If you are looking for a good president app (aka that card game if you were anything like me, you spent HOURS in highschool playing and probably still do) this app - with some updates - has the potential of being great! Youll notice below that I have quite a list of wants, but if this first pet peeve is met, I will be a very happy camper.
HUGE pet peeve that MUST be changed for this app to be worth it in my books ... there needs to be an option to make it so if you pass you are out for the rest of that round (aka until someone leads again). Its LAME that you can pass and come back in later. This will be worth at least another 1/2 a star if not a full star.
Likes: Good options (Jokers, A**hole leads, Exchange cards, Around only once, continue play after last card, Negative scores for losers)
The basic game play works as expected (aka, some people play you can put a double on a single lead, which I hate, and this app DOES NOT do that so its awesome).
Dislikes: The computer voices can get annoying, but they can be easily muted. Im not sure how it would work, but I would like to see a little bit of a change in the UI in the way the you play cards - rather than having to go and click play. I dont know how it all works, but maybe like two finger tap plays the selection?
MUST HAVES (for me to be able to rate this 5 stars):
1) Again, option that once you pass you are out.
2) Option to have 3s high - obviously 1 three can beat a double or a triple. 2 threes beat a quad.
3) discards - with options to discard with a continued sequence. For example. p1: 4, P2: 5, P3: 6 (P1,2and 3 get a single discard) ... P4 plays a 7 (P4 gets a single discard, but only P4 this time) and so on. And obviously same thing applies for doubles or triples or quads. aka 66, 77, 88 (discards).
*** I hate playing this way, but some people also like to do multiples so that could be an extra option too (aka 5, 7, 9 - discard... or 3, 7, J (discard)
3) BURNING!!!! with two different options.
Option 1) Burning skips the next persons turn. Say if P1 plays a 6, and P2 plays a 6 on top of the that it skips P3s turn and play continues with P4. (works with doubles of course ... say P1: 66, P2: 99, P3: 99, P4: misses a turn, P5: 1010 etc.
Option 2) Burning ends the round. -- Example: P1: 6, P2: 8, P3: 9, P4: 9 --- round ends, P4 leads.
I would also like a sub option to turn on or off the burning of high cards (aka 2, 3s Jokers, or 2s and Jokers depending on your high cards settings).
And finally, I would love to see down the line ....
1) Customizable AI levels (aka make each player a different level)
2) Wifi play
WoodwindDoubler- about AHole II