War of the Worlds: the mobile phone game

'War of the Worlds' will always have a special place in my heart as the first crappy game that I ever downloaded onto my phone. I even purchased it outright instead of sampling it because who could every grow tired of scorching the Earth in a Tripod, right? Well, when the Tripod only walks, or 'scrolls', in one direction, you will be praying for a virus to off you pretty quick. "Move to the right... slowly... slower.... okay, shoot that.... yeah, shoot that, too... now here you're going to want to shoot that, but, like, a thousand times." You ARE in a Tripod, however, so you can pick things up and throw them for pre-"Age of the Heat-Ray" showboating. And you can pick up people, which is tricky because they are small and fragile so careful. I made it through the city levels of London and New Jersey and Tokyo before realizing I could zap every city on Earth and at the end still die of a virus. So who's REALLY won this game, Gameloft?

GRAPHICS: 3

REPLAYABILITY: 1

FUN: 1.5

ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOR: Highly Encouraged

STATUS: Purchased 'Unlimited' and Cancelled. Rookie mistake.

PUBLISHER: Gameloft

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If you're like me, you bought a Kyocera QCP 3035 cell phone in Fall of '02 with 'Brick Attack' on it, and didn't find out until Spring of '06 that Verizon offers $100 towards new phones every two years. Having sucked 'Brick Attack' on late night subway platforms for the last four years, perhaps when you got your new phone with its innovations such as 'color' and 'sound', you went a little nuts downloading(or 'sampling') game after game.

Well, friends, I have downloaded, and I am here to share.

DISCLAIMER: we may not like the same things.

Many game reviews to come.

I should also mention that the phone I'm using is a Motorola E815 CDMA VCAST. Any similarities to other phones living or dead is purely coincidental.

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