14 DAY TRIAL // Vivendi Games Mobile has unveiled its line-up of mobile games for the first half of 2007. The list includes a variety of genres and gameplay styles, including games from its Centerscore studio and games based on Sierra Entertainment's popular PC and console titles. The list of titles announced by Vivendi Games Mobile includes: The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning, Surviving High School '07, Crash Bandicoot Party Games, People's Choice Hangman, M.A.C.H. Air Combat, The Incredible Machine and Shock Blocks.
The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning has been launched on major carriers around the world, bolstered by the recent release of Sierra Entertainment's console title with the same name. The game offers users a rich gameplay, combining the platform, flight, combat and puzzle genres with a detailed storyline that unfolds throughout multiple levels. The main character evolves throughout the game, acquiring new abilities and improving them. The Spyro video game franchise has sold more than 17 million units worldwide and The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning for mobile has received good reviews.
Surviving High School '07 is the sequel to one of last year's mobile game, Surviving High School, and is currently available from Verizon Wireless. A story driven simulation game, Surviving High School is an original mobile game franchise developed by Vivendi Games Mobile's Centerscore studio. Surviving High School '07 will be launching on other major carriers soon.
Launching on several carriers in the first quarter of 2007, Crash Bandicoot Party Games is a series of 14 intuitive, one-button mini-games which can be played solo or alternatively in hot-seat mode. The title, developed at the Vivendi Games Mobile studio in France, is the mobile version of Sierra Entertainment's hit Crash Boom Bang! recently released on Nintendo DS.
Also launching in the first quarter, People's Choice Hangman is an original word game developed by the Centerscore studio that puts the power of user generated content into weekly downloadable updates. Users can create their own hangman lists and submit them on the People's Choice Hangman Web site. The best lists will appear in new download packs. As a bonus feature, those users can write their own personalized 'shout out' message as an introduction to their hangman list.
Launching on PSP in February and following on mobile shortly thereafter, M.A.C.H. Air Combat, is an adrenaline-fuelled mix of jet racing and aerial dogfights in which players negotiate their rocket-powered aircraft.
One of the most anticipated releases in the first-half of 2007 will be The Incredible Machine, marking a return to the market for the Sierra Entertainment hit PC game from the 1990's. Consisting of 80 brain-teasing levels, The Incredible Machine requires players to manipulate 60 different everyday household objects to achieve the objective of each level, constructing, in the process, the world's most incredible contraptions.
Launching in June, Shock Blocks introduces a genre-defining innovation in match-block gameplay. Players must shake, rotate and flip the board in a limited number of moves to solve a series of mind-boggling puzzles. Gamers will put their wits to the test using special blocks such as bombs, weights and timers while battling challenging vibrations as they maneuver the board to match and blast colored blocks across 41 challenging levels.
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