Sometimes, not even the best apps can stay on my iPhone. This could be for many reason such as I never use the app, maybe because I am not connected 24/7, unlike most iPhones. Here is a list of applications for iPhone and iPhone Touch that I have used, but no longer have on my iPhone. They are great apps and worthy of mention, some free, some paid, some for jailbroken devices. This is the cut list.

Evernote - This app is great for taking notes. It can also take picture note or images from your photo albums are use them too. All of this syncs with the Evernote web service which also syncs to the desktop app. This tool is very powerful for making notes, much more than the default note application. Since your note sync back and forward with the cloud, you will be able to access your note from anywhere.

Instapaper Free - What makes this app really useful is the ability to read webpages offline. What you do is mark a link using the Instapaper bookmarklet either from your computer or iPhone and then you sync the iPhone app with your web account and it downloads the webpage onto your iPhone for reading offline. You can read the page in web format or text format for faster loading an no added rubbish. There is also a Pro version which ads a couple of extra features but nothing you will really miss. Definitely look at this app if you are interested!

NetNewsWire -This is the best RSS reader app in my opinion. It syncs with Newsgator Online which syncs with the the Newsgator desktop clients. This allows you to get the latest news that you haven’t read and read it online or offline and then later sync back up where it marks what you have read. This is a great product as it makes all your feeds synchronised across the board. This app performs great!

Talking German Phrasebook - If you are ever going to go to Germany and don’t really know the language, then this is the app to take on your travels. It has a load of phrases and words a tourist in the country may need to use. It has the English and German for the phrase and even has an audio recording for the spoken phrase. There are even some interesting phrases you can use to pick up some those hot German chicks Its also a great application if you find the German language interesting or would like to pick up some words for your general knowledge. So worth the money, do get this!

Tumble - Want to quickly post something on your Tumblr tumblelog while you are out and about? Well this app makes that easy. Just launch it, select the type of post you want to make and go for it. You can do most of the usual methods. You can even use it to take a picture and upload directly to Tumblr, caption and all. Great app that saves time by not making you log in and use Safari.

Wordpress - This app allows you to write full length posts for your Wordpress blog, right on your iPhone. You can type away your blog post, save it, and post it online right from the app. It does exactly what you would expect it to do. The unfortunate thing is that typing for an extended period of time on the iPhone virtual keyboard isn’t ideal so I doubt you will be writing massive essay post to your blog, but maybe shorter posts. If you need to blog away from your computer on your iPhone, this is definitely the way to go about it.

Air Sharing ($6.99/$9.99) - I managed to snap up this app while they were giving it away from free. This app allows you to transfer files onto the iPhone using your computer. You attach your iPhone as a networked drive and you can paste files in there. The iPhone can even open and view most well know file formats such as word, excel, pdf, html etcetera. You can also access the contents of the drive via a web browser. I did find the transferring of files and accessing the drive a little bit slow, but that would be anything, not necessarily related to the app. If you need this type of functionality from your device, this has to be the app you go for.

PocketMoney ($9.99/$13.99) - This app give your the ability to manage your money on multiple accounts and cards. You can add different types of accounts and manually manage and keep an eye on money going in and out of the accounts and the spending on your cards. It’s password protected so your financial information is hidden from any suspecting people using your device. I personally use it to keep track of the money I am spending on my credit card so I don’t spend more than I have and know how much more I need to purchase something. It is really good for that.

Spore Origins ($9.99/$13.99) - The objective of this game is to get your unicellular Spore organism through the levels and eat guppy things which increase your DNA bar. The controls are basic, using the accelerometer steer and move forwards and backwards. Most of the levels consist of collecting DNA, except they start including unique creatures for you to attack or defend against to make the game more interesting. There are also special levels where you have to traverse a maze-like setting and your goal here is to get to the end without being killed by other creatures. This is a challenging and fun game to play.

Buzzer (Cydia) - This is a fun game which is similar to Buzz! The Music Quiz on the PlayStation 2. There are multiple rounds of the game where they give you a snippet of one of the songs in your library and you have to guess either on of the following, song title, artist, or association depending on the round. They also show you a zoomed in version of the album art and you have to guess it as it zooms out. Lastly, they have a round where the music is garbled and you have to guess what it is. This game was intended to be for 2 players but it is fun to try it yourself. If only they had a proper 1 player mode and scoreboard.

