Last week my good friends Vincent Maher and Nic Haralambous,invited me to a sneak peak at a new mobile game developed by Vodacom called Legends of Echo. Vince and Nic just happen to look after Vodacom’s Social Media, and together re-launched the Grid (a mobile location based social network) last year with great success. 
Legends of Echo is the first mobile phone location based online social game to be made in South Africa. Basically you play the game in a parallel virtual universe based on the South African map. Instead of cities and skyscrapers, however, players will find rolling green fields and rocky outcrops to explore and establish their base. From there players choose a tribe (Fire, Water, Earth, Air, or Industry) and can battle each other to gain “Legend points”. Players can trade and purchase weapons, armour and other items, as well as chatting to players live whilst in the game. Players locations in real life are duplicated in the game using Vodacom’s location based services.
Live score boards of all players “Legend” points are kept, the aim being to top the score board. Prizes and bonus items etc will be given out periodically to top players.
At present the game is only available to handsets that play Java games, i.e most Sony Ericsson, Nokia, and Samsung phones. No smart phones like iPhone, or Google Android handsets are supported for now, However a Blackberry version is in the works so expect other mobile devises to be covered in the near future when the game takes off.
To download Legends of Echo for free just visit http://legendsofecho.com ( The Game will work with any network provider, your normal data charges apply).
To read the full press release just click here
To read the game facts sheet click here.
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