Gaming news: two Inscenic games go free; two new racing games by OmniGSoft

Inscenic (known for their great Stratego clone NapoleonX, Warring Nations and Creatonia) have just made their well-known Galaxy Gate and Retro Detonation free.

The former is a puzzle game; the latter a Bomberman clone and, for free, are highly recommended. Make sure you get them!

Not so with OmniGSoft (see my last review / list of their games here), who have just come out with a new game, Snow Rally, with two maps: one for Canada, the other for a city.

Unfortunately, the problems traditionally plaguing all (!) OmniGSoft racing games (no OpenGL ES (3D hardware accelerator) support (before you ask: yes, I've checked this on my x51v), low-resolution graphics (as opposed to Raging Thunder even on non-accelerated VGA models!), no multiplayer, a 3-4 sec (for the menu, some 10-12 second long), really low-quality, mono music clip endlessly repeating, mono sounds, overpriced) are present in these two titles too. Therefore, I don’t really recommend these two games – there are much better racing titles out there; for example, (the 2D top-down title) K-Rally, Raging Thunder; several Mario Kart clones or, if you have a 3D accelerated Windows Mobile device, Stuntcar Extreme & GeoRallyEX. I think you’ll want to check out the latter titles first.

(News source: PPCT and PG (1 2))

UPDATE (04/11/2007): PG frontpage

UPDATE (04/19/2007): Allen's frontpage & review