Wednesday, September 7, 2011

The Pioneer Trail

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Howdy Pardner! Come join us on The Pioneer Trail, where you’ll carve out a home in the wilderness, raise a family, and make your way west across this great, untamed wilderness. There may be all kinds of hazards along the way, but you can make it with the help of some friends in your trusty Trail Crew!

The Pioneer Trail Review and Information

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Genre: Simulation, Adventure
Developer name: Zynga
The Pioneer Trail is the newest Facebook game from Zynga, it is actually an addition to FrontierVille, but available as a separate game. As an addition to the main game it follows the same gameplay structure, but adds new elements and an adventure side with different locations to explore.
To start your new adventure you must have played FrontierVille before, or you will need to do some tasks first, like building you cabin. When you have done this requested task you can go on your journey to Fort Courage, you’ll need rations and items, lots of them, and you’ll need friends for it.
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In this particular detail, Pioneer Trails is quite demanding but in a peculiar way, it is not about the quantity of friends you have, but more the quality of friends you have, let me explain, you need at least 3 dedicated players to move forward steadily, your staff, and you need to ask them for lots of stuff to move on, if you can gather this “quality” team you will be ok, if not it can be really hard to move on without spending real cash.
There is a message board in each location of the trail to trade message between team members, which will fasten the communication between friends, really necessary in the case.
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As for the rest of the game, it adds new features and characters to interact, different scenarios and quests.
A great thing also is that you can go back to your homestead at any time, so you don’t have to quit FrontierVille at all, to play Pioneer Trail, both parts of the game complement each other.
The Pioneer Trail is set to be another great success from Zynga, it will bring new Facebook players to both games and also players that got tired of playing FrontierVille, with new challenges and experiences. Try it on, almost 20 millions players already have!

Magic Land


Magic Land Review and Information

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Genre: City Building, Role Playing
Developer name: Wooga
Magic Land is a medieval City Building Facebook game developed by Wooga, but it isn’t just that, it successfully joins various gameplay styles into a beautiful and well presented game.
Magic Land visuals are just fantastic, cute animated characters, giant dragons and ogres, beautiful landscapes, buildings and decorations, just great overall.
Magic Land uses some tricks from other city building games like CityVille, like boost from decorations, the need to connect building with roads, etc… construction is also done in several steps and needs to be finished.
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But Magic Land features a lot more, you must also do some farming, place farms to produce food, and do some hack and slash, fighting dragons and ogres, to do this you will have to do some adventuring, clearing and exploring new sections of the game to progress.
The game features a really nice tutorial, easy to understand, that covers all the basic steps on building structures and connecting them to function.
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Friends are need to staff your main buildings, and are needed as soon as you do your first Castle upgrade, you can also visit their kingdoms and help out doing some chores or helping out against their enemies.
Energy system is a little tight, so take this into account mainly when exploring, or you’ll run out of it very quickly.
All things considered, Magic Land is a very nice game that manages to successfully mixing various game genres and features into one, together with beautiful visuals, make up for a game that you should at least try!

Baby Games on Facebook

ots of users seem to find hard to discover Baby related games to play on Facebook, so we’ve taken a deep look into it a came up with a short list of games where you can feed, nurture and dress-up babies. We hope this will provide help to future users looking for the same genre of games.

Happy Baby

Baby Games  happy baby logoFeed, Clothe and Nurture your babies. Can you make sure all of your babies are Happy Babies?
Developer: MeetHi
Number of users: 97,191
Happy Baby, has really nice graphics, manga style, you have to name your baby, choose gender and general appearance, with lots of dress-up options on character customization.
Additionally, you have to feed your baby and nurture him, you get experience by doing this and leveling up will unlock new stuff, you can also write a diary and take photos, also you can add relatives, like aunt or grandmother to help you in the tasks. When your baby gets enough growth points, he can grow to the next age. You can also adopt more babies and chat with other players.

Baby Baby Game

Baby Games  baby baby gamePlay as a parent of a new baby. Your job is to keep the baby healthy, entertained, and happy!
Developer: Squid Space
Number of users: 2,993
Baby Baby Game is a flash game, where you have to do a sort of activities, in order to keep your baby happy, it is really a closed flash game with no social interaction and with limited gameplay.

