IGN posted some screenshots from the upcoming iPhone version of The Oregon Trail.
This classic game which was developed in the 1970s and later saw popularity in the 80s and 90s has been recently revived by Gameloft for mobile phones.
As Wikipedia describes it,
The Oregon Trail is an educational computer game developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 and produced by MECC in 1974. The game was inspired by the real-life Oregon Trail and was designed to teach school children about the realities of 19th century pioneer life on the trail. The player assumes the role of a wagon leader guiding his party of settlers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon’s Willamette Valley by way of the Oregon Trail via a Conestoga wagon in 1848.
See screenshots of the Apple II and Mac versions of the game.
We presume Gameloft is bringing this title to the iPhone. No release date has been provided.
I thought it was ok.
Overpriced but ok.
I could do any time with bad graphics. What really pisses me off is the bad controls.
The 'tilt more to turn more' concept turns out to be very uncomfortable. I hate the touch controls, and the accelerometer controls is totally unresponsive.
I haven't played any other skiing game much to compare, but Alpine Racer is definitely a no-no.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who was thinking PS1 with regard to the textures and graphics. I'm usually forgiving on such things, being a dyed-in-the-wool retrogamer ..but this just felt .. lacking. (maybe it was the lack of effects too .. I want some powder .. snow, that is.)
hehe .. I was thinking the opposite to Vicky: I found the touch controls entirely unresponsive, so I switched to tilt ..but then found I was tilting too much to see very well. Then I gave up.
Glad I didn't buy it. (which I was almost gonna do.)
Tried it. It's shite. Next!...
I find the controls to be fine, personally, but overall movement down the slope feels "stiff" rather than smoothly flowing, as far as winding this way and that. Also the various different movements the onscreen skier goes through are too mildly done (jump, lean / tuck, etc.)
1080 on the N64, for instance, is dramatically superior. Disappointing, as SSX on the PSP is amazing.
Wasn't "Alpine Racer" a rather shallow mid-90's arcade game that you controlled with your feet, as if skiing? Just one trip down the hill, without much strategy other than "don't crash"? With such a simple and dated starting point, it's no wonder the iPhone version might be uninspired.