Armageddon Squadron on Ovi Gaming

Published by Steve Litchfield at 14:45 UTC, April 6th 2010

In his latest Ovi Gaming review, Ewan takes to the skies in Polarbit's strangely realistic WW2 aviation shoot 'em up. With Armageddon Squadron often being sighted in the Ovi Store for free, this is definitely one to snap up, even if you'll need decent flying skills and plenty of patience to progress all the way to the end.

"Because this is a fun game – hurling fighter-bomber planes around the sky, with massive bomb-loads to take out ground targets, cannons to shoot anything that moves, and guided missiles to take out enemy aircraft. So what if your regular WWII fighter could carry about 15 seconds of ammunition, a handful of unguided rockets and maybe one or two 100lb bombs? I can see where Polarbit have made the concessions and it's a smart call."

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Originally Posted by Unregistered Very nice game and runs on non 3D hardware accelerated phones like the humble Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and Nokia N97. However, the game does not maximise the 640 width of the screen unlike their other releases (eg. Raging Thunder, Wave Blazer). Truly, these phones has the potential to run such games like this and thanks to Polarbit for that. Unfortunately, other mobile game companies don't follow that kind of scheme.

Haven't had long to play the demo yet, but it does look quite good.

I'm one of those going on about the lack of 3D accelerators in these phones, but it isn't necessarily required - I keep forgetting the roots of the Symbian hardware. Anyone remember the 3D gaming on the first Acorn RISC PCs? An 8 or 25mHz ARM2/3 processor with less than 1mb of ram that could readily handle full 3D gaming at an indecent frame rate. Yet somehow with layers of abstraction and bad coding, something with close on 20x the processing often looks a bit ropy.

There's a huge amount of untapped potential in the Nokia phones - if only the developers could get access . . . . or Nokia could release much better optimised drivers and/or APIs.

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