I've been playing this a lot, so I figured I'd share.
Essentially you join one of two groups, the Resistance or the Enlightened, and fight for this resource called XM by traveling around in the real world and hacking portals on your phone. It's very addictive and has gotten me out of the house twice as often as normal.
I have ten invites if anyone is interested, too.
Haha "the third worst video on youtube." Sorry, the video review is of a man thumbing his cell phone and saying uhmm and the youtube comments are letting him have one. But the uploader is a good sport.
Question - why would I use an invite, instead of just telling someone they should go install it? Any benefit?
Just started playing this today. I don't quite get it yet, but I've hacked a couple of portals, whatever that means :-)
One of my good buddies is like "king of LA" or something. He's become friends with the developers, beta tests, the whole nine yards. As it's Android only, I only participate through him. I'm sure I'm missing all sorts of lush backstory etc. but to me, as a disinterested bystander, it's Farmville with commuting.
Are the portals only in set places? And are there portals outside the US?