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Sonic 4 Episode I arrives on market!

Hey so I just seen on this market pretty bad compatibility for a lot of devices it seems, the data download is choppy and the audio is reportedly out of sync for SOME devices other devices just find the game to laggy.
Having tried it myself i find it very choppy Xperia Play controls work fine for me, although other users are reporting problems, this could be down to bad downloads/ custom roms.
Not to mention it's like over a year late, guess its in preparation for episode II
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sega.sonic4epi
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no one waste there money on this its so slow!

You are better off buying sonic CD, its much longer and its much more fun. Sonic 4 just plain sucks.

It's working smoothly for me with xperia play controls... Stock rom with root and some system apps uninstalled, and supercharged and i have chainfire installed....
Edit-Played through first level with only one lag spike which didn't really affect me since it was so small... Touchpaxz do not work but the d-pad does and I can't see why you would want the Touchpaxz to work so I'd say buy the game... No idea what's wrong with your version... Maybe try deleting and re downloading the sd data....
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Nabeel_Nabs said:
It's working smoothly for me with xperia play controls... Stock rom with root and some system apps uninstalled, and supercharged and i have chainfire installed....
Edit-Played through first level with only one lag spike which didn't really affect me since it was so small... Touchpaxz do not work but the d-pad does and I can't see why you would want the Touchpaxz to work so I'd say buy the game... No idea what's wrong with your version... Maybe try deleting and re downloading the sd data....
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Working fine for me too, Sonic CD runs better but I guess if I change my v6 settings it will run a little better.
PS. I played through first level with next to no lag, a slight bit of slow down in places but bearly noticeable.
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Blocked from the market for me. It's saying incompatible with my device.
EDIT: Went ahead and *forced* it anyway... and now I'm wondering why in the hell they blocked Xperia PLAY users from seeing this. It's working perfectly with Xperia PLAY's physical gamepad and I can't quite complain about the performance either.
GAMEPLAY VIDEO:
While Sonic CD was a much bigger deal, this is kind of a big deal for me too... you guys don't know how much I bugged Sega about putting this on PSP (while most games just suck on touch-screens, platformers got the shorter end of the stick by far) and this kinda makes up for it.

TLRtheory said:
While Sonic CD was a much bigger deal, this is kind of a big deal for me too... you guys don't know how much I bugged Sega about putting this on PSP (while most games just suck on touch-screens, platformers got the shorter end of the stick by far) and this kinda makes up for it.
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Got enough games on your phone?

I downloaded it fine through the market, may just be blocking specific models
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gonna download and have a look myself, got it on my PS3 and love sonic games!! lets see what its like on my mobile

Can confirm that it works fine on the Play controls.

I just bought Sonic 4 on my old Droid x and then tried the apk on my Xperia PLAY and I can tell you right now that the controls most certanly work. The menus are all touch but the game itsef supports the controls, not the touchpads but the directional pad works great.

I've been playing it a bit now, and must admit I did find a few bits of lag going on :-( but all the controls work find, and tilting on certain bits is loads of fun!!
I'm not overclocking so maybe if I pop SetCPU up to 1.4 or 1.6 it may stop the lag.
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it works brilliantly for me, although i am at 1.4ghz, theres no slowdown. Controls work perfectly

RottenFoxBreath said:
Got enough games on your phone?
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NOPE.

TLRtheory said:
NOPE.
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Same here
Being a long-time console/pc gamer, $60 for a game is normal. As a result, I buy these $5 and less apps like candy

Triangle is supersonic, so it seems all ingame buttons were made for the play. and its not just a carryover from dpad+enter button config.

Mael5trom said:
Triangle is supersonic, so it seems all ingame buttons were made for the play. and its not just a carryover from dpad+enter button config.
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Give me your save game i cba getting the chaos emeralds again just for this version lol.

Mael5trom said:
Triangle is supersonic, so it seems all ingame buttons were made for the play. and its not just a carryover from dpad+enter button config.
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That is interesting... that means Sega was actively working on making this compatible with the Xperia PLAY this whole time.
...that brings me back to why the hell they'd make this any less than fully available day 1. It's not like they couldn't expect us to figure them out.

