Glimmerati

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Glimmerati
Developer(s) Bugbear Entertainment
Publisher(s) Nokia
Platform(s) N-Gage
Release
  • EU: July 7, 2005
  • NA: August 16, 2005
Genre(s) Racing
Mode(s) Single player, Multiplayer, N-Gage Arena

Glimmerati is a 2005 racing video game developed by Bugbear Entertainment and published by Nokia for the Nokia N-Gage.

Bugbear Entertainment Oy is a Finnish video game developer based in Helsinki, founded by Janne Alanenpää in 2000. The company is best known for the FlatOut series and Wreckfest. In November 2018, the company was majority-acquired by THQ Nordic.

Nokia Finnish technology corporation

Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics company, founded in 1865. Nokia's headquarters are in Espoo, in the greater Helsinki metropolitan area. In 2018, Nokia employed approximately 103,000 people across over 100 countries, did business in more than 130 countries, and reported annual revenues of around €23 billion. Nokia is a public limited company listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange. It is the world's 415th-largest company measured by 2016 revenues according to the Fortune Global 500, having peaked at 85th place in 2009. It is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.

N-Gage (device) mobile phone and handheld game system

The N-Gage is a smartphone combining features of a mobile phone and a handheld game system developed by Nokia, announced on 4 November 2002 and released on 7 October 2003. It runs the original Series 60 platform on Symbian OS v6.1.

Contents

Story

In the game's story, the player is a wealthy heir who meets with another wealthy man one day, and he admires the player's skill in driving. He invites the player to compete with Club Glimmerati, an exclusive gathering of famous and rich people who race in the public streets for fun.

Reception

Reception
Aggregate score
AggregatorScore
Metacritic 82/100 [1]
Review scores
PublicationScore
GameSpot 8.1/10 [2]
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GameZone8.9/10 [4]
IGN 8.1/10 [5]

Glimmerati received "favorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [1]

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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, TV shows, music albums, video games, and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged. Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source. A color of green, yellow or red summarizes the critics' recommendations. It is regarded as the foremost online review aggregation site for the video game industry.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Glimmerati (ngage: 2005): Reviews". Metacritic. Archived from the original on September 13, 2008. Retrieved January 14, 2017.
  2. Palley, Stephen (August 17, 2005). "Glimmerati Review". GameSpot . Retrieved January 14, 2017.
  3. Leeper, Justin (July 5, 2005). "GameSpy: Glimmerati". GameSpy . Retrieved January 14, 2017.
  4. Bedigian, Louis (September 5, 2005). "Glimmerati - NG - Review". GameZone. Archived from the original on February 29, 2008. Retrieved January 14, 2017.
  5. Buchanan, Levi (October 28, 2005). "Glimmerati". IGN . Retrieved January 14, 2017.