02-10-2003, 10:01 PM
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Frontier's Darxide EMP for Pocket PC Now Available!
"The game is played over 12 missions of increasing difficulty. In addition to the 'quick fix' of shooting things, there is a variety of different, well structured increasingly challenging mission criteria which mean that thought is required to progress - the Alien enemies have different weaknesses and attack modes. Later in the game the ability to manage resources becomes crucial to success, and the whole culminates in a furious blast against the Alien Mothership.
The game extracts maximum gaming performance from the Pocket PC platform, being played in �landscape� mode and offering touchscreen �softkey� controls for firing weapons and controlling speed. There is a choice of right- or left-handed operation, and players can re-define the default button configurations to suit their individual preferences."
Darxide EMP is priced at �12.99 and runs on Pocket PC PDA devices which use ARM architecture CPUs and run the Microsoft Pocket PC 2002 or Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition operating systems.
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02-10-2003, 10:43 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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I recently made a deep review of the game on PPCReviews.net, a french site covering pocketpc news & software reviews (the review will be online on tuesday) and i've been enjoying it for more than one week from now. I agree with Steven, the realisation is quite amazing and the gameplay is excellent. The difficulty is progressive and the missions are not repetitive at all. An excellent game and i recommend everyone to try the demo level (after a quick read on the manual)
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02-10-2003, 11:07 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2002
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Interesting - it sounds like the progressive battles fought in the book Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. An excellent book, and highly recommended to nearly anyone.
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02-11-2003, 12:00 AM
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Re: Frontier's Darxide EMP for Pocket PC Now Available!
Bwwaaaahhahaaaaaa! Elite lives!
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02-11-2003, 12:21 AM
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Join Date: May 2002
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I bought the full version of DarXide and I must say that it is one of the best Pocket PC games. The gameplay is fast (and furious :wink and the graphics are very polished and professional. It's worth the bucks.
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02-11-2003, 07:02 AM
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Originally Posted by bblock
Interesting - it sounds like the progressive battles fought in the book Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. An excellent book, and highly recommended to nearly anyone.
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...and once you've read that one (+ the sequels) you need to read "Ender's Shadow" which puts a new twist to Ender's Game...
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02-11-2003, 04:47 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Apr 2004
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Holy cow!
I have played many many pocketpc games and I personally think the graphics are unbelieveable. To elaborate, I have never seen graphics move as smoothly or quickly as this game. All I can say is wow. Anyone who wants to see what their expensive little toy blow away a Palm, this is the program to demo.
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Linear Mode