Unfortunately, the official App Store can be restrictive and limited for some developers. With jailbreaking and Installer.app and Cydia, this allows them to create and distribute applications that can do things that the restrictive SDK wouldn’t allow them to, or Apple. I’ve used quite a number of these jailbroken apps on my iPhone and here is a wide selection of ones I have on my iPhone. These are my top Cydia applications for iPhone and iPod Touch.

BossPrefs - This is a very powerful tool and I don’t even know exactly what this app can do. I use this app to turn off data and SSH when I don’t need it. This is so it doesn’t suck up my money, and no one can hack into my device. It is also good for respringing, restarting and shutting down your iPhone, if you needed to do that for some reason. There is plenty this thing can do.

Poof - I also like Poof, which I can access through BossPrefs. It it can be a stand alone application or come with BossPrefs if you would rather it. This allows you to hide icons from the home screen. This is very handy if you want to make those pesky icons you never use or are sick of seeing disappear. You can always easily put them in view again if you need to, its not permanent, it’s just a toggle of a switch.

Cycorder - One thing the iPhone is missing, a video recording application. It can a decent enough camera for taking pictures, so why can’t it be used for video? Well with this app it can. The quality of the video is decent enough, especially for YouTube. It does on the fly compression of video and they can be played back through the app. The annoying thing is that this app doesn’t have built in export tools. You have to get into your iPhones filesystem, navigate through the directories to find all your videos. I’m sure exporting is on the list of things coming soon to the app but it is still worth giving a go.

MxTube - The YouTube app that comes with the device is great, don’t get me wrong, but most of the time I am without an internet connection. This is where MxTube comes to the rescue. It allows you to download videos and save them onto your device for offline viewing later. I use it to save some of my favourite YouTube clips in high quality so I can show people later on, without the need for any connection. It can also save on time and bandwidth too, because you will no longer have to reload that video you’re always watching or showing.

Pushr - If you take pictures regularly with the built in camera on the iPhone and you use Flickr, this is the perfect app for you. When you launch the app, it will show you the pictures you’ve taken since the last push and allow you to name and tag them and upload them to Flickr. It does it easily and the images are full resolution with all their various tags in tacked.

Qik - Use Qik or would like to stream live to the internet? If so then this app is for you. It allows you to stream using the camera on the iPhone and sends it up to Qik for everyone to see, over Wifi and 3G. This allows people to see exactly what you see, live! It is also saved on the site for further viewing after you’ve finished streaming.

WifiToggle - This adds a button on the home screen for fast connecting to Wifi. No longer do you have to go into Setting and navigate through to the Wifi menu just to get connected to the internet. With one push of a button, and a 3 second wait, you will be connected to your Wifi. It’s as simple as that. If only it had a nicer looking icon.

Five Icon Dock - The dock only lets you have 4 icons on it at a time, although there is room to squeeze one more. That is what this app does, it allows you to drag one extra icon onto the dock if you so desire. If you already have 4 apps you want down there, and lets say you just got WifiToggle, it would be handy down in the dock, but you don’t want to give up one of your other apps from down there too. This is the prefect solution to that. It may look a little strange at first, but you will get use to it, fast.

OpenSSH - This app allows you to SSH into your iPhone so you can hack it, transfer files to and from the device, or whatever you desire. If you’re going to modify system files, change the theme, install some apps then this is a must. It is also needed for some apps like Cycorder for getting videos off the device. It can also be used to backup some of the files on your iPhone. There are many reason why you could want to get into your device, and this app is a must for any of those.

Scrobbled - If you use Last.Fm, this is the app you’re looking for. This allows you to scrobble straight from the iPhone or iPod Touch. No longer will you have to sync and hope that the desktop software scrobbles your plays. This app scrobbles to the site live if you’re connected to the internet, but if you’re not don’t worry, it will scrobble all those offline plays the next time you are connected.

Veency - There are many apps, official and unofficial, that allow you to VNC into another system, but this does the opposite. This app lets you VNC into the device. From here you can control your iPhone or iPod Touch right from a computer screen. You could use this to type things on the device with a real keyboard, or to access apps when it’s away from you. This is a fun little tool to play around with.

Note: These apps are for jailbroken iPhone and iPod Touch only. All are available through Cydia.

