Vivendi reveals new Spyro and Delta Force mobile games
Plus a whizzy 3D first-person shooter
Vivendi Games Mobile has announced a bunch of new mobile games that are due to release in the second half of 2007.
The announcement is US-focused, so some of the games us Europeans have heard about already – such as Crash Of The Titans, Leisure Suit Larry: Love For Sail, and The Incredible Machine. But others are being announced for the first time.
Such as? How about The Legend Of Spyro: Eternal Night is an action-adventure starring that little purple dragon fella, with 13 levels and eight bosses to conquer.
Meanwhile, Delta Force is a sequel to Black Hawk Down: Team Sabre, and will see you commanding a squad of military types duffing up terrorists with all manner of heavy weaponry. Apparently the sniper scope feature is rather stunning.
Slide'n'Loop sounds intriguing too: it's a 'quest-driven puzzle game' involving looping around the board and sliding objects into place to score points. There's also an enemy boss – something new for a puzzle game, as far as we can remember.
US gamers will get a new installment of Vivendi's episodic Surviving High School game, plus a spin-off – Surviving Hollywood – that's more likely to make it to this side of the Atlantic. The latter sees you mixing with the sharks and yes-men of the movie industry, working your way up to becoming a top scientologist star.
Last, but definitely not least, is Urban Attack. It's a first-person shooter that Vivendi says will work on all handsets, not just high-end 3D-capable phones. It'll apparently use vector graphics to make the action super-fluid.
How will the controls work on mobile phones though? This is the game we're most keen to get hands on with, not least because it's been 18 months in the making. Rest assured, we'll be pestering Vivendi to let us have a look, and will report back here as soon as we can.
