It's crap. The visuals are cartoony, the free version only shows holds, the extra content (and there's a lot) costs $0.99 for every single unlock! Are you kidding me? 15 unlocks, all $0.99 or you can buy the whole lot for $9.99, but I already downloaded the app for free, why do I have to pay!?? and the worst part is trying to add a pin to the map. touch pins, touch add pin, touch map where you want the pin, see a big white box with only a done button on it, click done, oh where's the pin? zoom in all the way, oh, I think it's that little tiny red ball there... STUPID!!! I'm guessing that the big white box is so you can type something in it, and pins do keep after you turn off the app, but it's just so unwieldy. there's a button on the start screen that lets you download all the maps at once, taking up 970MB of space on your iPhone and easily that much bandwidth. I've tried this app without an internet connection, and it works, but only up to a certain level of zoom, because for high zoom levels it has to download a new map from the internet. Because of this.... let's call it a zoom threshold.... and many other things (like a lack of help or usage instructions) I'm going to say that Prima Guide's Skyrim Official World Interactive Map for iPhone does NOT pass mustard.
Breakdown:
- is it a map? yes
- So is it interactive? yes
- does it work on my iPhone 3GS? yes
- Does it show where you've been in skyrim? You can tell the app what places you've discovered, but only if you've payed for everything, the free one only gives you the different hold cities.
- Does it show dungeon placements etc.? yes if you pay for them
- does it make noise? yes, but you can turn that off
- is there a search funciton? yes but to find anything that's actually hard to find (i.e. not hold cities) you'll need to pay for content.
My final verdict is that if you want an interactive map that already has everything on it, there's a free one at UESP.net based on google's tech:
http://www.uesp.net/maps/srmap/srmap.shtml and it'll work on your iPhone's browser, so it's easily better than this app, even though you need an internet connection to use it.