The app store provides developers with a great marketplace to sell their iPhone and iPod Touch software. Developers put a lot of time into crafting these applications and most of these, especially the expensive ones, are to a very high quality. I have used bought a number of apps and games on my iPhone and here is a wide selection of ones I have on my iPhone. These are my top paid applications and games for iPhone and iPod Touch.

Countdown ($0.99/$1.29) -The title of the app pretty much tells you what it does, it counts down to a certain date and time. You may be thinking that the iPhone already has this functionality built into its clock app, but this has a few more features. You can have multiple countdown clocks, each with its own title and icon which you can get from your photo albums. I used it for counting down to the releases of my favourite TV shows and it worked great. I always knew when Heroes was coming out, down to the second.

Rooms ($2.99/$4.19) - One of the thing previous jailbroken devices could offer was an IRC client. After a long time waiting after the App Store was up, finally a client came. It is called rooms and is a decent IRC client. It allows you to connect to multiple servers and room and acts like a normal client would. It doesn’t look as appealing or work as good as the previous unofficial clients did but it is a start. If you need IRC on your device, unfortunately this is your only choice.

Twitterrific ($9.99/$13.99) - Twitter Addict? This is one option for you to tweet and read other tweets from your iPhone, without using the mobile site in Safari. This app does exactly what you would expect a twitter app to do. It also allows you to post pictures, either from the camera or camera roll. It can also to a couple of other things you may like. There is a free version of this app, the major difference is the advertising. If ads don’t worry you and you’re not willing to pay this premium price, get the free version.

Aqua Forest ($7.99/$10.99) -This is an amazing game! It uses both the touch screen and accelerometer to its advantage in unique and interesting puzzles. Each one is different and requires a different set of skill set. Out of all the games in the App Store, this is definitely the one to buy! It offers so much, and everyone will enjoy it, no matter what!

Battle At Sea ($4.99/$6.49) - I use to enjoy playing Battleships at school, and this app is a digital version of that game. You put your 5 ships down anywhere on the field and then each of your ships get a chance to shoot. Kill a ship, it can no longer be used. This game is quite fun, and if you’re connected to the same network as someone else with this app, you can do a multiplayer battle. The only problem with this game is that after you get the hang of it and get a strategy going, the computer seems a bit dumb and only beats you on a fluke.

Bejeweled 2 ($7.99/$-) -Everyone know what Bejeweled is, and this is the iPhone version of that popular PopCap game. You use you fingers to move the pieces to form a small row and then it disappears and more blocks fall into the level. This keeps on going till you run out of moves. This game feels a bit limited and after playing it for a while, you feel like you haven’t accomplished much. This could be easily fixed with a high scores list of some description so you can keep track of your top games.

Crash Bandicoot Nitro Cart 3D ($5.99/$8.29) - My old favourite PlayStation character is the star of yet another racing game, but this time for the iPhone and iPod Touch. You control the car in this game by using tilting and you can also jump by tapping the screen and get weapons that you can you to your advantage in the race by taping the icon. I did have a problem with the turning controls since they are bit difficult to use and aren’t as good as with a controller with a proper D-Pad or Analogue Stick.

Enigmo ($4.99/$6.49) -This is a really interesting physics game where the objective is to get droplets of water into a bucket thing. To do this, you have to use objects you are provided to direct the water to move or bounce through the level and into the bucket. It is very challenging and offers many hours of playtime. To extend it even further, it even allows you to download user created levels, so there is so many levels to accomplish in this game.

Lumen ($3.99/$5.29) - The objective of this game is to guide a laser beam through all the checkpoints. You do this by using mirrors to direct the way the light turns. Also the checkpoints have different colours so you have to use gems to change the colour of the beam so it can pass through the checkpoint. This is a really cool puzzle game and you should at least check out the free version, Lumen Lite. The main version has many more levels as well as the ability to access the custom user made levels database for even more challenges.

Super Monkey Ball ($9.99/$13.99) -This game was one of the ones demoed at the announcement of the App Store. This game developed by Sega is really well done and shows what these devices are capable of in terms of gaming. The graphics of this game are stunning. In this game, you are in a ball and you roll around the level using the accelerometer. Make sure you don’t roll off the edge or else you die. Unfortunately the controls can be a bit difficult and don’t respond that well which makes it difficult not to go over the edge.

