Frontier's Darxide EMP for Pocket PC Now Available!

[Steven Cedrone]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.frontier.co.uk' target='_blank'>http://www.frontier.co.uk</a><br /><br /></div>"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.<br /><br />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."<br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/DarxideEMP01.jpg" /><br /><br />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.

[WirelessJunkie]

I recently made a deep review of the game on PPCReviews.net (http://www.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)

[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.

[Anjuan Simmons]

Bwwaaaahhahaaaaaa! Elite lives!

[Captain Obvious]

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.

[Certified Optimist]

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.

...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...

[Khufu1]

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.