Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Hooked On : Creatures of the Deep

The Anglers experience delivered to your N-Gage device



Hooked On : Creatures of the deep, or in short referred as COTD is one of the most successful N-Gage NextGen Games ever to be released. It’s a game that delivers a realistic fishing experience to your mobile, which bounds anyone who gives it a try.





After seeing this on my mobile, more than six people adopted this and are currently on a never ending hunt for fish on quests. Based on real location facts and fish information, this is a game that features some of the best graphics and effects ever to be released on a mobile game. With four top fishing locations in the world, and with a wide range of fish starting from marbled coby’s to whale sharks, this game gives you an endless angling pleasure for days.



The maps of four locations featured in the game are shown below. Access to each location via the airport is unlocked after obtaining the required XP for each country. Once you move out to a new location, all the XP, equipment you obtained at the previous location will be lost, giving you a fresh new start.

Costarica



Alaska



Scotland



Thailand


During loading screens, the game displays location facts, fish facts and jokes.


The game starts in Crocodile bay, Costarica where the player has to do given quests to obtain equipment and points known as XP. Quests become harder and harder, while equipment and hints are unlocked to make it easier upon achievements. Unlockable items include a variety of Rods and Lures, Depth meters, GPS devices and the final unlockable device of the game, the fish finder.




Based on points, players get their levels upgraded in a similar manner to the popular PC MMORPG “World of Warcraft”. Players can update their ranks and levels to N-Gage arena to see where each player’s stand in the world rank. Unfortunately, according to the N-Gage Arena forums the top 5 XP scores (Which are the same - 2147483647 XP) updated at the moment are suspected to be cheated as the points or XP cannot be reached via game play.




As in real life fishing, by obtaining the GPS device, players can even share great fishing locations by exchanging the GPS coordinates for specific fishing spots and it also helps to find specific fish which are required for some quests. While fishing, you may often reel in items such as bicycle frames, corals, sea weed and even rubber ducks which are required during some quests as the objective to complete the quest.

Shown below are some GPS locations for fish in first three fishing locations posted by N-Gage player and expert mobile angler misiex.




Costa Rica:
BARRACUDA 403,338
BLACK MARLIN 414,408
BLUE MARLIN 269,26
BLUEFIN TREVALLY 243,338
BROOMTAIL GROUPER 328,506
FREIGHT TRAIN 440,483
DORADO 422,443
CUBERA SNAPPER 299,165
HAMMERHEAD SHARK 50,179
JACK CREVALLE 219,226
NURSE SHARK 120,237
PACIFIC SAILFISH 174,198
AFRICAN POMPANO 273,498
ROOSTERFISH 217,495
SEA SNAKE 163,116
SIERRA MACKEREL 476,374
SNOOK 217,319
STRIPED MARLIN 398,397
TARPON 67,77
TRIPLETAIL 311,454
WAHOO 353,240
WHALE SHARK 418,502
WHITETIP SHARK 225,224
YELLOWFIN TUNA 331,300
BULL SHARK 437,467

Alaska:
ARCTIC CHAR 373,102
LINCOD 53,463
KING SALMON 106,387
COHO (SILVER) 94,316
GIANT PACIFIC OCTOPUS 102,280
PINK SALMON 342,287
CHUM SALMON 349,253
SOCKEYE SALMON 266,282
ARCTIC GRAYLING 216,104
BURBOT 188,376
COALFISH 233,317
DOLLY VARDEN 475,227
GREENLAND SHARK 23,94
HALIBUT 176,494
HERRING 478,450
NARWHAL 258,61
NORTHERN PIKE 466,217
RED SNAPPER 415,122
SALMON SHARK 21,292
STEELHEAD 190,329
WHITEFISH 239,234
WOLFFISH 399,395
COHO SALMON 334,459
COELACANTH 23,389

Scotland:
LAKE TROUT 172,575
BROWN TROUT 334,288
RAINBOW TROUT 101,739
SEA TROUT 488,60
PERCH 169,287
TENCH 386,530
CHUB 190,352
SALMON 260,80
GRAYLING 186,111
DACE 105,307
CARP 294,399
EEL 174,407
GUDGEON 374,284
ROACH 229,245
RUDD 258,307
PIKE 41,203
BREAM 127,624
ROCK COD 450,23
STURGEON 133,537
NESSIE 170,501
FEROX TROUT 308,247





Walkthrough
(Contains Spoilers)

A walkthrough for the game has been written by Robot2037, You can download it from here. For the real experience, and if you are a player willing to face the mobile angler's challenge, play the game without reading the walkthrough.





Get the Game

So if you’re an N-Gage user looking for a great game, or if you are a real life angler who happens to own an N-Gage device, head to the N-Gage Web Page now where you can obtain a trial for the game, which you can try before you buy.






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