N-Gage says “I’m not dead yet” with new fighting game “One”

October 27th, 2005, 18:04 Posted By: wraggster

The N-Gage had a very rough launch (it’s already earned a place in many net compilations of product flops) and it has kind of languished in limbo since then: gamers don’t buy consoles that don’t have strong game lineups, and developers don’t develop for platforms that gamers don’t own.

So we’re not sure if these glowing reviews for the new fighter One indicates that the N-Gage has finally emerged from its cocoon or is emitting its final swan song. What we do know is that we love the thinking behind One’s multiplayer element: the goal of the game is to climb a worldwide multiplayer ladder to become—you guessed it—the One. What’s that work out to given the N-Gage’s sales? Like five other people you gotta beat?

Low blow, we know. But seriously: the game looks good and supposedly plays well too. Here two reviews:

Gamespot: “ONE’s gameplay is nothing short of stunning, even in a nascent stage of development…. ONE constitutes nothing short of a quantum leap for the N-Gage, graphically speaking.”
All About Symbian: “It pushes the N-Gage in terms of graphics, connectivity, scope and gives the gaming public a type of challenge that hasn’t really been seen before. Take away all the frills and novelty factors around the game and you still have an exceptional handheld beat-em-up game that can stand alongside the genre favourites.”

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