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The trailers were rather cool, but the game came down to running around and mashing buttons in a rather ugly interface on your phone.

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The community and the meta-game quickly became the engrossing part of the game. If you like coordinating with other players and getting together to wander around and mash buttons on your phone, then it's great. You can still play by taking walks by yourself, but that's not as much fun.

I think this is pretty common evolution for games. Games from bridge to Magic:The Gathering to softball are as much about the social elements as they are about the actual gameplay.

It was like WoW or Eve, but in the real world.

Which is probably why I quit; I much preferred walking around on my own, rather than trying to coordinate with people.

Oh well. It wasn't for me, and in the month or two that I played it, I did see some pretty neat stuff around the city that I hadn't before.

The crypto challenges are fun as well.

agreed. that was the worst case of vapor ware... well not because they delivered... old hackers would call it "spiffy"... but i think the better term now is it was the worst case of Hollywood OS ever.

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