Well here I go again, another post type, I have finally
delved into the untouched (for me at least) realm of mobile gaming. The title
comes from when I was preparing for a trip to Japan with my martial arts group
(I do
Iaido) and I decided I
should get a multimedia tablet for internet, email and gaming cause I didn’t
want to use my phone all the time. Funnily enough I decided on an
Asus Google Nexus 7
(2013 Model) for a few reasons which I’ll detail below.
- It has a powerful CPU and graphics erm chip or card I don’t
know what they have.
- It was cheap! (only $305)
- It has lots of storage space, I got the 32g model which has
26gb free
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| My main screen in landscape mode, I managed to pretty much copy all of the apps from my phone, the time/date and weather widget isn't a built-in feature |
There are some drawbacks such as
7” screen which is only slightly bigger than
those giant Samsung galaxy note phones and also I got the wifi-only version so
I’d need to be connected via wifi to be able to use internet. However these are
a minor issues, the way I see it if I got an actual gaming handheld such as the
PSP
it’s only 4.3 inches which is the size of a regular smartphone anyway. The
other thing was I didn’t want to pay for a whole other phone plan for my tablet
either, so I got got this nifty little thing called the
TP-Link
TL-WR702N 150Mbps Wireless N Mini Router Atheros which basically allows you
to create a Wifi hotspot from a normal Ethernet port supplying internet.I also
got a case to go with it which was one of those thin shell black ones which fit
nicely and had that feature where you close the front it automatically switches
off the screen and it came with a
free
stylus that I love to use as it’s a bit more accurate than your finger for
pressing those little links.
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| Me holding it in portrait mode, the orange bit the the case |
The main reason I got this was for my trip to Japan, (which
was awesome by the way) and the Nexus 7 delivered, the screen is great, it’s
really fast, I wasted no time setting it up with all my options and most of the
apps I had from my phone, it works fine from my wireless internet at home after
a bit of mucking around. I was going to try and use
Juicedefender
and
Adblock Plus but unfortunately the
Juicedefender kept cutting out the wifi and Adblock plus didn’t really work.
After I fixed those two issues the tablet was running much better and pretty
soon I had loaded up on various different apps I wanted inc
MX
Player which plays all types of downloaded movie files where android will
not. On the trip itself the time on the plane flew by with me with me mining it
up with Minecraft Pocket Edition or going old school with
GTA3,
and yes that is on the
Google
play store for Android even
San
Andreas is on there, I could scarcely believe it though I spose it was
pretty old and these things were pretty damn powerful, so why not.
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| My games and bookmarks screen, up the top right is the general controls tabs such as wifi and birghtness. |
I ended up getting a collection of games as there was an android
equivalent of most of the games I play, I’ve detailed whole list below. It
truly is a good gaming device, there’s even a
Steam
App
Pegland
and Pegland Deluxe – This is just basically an Android version of
Peggle though not as good but that’s
usually the case with free games.
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| Boing! Pow! Zing! Isn't the same as Peggle though |
Battlefield 4
Commander
and
Battlelog
App
- These are one of the main reasons
I got the tablet, I like being the Commander though it’s nowhere near as good
as it was in BF2, I just like the idea of commanding a match while your friends
play. When I was playing this in Japan they were damn obedient I can tell you
that.
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| Oh the responsibility! |
Grand
Theft Auto III – The old favourite,
I chose to play this one as I’d played San Andreas recently and wanted to go
right back to the (almost) beginning, plays pretty wellbut would really love a controller for it.
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| I don't know about you but I kinda liked good old Claude from GTA3, especially at the start of the game. |
Minecraft
Pocket Edition – You could probably see this one coming, though there is a
few
features
that are missing or different to the PC, the main one being finite worlds.
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| Edge of the world, that just ain't right man. |
Ravensword
2 Shadowlands – This is basically Skyrim just lower res and slightly
different, less Dragons maybe.
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| This will be much easier with the MOGA pro |
Real
Racing 3 – There were a ton of realistic racers though this one was pretty
good, couldn’t exactly find a test drive unlimited equivalent
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| Hey who recognizes this place? the developers do, as they are based in Melbourne. |
Order
and Chaos Online – They basically could have called this World of Warcraft
for Android, top notch MMO for a mobile device.
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| Looks familiar doesn't it? |
Clumsy
Bird -
Of all the Flappy bird clones
this one is awesome, it looks great and can even play online with others seeing
how far you can get within a set time period.
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| Multiplayer fun! |
Repulze
– This is basically Wipeout except with less focus on tricky tracks and ship
flying and more on shooting. Have to try this one yet.
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| Off road sections? reminds me of Wipeout Fusion, ugh oh well I'm sure it's still better |
These three were put on by my friend along with a whole bunch
of others, these were the only 3 I kept.
Angry
Birds and Angry Birds Space – Yep you know what these are, tbh I may delete
them as I really don’t see the hype.
2048
– An interesting numbers game that I can’t quite work out, it’s pretty damn popular
though.
Plants
Vs Zombies 2 – Another well known one, is pretty cool but I got kinda bored of it after a while.
The TP-Link router was really good as the wifi in the hotel
was average at best, I really noticed the different when I beefed it up with
the internet for the port, I actually had to go get another adaptor plug for
the adapter plug that I had as it was an older Japanese plug. So apart from a
few issues I had some good nights of gaming while in Japan. Screw arcades hey?
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| Ahh gaming home away from home. |
So basically after explaining all that this post title will
be about the games I play on my Nexus 7 using Android, hence the title, haven’t
exactly decided what the first post will be but we’ll see. As a final note I’ve
bought a
MOGA
Pro controller for my Nexus 7 so I may leave any games that I want to try
with the controller for later and focusing on the ones that I only use the
styles and some touching for, that sounds kinda weird actually.
JD
I’m through touching I
need hands-on
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