The game’s map is based on the player’s actual surroundings. In-game locations, such as stations where players can find items, can be found at real world landmarks.

Players try to collect Pokemon and improve their abilities using in-game items in order to battle other players’ Pokemon at Pokemon gyms, which can also be found at real-world landmarks.

Pokemon will appear on the map. Different creatures will appear in different areas. For example, Pokemon with water-based abilities can be found near bodies of water

Players try to capture Pokemon by throwing Pokeballs at them. The game uses the phone’s camera to show the creature in the real world.

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Pokemon, starting as an animated TV series, trading card game and video game in the 1990s, has come to mobile phones in the form of “Pokemon Go,” an augmented reality game that uses a phone’s GPS and camera. Pokemon are creatures with special abilities that players collect and battle against other Pokemon.

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