Hidden Expedition: Titanic
It's time to dive down to the hidden depths in the latest puzzle game from Astraware. The teaser text is good (explore the wreck of the Titanic), the goal is clear (find the Lost Crown of MacGuffin) and all you need to do is hunt through the rooms of the sunken White Star Liner and you’ll find riches and fame beyond anything your Symbian smartphone can produce on the final victory screen. Maybe…
And how do you explore the wreck? Amazingly, by looking at the screen and comparing what you see with a list of 'treasures' that you need to find on your dive. So if you have 'crowbar' on your list, all you need to do is click on the crowbar in the on-screen view of the room you are currently exploring. Find all the items, and you'll successfully complete that portion of the dive, and be ready to move onto the next level.
Get through all these levels, and you’ll hopefully find the crown you seek. But keep your eyes peeled, because this isn’t going to be easy – at the depth of the wreck, you’ve only got 30 minutes to get through all the sections of the ship. The occasional oxygen tank can be found to give you a bit more time, but less haste and more speed is the order of business here.
I'd be hard pushed to describe a 'click on what you see on the list' game as in-depth, addictive and engrossing, but I'm going to make the effort, because this is a surprisingly nice diversion on your handset. Part of it is because of the simplicity of the idea, you just need to roam your cursor around (or tap on the screen for the UIQ version) and click on the object, but it’s delightfully hard – which I'm enjoying, even though I could see some people getting quickly frustrated. Being told to look for a ‘desktop microphone’ means you’ve got to try and think what that would actually look like, then find it.
As always, I like the personal touch of Astraware games asking for your name and creating a profile. Perhaps it’s not needed as much nowadays, with phones being much more personal than PDA’s or Palms and so getting handed round less, but it’s still oh so polite and very much appreciated. This is for your profile, and it allows you to easily resume a saved game. With a tight time limit and a lot of rooms to explore, you’re going to need a fair amount of practice to get through it all to find your ultimate goal of the missing crown. It’s good you can stop half way through a room and not lose your progress when you come back the next day.
Hidden Expedition is a good diversion and there’s a guilty thrill in completing each level. It wouldn’t be on my 'must buy' list, but it’s on the 'interesting if you want something different' alternative.
-- Ewan Spence, June 2008
Published by Ewan Spence at 17:35 UTC, June 9th 2008
Categories: Games
Platforms: S60 3rd Edition, UIQ 3
News Discussion
What a delightful sentiment. First up we're not paid by Nokia, e're also All About Symbian. not All About Every Phone on the Planet. Right now there's a well commented story on the front page regarding Nokia's stock and the effect the iPhone announcement has had on the market, the recent post on Gartner's smartphone numbers includes discussion of the Cupertino phone, so I think we're fulfilling the remit quite nicely thank you very much.
I'm also sure we'll be talking about this on the next podcast on Monday. Now, I wonder where your IP resolves to...
Is the new iPhone a Symbian device? No.
Does it belong on a site called "All About Symbian"? No.
We might do some kind of comparison article if we get hold of one, perhaps "iphone vs s60 vs uiq", but the iPhone on its own isn't within this site's remit.
And we don't actually cover most of Nokia's phones, the Series 40 stuff is left out completely because they too are non-Symbian devices. We don't cover their internet tablets either for the same reason.
What we DO cover are all devices that use the Symbian OS, whether they're made by Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Samsung or LG. Ewan just did an in-depth review of a Samsung S60 device which is in direct competition with Nokia's S60 devices.
and especially Krisse and Steve (not because you are the best and others don.t but i have "spoken"only with you)
my name is maksi (i'm from albania)
but i live in italy...and after a couple of weeks i have maturity and i was tempted to bring as graduation thesis "HOW MOBILE TECHNOLOGY HAS CHANGED OUR DAILY LIFE" and more specifically on symbian platform.and what these devices allow us to do.like these revolutionary possibility
-mobile real/full Web
-IM+
-emTUBE
-adobe PDF
-QuickOffice 5.0 (office 2007)
-MSDictionaries
-SymbCHAT
-Best Calc
-IR Remote
etc.(useful apps)
so i was wondering you guys if you CAN SEND TO MY E-MAIL [email]maksiboss@yahoo.it[/email] (created only for this little thing.....but there i can give my real msn) ANY GOOD ESSAYS (well written and maybe in british english) ABOUT MY SUBJECT.
THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR ME.
I thought to link it with physics.
so help guys.
I don't think they work well enough on a very small screen. This game is front screen only on the E90 (I downloaded the demo for comparison as we have the full version on our PC at home) and it's not as enjoyable on the E90.
Nice try, looks good but ultimately it just doesn't "work" at 320 x 240 pixels
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