Age of Empires Gold turns out to be a pretty faithful mobile recreation of an immense game, recapturing the magic of the original. The graphics may be really small but they're also wonderfully detailed. The animation is smooth and the noises and sound effects only serve to heighten the overall experience.

The full version of Age of Empires Gold is immense, offering 8 campaigns and 24 scenarios, along with the choice of death matches and random maps. The trial only contains a timed battle game, but still makes for a good half an hour of strategic fun.

Controlling the action in this version of Age of Empires can be a little fiddly at first due to the small size of the characters and the level of detail in the playing area. The toolbars are pretty difficult to figure out too. However, once you've mastered the basics of Age of Empires Gold, you'll find yourself whizzing round the screen, building houses, spearing animals and clubbing your enemies to death with the greatest of ease.

Age of Empires Gold Edition is a great mobile port of a truly epic strategy game.

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Brain Games is designed to help you improve your mental capabilities by following a course of different tests and puzzles. There are 36 in all, which test challenge your skills in mathematics, memory and analysis. Each of the 36 brain games are broken down into ten separate tests of rising difficulty, and you can't progress to the next difficulty level until you've finished the previous test.

You're awarded stars out of five depending on how many questions you get right and how quickly you finish the brain games. A glamorous teacher is on-hand to award you your points, or simply to give you instructions on what to do.

The control system is Resco Brain Games has been very well designed and makes for intuitive use via the direction pad or touchscreen. The layout of the answer buttons means you have no excuse for being slow to answer, as they're incredibly simple to access.

There's no doubt that the tests in Brain Games are great for boosting your brain power, and as I could clearly see from the comprehensive statistics section, I found myself steadily improving over time. My only slight qualm would be that the games aren't diverse enough. Perhaps some word puzzles or reflex-testing games would've made Brain Games a more well-rounded app.

Nevertheless, Resco Brain Games is without doubt one of the best Windows Mobile brain trainers around.

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This simple Windows Mobile app lets you calculate and plan the perfect crop for when you return to your computer. FarmValue is very easy to use. You just need to enter the number of hours or days until you'll log back onto Farmville and hit the 'Calculate' button. FarmValue will then show you the three top crops that will give you the best return based on that timescale. Choose one of these then insert your planting field size and hit 'Calculate' again. This will then display the exact total gain you can expect to receive from this crop.

It must be stressed that FarmValue doesn't actually allow you to play Farmville on your Pocket PC, which is a bit of a shame. You should also note that you need Flash Player 7 installed in order to run the app.

If you're fanatical about Farmville then FarmValue offers you a way to stay on top of the game while you're out and about.

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An interesting mobile strategy game, Defender charges you with the task of defending your citadel from waves of attacks by nasty monsters. In order to block their path you need to build towers strategically in the land in front of your castle. Bricks don't come for free though, so you'll need to think carefully about where you put them and which kind of towers to use in order to maximize your defense system.

It doesn't take long to get used to the way Defender works, thanks to an interactive tutorial at the start, which walks you through the process at a gentle pace. The control system in Defender is straightforward enough and just involves clicking on the square you want to build your defense, before selecting a tower from the menu that pops up.

Overall, the game is well packaged with intricate graphics and an awesome soundtrack. The only criticism I would level at Defender is that the pop-up, tower-selection menus are incredibly small and so it's sometimes difficult to work out what you're doing.

Rather like a computerized version of Crossbows and Catapults, Defender provides an immensely fun challenge for Windows Mobile users.

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As with a regular jigsaw, the object of SPB Puzzle is to join the pieces together to form a complete picture. There are ten different pictures (one in the trial) included in the game, each a classical work of with its own description.

One of the great things about SPB Puzzle is that it allows you to create your own custom puzzles, using pictures you have stored on your device. This can be done very quickly and you can set the difficulty levels for these jigsaws.

The presentation of SPB Puzzle is excellent. The rendering of the jigsaw pieces makes them seem very realistic, and I love the way the pieces automatically slot together when you find a match.

On the downside, it would have been nice to have more of a range of designs included in SPB Puzzle rather than just paintings. Having said this, you can download new puzzle packs from within the game.

If you're fanatical amount jigsaws, then SPB Puzzle could be the missing piece in your Windows Mobile games collection.

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Bubble Buster is one of those great games that you can just pick up and play - you don't need any special skills or talents, it doesn't take ages to set up and the controls are very simple. Just tap the bubbles as they float down the screen to score points.

You should also look out for the bonus items in Bubble Buster, such as clocks that freeze time, or love hearts that reset the time. Beware though, because clicking some of these other items will do you more harm than good.

The overall presentation of Bubble Buster is very nice. The graphics and sound effects are sweet and chirpy, although the pulsating dance music intro to the game seemed like an odd choice to me.

The only problem with Bubble Buster comes in the form of its gameplay, which can get a bit too repetitive after a while, as essentially all of the ten levels are the same. However, there are a few options you can tweak to make Bubble Buster more interesting, such as switching off the timer reset at the start of each level.

On the whole, Bubble Buster makes for a fun pick-up-and-play time-waster.

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The format will remind you of several similar games but what's a bit different in this one is the fun that comes from seeing Pete get into a bit of a panic as the water begins pouring down his pipes.

The aim of the game is to link up all the pipes using a limited number of monkey wrenches before water gushes from the leaks and floods the whole area. It starts off fairly easy but gets harder as you progress. Also, as you'd probably expect, you are working against the clock. Plumber Pete is an easy game to get playing without reading instructions and the challenges progress in difficulty at a decent rate.

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With Mobile Jigsaw you can choose to match the pieces of eight preset images or load your very own images and chop them into puzzles. This can be especially good fun with faces of friends. Cut them into classic, curly or your own free-formed shapes. And you can set how difficult the jigsaw is to reassemble. Go for very difficult and you get lots of pieces and a bit of a headache.

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Traffic Jam has over 150 levels, simple graphics and gameplay, you can save and load your game at any stage and there are free life-time updates. The sound is a bit annoying but it can be turned off. The difficulty level is perfect for beginners and quickly gets more and more challenging.

All in all, Traffic Jam is good clean fun and addictive as hell.

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