My view in Shadowgun

I've never really properly got into an optimized game for our phone and found the touchpads terrible. However I've started to pay shadowgun and it is unreal. I'm hooked on it. Feels like a proper game, as if I'm sitting in front of my xbox and the controls are close to perfect. Really gives me hope for the touchpads and proves that they don't have to be hopeless.
By far the best purchase I've made for my play and there's now an expansion pack for it that I noticed but I haven't played it yet, haven't completed the first story.
Definitely worth buying and restoring your faith in the almighty Play!
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I agree. It feels like a your playing a console game on the Xperia Play. I'm loving it

Dead Space and Bad Company 2 also have excellent controls. They're also free

Where can I get bad company 2 from? I can't find it on the market
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It's definitely nice, but my faith in the Xperia PLAY never really staggered to begin with.
If you'd played Dead Space, you would've known a loooong time ago that the Xperia PLAY touch-pads are a more-than-competent means of control input (and also got a sneak peek at the standards in which Shadowgun worked up to). Even outside that, there's so many other devs that have used the touch-pads perfectly that it pretty much is just Gameloft being typical Gameloft... Lantansia, Halfbrick, TwoHeads, NaturalMotion, Art in Games, Glu Mobile, Angry Mob Games and so many more have already established that the touch-pads can work extremely well with high quality titles.

shadowgun is good, so is fifa 12.

vincientjames said:
Dead Space and Bad Company 2 also have excellent controls. They're also free
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Dead Space is not working with my hardware controls.
Thanks for the heads up though, might check out this game because of the sale.

I purchased Shadowgun yesterday but the came constantly crashes [kicks me out to the home menu after the video sequence], anyone else have this problem?

I recently wrote an article on just this very subject for XperiaGamer, you can find it here if you're interested:
http://www.xperiagamer.com/Blog3/xperia-play-touch-pads-a-touch-of-genius.html

So, it has swipe analogs ?
I dont realy play games that dont have swipe analogs and this recent sale interests me.

flat_steve said:
I recently wrote an article on just this very subject for XperiaGamer, you can find it here if you're interested:
http://www.xperiagamer.com/Blog3/xperia-play-touch-pads-a-touch-of-genius.html
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Very good article. The analog touchpads work great with some games.
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Modern Combat 3 only 49 cents on Google Play

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...5nYW1lbG9mdC5hbmRyb2lkLkFOTVAuR2xvZnRNM0hNIl0.
Only question is I know it works right on regular Xperia Plays, but does it work with the controls on the R800x?

Rogue Leader said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...5nYW1lbG9mdC5hbmRyb2lkLkFOTVAuR2xvZnRNM0hNIl0.
Only question is I know it works right on regular Xperia Plays, but does it work with the controls on the R800x?
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Buy and tell us!
It's only 0.49.

I've just bought this and have to say it's my best/cheapest purchase ever !
I've got the r800i and it is xperia play optimized. Works a treat
Download now before price goes up !

i bought it as well, works great with a verizon 2.3.3 play! i think it plays better than bad company did...
well worth 50 cent...

Ow wow
I just bought shadowgun and dont regret at all, i have though about MC3 too so this Sale is realy good. Im only worried about my memory (internal and memorycard) only 45mb/5 gigs left anymore

shocito said:
Buy and tell us!
It's only 0.49.
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The controls kinda suck but they work!
Overall the presentation of this game is great.
That said I had more fun with my other 50 cent purchase, Shadowgun.

Rogue Leader said:
The controls kinda suck but they work!
Overall the presentation of this game is great.
That said I had more fun with my other 50 cent purchase, Shadowgun.
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I must say that this is the first time i have actualy regret putting .49 € on something.
Play controls dont "just suck" they are unplayable, horribad, absolute trash.
It almost makes me want to cry.
After first minute in the game i started swipping right side of the touch screen to aim but the frikkin shoot button is on my way
I hate modern combat 3 with pashion
Meanwhile in shadowgun ...

I've just bought Asphalt for 49p. Works well with the xperia play.
It's good that they changed to google play cause at least everything is on sale now.

sufy1000 said:
I've just bought Asphalt for 49p. Works well with the xperia play.
It's good that they changed to google play cause at least everything is on sale now.
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Your play didnt come with that game? I thought it was pre-loaded on all Xperia Plays??

Rogue Leader said:
Your play didnt come with that game? I thought it was pre-loaded on all Xperia Plays??
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I dont think so. But even if it was i'd have had to pay £3 for it.

Rogue Leader said:
Your play didnt come with that game? I thought it was pre-loaded on all Xperia Plays??
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Mine didnt come with it either
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Asphalt was a free download for my play when I bought it last year.

Gangstar Rio: City of Saints - Xperia Play Optimized!

