Ipega Controller, Review and Solution(with Ipega game center app)

What's up people, it's Boo once again! First of all i'd like to thank you guys for the 30 views on the first week of blog, and also a big thank you for the person that g+ my last review, that I couldn't find who it was for some reason, you rock!
Today I'll be dropping a review on the Ipega bluetooth gampad that I've bought recently, so Read, Relax and Enjoy!

As you can see, the Ipega PG-9017 is a little gamepad that you can connect to your Android phone or tablet via bluetooth.
By now you probably thought "ok, I've seen gamepads like that, so, what's especial about the Ipega?"
And I tell you. The price!. While the Moga controllers costs from £30 to £70 on ebay, you can easily find the Ipega for under £13. I bought mine for £11,99 with free delivery. And then you ask, "does it work?". And I answer: flawlessly.

Bring you Android gaming experience to a whole new level!









The Ipega comes with the conventional D-pad, A,X,Y,B, Start, Select, R,L keys and two analog sticks. The whole controller feels very solid, which I was impressed with, considering the price, the keys are soft and feel good while gaming. The only thing I didn't like so much about the Ipega was the analog sticks. They are very similar to the old PSP analog. It's similar but not the same, the work much much better then the PSP one, but you still get the feeling that you're fighting against the analog which can make your hands tired after a while, or maybe I just need to get used to it, but they surely work really well.
The only thing that feels cheap is the "thing" that you use to hook you phone to it, it's a simple plastic that is noisy when you're pushing it up, however, once your phone is hooked up to it, it holds the phone really really well, with no chance of dropping. The little hooks also have robbers on them so it doesn't scratch your phone. It can handle some pretty big phones, an Galaxy S4 in my case, and even bigger ones.
  

It can also handle phones as big as the Note 3 and HTC One.





















If by now you're asking yourself if you should get one of those, well,  it depends. First of all, what games are you willing to play with it? If you not a hardcore gamer and usually play Temple run, Bike race and those type games, the Ipega is a no go for you, because it's just not worth it, and your gaming experience will be just about the same as using on-screen controls. But if like me, you're and harcore android gamer, the Ipega is a must have. I've been playing 3 type of games with it, racing with Asphalt 8, Action-adventure with Wild bloog(which I'll drop a review soon) and FPS with Modern Combat 4. I simply loved playing them with the Ipega, Asphalt became even more intense, Wild blood got alot more fun, and MC4 well... as I said, I'm yet not a big fun of the sticks, and I've been playing on the touch screen for 5 months, and I've mastered it, so still trying to get used to the analogs and get some good kills going.

Good portable size!

And now for the solution. Once my Ipega PG-9017 was delivered I was smiling like a kid, tried to play and...:( just couldn't make it work. Started looking on the internet and came across thousands of solutions which none has actually worked. The closest one was using Bluez IME, but only enough to make it work with emulators, and that was not my goal. Finally when I was about to spend some precious pennys on the Gamekeyboard app, I remembered that on the user manual was something about the Ipega game center. Well after that I had some more long search on a Chinese very messed website, download about 5 different apps, till finally found the Ipega game center in English. After that was all happiness again, all I had to do was install and open the app, click on "Add Gamepad" hold Y and home keys on the Ipega controller and BAM!, it connects automatically and works on any game that supports gamepads, sometimes the games recognize it as a Moga controller, but still works great. And to save you guys the trouble, I'll leave a link so you can download the ipegagamecentre.apk from my Dropbox.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/is3taaggxzihefj/IPEGA%20Game%20Center_ENG.apk

So I hope you guys enjoyed the review, and hope the solution helped. Please leave a comment and g+ if you liked it, and if you have any questions feel free to ask.



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Dead Effect Review

What's up people, I'm Boo, posting my very first review of an Android game! It's time for Dead Effect. Read, relax and enjoy!

 Dead Effect is and FPS-action game with elements of survival horror. By that I mean that it is a scary-ish type of game, however to complete it, all you got to do is shoot your way through.

