Review: Jetset: A Game For Airports / FingerGaming
“Like many other journalists, I do a fair amount of travelling. And like many other gamers, I have a secret addiction to getting achievements.I know they’re lame and completely pointless – oh how I wish I could convert my Xbox 360 achievement points into marketplace points (I’d accept a 10 to 1 ratio) or at least clothes for my avatar (though he’s got a natty Scotland top on now, so that’s good) but they’re addictive, and Jetset ups the ante by requiring you visit 100 airports in the real world to receive all of the “achievements” (called “souvenirs”) that the game has to offer.
I shudder to think about how much that would cost in air travel, and I know that even as a jet setting journalist I’m not going to get to Nairobi or Buenos Ares any time soon. And there’s no way to cheat; you actually have to be in the airport for it to count (so I can’t get the souvenir for even my local airport without physically going there.)”
As a result of the souvenirs, I’m keeping Jetset on my iPod Touch even though I’d otherwise delete it. Achievements, eh?