Gangstar 3 has FINALLY dropped! Shows up in the launcher and everything. Time for this and GTA3 to go head to head.
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i've been wait a long time for this game ,thanks pal for information ,now on going to download this games

Damn you're fast!
As far as I'm concerned... GTA3 won't be hard to beat from a technical standpoint. It's got status... it's got fame... but it's aged horribly, it's touchpad usage barely exists, and it manages to have very underwhelming performance for a game that looks as bad as it does.
Adding to the database ASAP

Anyone played yet? How are the controls? I'm downloading now but it's taking forever on Gameloft's crappy servers, I don't see why they can't just host the data on Google Play

Michealtbh said:
Anyone played yet? How are the controls? I'm downloading now but it's taking forever on Gameloft's crappy servers, I don't see why they can't just host the data on Google Play
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not expecting to much from Gameloft.

I've had a quick play and, as expected, it's buggy as hell. My main gripe is the popup tip windows. I can't find any way of removing them without turning them off completely or exiting to the main menu. Playing is impossible with one of those taking up 2/3 of the screen. Also sometimes steering/moving will continue in a certain direction when not pressing anything. Wheelies/stoppies on bikes can only be done using the accelerometer with the gamepad closed.
Controls are ok but touchpad sucks like in most Gameloft games. D-pad can be used for direction so it's not too bad.
Graphics aren't great, things look a bit blocky and the colours a little washed out. Physics are terrible, vehicles stick to the road no matter what, it's almost impossible to get some air in a car or bike. Vehicle handling is crap in general.
Overall I'm disappointed with this so far, especially given the £5 price tag, but I suppose this is to be expected from Gameloft

Better wait for a price drop then I find the current price too steep. Thanks for the review.
As a side note, I'm currently playing other Gameloft production- Six Guns, which is also a little buggy but still playable. And one does not need to spend a penny on it, if they wish so.

So, this is yet another Gameloft game that looks amazing in pictures & video, but when you actually come to play it...it's boring, frustrating & buggy as hell? I bet it is...

Gameloft.

Red_Kop said:
So, this is yet another Gameloft game that looks amazing in pictures & video, but when you actually come to play it...it's boring, frustrating & buggy as hell? I bet it is...
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Exactly. Think I'll just pirate Gameloft games in future, then buy later if I think they're worth it

I have GTA3 so wont be buying this. It looks ****e!
Who's gonna buy this garbage for £5 !
What do you expect it's made by Gameloft not Rockstar......
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It costs more than the game it's a ripoff of!

I never buy a Gameloft game for more than 99 cents during one of their sales (or the Play store's sales). Based on the bugginess of every single one of their releases, they do not deserve the $6-7 they normally charge.

Sadly, I fell for the Gameloft hype when I first got my Play. Got a few games free, paid 99p for others...and honestly, out of all the games I've played...the only decent one is Asphalt 6. I really enjoyed that. But the other suck big time.

Damn game keeps FC'ing on me so I can't even form any kind of review. I seriously wouldn't be surprised if City of Saints beats gta3 at everything except gta3s fame though.
What I can say is that; on a general note, gameloft desperately needs to learn about compression. This game sucks an obligatory 10MB off the phone, and near 2GB off the card after everything is unpacked. There's games 100x better looking than anything gameloft has ever done that can stay at under 500kb off the phone and under 1GB on SD storage.
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am i missing summat here
i downloaded and installed this game
there was no sd download needed?
and when i played the game it was sum top down view game like sims
nothing like the video

crispyduckling said:
am i missing summat here
i downloaded and installed this game
there was no sd download needed?
and when i played the game it was sum top down view game like sims
nothing like the video
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They made a 2d version a while back. The SD files are about 1.6GB on the new 3d one.
3d version = https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftG4HM

What are you guys talking about? It's a 2mb apk and 800mb sd data less than EA's FIFA 12 they already did better job with compression this time. And I could run the game on first run its kinda slow/laggy with 1Ghz but when I overclocked it to 1.8GHz the game was pretty smooth have to test on 2.0ghz.
Ps. Currently using Xperia Monster Rom from DikeJ with doomkernel v11
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bornotty said:
What are you guys talking about? It's a 2mb apk and 800mb sd data
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That's unpacked.
The APK is ~2MB and the data download is 800MB unpacked... but after it's all said and done, the 800MB unpacks to well over 1.5GB, 10MB of which is sent to the data portion of the game's phone storage install (meaning it can't be moved to SD with the other chunk of SD data).
That's one of the things I hate the most about Gameloft. They aren't considerate of people with low phone storage. Order & Chaos is a really nice game to play on Xperia PLAY; yet they rape your phone's SD card with a huge data installation, then add insult to injury by forcing 19MB into the phone's data portion of phone storage so that it can't be moved to SD without minitool partitioning.

