Description: Episode 25: Sharks with Frickin’ Laser Beams Attached To Their heads; every creature deserves a warm meal! Now in the underwater area, you’ll find a chum bucket you can pull chum with. This will attract the shark with, duh, frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads. Then use the accelerometer to target pygmies and the button in the lower right corner to blast them! Keep the shark on screen by successfully blasting pygmies, or pulling more chum out of the bucket. Drag the chum to a pygmy and the shark will go for him instead! Use the plus button to keep adding pygmies and see how many pygmies the shark can blast!

Developer – Bolt Creative

Pocket God – £0.59 ($0.99) – iTunes

Time to play God in this nominally priced app. The aim of the game is to rule over the pygmies who inhabit the island’s and to do with them as you please. From feeding them to the sharks, shocking them with lightning or flicking them straight in to the volcano there are many ways to bring misery and misfortune upon the little pygmies. With an infinite supply of pygmies you will have the oppurtunity to discover them all. Along with finding new ways to extirpate the pygmies, you can control gravity by tilting your device and watch as the pygmies hold on for dear life.

As far as playing God goes there are very little ways in which you can be benevolent towards the pygmies and even then it’s not long before you want to do something brutal to them again.

With the earlier updates there was little point to the game other than just dawdling but with the later updates mini-games have added a delightful mix to the game. OpenFeint is an iPhone social network with chat rooms and leaderboards, which adds an objective to these mini-games as you aim for the high score. Pygmy cloud jumping and laser shark shooting are among these games that become quite addictive as you keep trying to beat your personal best.

This is a game that has been growing at a fast rate for a long time. With kept promises the developer has produced a constant stream of updates on the roll adding new aspects to this game. The most recent of updates adds a mini-game where you have to attract sharks under the sea with laser beams on their heads and test your skills by shooting pygmies, whilst keeping the sharks interest with a constant supply of food.

Among some of the great qualities the game offers some fun cartoon graphics along with a smooth interface. This game is very simple but at the same time it brings an illusive amount of gameplay, which at times can become addictive.

Pros

  • Excellent updates on a weekly basis
  • Many ways to desimate those little Pygmies
  • Nominally priced
  • Elegantly finished and a smooth interface

Cons

  • Not much choice when it comes to benevolence

Verdict

For the price this app is definitely a good spend. It gives you a lot of fun and the sheer amount of interaction is worth every penny. As long as the updates keep rolling up then this game won’t get tiresome.