Sunday, July 29, 2007

Play Fun Cards With Jewel Quest Solitaire

Go puzzle crazy with Jewel Quest Solitaire with all the top puzzle games in a great mobile package.

If you have ever liked the old solitaire card game, then you will simply love Jewel Quest Solitaire that you can play any time, any place, once you have downloaded it on to your mobile phone. Jewel Quest Solitaire is so much more than just Solitaire (although it is that as well). Jewel Quest Solitaire has much more of an exciting, safari feel to it, with its quite mystical jeweled deck of cool and wild cards. Indeed, you actually feel as if you could even be on safari or somewhere cool like Mexico while playing Jewel Quest Solitaire. Players first get to play through more than 30 different card layouts while they seek to unlock the confusing and exciting Jewel Quest board at the same time. While they do this, they get to see a whole load of ancient secrets of the jungle city revealed. And at the same time, if you're really lucky (and successful) at Jewel Quest Solitaire, you get to make treasure, turning regular sand in to gold! What players have to do in Jewel Quest Solitaire is move all the cards (that originally start on the layout) on to the foundation pile. Any face up card that is either a rank lower or higher than the card on the foundation pile can be played. And once you have completed this level (moving all the cards to the foundation pile) the game gets even more exciting as you get to play a Jewel Quest Solitaire mini game using all the jewels you have collected. (Hence the more jewels you collect in the first level, the better off you'll be in this level.) And your goal in this part of the game is to make as many of the squares go gold as possible. Use the 2 button to move up, and down, 8 to move left; 4 to move right and 6 to select the card; 5 to select the jewel. As you will find from just your first game of Jewel Quest Solitaire, this is so much more than just a game of mobile phone solitaire. And so much more excitement and graphically pleasing too.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Get The Best Cards With Jamdat Solitaire

No matter how many times I played Solitaire in the old days with my grandma, none of it prepared me for the fun and excitement, and indeed challenge, of Jamdat Solitaire. And it is so much faster playing it on the mobile too; you do not even have to waste time shuffling!

Whatever you skill at Solitaire, you will find an appropriate level to play in Jamdat Solitaire that will challenge but not frustrate you. Apart from varying skill levels, there are different types of Solitaire (that I had certainly never come across in the regular hand held card game). If you need to review the menu again in the middle of the game, press the Control key and it will appear.

Once the game has loaded you will see the main menu and for a regular game of Solitaire, just hit the Solitaire button and press Select. For something a bit more challenging, go for Runaround in which players have to take away the cards that are either 1 point higher or lower than the ones at the bottom of the screen. It is easy to maneuver the cards; you just have to press the number or symbol on your keypad that is net to the card you wish to remove from the board.

The game option Two Close requires you to take any two cards (equal or sequential value) and remove them from the board. The aim is to remove all the cards from the board in pairs (removing them in the same way as described above in Runaround).

With Take 20 you are removing 2 or more cards which equal 20 together from the board, by highlighting those cards and removing them in the same way.

The aim of Jamdat Solitaire in its standard version is the same as regular solitaire; the player has to get all the cards lined up in their 4 separate suits and move them (in this game) to the bottom right hand side of the screen. You begin with the Ace and work your way up (2, 3, etc.) until you reach the King at which point you win the game. Moving cards or stacks on the phone is done via the correlating number on your mobile phone keypad and with a stack you can double click it to pull a card over to it.


