A Game for Your Nokia Smartphone
I’ve got rhythm – or at least I thought I did. After playing Drums Challenge, a game for Nokia advanced Symbian touchscreen devices, I’m beginning to wonder. Challenge, indeed; I found this game fun, but very difficult.
The basic concept is simple enough. Drums Challenge challenges you to a kind of drumming duel. First, the game plays a drum pattern. Then, you try to match it — accurately and in perfect time. Do it well, and you win. Do it poorly, and you’re out on a rim shot.
To play, Drums Challenge displays a modern drum set – snare, bass, cymbals, high-hat, and tom-tom. With music playing in the background, you hear and see a pattern played on the drums. Then, tapping the screen of your Nokia device, you attempt to reproduce the drum pattern on the various drums and cymbals.
The game monitors your screen taps and awards points based on how closely you reproduce the pattern. You also have a battery indicator that loses power each time you miss a drum stroke. Get all the way through a sequence with a charge still in your battery, and you win the challenge. But if the battery indicator is drained before the end of the sequence, you lose.
Win a challenge, and your score is saved, and you are given access to a new, more difficult level to play.
Sounds simple, right? Well, the first level, which involves drumming over a blues, is pretty easy
The screen controls monitor your play. In the screenshot below, the red-and-blue slider at the top indicates both whose turn it is (yours or the game’s) and how far along you are in the turn. It also gives you a 3-2-1 countdown when your turn is about to begin. Below, you can see that it is almost my turn, as the countdown has reached the 2:
Also note the star-like triangles on the high-hat (the cymbal on the left with the foot pedal). That is how Drums Challenge visually represents a drum being struck.
The 290 in the upper left-hand corner is my current score at the moment I took the screenshot. The battery indicator toward the bottom of the screen shows my progress. As I mentioned, each time you miss a drum shot, the battery loses a bit of its charge.
As a further refinement, scoring is based on the quality of your drumming – how closely you match the pattern and timing of the challenge. When the game ends, you are given your total score, plus a breakdown by Perfect, Awesome and merely Nice:
As a further refinement, scoring is based on the quality of your drumming – how closely you match the pattern and timing of the challenge. When the game ends, you are given your total score, plus a breakdown by Perfect, Awesome and merely Nice:
Win the easy blues challenge, and you are given access to the next level: heavy metal. That one I found somewhat harder, but I did manage to win on my second try. However, I met my match with the game’s third level: reggae.
It combines odd upbeats, complicated patterns, and other forms of fancy drumming, and it also adds a new, larger and more complicated drum set. How did I do? Well, the screenshot below tells the sad story:
It combines odd upbeats, complicated patterns, and other forms of fancy drumming, and it also adds a new, larger and more complicated drum set. How did I do? Well, the screenshot below tells the sad story:
Drums Challenge offers several other challenges of increasing difficulty. These include jazz, funk, punk, and Latin, according to publisher Music Games Studio. But I will have to take their word for it. I could not win the reggae challenge, so was unable to open new, higher-level challenges.
To truly appreciate Drums Challenge, it helps to watch this game in action. You will see the game being played on a Nokia N8, the same device I used for this review:
Finally, the Qt-based Drums Challenge app is really large at more than 88 MB. Even the stripped-down free version, Drums Challenge Lite, is quite large at over 21 MB. So be sure to leave yourself ample time for downloading and installing this app – and as you will see, Ovi Store will prompt you to download the game using a WLAN. Also, due to its size, this install file should be stored in your device’s mass — not phone — memory.
Drums Challenge is available on Ovi Store for $1.99 (USD). An abbreviated version, Drums Challenge Lite, is available on Ovi Store for free.
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