After twenty years from the release of its first game, we finally get to experience the Pokemon world in a whole new level. A new game-app fuelled with augmented reality that makes you feel like Ash Ketchum while you walk around your city.
"Travel between the real world and the virtual world of Pokémon with Pokémon GO for iPhone and Android devices. Pokémon GO is built on Niantic’s Real World Gaming Platform and will use real locations to encourage players to search far and wide in the real world to discover Pokémon."
Pokemon Go is a game based on Google Maps platform, extending the experience to a huge scale. Just walk around your neighborhood and you will see these 3D creatures waiting to be catch, battled your friends, conquer gyms and more. Everyone is going crazy for this! Like seriously crazy, see the hordes of people trying to catch a wild Charizard in the park:
Gotta Catch 'em All
With all the fuzz about the game, young and old fans are exploring every corner, road and park to get all the pokemons they can. The cities are becoming real pokemon kingdoms, with such diverse fauna and challenges that the possibilities of the game seems infinite. As the nostalgia comes alive, the obsession to catch the 729 known pokemons, promise a vast game with lots of challenges to keep you addicted to it.
How Do I Play It?
The free to play app launched last week with only a few countries available, USA, Australia and New Zealand, these week almost all Europe and more releases to come. To check the availability in your region you can visit this site.
Your cellphones is going to become pretty much a windows to this hidden world of the pokemons. The initial conversation with the new Professor Willow (I guess professor Oak got too old) will lead you to the fundamental choice of your first pokemon: Charmander, Squirtle, or Bulbasaur. A classic for old fans.
The gameplay of Pokemon Go is basically divided in four options: catching pokémon, visiting pokestops, teams and gym battles. The pokemon trainer life comes to everywhere you go.
The expectation for this game was overwhelming, finally technology has brought a platform to make a Pokemon trainer experience in the way that fans were asking for. Apparently the Pokemon world is going viral, again, and Pokemon Go seems to be a dream come true. Now go and Catch 'em all!
I like this game.