With a passion for Snakes and armed with N-Gage on his trusty Nokia N95, Ewan Spence was the logical choice of reviewer for the brand new Snakes Subsonic. Unfortunately, Ewan reckons that the three year old original is slicker and smoother in most departments and that the new Snakes implementation suffers from numerous design and performance issues. Here's the full review of Snakes Subsonic.

"Long term readers of All About N-Gage will know that I am a big fan of the Snake game, and especially where Nokia have taken it , from the little bundled game on the Nokia 5110, through the release of Snakes for the original N-Gage, to the subsequent polish of the code for S60 3rd Edition devices (such as the N95). SO... the sight of Snakes Subsonic in the second generation N-Gage platform was like waving a vial of white powder at me.

The graphics and tweaks just looked fantastic, with more enemies crawling around the playfield, the spectre of an evil snake getting in your way, and the fact that this was going to be even more of a mind-bending playfield, with horizontal and vertical surfaces to climb through just adding to the visual fun.

And then I played it."

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