The Nokia 3230 mobile phone offers a variety of organizational and messaging tools, as well as the opportunity to download and play a variety of games similar to those found on portable gaming machines like Nintendo's DS. While the phone's internal computer is not as sophisticated as those of modern gaming machines, there are still several games available featuring three-dimensional graphics and gameplay.
3D Bowling
Using your phone's keypad and action buttons, "3D Bowling" challenges you to line up your aim down a 3D bowling alley, calculate your shot and knock down as many pins as possible. The game uses transparent graphical effects to render your character in the bowling alley environment and renders the alley itself as a 3D environment containing an alley, ball and pins. "3D Bowling" is a score-challenge game that can be played an entire game at a time, or a few frames while waiting for the bus.
Captain Fatal 3D
In the tradition of computer games like "Wolfenstein 3D" and "Doom" comes "Captain Fatal 3D," a first-person shooter title in a military mold. The game casts you as the eponymous protagonist, an elite soldier tasked with carrying out a perilous solo infiltration mission. Along the way you'll pick up high-powered firepower and fight heavily-armed foes, so dodging and a fast trigger finger are needed to progress. "Captain Fatal 3D" provides a 3D world of corridors and passageways to explore and battle through.
Car Challenge
A racing game in a 3D world, "Car Challenge" owes just as much to "battle racing" games like "Mario Kart" and "PowerDrift" as it does to traditional laps-based racing games. The title combines racing and demolition derby, challenging players to arm their car from a choice of different weapons and take on foes to be the last car remaining. "Car Challenge" can be played in 3D third-person mode on in a top-down 2D mode similar to racing games like "Micro Machines."
Shiver 3D
"Shiver 3D" is a first-person shooter like "Captain Fatal 3D," but with a supernatural horror theme which aims to scare players as often as it tests their reflexes. The game uses 3D graphical effects to place the player in a dank 3D maze in which vision is limited by the torchlit darkness. With a range of weapons and 10 levels, "Shiver 3D" is designed to provide a long-lasting challenge.
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