Although this game uses a virtual world of systems and caches within the GPS/map part of your device, it also encourages you to walk around in the real world in order for you to find your 
targets and hack into them. If you are not one for walking the streets of your local area then there is a ghost mode which can travel to places you select and act as if you are there in real time.
Games can be joined or you can create your own. These games usually have boundaries within a certain area on your map, usually based in or around your current location and can be open to anyone or private depending if you wanted to challenge friends. The objective of the game is to be the person to find the most file fragments by the end of the game which can last from as little as a few hours to as many days as you like.
I was quite impressed with what, on first appearances looked to be a simple seek and destroy game, was really a deeply well thought out and complex game. It is not overwhelming gameplay or user interface but has many different features which will help you and give you the right information during the game.
Every time you start a game I found it useful to have a ‘base’ or as it’s called in game a firewall area if you’re playing virtually at home and not walking around it creates a safe area for you to hide in where you cannot be attacked or found by other players and hides where you live and work offering the individual some safety and privacy. While in the radius of this firewall you can also not be active within the game until you leave the boundaries of this specific tool. When searching for other players also known as ‘agents’ or caches (systems) within the game you are using 3 programs which can help you search for and hack into players’ systems. These can be more aggressive or stealthy, if you use the aggressive ones the person you are trying to hack can be notified and put up precautionary measures to hinder your search or disrupt your systems themselves, you need to find caches in order to find these tools for yourself such as viruses, Net disruptors and Tracking cookies to protect against oncoming attacks and put people off your scent.
Searching for these programs itself is a slow process especially if you’re not going to locations in the real world in addition to using the ghost feature of the game as it takes time for the ghost to travel to the areas you want to search this did make the game a little slow for me and I lost interest at times, you do get file fragments for finding caches and you get rewarded for keeping the game playing in the background for every hour or so as your system defrags file fragments for you. I was using an iPhone 4 for this game and found that keeping the GPS running in the background did drain my battery quite a lot which was annoying if you’re like me and use your device for many other things other than gaming.
The concept of this game is really quite in depth and awesome if you’re into pretending to be a spy and run around trying to find other people and attack them. Maybe it could be classified as a big game of man hunt just a more high-tech version than what we were used to when we were growing up. Putting all the great theory to this game aside I did find it a painstakingly slow game to play but if you have a large group of friends over a certain period of time I feel this could pick up and become more fun to play.