TLRtheory said:
That's unpacked.
The APK is ~2MB and the data download is 800MB unpacked... but after it's all said and done, the 800MB unpacks to well over 1.5GB, 10MB of which is sent to the data portion of the game's phone storage install (meaning it can't be moved to SD with the other chunk of SD data).
That's one of the things I hate the most about Gameloft. They aren't considerate of people with low phone storage. Order & Chaos is a really nice game to play on Xperia PLAY; yet they rape your phone's SD card with a huge data installation, then add insult to injury by forcing 19MB into the phone's data portion of phone storage so that it can't be moved to SD without minitool partitioning.
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Hmm ok I forgot to mentioning it was the download size anyway I'm just happy that they finally released the android version. Though requires some fixes or more optimization for 1ghz processor. But after gta3 this game's a refreshment. And if you're comparing both then gta3 is much smoother and optimized for XPlay(1ghz) right now.
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Wild Blood by Gameloft Gameplay trailer out!!!

HELLO GUYS
Have u guys seen the latest game coming by gameloft?
Its made by Unreal Engine!!!
But unfortunately, it will probably lag on xperia play.....
But we can mod it!
And Overclock!
And Xperia Play is BOSS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn6vv16Vq_I&feature=g-u-u
Nuff Said.

Was wondering why don't they use Unity like Madfingers? Unity works great on Play. I can even play Dead Trigger without lag on 800mhz lol.
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Oh.is not support xp ply?
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Woo... Now that reminds me of God of war.

Best!

Who said it won't be optimized for Play? You know, if Gameloft will change their minds and won't give game for 70% (more of 50% minimum) of Android users with devices with Adreno 205 inside, then who will buy it? Not everyone like SGS3 or have HTC One X. Guuuyss..... Be realists - it will be for Play users for sure - at least won't lag - do you remember Dungeon Defender? It has UE3 inside and what? Everything awesome on Play, and it was exclusive for some time....And if we get it - we get optimization too - Gameloft won't delete the best gaming Android device which Play is - which another device has touchpads like that? Just be patient and wait like me .
And about game - very good gameplay, nice graphics (not like super-uper UE3 graphic and incredible effect, but really good ), I have only hope they won't f*ck up engine, to avoid lags if we don't have iDevice....
Waiting for this title, reminds me some kind of Sacred Odyssey by Gameloft - if yes - I'm done .

Gameloft?! No, thank You... Another crap from this developers... Everything they touch, is going to be a crap with nice graphics (but there are also a games like Splinter Cell with awfull graphics).
I have a hope that someday they will make a game taking more time to get it better.
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To it smells His Kingdom of Amalur for Android. Also I think as DikeJ, Gameloft always shows his games with the best graphs, for powerful devices as the S3, since for example on having taught It Nova 3, but only it is his face of sale. Then they are optimized for every terminus. I hope that it comes to Xperia Play!

What DiKeJ said.
How many times now have we assumed we'd get left behind now? And how many times has it actually happened? The consistent trend here is that no matter what level of benchmark the game aims towards... if it's not just flat out unsuited to play on anything but touch screens (Mass Effect: Infiltrator) chances are Xperia Play will get it, and it will run well. You'd think people would have stopped underestimating the Xperia Play after seeing it get it's hands on every benchmark game to date.

Should be for Xperia Play, whos gonna enjoy such games without physical buttons !!!
For touch screen Asphalt 7 is ok..
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DiKeJ said:
it will be for Play users for sure
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Yeah but the way Gameloft are going it'll probably be so big we'll have to delete all bloatware and have only this one game installed.

The Alpha Gamer said:
Yeah but the way Gameloft are going it'll probably be so big we'll have to delete all bloatware and have only this one game installed.
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I hope Gameloft will continue the trend they did with The Dark Knight... having a SD-movable installer that didn't suck up a ton of space as "data" was nice.
Them thinking they need to suck up space off our phone is the major reason I don't play Order & Chaos, Six Guns, N.O.V.A. 3 and Modern Combat 3 as much as I'd like to.
...they'll never be as bad as Dvide Arts' punk ass though... they need to be beaten for having an additional data download go straight to the phone.

Calm down and relax guys....It's Gameloft so the game will be something like 2GB and hopefully Xperia Play optimized. Just chillout and wait with me . My only 3 asks are:
-optimize
-lag free, not only on New iPad (or iPad 3, call like you want) or iPhone 4S
-not so short and stupid adventure - something like Sacred Odyssey or Eternal Legacy or BackStab will be nice .
C'mon, pray with me! xD

It looks nice i hope we can play it on the play thanks for share