Most video games for PDAs tend to be of the Tetris/Bejeweled puzzle game variety. While that sort of game is easy to play for a few moments while waiting for a meeting and then put away, the truth is, modern PDAs are pretty powerful machines, capable of handling games that are at leas as sophisticated as anything you'd find on a Nintendo GameBoy Advance or newer portable game system. In fact, Pocket GBA is a pretty decent Gameboy Advance emulator capable of running games at full speed, although the audio usually sounds a bit funny.

So it's not surprising that Aspyr has ported Call of Duty 2 to run on the Pocket PC. What's more surprising is that more popular console-based video games haven't been ported. The only other official port of this caliber that I can think of is Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, also ported by Aspyr.

Call of Duty 2 Pocket PC Edition should be available by the end of January. It's compatible with Windows Mobile 2003 and Windows Mobile 5.0 machines. You'll need a Pocket PC or Smartphone with a 300 MHz or faster Intel XScale processor, 28MB of free RAM, and a storage card with at least 32MB free. There's also a hardware accelerated version that takes advantage of PDAs with an Intel 2700G or NVIDIA GoForce 5500 processor.

[Via Pocket PC Thoughts]