Vampire Live! and Ninjas

One of the banes of my existence are those ubiquitous Facebook app requests for the Zynga games. Now the damned things have migrated to the iPhone.

Luckily, because of the way they've done it, I shouldn't be getting clan requests from all of my friends using iPhones or iPod Touches. Using things like Apperian or other third party libraries, there's the possibility of sharing information for these apps from one platform to another, whether it be Facebook, Android, Blackberry or iPhone. That's not what they did with Vampires Live, the free app for the iPhone.

All the time that you spent building up your character on Facebook? Gone.

If for no other reason than that, I don't see a lot of people switching platforms to play this. And for that shortsightedness, I thank the developers.

The game play is fairly similar to what I'd seen before with the Facebook app. You perform missions, raise your pool of wealth, increase your level and stats, buy abilities that will help your character grow.  It also doesn't really add anything new other than a way to play in the palm of your hand.

The biggest problem is that it needs Internet connectivity to do anything, because it is tightly coupled with the web site that powers it.

The second game that I'm reviewing, Ninjas, is a similar type of game. It has better graphics, but it is also tightly coupled to its web site.

Game play is similar: missions, wealth, abilities, weapons, character growth and advancement.

If these are the sorts of games that you enjoy, you'll like both of these.