Note: Prices listed are in USD and NZD. Prices of the apps in your store will be different from the ones speficifed in this article.

Not all the applications in the app store are serious. There are a wide variety of games in the store, even good free ones. The iPhone and iPod Touch is an amazing device for games with its large widescreen, accelerometer controls and touch screen, these all put together can be put to good use in interesting games. The iPhone and iPod Touch is very powerful and can support games that are on par with a lot of the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable games. I have played quite a few different games on my iPhone. Here are my top free games for iPhone and iPod Touch.

Aurora Feint -This game is pretty similar to Bejeweled, where you have to line up 3 cubes to make them disappear. The only difference is that the blocks are getting pushed up, so you must not let them get to the roof of the level. You can tilt the device to allow you to move the blocks vertically or horizontally, in relation to the game board. The unusual thing about this game is that you are collecting to blocks so you can get abilities and things for your character. I assume that there is going to be more to this game, because this game is Aurora Feint: The Beginning.

BubbleWrap - This is an interesting game to show off the touch screen. You have a sheet of bubble wrap, and you have to pop them. Pop as many as you can in the allocated time and you may get a high score. The bubbles come back up so you can pop them again. Its fun for 5 minutes, but it is a really good app to show off what the touch screen on this device can do.

Cube Runner - Most of the people that want to play on my iPhone want to play this game. Its a very simple looking game, where you control the turning of a little ship thing and you go through the level dodging cubes and as you progress, you get faster and faster and then weird things start happening to try and put you off. This simple game is quite challenging and fun. Do check this one out. It’s a great demo of what this thing can do.

Lightsaber Unleashed -Who doesn’t want a lightsaber? Well here you can have one, a virtual one, with built in lights and sounds. You can have different coloured one that can fill up the whole screen with saber glow and as you move it around, it makes battle sounds. Its a really cool app to show people, especially geeks. Other than that, it is useless, but cool to have there.

Sol Free Solitaire -As the name suggests, this is free solitaire. This app has a large selection of card games, including solitaire. Its the exact same game you are familiar with, just on the iPhone or iPod touch and using the touch screen. There is not much more to say. If you like card games, get this app!

Spinner Prologue - You are a button thing, and your goal is to traverse through the maze to the finish. Instead of directly controlling the object, it moves forward and you move your device around, from a vertical position to make it turn. It starts off easy and straight forward, but it gets really difficult further on and the levels get more complex and you need to be able to traverse awkward parts of the maze, and fast.

Tilt Me Lite - This is a fun little game for demoing the accelerometer on this device. You have to get a little ball, onto a small circle and hold it there for a few seconds. As you roll over the tiles on the level, it makes a sound. It provides really interesting sounds as you play along. It gets a little more difficult when you have to get 2 balls onto 2 different circles at the same time, and hold them there for a few seconds. Fun little game and great demo.

Tris - Unfortunately, this app is no longer in the app store because the developer was forced to remove it by the people who own Tetris. This app is Tetris. The controls could be a bit better but that is the only gripe about this game. There is not much you can do to Tetris. Tetris is Tetris, and this is a well made version of it. I like the high scores list, except for the fact that it is filled completely with my name. If this app ever returns, snap it up while you still can.

One of the great things about the App store is the wide variety of free apps. A lot of these are pretty well done, some even being higher quality to some paid apps. These applications do a number of things including storing and displaying different kinds of information and performing various tasks. I have used quite a number of apps on my iPhone and here is a wide selection of ones I have on my iPhone. These are my top free applications for iPhone and iPod Touch.

1Password - This application is great for storing your passwords onto your iPhone. It is PIN and password protected so you don’t have to worry about someone finding out your passwords. It can be time consuming to type in a password using the iPhone and this app makes its a piece of cake to login. Also, if you have heaps of different passwords for sites, this will make it easy to manage them on this device.

Balance - I use this application to keep track of the money that I have stored in one of my bank accounts. This is not a very feature full app but it does what I want it to do, keep track of deposits, and any odd withdrawals, on my account. I can access and see the balance of my account anywhere. I’m sure there are many other applications this can be used for too.

DoBot ToDos - This is a free to do list application. What makes this one great, is that you can have multiple categories of list, and inside them have your todo’s for that. You can write notes with them and set due dates, like you can do with most other todo applications. I use this for keeping track of personal tasks as well as school tasks. These are kept in separately, which is how I like them.

