First, I'd like to apologize. I really wanted to do a review on some 360 games, but really haven't had much time with the 360 this week, so I won't be doing anything on it until next week So, instead, I'm gonna do some reviews on a Mobile game that I've been playing a lot this week, Game of War.
Game Of War- Mobile
First off, the tutorial helps to get you started off on how to do most of the basic things, like building and things like that, which to be honest, isn't too hard. I like how it explains how to go through everything and gives you the information of what you're building/upgrading will affect and such. The graphics for the most part aren't anything special, and certainly nothing that couldn't be done on older versions of android.
I do like the depth of the game though. There's endless ways to make your character better, and to build them the way you want to. You can be a gatherer or a fighter. I'll be honest and say, I went with fighter, but there are many ways to be a gatherer, and I'm going to guess there are needs for gatherers as well, but truth be told, I haven't really seen any reason why you should choose one over the other.
I also like the daily quests you can do, along with some of the rewards as well. The quests generally only take a couple of minutes for common, up to 10-20 basic, 30 for the uncommon, and the one rare I've seen was over an hour. The good thing is, you don't have to stay in game for the completion of these quests, so you can exit the game and do other thing on your mobile device. I also like how you can get rewards, like supplies, supply boosts, time boosts, gold, and even tokens to be an VIP for a set amount of time.
Now, for the bad. The main in game currency is gold. The game starts you off with a decent amount, but after about 20-30 minutes, you end up hitting a wall, where your only option is to wait or pay money to continue. The waiting isn't as big a deal, because like I said earlier, you can just exit the game and it'll continue your quests/building while you're not on. Eventually though, the waiting time gets up to 2-3 hours, and I'm assuming that later even up to days at a time, as evidenced by the speed boosts.
To offset this, there are speed boosts in the game, ranging from 1 minute, up to a day, that I've seen. These are nice, and do come in handy, as well, as they work not only when you're doing construction, but also while doing quests as well. They're very helpful, and can be great when you just want to get things done quickly.
I also can't say that I like how the VIP is done. You get the VIP status when logging in for a short period of time, and then after that time, you have to use tokens to activate your VIP status for a period of time. Personally, I feel that if someone is going to spend money on this game, then they should have the VIP status activated for their account. That's just me though. I also don't like how continuously the game bombards you to spend money on it. In a matter of minutes, I've been hit with 3-4 different things to spend money on. I know the game is free, and they have to make money some way, I just feel there should be a better way of doing it.
However, for anyone willing to spend money on this game, beware. I sent with the $5 option, which on its own wasn't a bad deal. However, from what I've seen so far, once you get hat option, it's no longer available. For instance, now every time I get on, when the opening screen shows me what offer is available, instead of still having the $5 option, it's now $20, as if the game has taken the cheaper alternative away, and is trying to push the $20 option. I could be missing something, but I haven't seen an alternative yet.
Also, the game leaves you in the dark on some things completely. The only option to find anyone from your alliance, is to get their coordinates. There's no simple way of finding your teammates or friends. Also, whenever anyone decides to attack someone in your alliance, the game takes you to who is attacking, not who is going to be attacked, which makes it kind of hard to help coordinate a defensive strategy when you can't find who is being attacked.
All in all, the game is pretty good, but it has its faults. For free to play, there's some things that could be improved upon, while other things are already pretty good. If you like games like this, then there's plenty to like, more so if you're willing to spend money. So far, I'm still playing around on the gold and items I got from spending $5 on the game, which was 2 weeks ago, so it's good that that can last for a while. The game is fun in both short bursts and long play sessions as well.
That's gonna do it for this review. I'm gonna crash for a couple of hours, and hopefully start up a couple of video reviews today for my YouTube channel.
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