And Samurai II: Vengeance had moments of console-grade excitement. Yet to find more than a modicum of games available was a happy surprise. Certainly, the number of games on the Nvidia Tegra platform pales in comparison to the behemoth competition of Apple.
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Overall, though, I felt the graphically superior games I played on the Google Android operating system performed quite well. Still, it was annoying to be taken away from the brutal action so constantly.
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Such a wild move paused the game, so it didn’t require a full restart. Which meant I had to boot the game again. Often in the anxious heat of battle, my finger moved slightly to the right beyond the screen to hit the home button on phone.
The touchscreen controls for battle are far to the right of the screen, almost at the edge. There was a problem that bedeviled me, however.
I had the most difficulty with a whirling dervish of an enemy, who spun and cut me even as I bolted away. With a splatter of blood on the wooden bridge, they fall, and you move on to the take on the next enemy. With a gruesome swish, you cut your foes in half. And then, whoosh, I’m ask to slice and dice the baddies who stop me from wreaking vengeance on those who murdered my wife and child (at least that’s how I remember the mediocre plot).įor the four hours it took to play to the finale, I even marveled at the bloodletting. Japanese folk music was strummed quietly. For instance, as I peered over a wooden bridge, a river below flowed red with burbling lava. Yet because the Japanese woodcut-inspired artwork has so much lurid personality, I felt immersed in this fast-paced, inexpensive game. Presented between each level in panel by panel style like a graphic novel, the banal tale almost made me avoid playing the game in full. Now, the game from Czech developer Madfinger Games has a mediocre-bordering-on-miserable story attached. From a seafaring village to a flying fortress to the legendary Isle of the Dead, the samurai will stop at. Take for example the game I showed off for Shelly on the phone, Samurai 2: Vengeance. Samurai II sends Daisuke on a quest for revenge across the war-scorched countryside. That means car racing games don’t drop frames, and it also means that the artwork in games can be particularly well-defined. The G2X from LG has a dual core processor, which makes it really quite speedy for games. Recently on Live Digital, Shelly Palmer’s NBC television program, I talked about a new Android phone with 4G T-Mobile service.