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and it's $0.99! and it's universal!
downloading now, will post impressions.
So I spent some time with Pandemic 2.5, went through a game on the iPhone and a few on the iPad, and I can honestly say that unless you're a diehard fan of the flash game, it just really isn't worth it right now. It got a laugh out of me from the get go (the difficulty settings are Casual, Normal, and Madagascar) but it really feels like a game that needed a little more time in the oven, just on a fundamental level.
It only plays in portrait mode, scrolling on the world map is pretty slow, the iPad version doesn't take advantage of the extra real estate at all (literally just a bigger sized version of the iPhone version, as if they just hit x2 and called it a day) and honestly the game just doesn't have enough to do. I know it's like that in the flash game too, but on the iphone I want a little more immediacy, I don't want to just sit there and wait to get skill points and then spend them, which is all this game really is.
Hopefully the UI gets an overhaul and some iPad specific functionality (and some more actual gameplay, perhaps) in future updates. Until that time, this gets a thumbs down from me.