Date: February 18th 2006
Hinter Wars (DiGi Malaysia) http://www.hinterwars.com
BETA review by: Pip_X

An online MMMOG (3MOG) turn-based tactic-style game. Kind of like multiplayer Pokemon.


Early First Impression of the BETA version:

Phone version:
Official Recommended Requirement:
32MB of memory (MMC card)
MMC card writer or Nokia PC suite with connectivity cable / bluetooth required during installation
GPRS connection needed during game play
Supports the following Nokia handsets:
N-Gage
N-Gage QD




Although the game can be played with a GPRS connection, it is advisable to get a phone with EDGE connection. Also, although the official website only stated that the game works with N-Gage, virtually any S60 phone should do, I tried with Nokia 6260, Nokia 6630, Nokia 6680 and Nokia N70. On Nokia 6260 it play smoothly with occasional lag because of the slow GPRS connection. Nokia 6630, Nokia 6680 and Nokia N70 plays very smooth without a hitch.

Graphics is on par with Pocket Kingdom but there's no sound and help and setting menu don't open in the BETA version. Even so, ultimately, this is the best S60 multiplayer game ever exist.

It's so convenience chatting in the game, pressing the right soft key bring u the chat interface with T9 text input. However, to do emoticons, we need to scroll each emoticon until we found the right one and then press enter or button 5, which is quite troublesome.



As with most turn-based RPG games, we need to constantly upgrade our character with greater weapon and armor, in order to advance to more greater dungeons and quests and to keep up with friends. We don't want that when friends starting to kill dragons and boosting about it but we are still killing bats, don't we?



PC version:
Official Recommended Requirement:
Windows® XP Platform
1.5GHz CPU or equivalent
256MB RAM
32MB Video RAM
128MB free hard disk space
16-bit sound card
Broadband internet connection
Keyboard and mouse



The PC version of the game is a Java application. If you got Java compiler already installed on your machine, make sure you are using the latest version of it, which is currently at Version 5 Update 6.

The PC version graphically almost the same as the phone version but with sound and clickable setting menu and help menu. However, the sound is only some simple "Doom" like sound.
The whole client is not as polished as the phone client, there's graphical appearances bug in the client. You'll be more satisfied with the phone version than this PC version.



Personal experience of getting myself a free Hinter Wars BETA account:
In Malaysia, in order to play this game with 9MB of GPRS data FREE, we need to register with DiGi. I, personally went to the Hinter Wars counter at the DiGi DSS at Lowyat Plaza on the first day of the little exhibition (17th February 2006). The exhibition was supposed to start on 11AM sharp but I reach there about 11.15AM, and yet be told that I need to come again around 2PM coz the exhibition people just arrived and need time to prepare for the exhibition. So I went for a walk and returned at around 12PM, finally saw them distributing fliers about the game. I approach one of them and starting asking question. Finally I was brought to the second floor of the shop to "install" the game to my phone and filled up some forms. From those friendly and helpful DiGi Hinter Wars's personnel, I knew that:

- To play the game, we can use either DiGi's prepaid or postpaid plan (Actually, any operator with GPRS but if it's not DiGi, you need to pay for the GPRS).
- 2 days after the BETA registration, we get FREE 9MB of data to play the game via EDGE or GPRS, which according to them, translate to roughly 30 hours of game play.
- Before the 2 days or after the 9MB, we get charged according to our GPRS usage. Eg; 10 sen for 10kB for prepaid. If we already subscribed to unlimited data plan with postpaid, virtually we play the game for free, until the BETA is over, which according to them, is on around middle of March 2006.
- Pricing on the game after the BETA is yet to be decided and will be announced on the official launch of the game.

After about 45 minutes on the counter/booth, finally I got myself clear on whatever we need to know if we want to play the game. For gamers who cannot go to DiGi to register for free BETA, you can refer to the DiGi website for online registration. If you register at the Hinter Wars website, u dun get free 9MB data to play with but u still can play the PC version for free until the BETA is over.

My character name on the game is Pip_X. If you meet me, plz do say hi to me, thanks.

Discuss this game here~!!!

U can play it with a PC client too...

2day, 2moro and the day after 2moro, go DiGi CSS at lowyat to get yourself a FREE BETA account~!!!

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Added on January 31, 2007, 5:06 pmAnybody still playing this?

This post has been edited by Pip_X: Jan 31 2007, 05:06 PM