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Thankless Answers: Transmission 18
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Josh posted on
Thu 18 Mar 2010
Between Uncharted 2, Modern Warfare 2, Halo 3: ODST and Shadow Complex, I've seen the end credits to quite a few of last year's big releases recently. Far from ploughing all of my time at home into Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 games, I've increasingly found myself turning to the iPhone for extended gaming sessions; an activity which I would normally reserve for train journeys or prolonged waits at the bus stop. I think that this is mostly due to the leap in quality that the App Store's ever growing catalogue of bite-sized offerings has seen over the last few months, and I'm continually surprised just how absorbing something which initially appears to be a 59p timewaster can be.
I'm fairly selective in what I download. Whilst the App Store's top rated categories often feature some real gems, a great deal of them aren't representative of the experiences that I want out of Apple's platform. The remakes of Final Fantasy 1 and 2 have been highly praised, but a sprawling RPG isn't necessarily something that I want to play on my phone. Similarly, I have a low tolerance for anything that provides control through a virtual d-pad or attempts to shoehorn a console experience onto the 3.5 inch screen, so recommendations of Call of Duty: Zombies are lost on me. With that in mind, today's instalment of Thankless Answers is in service to anyone who finds themselves in the same predicament I was in when I got my iPhone last November.
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