Bolt Creative’s Pocket God [99¢] has been a smash hit on our forums since it was released in early 2009. Since then, it’s received 35 individual updates, or episodes, each implementing a new feature or two. The latest episode adds even more customization via DLC packs and the ability to draw double rainbows all the way across the sky. In addition, there’s also a Pocket God Comic [99¢] that chronicles the adventures of the inhabitants of the game’s island.
Soon, Pocket God will be making its biggest leap yet. Bolt will be starting a closed beta for the Facebook version of Pocket God, which is said to lean heavily on various social features like most Facebook games. I can’t wait to give it a spin, as (and I could be alone on this) I’ve had an odd amount of fun playing various Facebook games recently. We don’t have much more details than this right now, but if you’re interested in the game, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to keep an eye on the Pocket God blog.
eh.. 5.99....wow............oh shit my pants
.I have a mess to clean up too...
Cool. Get to spend my flight on the 10th from PNS to SEATAC playing this. $5.99 is probably seriously underpriced.
I gotta feelin there's a reason to the pricing just like with Rage. Idk i think i might wait for a review
It's developed by Chair. They did an outstanding job with Shadow Complex. If this is even half as good as that title, I will be happy.
It seems like Touch Arcade should get early access so they can have a review for release, like modern console game.
considering that the "reviews" on this site aren't really reviews so much as they are general overviews it doesn't seem like the right site to give early review copies to. There is nothing wrong with TA, but it isn't a source of ratings and critical reviews.
We'll work harder in the future to provide hard hitting critical analysis of games that cost less than a Subway sandwich!
If an App ever hits the price of a bottle of Johnnie Walker, you better believe we'll give it the SUPER critical, indepth one-two.
Eh, plenty of apps are available for the price of a shot of JW Black at a bar, though, so at the very least they deserve a bit more in depth analysis in that regard. I'm not stating the entire site has to go that way or give incredibly in depth reviews with hard hitting analysis and details (there are other sites that do this), but it'd be nice to have some more analysis.
Perhaps a contributor or two can do an "in depth" series of featured articles? Like a look back at some of the more famous (and infamous) iOS games.
Pretty arrogant self-righteous response by you to a reader! You either review critically, or you don't, and you write a fluff piece? There's no half way house.
There's plenty of halfway house. You're just being concrete-minded about it, which means a full review isn't likely to satisfy you anyway.
Listen, I'm not saying you folks need to change. You have a specific style of website in mind. Keep at it.
What I was doing was stating the obvious. If you don't like the obvious, then I'd suggest becoming oblivious.
still not sure what to expect... over hyped or new stepping stone for legitimate phone gamming
Oh that looks great. I can not wait to play this!
yeah Johan Reed...I have a mess to clean up too...
Only $5.99? Either they're really generous, really dumb, or the game is really short (which I suspect it might be). Still, it looks awesome and I can't wait to try it.
I'm thinking very short. That was my thought as well when I saw the price.
IGN's article says that the game takes 30 minutes to play from beginning to end boss, but you'll most likely die the first time threw and you just play through those 30 minutes again with better equipment and harder monsters each time through.
It's a grind game.
True, but multiplayer will probably be a big part of replay value . . .
Not for those of us who have no interest in multiplayer at all.
Is that right? I thought it was Rage HD that was only 30 minutes long.
You're right. No one has gotten their hands on Infinity Blade.
I think that will equate to £3.99 in the UK, For universal, I'll take a punt.
Maybe not right away though, that is 2 days after the new Warcaft expansion is released after all.
Is not December 9th the day of the new iOS 4.3 rumor and event?
I'm surprised how unexcited I am about this announcement. I think all of the hype my have neutralized my interest. Chances are I'll still get it, but I'm kind of "whatever" about it at this point.
gorillathemes no,13 december will be out new 4.3...
Underpriced?Seriously?Anyway,all the hype actually made me LOSE most of my interest,many hyped games just don't deliver these days.Universal is nice in the first place,but again,I do not want to waste so much space on my 3rd gen device for nothing.And no,I have chosen to get NO 4th but 3rd gen device,even for the same price. ;)
I was guessing 4.99, seems I was a dollar off. Looking forward to it, I was hoping it would be sooner rather than later, but still.
lol premium pricing
5.99 is a fair price, cannot wait to play this on my ipad and iphone. Will this game support gamecenter?
That's the whole point; GameCenter. Apple even promoted this game when they were showing off GameCenter. Go search, Apple Keynote Project Sword, and watch the game in action.
I'll probably buy it the second it comes out. Any game that good looking AND with GameCenter sounds cool to me. Even though I have more than enough space, I hope this isn't more than 800 MB. I mean, Rage was pretty short and it was like 700 MB. My 16 gigs of empty space aren't going to stay empty at this rate....
oh yeah i just saw that video on youtube and the Epic Devs were talking about gamecenter, cool Cannot wait to play this game.
Since Rage HD came out, I've lost my hope: even the Iphone 4 can not handle crazy, hyper detailed console-graphics. Also, "Epic Citadel" set the hype so high that it's almost impossible not being disappointed. They're gonna add 3d characters in that photorealistic world, without lowering the details and/or making Infinity Blade another rail experience?
Seems so like they "stated" on Kotaku...or was it here? Anyway, Rage never felt like it was meant to be a genuine game but rather a high end marketing stunt.
