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August 1, 2008

K-Rally UIQv3


K Rally is a top-down 3D racing game where you and several opponents have to race around a variety of tracks. You can play dirty if you want, in fact the scoring system encourages it, by ramming your car into the rear or sides of your competitors or even by firing rockets and laying mines. (Incidentally the violence is very cartoony, cars which receive a direct hit from your weapons are accompanied by speech bubbles full of censored swearwords and carry on driving after getting back on the track.)

The core gameplay is good, it's really easy to get into but has long-term challenges to give it some depth. K-Rally is an arcade racer than a realistic one, but it does have consistent physics and it's satisfying when you get into a good rhythm that lets you take corners without overshooting them. (Some people may feel that K-Rally lacks overall speed due to its top-down perspective, but that's to do with the genre itself rather than the quality of this game.) The weapons side of things makes K-Rally all the more enjoyable, although they only really work if you're near the person you're firing at. This isn't Super Mario Kart and you can't win a race if you fall too far behind.

The graphics are lovely and clearly make use of the Symbian hardware. Although the gameplay is 2D, the whole game takes place in a detailed and smooth 3D world full of tall trees and pillars of rock, with clouds and birds that float past the camera, and lighting including shadows and headlights. The skins which determine the graphics are separate from the tracks, so you might race several times on the same track and it could look completely different each time. Skins also sometimes add new features such as ice or rain, which can affect your driving ability. K-Rally has relatively complex graphics, but you can set it to run at seven different levels of detail if you feel it's too slow on your particular Symbian model. The game supports full-screen mode both vertically and horizontally, although the options menu screens are vertical only and appear with black sidebars on horizontal phones.

The sound is nice, with an Amiga-esque funky main theme tune and in-game frantic techno tracks. The sound effects are crisp and generally what you'd expect from a racing game.

The menus are polished and professional, with sharp comic-book artwork representing the characters in the game and a profile system that lets you run up to four separate characters with their own careers and unlockable avatars. There are extensive options but the structure of the menus is logical and intuitive, so you only have a minimum of clicks to do the things you want to do most often.

The controls are simple enough to work on almost any phone keypad layout: left and right steer, up launches rockets, down lays mines, 4 accelerates (you let go of it to slow down) and 7 uses turbo boosts (or accelerates if there aren't any turbos left). If you're unhappy with any of this you can set your own controls, and you can also set the controls for the menus too. There's options to set the car to automatically accelerate and/or turbo boost, with the actual accelerate button acting as a brake in this mode.

Download: KRally.rar

July 28, 2008

Divx Player 0.90 UIQ3



Features List:

* 10-Band Equalizer with Pre-Amp
* PlayList Support
* PlayList Editor
* Web Streaming
* Brightness Control (ARM devices only)
* File Association Support
* Hardware Button Mapping
* Shuffle Play
* 90 degree Rotate
* 2:1 zoom
* Bi-linear filtering for zoom mode
* Dithering (ARM devices only)
* Fast Forward
* Seek Bar
* Volume Control
* Custom File Open Dialog
* Custom Web View Streaming File Selection Dialog
* Keep Alive for device shutoff suspension
* Play At File Open option
* Definable Caching for performance/power utilization.

Supported Audio/Video Formats:
Video: Divx, OpenDivX, Avi, MPEG-1 w/ FFMPEG mpeg video decoder
Audio: MP3 and Layer I + II Audio w/ MAD MP3 decoder.

Compatible devices:

Sony Ericsson M600, Sony Ericsson P990,p1i
Sony Ericsson W950,w960i

Download: DivXPlayer_0.90_uiqv3.sis