UTC, January 19th 2010
Well known, cross-platform, games developer Polarbit has, for a limited time only, made four of its games titles available on Ovi Store for free. (previously £3). Raging Thunder, a car racing game, is available for both some S60 3rd Edition (E72) and S60 5th Edition (5800, N97 etc.) devices. Wave Blazer (power boat racing), Armageddon Squadron (arcade flight sim / shooter) and ToonWarz (3D first person Shooter) are available for S60 5th Edition only.
All the games are high quality and it's clear a lot of time and effort has gone into their development. Raging Thunder, ToonWarz and Wave Blazer are also notable for their multi-player WiFi support (currently in beta).
Recommended for anyone who wants a game or two to fill in those inevitable pokcets of spare time while on the move.
Raging Thunder screenshot
Steve reviewed Raging Thunder last week:
"Priced sensibly and really rather impressively optimised to extract every last gram of performance out of the current generation of Symbian smartphones, Raging Thunder is highly recommended for anyone who loves car racing and who is willing to take on a serious challenge to the reflexes. No, the graphics aren't a patch on those in Real Racing or Fastlane Racing on the iPhone - and, arguably, they're not as good as those on the same game three years ago - but I'm still going to give Polarbit a well deserved pass here for producing something fun, playable and which won't break the bank."
The easiest way to find the games is to open the Ovi Store client and do a search for 'polarbit'. The games were previously retailing at £3 and will, presumably, return to ths price in due course.
Via: Twitter
News Discussion
Dubito
Entertainingly, when I went into the Store client on my N95-1 and searched for "polarbit" I got a grand total of no results. Zero. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Theyre not in the first screen of Recommended or Games, either.
This, sadly, reflects most of my experiences with the Store.
Dubito
Okay, update: Apparently, it's not available for N95, presumably therefore FP1.
It would be helpful if Ovi Store returned "Content was found that is not compatible with your device".
foxprorawks
For N86, I get no results returned for "polarbit".
Rafe
Looks like s60 3.2 and above only. I found it on the E72, but not sure how widespread it is.
Unregistered
Of course it's not available on N85 like any other new thing... I'm so tired of this Ovi store crap, and so sad that I can't uninstall it :(
Congrats again Nokia!
yitwave
tried on my N97, the search and download all works...
Unregistered
on my 5800 they download and install but refuse to start:(
rvelunta
All four titles work on my 5800 and 5530, while Raging Thunder works on my E63.
jamoiholland
No search results for polarbit or any of the games by name on my N79 (3rd Ed FP2). Also I'd echo previous comments that Ovi Store is still pretty poor in comparison to other vendors, and that maybe showing results but listed as "incompatible" would've been nice maybe? Or is that overcomplicating things seeing as Ovi Store is very slow and clucnky at even doing the basics? I love Nokia's hardware, but some of the "features" need serious work...
Unregistered
Very nice games, generous to give them away. It's nice to be able to see the version differences compared to the previous 5800 version, and the a1000 version (163mhz arm) for raging thunder!
Unregistered
Raging Thunder works on 6220 classic.
atangy
raging thunder also works fine on the E71, graphics are smooth, highly recommended
Unregistered
They are good, playable games where the accelerometer control works, I've now downloaded them all for my N97 Mini. I'd previously paid for Raging Thunder, so this is mildly irritating, though to be fair that was a month ago :) Starting can occassionally be temperemental, but once they open for the first time it seems to become quite rare. Make sure you don't have anything which sucks RAM open, because instead of opening and crashing it simply doesn't let them start. For me, this means I sometimes have to close Nokia Messaging. They will eventually start, if they do on N97 Mini then they should on 5800. I think this is a sign, like a few other apps, of a good step forward for Ovi Store over the past little while. They need more of this type of game. There's a good other one out too, Nokia in-house and free, called Climate Mission, though I think that's only N97.
Unregistered
These games are good. Much better than most games that were launched for Ngage 2. Raging thunder is better than the graphics accelerated raging thunder global race on my N82, and about a million times better than ngage's asphalt 4 and nfs undercover. Lets have much more of these.
Arcade
Why is Raging Thunder the only game from Polarbit available in the E71x ? Free or otherwise ..
Raging Thunder works great on the E71x by the way...
Unregistered
They won't start with Nokia 5800 XM v31.2.101!
Unregistered
won't start on my 5800 either... i have the NAM edition.... d/l and installs just won't open
Unregistered
It used to work fine for me on my 5800, but after a hard reset\reinstall they won't start up any longer.
Unregistered
is it compatible with the nokia x6????
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