Coinciding with an iOS Chinese New Year promotion, Gameloft now has a bunch of their excellent BlackBerry PlayBook games on sale for $0.99 a pop. These include Asphalt 6, UNO, Star Front: Collision, Modern Combat 2, and Eternal Legacy.
Gameloft started pumping out a bunch of PlayBook titles this fall, and the quality is second only to EA's titles. Even then, sometimes Gameloft is much more open about doing "homages" to other popular games than EA. Asphalt 6 is a good pick if you've already played the preloaded Need for Speed to death. The familiarity of UNO will be a welcome sight for those looking for something a little more casual. I've put some time into Star Front: Collision, and as a guy who had spent a healthy chunk of high school playing StarCraft, it was a great addition to my PlayBook.
Modern Combat 2 is a clear spiritual descendent of the Modern Warfare series on consoles, and it manages to do pretty well, especially with the multiplayer support. I'm still not sold on the control scheme, but I'd be willing to give it another serious shot once the iOS version of Modern Combat 3 gets ported over to the BlackBerry PlayBook Finally, Eternal Legacy is a classic Final Fantasy-style role-playing game, I haven't had the itch to play those kind of games in awhile, but it's great to have the option there.
Gameloft has also slashed prices on a few other games to $2.99, including Spider-man: Total Mayhem, N.O.V.A. 2, and Let's Golf 2. Normally most of Gameloft's PlayBook games go for $6.99, so this is quite the deal - get 'em while they're hot!
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koool1 Jan 25, 2012 at 1:01 pm
Mite pick up a couple - thanks!
TRlPPlN Jan 25, 2012 at 1:07 pm
dang it. i want the uno and modern combat. stupid appworld error 11400 and everything in my account is correct too.
cbdwolff7 Jan 25, 2012 at 1:11 pm
Awwe heck, no fair, i paid full price for these games. i do like them though and fun to play! graphics are awesome!!
birdman_36 Jan 25, 2012 at 1:11 pm
If only 'Angry Birds' would go on sale now.
BarracudaBob Jan 25, 2012 at 1:22 pm
Modern Combat was cool and I liked the controls. I did think the ending was a bit of a letdown though.
Blackberry_boffin Jan 25, 2012 at 2:59 pm
The ending is downright lame.
ryanlrobinson Jan 25, 2012 at 1:28 pm
Maybe I'll buy Asphalt 6. The rest I either already have or don't have any interest in (like shooter games, not my style). Loved Eternal Legacy, though, and I paid the full $7 for it, so I definitely recommend that to anybody who likes RPG's.
JGUZEK Jan 25, 2012 at 1:36 pm
Great deal! Just picked up Asphalt and MC2. Thanks for the post.
cjmallion Jan 25, 2012 at 1:44 pm
great news
bizzyqu Jan 25, 2012 at 1:44 pm
Let me know when lets golf is 99cents, with all these gameloft titles they always eventually drop to 99cents, which I have no complaints about :)
moyjoy Jan 25, 2012 at 2:19 pm
uno!
blackcaneaddict Jan 25, 2012 at 4:29 pm
uno out!
yaletownboy Jan 25, 2012 at 2:31 pm
careful..some purchasers state they've been charged $6.99 on their credit card....could the "0" be a typo?
Darlaten Jan 25, 2012 at 2:34 pm
Sigh; having bought each of these games at full price, I'm sad. Oh well - still its good to see. My only question would be when are we going to finally see new Gameloft games coming to the Playbook?
Then again, it might be nice for Gameloft to actually acknowledge they publish games for the Playbook seeing how their website indicates that they do not.
jordandrews90 Jan 25, 2012 at 3:31 pm
Just bought Modern Combat 2, pretty cool!
cbcastle Jan 25, 2012 at 5:22 pm
Just bought Lets Golf 2, it crashes on the dev build OS 2.0.0.7111. Hope they fix it for the full OS 2 release :-( Reading the reviews the Spiderman game also crashes it seems.
cribble2k Jan 25, 2012 at 8:51 pm
FYi,
Star Front: Collision has crappy sound/music on OS 2.0. It sounds like the audio is skipping. If you can play without sound, this is a non-issue I suppose.
Eternal Legacy Won't even load with OS 2.0. After clicking the icon, it goes to a white screen for about 5 seconds, then closes.
Asphalt 6, Modern Combat, NOVA2 all work fine.
32gb PlayBook, 2.0.0.7111
juacas Jan 25, 2012 at 10:22 pm
That it's why OS2 it's still in Beta!!!
cribble2k Jan 26, 2012 at 5:11 am
I'm aware of that.
I was merely giving a warning for anyone on OS 2.0 and who downloads these great games.
Cleric Jan 25, 2012 at 11:48 pm
Eternal Legacy is awesome. I can play it for hours at a time.
I really hope they make a sequel.
Eakle Jan 26, 2012 at 6:37 am
I just bought Modern Combat, only 0.75USD in Thailand
migale Jan 26, 2012 at 9:57 am
Thanks a lot Gameloft!
I bought Modern Combat, Uno and N.O.V.A 2 for half price of one!
Go made the same application an other game editors!