50 Android games demonstrated in one video -- who says Android can't game?
By Vlad Savov 
posted January 28th 2010 5:27AM
posted January 28th 2010 5:27AM
posted January 28th 2010 5:27AM
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looking pretty sweet. still loving my Pre Plus though :)
@nicholiservia IMO, nothing beats gaming on a phone with actual keys. i've used a few touch screen phones now, but i really don't play many games since i stopped using my N95. so droid > nexus one, if it's possible to have keyboard control
@brrip Agreed. playing assasins creed with a dpad is awesome on my droid.
@nicholiservia Try DOOM. I did in my Sprint Hero. I gave up. Physical keys are the best for gaming. Your fingers cover the screen when you using a touch screen.
@xtasi
Yeah I agree to an extent. Some games are not too bad on a touch screen like trivia and puzzle games. I have Wolfenstein 3D on my iPhone and it plays great, just took me a while to get used to. The games I think are just HORRIBLE are racing games. Most don't offer an onscreen steering wheel, and steering with the accelerometer is a major pain.
Role on Motoroi XT720, its nice to see a market place with decent games other than itunes.
Android ftw!
Great vid ... just need more developers to work with opengl ... even the lower-end Android devices handle opengl nicely.
@Reisa
And I love the fact that this vid lets me see so many games without having to download and test them.
@Reisa
... but one game not on here that's worth mentioning: Taps of Fire. It's not in the market ... you have to download it and install yourself.
@Reisa
I'm not impressed. Compared to what the iPod touch offers, this is crap. I bet this has to do with the difficulties involved with developing for the vast amount of Android terminals.
wow... why did I not know that android phones had these types of games? I don't have an iphone or a zuneHD, yet I know that both of these devices offer great 3D gaming. apparently android needs some better marketing.
@pomokey not better marketing... a better market for finding these games... I am an early android adopter and I only knew about 3 of these games because I rarely ever feel like searching through that clutter of a market
@pomokey - totally agree.. or they simply need to open market for browsing from PC.. so that we could see what's in there before buying.. who knows, maybe by seeing that they do have apps I need, I would buy android phone?
@tamosius - check out androlib.com - I'm still not sure how it works, but it allows you to search through the android market from PC.
@hurts feelings
I'm in exactly the same boat, I've had my android phone for ages (6 months) now and had no idea all those games were out there!
I'd buy this if it gets full speed psx emulation and quake 3 with at least 20 fps
@JehanD
why would you wanna play quake 3 on a phone?
@mrqs working hard or "hardly working" ; if you are a Microsoft Employee for example... dicking off and causing the share price to iDLE like a lot full of recalled Toyotas they cant sell....
"who says Android can't game?"
the same people that say Macs can't game, both groundless bs
@Gonzie
In compression to the PC, Mac's cannot game. But only in comparison.
@mattisdada
I think you mean less games are available for the Mac, not that they can't game
@martynmcfarquhar
Linux can game too!!
But there are very few games available :( I iwll wait for MS to develop directX for Linux and THEN we will be laughing. Mwhuhahahahaha
@martynmcfarquhar
But Macs can't game if you consider the hardware either - even the best Macs have "mediocre" graphics cards in comparison to the ones Windows machines can offer.
@mattisdada LOL in compression too.
Old .exe games in zip files FTW!
Yeah, sadly even though Macs have few good games too, big titles come out for Windows.
My Crossover Games from Codeweavers run all the Steam games perfectly and I can play my original Starcraft and Brood War so I am happy with that.
@Shokz Which Macs are you talking about? At the time I bought my MacBook Pro, it came with a GeForce 8600M GT which made minced meat of Command & Conquer 3 and WOW, max settings at 1440x900. The entry level machines (MacBook and Mac mini) aside, all Macs have capable cards in them.
@Dale P
That's his point. They have midrange, decent cards in them but that's it. You wont find a mac laptop with a GTX280M or desktop with a GTX295.
i'd like to see a similar video with only free games on it
I never knew android had all these cool games. its been a while since i bought a G1. Android games are much much better now.
Droid Does for all of those hates that claim it doesn't. The Droid is the best thing Motorola has done since it launced the Startac way back when!
@cosmicinglewood i still have a startac!
OK. Where the hell is Engadget's app for Android? We've been waiting for a long time!
@bo3of seconded. The Pre and iPhone is available now.
@kosmoskid Yes Everone has a iphone app, but android is going to be massive this year, thanks to HTC & Motorola, come on Engadget, design a Engadget widget for Android.
@bo3of
We'll see a new iPad app before the Android app it seems....
@bo3of Everything is so Pro iPhone here that we can except a app after the launch of the next iPhone
@bo3of
Yeah seriously. iPhone app, sure, palm pre and BLACKBERRY??? app before an android app? Lazy android hating bastards.
Are these games compatible with the iPad?
@nicholiservia Oh come on, he must have been joking LOL
@sonicyoof yeah I upranked him as what I got is that iPad isn't compatible with anything.
cool games :) but im happy with my HD2 and Psx emu/ snes/nes etc.....i wish there was more games to take advantage of phones like the driod/HD2
@Gooner14 There are SNES/NES/Gameboy/GBA/Genesis/etc emulators. Don't think there's any playstation ones yet, but that's bound to be coming, with the Nexus One and Droid out.
@MarcusMaximus there is FPSECE emulator for winmob....and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raLRAP9KuPk :)
Exist some misconception to say in to say that those games are for Android. Indeed, they *are for Android* but (it is the catch) not for every single device that runs Android. Google is committing the same mistake that Symbian and Sun-Java did a decade ago :let's several substandard run freely until you find that the market is enough fragmented to be plausible to develop a single application that runs in different kind of machines. Apple (in this case) did it pretty well, every new game/app is compatible amongst from the very first iphone to the latest ipod touch.
@magallanes I'm tired of this FUD about Android since months: ALL these games are working fine on all Android devices. Some will be a little less smooth, but still playable
@magallanes This isn't exactly true in the case of Apple. I believe there are already games that take advantage of the hardware in the 3gs that won't run on a 2g. There are also features in the OS that are simply not available on older models due to differences in hardware. They just keep the OS number the same, so that people who aren't developers, can wave the fragmentation flag to Android. There is still some Android fragmentation, but as a software developer, I can tell you, the Android API is extremely sane(at least last time I looked at it), which is basically how windows, linux, and every major OS, INCLUDIING OS X(maybe not such a great example since they've been known to break APIs between poiint releases), has been handling this problem for decades. It's a problem that's been solved a long time ago, I have no idea where people are getting this as a MAJOR issue from.
@shagrath
We wish it but even Google and HTC put some document involving to be more compatible, not only for different devices but also for different version.
@magallanes
So if you believe the Holy Mother Apple won't experience this now with the 3G S, 2G/3G, and now the iPad.
You're crazy.
They are becoming just as fragmented as the others they bashed. It's only normal. You can't support old tech forever.
@avinash240 There needs to be a 3GS store, because that was the problem when I had mine, all the apps had to be compatible with the 3G, so the graphics couldn't be that great even though they would work on the 3GS just fine.
@iDavey
For a developer viewpoint practically you mustn't not worry the device, with logical exception. For example, in my ipod touch 1g (alias Ipad nano) i can run most of the software but (logically) i can't run program that uses bluetooth, camera or do cellphone calls.