Portabliss: Ticket to Ride Pocket (iOS)

Did you know that you can download handheld games now? That’s amazingly convenient! The only inconvenient part of it is finding the right games to buy — and that’s where we come in, with our Portabliss column. In each installment, we’ll tell you about a downloadable game on the iPhone, iPad, Android device, DSi, 3DS, PSP, etc. Today: Ticket to Ride Pocket. Ticket to Ride Pocket for iPhone is the smallest way to play the award-winning Ticket to Ride board game without concern for dozens of little pieces getting lost. Publisher Days of Wonder did an impressive job making sure the quality of the original game and interface for this $1 App Store title lived up to the $50 boxed version.

Pocket’s gameplay involves players laying track across the US to finish assigned destination cards. Routes can be as short as Toronto to Winnipeg, or transcontinental like New York to Los Angeles. The game is easy to understand and there’s a detailed play-as-you-go tutorial the first time starting the game (and it is repeatable). Players draw colored cards to complete corresponding sections of rail toward the goal of finishing routes, with the player who creates the longest continuous rail scoring bonus points at the end.Continue reading Portabliss: Ticket to Ride Pocket (iOS)Portabliss: Ticket to Ride Pocket (iOS) originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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