DIGITAL GAMES

Paramount Calling Shooter on iPhone

Paramount Digital Entertainment is moving aggressively in the movie-mobile convergence market by bringing a slew of games on iPhone family of devices. Now, Shooter! The Official Movie Game produced in collaboration with Artificial Life is launched for the iPhone and iPod touch.

Key features of the game are: 

• Over 30 High Stakes Sniping Levels – Gamers can earn medals and rewards through the successful completion of dangerous assignments while progressing through training sessions and multiple missions that feature challenging bosses.
• Large Arsenal of Guns, Weapons, Equipment and Camouflage – They can choose from different sniper rifles, silencers, and scopes to neutralize hostiles from long range or use pistols, grenades, and pipe bombs to take out targets in close quarters combat. They can dress to match your surroundings and to elude return fire.
• First Person Sniper Perspective – Players can use the accelerometer to zero in on their targets with their binoculars and scope.
• Nighttime Missions – They can use night vision to target enemy in different shooting conditions.
• Detailed Mission Environments – The game allows to execute missions in the deserts, cityscapes, forests, mountains and snow, each of which requires specialized skills.
• Mini-Games and Puzzles – Gamers can successfully complete these tasks to continue through the storyline. They can use their varied skill set, to cleverly pass the deadly games.

The landscapes in the game are crafted using 3D map vector graphics and players are provided with a 180 degree adjustable 3D vision scope. The shooting experience is also enhanced by the accompanying realistic voiceover and audio stimulation.

Paramount's mobile gaming forays are fast spreading among the consumers. A few days ago, Glu Mobile, a leading mobile games publisher, decided to launch a mobile game based on the summer blockbuster movie, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The movie is scheduled to be released on June 26, from DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures, in association with Hasbro.

Also, Paramount Digital Entertainment and Freeverse are offering Days of Thunder, a stock car racing game for the iPhone and iPod touch from the Apple's App Store. Paramount says it’s an action-packed excitement of full contact stock car racing while battling the field and racing your way to the finish line. 

In December last year, Paramount had introduced Iron Man: Aerial Assault game for the iPhone and iPod touch. The game is based on the 2008 Marvel Studios film released by Paramount Pictures. 

Also last year, Paramount and mobile game developer and publisher Magmic Games had launched mobile game on Eagle Eye, based on DreamWorks' "Eagle Eye." The thriller is directed by DJ Caruso and executive-produced by Steven Spielberg. It’s starring Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Michael Chiklis, Anthony Mackie, and Billy Bob Thornton. The game was designed in parallel with the movie's climactic plot.