Fring - This app is pretty new but I can see it being a really useful app. What this does it allow for VoIP calls over wifi. You can use this to talk over Skype or SIP or lots of other common voice chat messaging clients. The quality is really good as well. There are still features that could be added, but this is a really nice, and promising app. Unfortunately, it doesn’t do VoIP over 3G, which is what a lot of iPhone users want.

Light - The Light app I use has been removed from the app store for some reason. Still, you should definitely find a good light app from the store. You may not use it for a while and it will just be sitting there on your home screen but one day, it will come in handy, and you can thank me then. My one has a bunch of customizations, you can change the colour of the light, and there were even some flashing ones. My personal favourite is the police light, a blue and red flashing light. In saying that, the white is the best, because it is practical to use so I can see in the dark.

MiGhtyDocs - If you use Google Docs, this application is great! No, this doesn’t allow you to edit your documents or spreadsheets, but it does let you view them on the iPhone. But there is an added bonus, you can view any cached documents for offline viewing when you don’t have an internet connection. It’s really good for storing files you may want to look at offline, and on our iPhone.

Pocketpedia - Got any of the Pedia software on your Mac? If so, then this is definitely a must have app. This allows you to access your media collections right on your device. Even if you don’t have this software, it allows you to create collections right on the device. You just search for the Movie, Album, Game, or Book, and it finds on Amazon and you can add it to your list. You can also use it to make wishlists, so if you find an item you want, you can add it to your list to get at a later date.

Remote - This has to be the first application that you download! It does wonders. It allows you to control your iTunes via your iPhone or iPod Touch. It has a similar interface to the iPod tools on the device, so you should already be familiar with how to use it. It looks exactly as if you were controlling the music on your device, except you are really controlling music on an external iTunes library on your network. I found it to work really well when using a full screen application, such as a game, and didn’t want to minimise to exit to control my music. Remote allowed me to do this easily.

Shazam - I’m sure you’ve been either listening to the radio or in a shop playing music and wonder what is the name of the song playing. Well this app helps you with answering that question. You launch the app and get it to listen to a few seconds of a song and it will return you back the name of the song, the artist and the album and save it in a list, and even provide you with links to purchase it in the iTunes store. With this app, never again will you be wishing you knew what the name of the song playing.

WeDict - This is a pocket dictionary, on your iPhone! It comes with word lists and allows you to easily find the definition of a word in a few seconds. No longer do you have to find a dictionary, and then spend time searching for the word. This take 10 seconds to get you the definition of the word you are looking for. Not everyone needs a dictionary, but if you do, why not get this app?

The iPhone is an amazing device, don’t get me wrong. In saying that, there is still room for improvement. That is why we have hacks for this device. A “jailbroken” iPhone can do much more than its virgin self. These include unlocking, unofficial third party apps, background applications, accessing the file system and theme modifications. The main reason my iPhone is jailbroken is because it is illegitimately on Vodafone, which required an unlock to do so. All the other reasons are secondary, but do offer so much more over an unjailbroken iPhone. There are 2 major pieces of software that jailbreaks your iPhone, or iPod Touch, PwnageTool for Mac OS X and WinPwn for Windows XP/Vista.

After receiving a 1.1.4 jailbroken and unlocked iPhone, I quickly wanted to update and jailbreak to 2.0. After over a month of waiting. Eventually it did finally arrive and I could happily get iPhone software 2.0. This method required me to get the WinPwn software, the official 2.0 restore image. WinPwn then creates a custom software image, with the jailbreak and Cydia (unofficial third-part app loader.) It then pwnd iTunes to allow me to restore this custom firmware onto the iPhone. From here, it’s all up to iTunes for updating the device.

First you need to backup your iPhone. This is so you can later restore your settings, messages and such back onto the device. From here, you put your iPhone into DFU, which an unusual process that you can find instructions to on the internet. This will get iTunes to prompt you to restore your device. Then you hold down the shift key while clicking restore and then you can now select the custom software you built earlier. Then it pretty much does its job updating the software. After this lengthy wait, you will then want to restore your setting and sync your music, videos and such back over to your iPhone. This whole process took me about an hour.

