Pocket God

I downloaded a game for my iPod Touch the other day called  Pocket God.  It has 1000+ reviews with the vast majority of those being 4 star rating so I figured for .99 how could I go wrong.

For 99 cents its a great game.    The gist of it is that there is a little island where you can control the natives.  You get to change the weather on them and zap the with lightning, toss them in a volcano, feed them to a shark, give them an earthquake (by shaking the Touch/iPhone), and number of other things.  Its pretty fun.  Lets be honest.  Its not very deep,  But for what it is, its lots of fun.

Overall its easy to control as well.  My son Eric had no problems playing it for a few minutes.  He had a little trouble launching the natives into the volcano, but then again I did at first as well.  But he could zap them with lightning pretty well, and pick up the shark. 

The graphics are simple, but effective and very fun to watch..  You fry a native with lightning and he turns into a pile of ash.  Drop lava on one, and they catch fire and jump in the water.  Neat little graphics, not top of the line, but this just proves that having a fun game is more important than having the best graphics.

One of the things that really impresses me about the game are the regular updates.  Apparently on a farily regularly basis (weekly I believe, could be wrong though), they update the game with new episodes (essentially new ways to pick on the natives).  For example they are up to episode 10 now, where you can summon a vampire bat and turn one of the natives into a vampire, and well, I'll let you discover the rest.