Mega Monsters announced for N-Gage
Published by Tzer2 at 13:02 GMT, November 14th 2008
A new exclusive title Mega Monsters has been announced for the N-Gage platform, published by Nokia and developed by Firemint. The game involves controlling B-movie monsters stomping round a city tearing up the buildings, and it sounds a lot like a 3D version of the 1980s classic Rampage. The game includes pre-built levels, a map editor for creating your own cities, and lets you use your own photos as posters in the city. The full press release is below.
Get ready to smash, stomp and shatter your way with Mega Monsters!
November 14, 2008
Melbourne, Australia and Espoo, Finland - Mega Monsters, the latest N-Gage game from Nokia Games Publishing, introduces players to the biggest monster smash on mobile. The result of a mad scientist combining his supply of adorable animals, a borrowed gene splicer and a surplus government nuclear reactor, each Mega Monster provides an evil blend of cute and killer. With the intuitive one thumb control, players direct the Mega Monster of their choice to do what monsters do best - destroy!
"Mega Monsters is made for those of us who love monsters and who like nothing more than stomping through buildings and crunching a few tanks and helicopters along the way," said Dr Mark Ollila, Director, Games Publishing, Nokia. "The 3D graphics and fully destructible environment let you set your inner monster loose and smash through city after city. Exciting game personalization options help create a cruch-tastic game that will be hard to put down. Mega Monsters is going to be the biggest monster smash on mobile."
Mega Monsters features rich 3D graphics with a fully destructible environment where players can destroy anything in their path. While on the rampage, players must ensure their Mega Monster destroys selected targets and can pick up dozens of special items, including clothing and other items, to add character to their creature. Each Mega Monster develops its abilities, powers and appearance as it progresses through different missions, and can also gain new powers by hooking up with other Mega Monsters.
Players can stomp and smash through a series of existing city environment or they can create their own map and challenge others to beat it by uploading it to the N-Gage Arena. Players can also customize their game by taking a photo to use on an in-game billboard.
Mega Monsters is being developed in collaboration with Firemint, a leading Australian independent games studio with a particular focus on designing and developing high-end 3D titles for portable media devices. Firemint is an International Mobile Gaming Award winner for Excellence in 3D.
Categories: Games
Platforms: N-Gage
News Discussion
Tzer2
Looks quite fun, hopefully they'll publish some more info about it soon.
ccraig
sound's promising i cant wait to see some game play footage or a trailer.
nokia seem to be pushing hard the ability to use your own multimedia content in games i've noticed
yamake ,dance fabulous , & now monster mash they all give us the ability to use our own content in the game to some extent which is cool allowing us to use different things personal to ourselvess on our device
argh
I want to see Firemint release Real Racing!
Tzer2
Argh, I was thinking that myself! :-)
It even says on Firemint's website that they're looking for a publisher for that game.
Asphalt 3 is one of the best selling games on N-Gage, so there's clearly a market for racers on the platform.
sandy_1988
Real Racing would have been awesome. BTW, I think, you are missing out a fact. Mega Monsters is the game which won the International Mobile Gaming Award in 'Excellence in 3D' category in 2006.
Tzer2
Sandy, I did have a feeling Firemint had mentioned Mega Monsters before. However looking on their website now there's absolutely no trace of it in the games section:
http://www.firemint.com/projects.htm
Presumably the game won the award but wasn't actually published, which is the case with Real Racing too.
It's odd that they would remove any mention of it from their site though.
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Real Racing would have been awesome
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It still could be, the Firemint site says they've done a Symbian version (so it would be ready-made for N-Gage) and they're looking for a publisher. This would be an ideal chance for Nokia to give us a first party racing game to compete with Asphalt.
viipottaja
Lol, Tzer2, I know you said why, but it does look a bit funny when you post something and then immediately comment on it yourself. I think you could easily identify even in your news stories what your personal thoughts as a journalist are. :)
Having said that: yes, the game does look quite fun.
Tzer2
I know it looks funny, I just honestly don't like adding really personal and unsupported opinions into actual news items.
Maybe I should use a different username for posting my opinions? :-) I don't know if I want to keep logging in and out though...
firemint
Hi all, I thought I'd clear up some of the mystery - we had a bit of information about Mega Monsters on our site until a few days before the announcement. We took it down so that when the announcement was made, we could replace it with the new information. I was going to post the link but I'm not allowed until I have made 10 posts - if you go to our website at firemint dot com you'll see a link on our home page. It's the same game that won the IMG Award (when it was a demo) and we've been developing it into a full game since then.
We're also working full steam ahead on our other Real Racing, we've had no shortage of interest in it so don't worry, it's on its way :)
If anyone would like to get some occasional brief email updates from Firemint (including announcements about upcoming games), you can sign up on our site from the Contact page.
Thanks everyone, it's great to hear you're looking forward to Mega Monsters and Real Racing!
Alex
(Office Manager, Firemint)
boxieblue
ohh boy! Firemint developing a game for N-Gage! i am excited! but hasnt this been taking too long? or am i just too impatient? lol
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