Pocket God, iTunes – $.99

Pocket God is an awesome little game by Bolt Creative. The object of this game is, well, to control the lives of little islanders, called “Pygmies”. You can be as nice or as mean to them as you want. Let’s get in to it, shall we?

When you first open the app, you will be asked if you would like to use OpenFeint or not. As in Rope’N'Fly 2 and many other games, you have to option to use OpenFeint’s leader board and social collaboration system. You can keep track of all of your high scores as well as the achievements you have achieved while playing Pocket God. You can also see if any of your followers on Twitter are getting as their high scores, as well as any other OpenFeint games they might be playing.

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There have been a total of 26 updates to Pocket God, each update being a new episode, where new features and objects of enjoyment are added. The help menu (question mark in the upper-right) will explain how to use each of these things.

SO, you start out with one Pygmy on the island. You can add more by tapping on the + in the upper-left. A maximum of 6 can be on the island at once. You can tap on them, and move them around. Tilting your device can shift the ground, so they will slide down in that direction. Quickly tapping on the screen can bring up fireworks, and the Pygmies will begin dancing.There’s just a huge list of things to do in this game.

This app also features Push Notifications. We aren’t exactly sure what you get with these notifications, but it’s awesome!

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There are 4 different islands and areas to go to. In all above-sea level levels, you can change the weather to dark and stormy by sliding the clouds. You can bring out a lightening bolt down by sliding from the dark clouds to wherever you want the bolt to go. You can also strike the pelican that flies across the screen. You may want to do that right away to keep it from pooping everywhere.

In this particular level, you can pick up the big magnifying glass to have your Pygmies catch on fire and turn into a little pile of dust. You can also throw a Pygmy into the volcano, which when done enough times, will make it erupt. YOU CAN ALSO tap on the ant hill to have ants eat a nearby Pygmy. There are a lot of things to do on this one.

To access the underwater level, tap on the ocean and quickly drag it left or right. This will cause a huge tidal wave to engulf the island they’re on. You can also access it by tapping on the first icon from the main menu selection bar, then tapping on the wave.

In this level, you can kill your Pygmies either by tapping on the metal spear, or tapping  on the bucket of fish. That will actually cause a mini-game to start. You have to use your accelerometer to target on to your Pygmies and fire a laser on them by tapping on the button in the lower-right. Your Pygmy will be vaporized in an instant. To get back to the normal world, slide down on the water.

As with other OpenFeint enabled games, you can unlock various achievements. These are all nice and dandy, but when you achieve an achievement, a popup will come up, pausing the game and covering the screen, which can become very annoying very quickly.

New in this version is this spooky graveyard level, release just in time for this halloween season (I should have changed to the stormy weather ). I saw a spider web in the tree but wasn’t sure how to activate it. See the little pile of dirt next to the grave stone? Tap on that a few times to remove the dirt from the hold. Drag a Pygmy into that, then cover the hole back up. The soul will come out of the Pygmy, allowing it to mutate the normal Pygmies. If you tap on the screen to start a fireworks show/dancing session, the dead Pygmies will do their own special evil dance. Too bad there wasn’t a way to kill the pelican!

Giveaway time! We stuck it in the middle of a post to make sure that people just don’t jump to the bottom of the post, where people usually post the codes. There are two (2) codes available. You’ll have to scroll around hard with your cursor to find these codes, which are placed in to images. Find it, redeem the code, and let @besweeet know if you’ve got it.

Also new in the latest versions if the ability to customize the characters in the game for only 99 cents. Not a big deal, but if you love this game as much as we do, you may want to check out some of the customization options to mix things up a bit.

Something else that is new in these new updates is the “Ooga Jump”. We aren’t sure what this is, so we couldn’t really explain this well (at all).

Pocket God is a well rounded game with amazing graphics and cool sound effects. Choosing to be a evil master or friendly chief, you will find hours of entertainment with this one little $.99 app. We give this app an instant 5/5. You should too! Check it out on iTunes. Come on, who can’t afford a dollar and some change?

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