Video games publisher 505 Games has announced a new game for the Nintendo DS, MinDStorm. The title is the next game in the popular ‘brain training’ phenomenon and takes brain exercise software to a new level and presents a whole raft of exciting new games, features and challenges. These are all designed specially to stimulate and improve the player’s brain functions.
MinDStorm Overview:
- Transform gaming inquisitiveness into powerful thinking with MinDStorm. The game features ten distinct types of challenge for gamers, all of which are easy to pick up and play using the Nintendo DS stylus, touch screen and microphone. Each of MinDStorm’s challenges is designed to focus on enhancing the gamer’s reason, endurance, analysis, instinct or observation. Regardless of the type of game chosen, extended play results in improved overall brain function and enhanced memory.
- A first for the brain-training genre, MinDStorm throws extra challenges and problems into the mix. Gamers are rewarded with ever more complex riddles to solve as they do well in the main training mode. General knowledge and geography-based challenges are also included to accompany the more abstract trials such as sliding picture puzzles, mazes to navigate with the stylus and spot the difference games.
Further innovation is found in the way the game will adapt the tasks it asks players to perform according to the local environment it is being played in. When playing on a bumpy car or train ride for instance, MinDStorm will skip the tasks that require precise stylus action. When playing in public the game will spare players the need to vocalize into the Nintendo DS microphone. With its many innovative and exhilarating challenges and features, MinDStorm offers perhaps the most thorough workout yet seen in a brain training title.
MinDStorm for the Nintendo DS has been developed by ASK Co. Ltd and will release on May 4, 2007. The game is priced at £30 (approx. Rs. 2600). It is great to see such games for the Nintendo DS, but it would be amazing if games like MinDStorm are released for the Wii, PS3 and the Xbox 360.