After that, you are left with a nice, jailbroken iPhone, ready with Cydia to get your fix of unofficial third party apps, along with the new App Store for your official applications. You also should have all your settings and files back from before the restore. Thankfully, this process has been made much easier. Shortly after Apple released the first 2.0 bug-fix version, the team behind PwnageTool released another jailbreaking tool, QuickPwn. What this does is jailbreak your iPhone or iPod Touch without having to do the full, lengthy restore each time. I used this process to update to 2.0.1 right through to the most recent 2.1 software.

To do a QuickPwn, you first get the QuickPwn software, and the official iPhone software. You then use iTunes to update your software. This will get rid of all your jailbroken apps, but all your other files and setting will stay in tack. Because this isn’t a full on restore, it takes a fifth of the time to update. After you have your upgraded iPhone, you then launch the QuickPwn software and follow the instructions. It will get you to point to the official firmware and then instruct you on how to DFU the iPhone. Then after a few minutes, the process will be complete and you can now re-download your unofficial third party apps.

It is amazing how they managed to change the way you jailbreak your iPhone device. No longer are they days where you spend over an hour to restore you iPhone with the custom jailbroken firmware, we are now in the quick jailbreaking days where there are no restores or restoring backups. The process takes a short 15 minutes, or less. The jailbreaking process couldn’t be so easy and friendly to do.

Over the past few years, there has been a whole lot of hype about a game created by Will Wright, the maker of The Sims. This game was Spore. It allows a player to control the evolution of a species from its beginnings as a unicellular organism, through development as an intelligent and social creature, to interstellar exploration as a spacefaring culture. Well that’s what Wikipedia says, and yes, it is about that. As well as the big PC title, there was also a mini version, Spore Origins for mobile devices. This concentrates on just the first stage of the main game as a unicellular organism.

To start off, I played Spore Origins on the iPhone. The controls on this are very basic, using the accelerometer to control your little organism through the level on its objective to eat enough guppy creature things to collect enough DNA to move on. Most of the levels are this, except they start including unique creatures for you to attack or defend against. There are also special levels where you have to traverse a maze-like setting and your goal here is to get to the end without being killed by other creatures. This goes on for most of the 30 levels in the game, except for the 2 boss levels where you have to attack and kill huge creatures. This game is small, a little challenging at times but is worth checking out.

After getting to the end of that, I evolved onto the full PC title, Spore. At the start, it is much like the Spore Origins game, where you eat meat to grow and evolve. There is a fair bit more depth to the unicellular organism stage of Spore compared to its Origins counterpart. From here, you get to the stage where you grow legs and go onto land and either become friendly with another species or kill them. For me, this part of the game was the most interesting. It’s also where you get to customise your creature the most and turn it into your own unique creation.

Unfortunately for me, this is where the game all goes downhill for me. Then comes the Tribal stage where you either form friend a tribe, or again destroy them. Although the difference this time is that it is done in a RTS kinda way. The problem is it is not quite an RTS and is a bit weak. After this is the Civilisation stage. This is where it get completely ridiculous! It’s still the RTS type game but here you create the buildings yourself. that may be fun for some people, but I can’t be bothered with this. I couldn’t find any auto or random button so the game throws some random parts together to whip something up quickly in 5 seconds so I can get back to the actual game. Maybe I am missing something, but it’s still pretty annoying and ridiculous. I endured anyway and through the taking over of cities and silliness of creating building and vechiles.

From here, the game started getting better again, although not as good as the second stage of the game, in my opinion. Here you traverse through space, encountering other civilized planets. There are missions you have to do here to get through the game, and there are even missions to be done so you can form a good relationship with a civilization so you can form an alliance with them. Or you can annoy them and go to war with them, your choice. What you do through this stage, you collect badges for various objectives and such. This is by far the longest part of the game, and the rest of the game has literally been building up to this point.

To get a good feel of the game, you’d have to play it yourself, either by purchasing the game, or acquiring it by other methods. I did enjoy the game, but there was a lot I didn’t like about it. The game felt like a whole bunch of little mediocre games all thrown in a blender and released as some sort of huge game. For example, for anyone who has played a real RTS before, the RTS stages of this game will feel horrible to play and fairly weak. Although they definitely aren’t going for a full experience like you would from an actual game from that genre. This game is probably not going to give much to gamers, but for non-gamers or casual gamers, they might enjoy this a whole lot more because it offers a wide range of different things to do. This game was definitely not for me, but hey, it might just be the game for you.