I bought two games last week. The first was a flight simulator called X-Plane which is ruthlessly authentic and comes with accurate terrain and airports (more than 25,000 of them) for most of the planet.
So much data needs a load of space, 72GB of hard drive space to be exact.
The other game is called Field Runners, which runs on the iPhone and occupies a slightly less voluminous 9.8MB.
X-Plane is fun, and lends itself to tinkering. I now have a map view running on a laptop so I can see how lost I am, and a detailed navigation chart running on the iPhone, both linked to the main program. This sort of thing may mean nothing to you, but it fascinates the hell out of me and I can foresee many intriguing hours ahead working out how I navigate from anywhere to somewhere else using nothing but instruments in atrocious weather. But it is Field Runners which has occupied most of my time.
The concept is simple. Assorted men and machines enter a field on one side of the screen and attempt to exit on the other. You erect a series of towers to attempt to stop them. Within the simple concept are endless strategies, and I have already “invested” several hours squinting at a tiny screen and yelling “you little bastards” when my strategies proved to be flawed (I am not a strategic thinker, not even much of a thinker really; but I am good at sleeping).
She who must be obeyed considers me nuts, but then she spends hours playing poker on her iPhone, so she can hardly complain.
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2009-04-08| Camberley saysThis is stunning.
2009-04-08| Spike saysYou’ll be wanting one now? Whatever it is that you consider stunning.