SGN, creators of iBowl and SGN Golf, have just released Mafia: Respect & Retaliation [App Store], a location-based role playing game for the iPhone and iPod touch.
This newly released game takes social gaming to another world with ‘Sin City’-like 3D graphics and clever location-based gameplay. Players can complete “jobs” either in real-world locations or on their iPhone or iPod Touch with the ultimate goal of becoming the local ‘Don’ in their city. With the optional location feature turned on, players can complete tasks in real-world areas against local players. Players can challenge their friends, build their mob and or other players online in their geographic area or around the globe.
The game features a wide range of in-game locations including:
- The Empire State Building (New York, NY)
- Central Park Zoo (New York, NY)
- Grauman’s Chinese Theatre (Hollywood, CA)
- Miami Seaquarium (Miami, FL)
- Houston Museum of Natural Science (Houston, TX)
Interestingly, the game is offered at a variety of price points that each provide a different starting level of ‘Respect Points.’ On the cheap is a free version that lets players work their way to the top of the criminal underworld. For those willing to pay for a bit of starting advantage, there are several paid versions ranging from $0.99 [App Store] to $49.99 [App Store], with a planned $99.99 version for those wanting the ‘Ultimate’ respect.
App Store Link: Mafia: Respect & Retaliation, Free, $0.99, $4.99, $9.99, $19.99, $49.99
Wow, that's alot better looking than I had imagined. Touch and tilt controls both, that's a plus and surprising from Namco!
This looks not-so-hot. Perhaps Namco should work alongside the guys that are really doing great work on the platform to see how to make magic happen. And I bet they're going to charge a premium. Please.
please let this game be good
i'd love to have an arcade style snowboarder—the ssx series is the only snowboarding games i've ever liked, and they are actually some of my favorite games ever.
Looked rather boring. I didn't see anything ssx-like other than the fact there was snow on the ground and people on skis. No jumps, no crazy races.
Ssx would be truly welcomed on the iPhone and this video proves it would be possible.
it's jupst a port of the old arcade game "alpine racer"
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SSX like?
I really wish you guys could make one review one a new addition to the platform without automatically comparing it to another title.
Awhile back a guy asked here in the forums "why every game that appears has to be called a clone of another game?"
well this is why
^what would you have them do? "this game is one hundred percent unique, there is nothing like it and it cannot be explained. Please purchase it."
Jt: Alpine Racer was an arcade game that existed long before SSX. That could have been mentioned instead of comparing it to SSX.
Game looks decent, hopefully it won't be too expensive. But looking at other Namco iPhone games, it probably will be.
jt you are so funny and so right. It's like any game that appears on the iPhone is: "Been there, done that." It looks like so and so game but that game was far, far better. It definitely hard to get a gauge on game quality when one person says it looks good, another person says it sucks. How does any developer manage to build a game that pleases everyone. Oh, this game is too hard. Are you crazy, I beat this game in five minutes. How many games have been made over the past 20 years. 10,000 maybe? It would be very, very difficult to create a game that has never been done in some form. Why is a similar-looking game so hard to fathom. The iPhone platform has been around for less than a year. How fast is development usually done on a platform? Based on the the PSP and DS game development, would the iPhone games be considered coming along at a decent rate or not? Just curious.
Okay, played the demo version of Alpine Racer. It's only one race in time trial, but it's fun when using tilt control. Nontheless the game doesn't look really polished. I would buy the full game for, let's say, 99 ct.