App Thoughts: The Akinator

App: The Akinator

Price: Approximately £1.50

Type: Game

 

I recently purchased an app called 'Akinator' from the App Store in a moment of madness during a gathering.

The app did not disappoint and acts a lot like the classic game of 21 questions where you are tasked with guessing who the other person is thinking of. Although the classic game is always best enjoyed live; as part of a group. This app can have you messing around for hours on a solo mission to try and trick the clever genie by conjuring up a person who may not be within his thoughts (or database should that be).

Surprisingly addictive and very straight forward. If your fed up of the regular stream of apps such as farming games, this is a welcome change.

The question is, can you outsmart the Akinator?

Have You Ever Bought A Game Twice?

Maybe its just me, but once in a while, you come across a game that you have played before, but perhaps not played in quite a few years. This impulse then causes you to buy the game (now with a much cheaper price ofcourse) to play again. Personally, I can think of many games that come under this category, such as:

Broken Sword

A game I have played so many times, I could probably tell you the story from start to end. The reason this game has been bought more than once, is mainly because I've lost it somewhere over the last few years, and then it was released onto a different format many years after. I originally played Broken Sword on the Playstation One, then on the PC, and then on the perfectly suited Nintendo DS.

SimCity 4

SimCity 4 is a game that fits itself very well into no bracket whatsoever, it is not too complicated to be cumbersome to a casual gamer. Yet not too casual to put off die hard micro management/city building fans. Simcity is a game which is intriguing. Even if you've already played it, the gameplay functionality is different across varying platforms. For instance, this game can now be played (with little differences in each) on the PC, Nintendo DS and Ipad respectively.

 

 

 

 

Too much money than sense? Well the games we tend to buy again are usually extremely cheap as its many years later when we find them again, and its good to re-visit an old past time and relive it all again; in some cases, with graphical improvements too.