Search for Bourne—Day 3

July 18th, 2007

I’m still playing the game and not hating it, probably because it takes all of two minutes of my time. It’s fun and clever, even if it does have some bugs (like those mentioned in the comments here). Hardly the grave disappointment some commenters here seem to think it is. I mean, really, it’s just a mildly interactive ad, not an A-list game to get up in arms about.

One thing I especially like that I know many others won’t is that there’s relatively little guidance telling you what to do and what to expect. I understand that some find this frustrating. After all, if you’re hoping to win an iPhone, you want to make sure you’re doing everything right.

But I found enough information on the site and in the help files to figure out what to do. And really, it’s a lot more information than a real spy would have, so I’m willing to roll with it.

I did catch a glimpse of Bourne in a camera on the first day. On the second day, I wasn’t so lucky. I spent more than two minutes trying to determine if there was a hint in my correspondence with agent Godot about what the best camera locations would be—using Google Maps and Wikipedia, mostly—but in the end decided there wasn’t any. I placed one of my cameras on a subway entrance and another in the same spot as I had on the first day.

Unfortunately, neither spot worked. As I understand it, this means that I wasn’t entered in the drawing for an iPhone that day. We’ll see if I get luckier today.

From the narrative, it sounds as if we’re off to North Africa by the Straight of Gibraltar, tomorrow.

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