Tried Lego Batman for a couple of minutes on my Samsung Galaxy S Fascinate phone (using Cyanogen7 for OS 2.3). My account isn't showing my free copy as of yet, but someone else mentioned it takes several hours so i'll wait. Tried the free trial though just to see what it was like. Works pretty well considering my internet is having serious issues at the moment. It's basically like watching a pretty high quality youtube video on your phone, only you're able to control it. And considering there's compression artifacts like you'd see in a video, i'm assuming that's essentially what it is. I'm assuming it's a live streamed video taken from a capable PC or console, the stream being sent live over the internet and streamed to your phone. And you're controlling it from afar wirelessly. That's what i'm guessing anyways, i'm not savvy with how this works.
But anyways, the game works fairly well. Again, the picture basically looks like what a pretty good quality youtube video would look like when streamed on the phone. Due to my currently messed up internet, complete with slow speed and instability, i have a few issues. The controls have a slight lag to them, which i'm going to wait and try again later to see whether it's my internet. The picture quality is pretty good (i imagine better on high resolution tablets and such). Occasionally the picture would sort of break up into garbage for a second or two like a bad satellite signal in a storm. Again, for now i'm going to assume it's my internet just messing up. The game otherwise played just fine. Rather neat technology really. I'm not amazed that my phone is capable of playing it considering how i'm thinking it works, but it's a neat system they've gotten set up where you can stream gameplay from a more capable system onto a less capable one. I'd say it's an ingenious way to bring games to a less powerful device like an Android phone.
Are they for real? Arkham City on my Android device?
They're for real, though Arkham City and Asylum both seem to not work properly with Android devices at this time. They require a game controller. I'm not sure if you can map them to a physical controller like a wireless PS3 controller via bluetooth, but there are basically no touch controls supported. I did however boot the Asylum demo. It DOES function, and it looks good enough (though again, you can see compression artifacts like a video would have). But control is completely messed up. Touch screen seems to act as the mouse (so i guess it's a PC stream). I got it ingame, but the camera just kind of went haywire. So until they modify these games to support touch controls or something like that, not playable. Still, it's only a matter of time before it is made playable on an Android device.
