Chris Buffa (Modojo): The App Store has no shortage of role-playing games, the majority of which are strictly single-player affairs. While there's certainly a place for lone adventuring, F5 Games hopes to introduce a social aspect to dungeon crawling with its upcoming iPhone title, Pocket Heroes, an RPG where success comes from working as a team.
Touch Arcade: Pocket Heroes [ $0.99 ] is a game we've been following and looking forward to for some time. If you miss the weekly tabletop RPG session you had in college, or if you'd be on WoW if only you had a dozen or so more free hours in the day, then Pocket Heroes is looking for you.
Rocket Jump: This week Jim, Ben and Aaron regale you with tales of professional wrestling, dueling internet providers, and swear words on AMC. We talk Orcs Must Die! 2, Dyad, and Pocket Heroes. We also discuss all the games we’ve played this summer so far and what’s accumulating in our backlogs. Then we answer your voicemails and Aaron dies. A big hello to all our new listeners on Stitcher Radio!
Pocket Gamer: Back in the halcyon days of 16-bit RPGs, multiplayer gameplay only really existed when one player let his friend hold the controller while he went off to grab a snack.
While convenient to the primary player, this elementary form of multiplayer often left the secondary players feeling underutilised and frustrated.
