NOKIA GAMES

What did we expect from this game seeing as the Original was amazing? Could the original be improved? Read on…

My first thoughts when I heard about this game were ‘Yes!’ – My second thoughts when I first installed the demo? ‘What have they done to it’? To put it simply it let me down.

Now before I properly start, I will let you know BLT built this game unlike the original which was designed by IOMO which may or may not make any difference to your thoughts.

We start with the opening menu of Snakes: Subsonic, it is very nice indeed, with a nice dynamic background including the following options:

- High Scores
- N-Gage Arena
- Start Game
- Options

When playing its just like the classic, control the snake across the levels but the new Subsonic game adds different ways of game play – across different terrains like Fire, and then the way the level evolves with hills and slopes etc and you can even shoot things too. This makes the game that more challenging than the original adding new twists but if your like me and loved the original trying to get used to this game is a lot harder than you will think.

The game can be played in Landscape or portrait and looks rather good in both but the graphics of this game are rather poor compared to the original that debuted a few years back – The graphics are rather blocky and not really that smooth but on most levels, despite the low detail graphics, sometimes the frame rate is affected which to me is not acceptable to such a basic game.

The sound is also rather good (don’t get me wrong its decent soundtracks and the levels match the song) but the quality factor lets it down – The clever thing with the music is that it is meant to follow the level, so if you do good the faster the music gets etc which is a nice addition but most may or may not notice this happen. The sound effects of the game is good, and adds a nice touch to the game Overall sound is good but lacks quality.

The multiplayer aspect of the game sounds promising, there’s the rankings which are standard in nearly all N-Gage games and then there’s the races/Battles which can feature up to 1-4 people across the N-Gage Arena in Real time, which sounds rather good. The online aspect is very important, and should be as standard on quite a lot of the N-Gage games, It makes the game that much more exciting.

Overall the game is rather good, but could also be improved on a lot – most with the sound and graphics but the levels of the game are deep and do offer a lot of fun once you get into it



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