I've played it for a short while, maybe I should pick it up again but somehow it didn't grasp me as I would have expected it to. Perhaps the (in my city) low a

I've played it for a short while, maybe I should pick it up again but somehow it didn't grasp me as I would have expected it to. Perhaps the (in my city) low and very uneven distribution of portals has something to do with that. Perhaps it is because when all portals are occupied and you are level 1 (or 2 now) you can not really do much but gather some stuff by hacking them. If they're from the enemy, and they are well defended, you can't do much damage with your level 1 (or 2). It got boring fast. Or it was perhaps the speed at which it drained my battery. Also, winter came. On the other hand, those were the early beta days. Things may have improved now. And they would have for me if I had had the time to team up with a group in a nearby city and join their adventure trips. This type of gameplay does have amazing and very novel aspects (imagine attacking a portal, someone defending / repairing it may stand around the corner), as is also depicted in the article. I do think there should be more games like this, and perhaps a little less Sci Fi ones, so they can become mainstream (90% of my friends would never play Ingress the way it is laid out, which may say something about my friends, or about the game, or both :).