Is iOS Saving Video Games?
Remember those days when you just couldn't beat your video games? Struggling for hours and hours to get past that one level, or boss? Games like Pac-man or Space Invaders that became impossibly difficult for ''casual'' gamers?
Well, if you have played games more recently you may have noticed that there is next to no challenge and somebody with very little experience will glide through the entire game in a day or two only to feel you have wasted your money and haven't got as much enjoyment from game you first expected!
However, Have a quick browse through the app store and you will be treated to a vast amount of games that will not only challenge your gaming ability, but will hold your interest for long enough to complete them (as we all hate having that game hanging around we just cannot beat!). For example: Angry Birds, a favourite to everyone and their grandmother! It has a strategic (and luck) style of game-play with a ''castle smasher'' genre.
Or maybe Plants vs Zombies (a personal favourite of mine) which is almost like the old playground game "british bulldog" but offers hours of fun and strategic game-play.
All in all I believe that iOS and the app store is pretty much saving and making up the much needed gaps for the game industry as a whole, offering a lot more bang for your buck than many full priced console games (lacking some aspects obviously).
Feel free to comment your opinion on the subject or put forward some of your favourite downloadable games, for iOS or other service.
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Jake Brady Jan 20, 2011 at 2:06 PM in iTunes tagged angry birds, app store, iOS, mac ap store, plants vs zombies
Reader Comments (2)
Ok. I'm a gamer. I'm a part of a whole community of gamers. I think, first of all, that you are an iPhone fanboy when it comes to gaming, because saying that iOS is saving video games is a very bold thing to say. I don't know how much research you've done on the topic, but the Video Game industry is currently bigger than the Movie industry. The Movie industry is doing great. Now, you say that you get more replay value out of iPhone games like Angry Birds, and Plants vs. Zombies. Just sayin', PvZ is on the Xbox 360 as well as the iPhone and iPad, and Angry Birds is on the Mac and PC as well as the iPhone and iPad. Now, I don't know what console games you play, but console games can last a very long time, play wise. I don't know what games your playing, but if your talking about Halo: Reach or Black Ops, then sure you may have finished the single player campaign, but then there is always the multiplayer aspect of it. What about games like Red Dead Redemption? Red Dead Redemption offers a 30 hour story line, with tons of stranger side missions, and other side quests. iOS is not saving video games at all, because video games aren't in jeopardy. You are a fanboy.
hi, i am also a gamer and like to be involved in the gaming community as much as an experienced or ''hardcore'' gamer, and my main point in this article is the fact that with getting so much content for a few pounds and it lasting as long if not longer than a massive amount of full blown console games, and yeah see there you have pretty much hit the nail on the head, think how long the black ops campaign takes to complete ? some of the games on iphone ipad or on the newer mac app store (and pc in some cases) can take much much longer than that to scrape the surface with a heck of alot more challenge, fair enough xbla and psn now have the games but iOS carved that path out for them and as you also said there is acceptions but not enough to completely rule out my statement, fair enough iOS may not be completely saving video games but it is contributing in massive amounts, especially recently.
also as a side note i am not as much an iphone fanboy as i am an xbox 360 fanboy, i am even planning on picking up the windows 7 phone in the future soulfully for the xbl features, thanks.
jake