Monday, July 16, 2007

Get The Hole With Jamdat Mini Golf

Who said that you had to be outside to enjoy outside leisure activities? Not so with Jamdat Mini Golf. There are some really terrific graphics in this cool mobile game and you really do not feel like you are missing out on anything by being indoors (although given that it IS a mobile game, you could be anywhere?even on the golf course). There are a ton of challenging obstacles and it was only after a few games that I finally discovered some of the many shortcuts. You can even improve your aim in the game via the use of the camera that helps you get the perfect shot and you will be on the edge of the chair as your eyes are fixed on the screen while your ball winds up and down slopes and maybe drops into your aimed hole. With Jamdat Mini Golf you can either play alone or choose a companion. Whatever you choose, you have to finish a round of 18 holes in as few strokes as possible. Experts at Jamdat Mini Golf allegedly have achieved a hole in one in each hole but I have never even come close to that, at least not yet. But I am still aiming for that. I usually play the standard Jamdat Mini Golf alone (Normal mode) but you can choose a practice mode as well as 1-player custom in which you can select 3, 6, front 9, back 9 or all 18 holes. 2-player custom is similar to 1-player custom but with 2 players. Familiarize yourself with the keys and controls ahead of time so that you don't mess up (like I did!) in your early games.I find that the more you practice with all the different keys, the easier things are. Initially I was reluctant to use the camera, but now I see how easy it is and what a difference it makes to my putting so I use it quite a bit. I do feel practice makes perfect, or at least, practice makes better!

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Go For Gold With Block Breaker Deluxe

Block Breaker Deluxe is kinda cute. I have always liked the games that keep me coming back for more and now that I can download them on to my mobile phone they are even more enjoyable as I do not have to sit at the computer screen. So on your screen you get a whole load of blocks and what you have to do is knock them out, with YOU being a paddle. So the paddle has to attack the blocks. That is the SIMPLE goal of the game, but with Block Breaker Deluxe things get a little bit more complicated.

First, there are a ton of different types of blocks, and some of them are really tough to manage. The worst blocks for me were the hard blocks as they have to be hit quite a few times and I can never quite work out just how many times I need to hit them. So I think I may have knocked them out and then I find that I have not been successful. There are some blocks which you do not know about immediately either, in other words they will either really help you or stab you in the back as it were so it is difficult to know what to do with them. And then there are other sort of blocks that require your attention, creativity and wisdom for you to work out how to deal with them.

There are 6 different levels to Block Breaker Deluxe and the player has to go through them all, one at a time, clearing the blocks that block him or her AND at the same time, picking up things that will be impressive to those who own the area on which you are removing the blocks. When you complete each level (area) you have to attack the boss of that place which gives you rights to enter the underground blockbreaker tournament if you have the very high entrance fee and when you enter there you have to compete against other blockbreakers. I personally find Block Breaker Deluxe not so difficult when it comes to getting things, but quite challenging regarding the blocks as there is just so much unpredictability. But I guess that is what makes the game so much fun and keeps me coming back for more.

Monday, July 9, 2007

Monopolize the Board with Monopoly Mobile Game

No matter how many times you have played Monopoly, it is the kind of game that you can keep on playing. No matter what your age, social stature or interest in life, Monopoly is a game that appeals to all. So when I saw that I could download a version of it on to my mobile phone ? the Monopoly Mobile Game ? I was intrigued. Would the Monopoly Mobile Game be able to give out the same enjoyment as that age old favorite we all know and love? I simply had to put it to the test.

I have to admit I was more impressed than I suspected I might have been. I guess what they can do now these days with mobile phones just has the capacity to improve all games, and that includes Monopoly. This version I found is known as the Here and Now game which has a lot of new and exciting icons and places. And in as much as I used to love playing Monopoly, somehow with this Monopoly Mobile Game, I am much more in to being a businessman. All of a sudden I am like a real wheeler and dealer, dying to get the most property on the board and make the most money at the same time.

In Monopoly Mobile Game you get to choose between tokens which you have to move around the board (there is no shoe or horse as in the traditional board game) and the more property you buy, the more houses you trade, the more money you make. And that puts you in a potentially good winning position. There is still the traditional chance or Chest cards which will either thrill or depress and of course when you pass GO you still get some money. But try to avoid being sent to jail; just like you would in the regular game and indeed in life!

Monopoly Mobile Game might not be the most exciting, fast paced of the mobile games, but I found it very nostalgic to play and I do like the new additions to the mobile version of the game.