 Dead Effect was created and developed by inDev Brain and published by Bulkypix. It was released in September 2013 and by now you can get it on the Play Store for free.

The story behind Dead Effect is very simple and short, and the whole game is based on it, with not so many surprises. Basically you are in the ESS Meridian, an spaceship chosen to be rebuilt as the first long range military/scientific starship, is traveling through space with a new FTL technology, headed for its destination - to colonize Tau Ceti f - the first planet in the history of mankind. Few months later, a crew member (you) is disrupted from a cryogenic sleep, to find out that the rest of the crew is eager to eat people and looking like this dude:

Not someone you'd be willing to hang out with, that's for sure!

 After that your character decides that the best thing to do is find the communication hub, where you get in contact with an scientist that survived called Doctor Wagner, through your suit communication system and he start guiding you through out the ship. And that's pretty much it for the story, there's a big twist after the middle of the game, but I'll let you find out what it is.

Dead Effect brings to you an alright variation on enemies, 5 or 6 I believe, which don't vary in any aspect apart from the way they look. There's 3 bigger zombies, which also don't change much, apart from one of them that spits blood on you from far away, the other two just hit you harder the the normal zombies and can take more damage. The way they all walk is a bit weird, but the way the attack looks flawless. For a couple times you are going to face Razor, a zombie that the inDev Brain guys describe like this:

                                         So I guess that's it, say no more!

You can expect Dead Effect to be hard and to frustrate you a couple of times, as the game offer you no checkpoints. Yes! each time you die you;ll need to go back to the beginning of the stage. If you die you have the option to buy an revive with real money, but as long as you have patience that's not needed.

Meet  Gunnar Davir, and
Jane Frey. Cool guys, on a cool suit, holding guns.














Right before you start the game you can choose between one of then, they are exactly the same, and have the same story. Basically they’re well trained soldiers that were recruited to be on the ESS Meridian, and that's all the information given. Playing with them are both the same as well. The main difference between them is the way they were dubbed. Jane's voice and the way she speaks gives you the tense, serious and scared type of feeling, while Gunner for many times during the game sounded like and bad stand up comedy artist, I couldn't quite figure out if that was just bad dubbing or if they meant it, if they did mean it, it just didn't work.
The characters receive different weapons, Gunner gets a pistol and an assault rifle, while Jane gets an revolver and an shotgun. You can buy other weapons that are waaaay expensive. (as they want you to spend you real money). They cost $47.000 for the cheaper and $580.000 for the most expensive, and you get between £20.000 and $40.000 per mission. Note that the cheap weapons are worthless as they wont be better then the ones you already have, and you NEED to upgrade the ones you have in order to succeed on the next level, and upgrades are expensive. You can also buy ammo, but as long as you look well, you won't need that. Basically what you expect on a play-for-free game

Dead Effect run on the Unity engine, the same for games like Dead Trigger 2 and Call of duty: Strike Team. As usual in games that uses Unity, the graphics on Dead Effect are just beautiful, sadly they made the ESS Meridian an spaceship without windows, so there's no point where you just stop a while to look at the stars and planets, like you would on Dead Space. The enemies, the guns, the character's hand and the blood flying around when you explode an zombie head, it all looks jut flawless. You still see things the deserved a bit more effort, like light reflection for exemple, sometimes the light iscoming from you right, but the it's shining on the left side of the gun, or some boxes looking better then others. But nothing much, it still look fantastic.

The controls are not so great, sometimes they are really unresponsive and can frustrate you easily. You have to option to go on the menu and choose the Free Pad option, which will let you slide your finger on the direction you want to walk, instead of needing to press a touch d-pad, in my case, that made it good enough to play the game.

Overall Dead Effect is a great game, specially being free to play, with an campaign that lasts a bit more then 3 hours, it you surely guarantee you a good amount of fun, as you can also play the survive mode, which is really cool.
Definitely give it a try, you won't regret it.

Please live a comment saying if you liked the review, and feel free to ask me to make a review of any game. For the next review we'll have Deus X: The fall. Follow me on g+. I'm Boo and see you on next level!