Someone thinks BioShock on mobile phones is a good idea
by Kyle Orland 
{ Feb 13th 2008 at 4:28PM }
"We're trying to do great things and BioShock on mobile promises to offer a whole new gaming experience and unmatched excitement amongst mobile gamers the world over," said IG Fun CEO Sean Malatesta. Unmatched excitement, you say? Surely you don't think BioShock mobile will be more exciting than IG Fun's other mobile "hits" like Rush Hour 3 and the improbably named Good Night Mr. Snoozleburg. Because that would just be crazy.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Zertoss @ Feb 13th 2008 4:40PM
My old 486 was enormous.
Rob Accomando @ Feb 13th 2008 4:42PM
yeah, just like Oblivion on the cell phone was so awesome.
What a waste of $4.95
Ranus Studios @ Feb 13th 2008 4:43PM
Lame side-scroller, here we come.
I can just imagine the licensing team laughing at how much they were probably paid for this.
Grimmus @ Feb 13th 2008 4:45PM
Call me crazy, but using my cell phone for communication is fine and dandy. Last time I checked, I didn't have the urge to break out my cell to start an epic quest, to go on a photography spree, or to bust out the tunes. Whatever happened to using a phone as just a phone?
Blazur @ Feb 13th 2008 4:49PM
Cellphone games are good for when you're in a boring meeting or on the shitter.
Chase @ Feb 13th 2008 4:55PM
I only play games on my mobile phone when I am on the crapper, and that in itself pretty much sums up all mobile phone games.
paragraph @ Feb 13th 2008 4:58PM
@Blazur, Chase
Isn't that what the DS is for?
Dale @ Feb 13th 2008 5:28PM
@paragraph: sometimes you need to be a bit more discreet. As tiny as the DS Lite is, a mobile phone is often less pocket bulge-inducing.
Sora267 @ Feb 13th 2008 5:36PM
@Dale: You're not gonna have your DS in your pocket if you're playing it! =O
mr mobius @ Feb 13th 2008 7:04PM
Paragraph, I don't exactly go to lectures to play games, I go to listen and get something out of the money I'm spending, but sometimes the public health lectures can just get that dull that you need a 5 min break. I have my phone in pocket, and I can easily pick it up and play a puzzle game or something like Lego Star Wars for 5 mins and then put away again. I have barely any games (4 and thats including 1 that came with it) and any games I pick are on offer on the O2 mobile webpage so costs less. Not bad when you consider a DS game can be £25-30 so if I get a few hours total out of it then its no worse than any DS game for value of money, if we neglect the whole graphics and sound thing.
In a lecture the sound will be off and I prefer to be able to sit down and fully enjoy my DS game when I can play it. I'm at uni so have no home console here so DS is brilliant for some more immersive gaming than internet or phone gaming and I like to enjoy when I'm relaxing with it.
NATO_Duke @ Feb 13th 2008 4:50PM
Oh yeah, this one will be painfully bad.
Laggy @ Feb 14th 2008 2:51AM
Any game that goes from a console or PC onto a mobile phone is shit. While you sit there playing your boring-arse sidescroller you think back to the console version with the amazing graphics and real-time this and that. With 27 thousand units on screen and 7 trillion weapons to collect compared to the one sword and 2 floating skulls on your phone.
umm....hello??? @ Feb 13th 2008 4:51PM
who the hell uses their cell phones to play videogames anyways?? I've used mine to play Tetris to kill time, but otherwise the DS or PSP are a whole lot better (and have better games) than any cell phone game could ever have outside of the puzzle genre.
Shimrra @ Feb 13th 2008 5:03PM
Sounds like a great idea ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
markhill66 @ Feb 13th 2008 5:06PM
What's next? God of War, or even Call of Duty 4 on cell phones? Oh...nevermind.
-Mark
http://www.threevue.com
Ghen @ Feb 13th 2008 5:32PM
your fake anger is just as transparent as your stupid website plug. Go away.
Mr.ESC @ Feb 13th 2008 7:02PM
Burned d00d.
Beatz @ Feb 13th 2008 5:11PM
I'll be bioshocked if this game doesn't biosuck!
Geist @ Feb 14th 2008 1:22AM
Zing!
heckthor @ Feb 14th 2008 4:17AM
Very Clever and Funny comment... LoL... Half a heart for you...
Deck @ Feb 13th 2008 5:11PM
Oh man, and I thought AC and COD4 on the DS were bad :-/
Mr.ESC @ Feb 13th 2008 6:59PM
Actually COD4 DS isn't bad, is short but is good. AC according to metacritic isn't shit but is too short and if you ask me AC isn't a game that deserves to be a franchise.
Sora267 @ Feb 13th 2008 5:35PM
So they're making another hit game for "mobile gamers"? I don't think having a development team catering to only two people is a good allotment of funds and human resources....
JakubK666 @ Feb 13th 2008 5:59PM
Kiill...mee...
Count Noobula @ Feb 13th 2008 6:08PM
Off thing, some people thought the Hindenburg was a good idea too.
Count Noobula @ Feb 13th 2008 6:09PM
Odd thing*
Mr.ESC @ Feb 13th 2008 6:57PM
I read something about this the other day and I thought it was just a lame rumor ,I mean the source was G4 after all.
Why are they doing this? Also how frequently someone actually buys a cell phone game?
To be honest I’ve played cell hone games and some of them are decent but in that tiny screen you can really play over 5 minutes without getting a headache.
GI-Joe @ Feb 13th 2008 6:59PM
Would you kindly make more shitty cell phone games? (Not that Bioshock was shitty, I love that game.)
Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Feb 13th 2008 7:52PM
Am I the only one that recognized Bioshocks hacking game as Pipe Dream from the NES?
Dictatorship @ Feb 13th 2008 9:40PM
Nope. I still remember the times when I played that game on my uncle's PC when I went to visit him. A good passtimer, though it became annoying rather quickly.
And whoever thought about Bioshock being a good idea to be ported on cellphones should be beaten with a golf club, ala Ryan Andrew.
Dictatorship @ Feb 13th 2008 9:41PM
*Andrew Ryan. I flipped the name by mistake.
Geist @ Feb 14th 2008 1:23AM
Oddly, I remembered it as a minigame from the Beetlejuice GameBoy game.