One In the year and change since I cast my hat into the mobile games journalism ring, I can count the number of times I've been out-of-the-ballpark impressed by an upcoming product (I mean, truly flabbergasted) on one hand. Sure, I work right next to editors who preview games like Resident Evil 4 and Lumines, which make most mobile games look like cave paintings in comparison. Sure, I understand that most gamers tend to react to mobile with a level of derisive contempt that's usually reserved for street-corner preachers and conspiracy theorists. And I also understand that this skepticism was double for the Nokia N-Gage through most of 2004, and rightfully so. Still, there are those blessed moments when I see something amazing enough to renew my faith in the latent power of this industry. My first time playing One, which took place at a Nokia press event in September, qualifies as such a revelation. Here was a game that took all the difficulties and caveats I had wearily come to expect from the N-Gage and made them look like the problems of a bygone era, kind of like the polio virus or Stalinism. Although it's been relentlessly billed as a 3D gaming device, the N-Gage has never produced any sort of true 3D offering that consistently runs over a mediocre 20 frames per second or so. Not only did the pre-alpha build of One easily tack on an additional 10fps to this mark, but also it did so in high style, with lighting effects, rotating cameras, accurate shadowing, and awesome ...
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