Since mobile phones made it big as hot high-tech personal items, mobile content has followed the mobile phone evolution revolution. Starting out as accompanying ringtones and wallpapers, the diverse mobile content base has expanded to include entire themes made of coordinated classes of ringtones and wallpapers, along with specialized icons and animations. Apps have also been big of late, as contuniously-evolving technology has packed mobile phones to the gills with higher-capacity storage and improved graphics and sound engines that can render various features in high quality on a mobile device, all the while retaining their original call and text functionality.
A type of app that has been making the rounds is mobile games, and these jam-packed little apps have taken mobile content to a whole new level. Going beyond ringtones and wallpapers, mobile games have brought the console experience to the mobile, bringing a console-like level of quality to a mobile handset. One company that has become known for its mobile games is Electronic Arts, already one of the world’s largest third-party video game publishers with a strong library of series-based titles including the Harry Potter licensed games, Command and Conquer, Burnout, Battlefield, NBA Live, FIFA, and The Sims. Recently EA Mobile, the company’s mobile-based division, announced a slew of new mobile apps for the iPod Touch and the iPhone. This batch of new mobile games includes NBA Live, EA Sports FIFA 2010, Mystery Mania, Hasbro’s Boggle and Command and Conquer Red Alert.
The popular Allies/Soviets spinoff of the original C&C series, Command and Conquer Red Alert recently reached its third installment on consoles and PC’s and was received with much fanfare for its unique blend of self-aware satirical science fiction. Becoming known as a game that delivered a fun experience and didn’t take itself too seriously, the Command and Conquer series entrenched itself in RTS fans’ minds as a memorable point-and-click warfare experience and has managed to stay a strong franchise through the years it has been available despite its original developer Westwood becoming absorbed by EA. The Red Alert expansion has become a series of its own, separate from the Tiberian and General series, and now makes its way to Apple’s mobile smartphones.
Many new features have been developed for the mobile version of the game. Pinch-zoom allows users to take closer and farther looks from the actions, and the touch screen will allow single-tap controls to manipulate single or multiple units. The familiar Allied and Soviet armies will continue to be available for battle in 12 maps and 12 combat levels as a single-player campaign; players can similarly choose to play for either side in ever-popular Skirmish mode. Different maps bring different environmental systems and conditions, through which the players can strategize and battle it out for supremacy with plenty of units and weapons ported over from the console versions – including the classic Kirov warship and the RA3-era Paladin Tank.
Upcoming features are said to include free multiplayer via WiFi and Bluetooth, and an Empire of the Rising Sun expansion pack will soon be available to allow players the full Red Alert 3 experience – now including the all-new Asia-based faction as well as a slew of its new units, buildings and weaponry.
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