This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) was about more than just the home consoles. Reflecting the increased importance of mobile gaming, there were plenty of Android games on show. Here’s a round-up of some of the most interesting examples.
Xperia Play
As you’d expect from the so-called ‘PlayStation Phone,’ the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play has received a fair bit of exposure over the past few days of the E3 show.
It was confirmed shortly after the E3 floor closed that three new PlayStation classics would be arriving on the platform later in the year – Jet Moto, Hot Shots Golf 2 (known as Everybody’s Golf 2 over here) and the title that arguably defined the PlayStation brand in the mid nineties, WipEout.
It’s not just a bunch of classics that are headed for the Xperia Play, though. There were around 20 new titles announced around the event, 10 of which will be timed exclusives and many of which made a showing at E3.
Among the games shown was a conversion of the seminal PC title Minecraft, here called Minecraft Pocket, which will be a timed exclusive on Xperia Play (regular Android gamers will be able to get in on the act later). The game’s a 3D world creation tool with mind-boggling scope that’s quite unlike anything we’ve seen on a mobile platform before.
Another timed exclusive for the platform was Cracking Sands from Polarbit, the creators of Reckless Racing. This is a 3D Mario Kart-style arcade racer set in the desert, which promises to feature all the online features we’ve come to expect from the company.
Shadowgun
It wasn’t all about the Xperia Play at E3, though. Indeed, there’s another formidable high-end gaming trend developing on Android that has nothing to do with the Sony Ericsson device – Nvidia’s Tegra 2 chipset. The company has managed to pin down an impressive number of exclusives – all of which are graphically advanced games that simply wouldn’t be possible on single-core devices.
The most impressive of these (at least visually) was on display at E3, and it was called Shadowgun. Made by Madfinger, the team behind the similarly Tegra-only Samurai II, this is a graphically lush third person action game that wouldn’t have looked out of place in the first wave of Xbox 360 games. Check it out:
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Article source: http://www.fonehome.co.uk/2011/06/08/e3-2011-android-games-round-up/
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