Review: Crimson Fields

Published by Steve Litchfield at 11:46 UTC, May 14th 2009

AnotherGuest is famous for his various ports to the Symbian platform of classic games from older computer platforms and open source projects, and his latest release continues that trend. Crimson Fields is a turn based war game on a traditional hexagonal grid where you can fight to overcome an opponent who's trying to do exactly the same to you. Ewan dons his military gear and wades out to do battle.... with the interface itself.

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"Based on the open source linux project of the same name (which itself is based on the classic “Battle Isle” game), turn based warriors will be instantly at home. We have a hexagonal grid (that takes some time to navigate with a four way cursor); units of differing strengths and capabilities (infantry, small tanks, artillery, helicopters, etc); varied terrain that can slow you down, offer you cover, or create bottlenecks for enemies attacking you (though trees, streams, bridges, roads, etc); and a competent AI opponent to challenge you over multiple scenarios."

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Platforms: S60 3rd Edition

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Unregistered
Keys are always hard to fix. But for Crimson Fields, you have a language called mobile, which maps most of the used features to mobile shortcuts, i.e 0-9 and '*', '#', might be worth a try. Also try playing it with a BT mouse. :-)
zyler
They also have a 5th edition version. It crashed on my phone at startup though.
TomJ
Ports from older platforms? D'ye think he can do Nethack? There are plenty qwerty S60 devices now and I miss it from my 9500.
Unregistered
GREAT GAME.

For anyone using a NOKIA 5800, the V.5 game will NOT work.
It crashes on start up.

You must use the V.3 and then turn off your ’screen rotate’ setting.

Then it should work perfectly.

Remember, V.3 for 5800, not V.5. don’t know why but V.3 does work.
Maybe they mixed up the files.

Have fun.

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