March 6th, 2006 by Justin Oberman
Your mission begins now and its all in the palm of your hands. Your mobile phone is a portal into the world of CTU. Use it to control the mission and guide Jack Bauer and other CTU agents through the longest day of their lives.
As an addicted fan of the hit Fox Television Show “24” who also happens to write about mobile technology, I could not pass this one up for a post. Apparently, while I was in London on holiday the BBC had a great write up on a new mobile game based on 24. According to the article, the Scottish mobile gaming company i-Play actually managed to squeeze all the tension and drama that make the show famous onto the tint screens of our mobile devices.
24 the video game is already in works and coming to major consoles soon.
The mobile version promises to be “wrapped in the look and feel of 24” but, “rather than create a something that lets players take on the role of Jack Bauer, the game puts you in charge of Jack, as well as of several other leading characters.”
The game includes the signature digital clock countdown which makes up part of the game in that it is made up of short missions that need to be completed with a number of minutes.
Overall, the mobile 24 game consists of a good collection of mini-games which include everything from puzzles, to driving really fast through obstacles to infrared location action.
The aim is simply to complete everything as in as little time as possible and this technique is effective in creating an atmosphere of tension. And as the BBC puts it “this proves to be a successful marriage of TV and gaming, as casual games like these work best on mobiles.”
The rest of the review I will have to leave up to BBC since trying to download the game from i-Play was unsuccessful. Every model phone version I picked was incompatible (8 of them) and others I chose did not work as well. SO I have no idea what kind of phone one needs to download this game. Perhaps its a special CTU phone
Hurry up and play the game (if you can), before its to late… or as Jack Bauer would say, “Your Running Out Of Time!”
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