What, no shadows? Their absence makes the characters look like they are floating.
6 bucks? Weak.
Yeah I agree, I'd happy have paid $10 for this.
10 bucks for a 30 minute game? C'mere I got a bridge to sell you then.
Who said it was only 30 minutes?
Morons who want to strech their points a bit, thats who.
Okay, here's what I don't get about this '30 minute game' nonsense. The entire genre of fighting games, f'instance, is based around that concept and a single game rarely takes longer than that. What adds value is the reply factor, going through and trying different approaches, different tactics or just having fun. If the underlying game is good, or for that matter just plain fun, enough then the time to play it through doesn't really matter.
OOOOHHHH YEAH!!!! Glad I just updated to iOS4.2 as well.. after several failed attempts.
Sigh... I dunno what to think that the price is so low.
They want to sell volume? I'd pay more but a lot of vocal iOS users are cheap.
Remember that this is also an advert for the Unreal Engine as well as a game. If Epic can get a large number of iOS owners to think of this as the new high water mark and generate demand for graphics on this level then they will shift a LOT of licences for that tech. To do that they need to price accordingly, no point in sacrificing a lot of potential long term profits for short term gain.
Not buying that argument. They need to create a substantial game to show everything it can do, not just a tech demo. And THEY were the ones saying they were going to price higher. But as the game seemed to change and get watered down, so did their ideas on pricing. A pretty fruit ninja in the end is still a pretty fruit ninja.
They absolutely do not need a "substantial" game to sell the tech. Already I see posts all over the net that "X and Y game don't look as good as Epic Citadel". Whats happening there is perception is changing, once gamers see a game this good looking, that is what they will begin to expect.
All Epic/Chair needs to do is put out the best looking game on the service, and they are. You do realize they sell their engine solely based on tech demos to begin with right?
And you do realize, no matter how good the engine, if gameplay is not substantial, no one will be interested in playing unreal engine based games other than fanboys?
No? Didn't think so.
But it's not the engine's responsibility to create an engaging game. It's the company using the engine. It's only a tool. Adobe doesn't have to make superb examples of commercials, graphics, websites, an books? they just have to make a superb product and the rest is on the designer. I agree with the poster +2 up. If Unreal creates a engine that can make great games, then great game companies will want to use the engine. The main drawback is the cost of the engine vs profits of the games.
Instant buy.
Yeah, so I've marked the day of this App's release on my calendar. It'll be an awesome gift to myself after taking exams.
5.99 is not to bad...holy crap did u take a second look at those pics, ill be stayin up for that one
6 bucks, at 2 million sales means 12 million bucks, not bad for a weekend.
its priced right, even with apples cut, they are more than going to make there money on this tittle.
any more and people will not buy in number as well the games many shortcoming would become serious issues, (game time etc)
still,
am I the only one who would sacrifice state of the art graphics for a longer and developed experience.
if its only 30 minutes, then its not worth more than a buck to me. 1.99 for rageHD was my personal splurge price point, haven't played the game yet, and don't care, was happy to support a good developer, delivering a fun game, at a perfect price point, WITHOUT price gouging. i'll still get to it eventually.
every screenshot i've seen makes it look like a streetfighter type of game, which is is a genre beyond worthless to me.
anyway, i'm in the minority, but somehow i think there'll be a lot more people feeling they've wasted $6 than there will be thinking they're missing out because they haven't bought it...
Universal?
Under $10?
Made by the brilliant minds behind shadow complex?
Not many things are no brainers.
This is.
I'll consider it as something to pick up the night my finals get done (Dec. 9th), but I'll look at the impressions first. This could end up becoming yet another notch on iPhone's legitimacy as a full-blown games handheld.
Awww no 2G Touch support? That Blows!
So...3rd Generation excludes the 3rg Gen 8GB model, right?
Since it's basically a 2nd Gen with some new tweaks, right?
Wich means..i wont play it, right?
o_o"
The "3rd gen 8gb" is just a 2nd gen ipod touch. With no tweaks at all, which means you won't be able to play it.
Time to suck it up and upgrade to iP4.
NO NO NO, don't upgrade an Apple device, or any device, solely for gaming reasons!
Heaven forbid someone may have bought it as an app platform with telephone capability as a side note. I'd say 95% of my device usage is streaming video and games, with a few text messages used for work and family, and the rare phone call, usually to order food. I don't for a moment regret my iPhone 4 purchase just because I don't use it much as a phone.
In my case, I would say multimedia for multiusage. Even has a subsidized phone, I would have never bought the iPhone if the usage I made of it was a staggering 95% game/streaming. Me it's 40% communication 60% entertainment.
some people think it'll suck.
others think it'll be amazing
i personally think it'll be good, and is priced accordingly, but i also think you guys cant go slandering the game until it's come out and we see how good (or bad) it actually is.
Just think if the use of Unreal Engine sets a new bar on iOS graphics, and if most companies started to use it, think of a game like NOVA 2 or MC2 really any well recieved FPS or RPG. I think that would be amazing.
If it's being released as a universal app, does that mean they'll sync your progress? Play a few levels on one device, pick up where you left off on another?
After playing Shadow Complex on Xbox 360 i'll quite happily drop £3.99 to play another title developed by Chair, Some people are saying it has 30 minutes gameplay? as long as it's entertaining I don't have a problem with that, I spend more than that on a cup of coffee and pastry on the way to work every day.