Dress My Baby

Baby Games  dress my babyMake your baby a style icon!
Developer: Games2win
Number of users: 2,083
Dress My Baby is just that, a dress-up flash game, where you can dress you baby by dragging the different items, each will give a reaction from your baby, good or not, you can remove clothes by dragging to the basket, there are two modes of play reality and fantasy, the later is play for fun, the former will present you situations where you have to dress the baby according to. Also flash based and without friend options.

Baby Adopter

Baby Games  baby adopterAdopt and feed a cute little baby!
Feed, buy clothes, shoes and toys and take care.
Help your friends take care of their babies.
You have to feed your baby when he is hungry. He has to be with the energy equivalent of 30. Have to give him healthy food, take to doctor, bath, put to sleep, give vaccine, play with it etc … And do not let your baby get sick of course. This is the goal of Baby Adopter.
Developer: x2line
Number of users: 52,840
Baby Adopter plays a lot like Happy Baby, you choose the baby you like and “adopt” him/her, then you need to feed your baby every day and take care of him. You get points for that.
You can earn points by feeding your baby (25 points) when hungry – means you get points if you wait at least 1 hour after previous feeding. Or you can feed him with healthy food – see Health care section and get more points.
You can also earn points by care actions – see “Care actions” in the top menu. Care actions is another way to earn points. If your Facebook friends play Baby Adopter you can help them take care and earn points together.
For points you can buy toys, clothes and many things for baby room and bathroom, playground and playroom and as soon as you get more points than the price – the item is unlocked.
You can start a family on Baby Adopter and after 100 days babies grow and start to walk.

Baby & Me

Baby Games  babyme logo1Baby & Me is a brand new social game everyone will love. Create your own customized virtual baby and mom and live the life of a ModernMom. Fun-filled games will challenge you as you go from the beach to the park, to the market and the playground. Whether you are planning a play-date or mom’s night out, it’s always new and exciting with ModernMom’s Baby & Me.
Developer name: Grab Games
Number of users: 1,294,014
Baby & Me is the best Baby related game on Facebook, you can check our reviewhere, you have to take care of the baby as well of the mom, lots of stuff to do, mini games, experience, level-up, educational videos and much more.
As usual this list will be updated with new games as they become available, if you know any that isn’t on the list just let us know about it, thanks!

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Top 5 Free to Play MMOs and MMORPGs at Gamescom 2011


Vindictus: Extreme Edition
Originally released in North America as a standard MMORPG, Vindictus has recently received a glamorous second coat of paint. Known now as Extreme Edition, the European release of Vindictus has received a fast-paced, action-packed dose of healthy inspiration, and the results speak for themselves.


The general gameplay is simple: you begin playing in a ‘lobby’ area designed to help you find other players, and upon successfully finding a group, you’re transported to a dungeon of your choice where you’ll use one of 5 classes to wreck unlimited action-packed havoc on hundreds of great looking foes. To do this you’ll use a number of different weapons, and the environments are fully destructible, so breaking down a pillar and then throwing at your enemies is just the beginning.

Age of Wulin
Gpotato have been hiding this little gem away for a while now, but the cat’s most definitely out of the bag. Enter Age of Wulin: the first Eastern MMORPG in existence to offer gameplay innovation that could rival the mighty World of Warcraft. 


This one has more new features than I can remember, but the highlights were unforgettable: running along walls, across water and up the side of buildings was a nice start, watching the characters perform perfect martial arts moves during combat was another, and we were keenly interested in the ‘your character becomes an NPC when you log off’ element… but that’s a story for another day.

Firefall
Is this one free? I forget. I definitely hope it’s free; it looks incredible. The basic idea is that it’s a third-person shooter placed within an open-world MMORPG, but while PvE gameplay does take place within the open-world environment, PvP is arena style room-based.


Utilising some impressive cel-shaded visuals, Firefall offers smooth, fast-paced shooter gameplay with level progression and real world exploration, and I’ve been assured that latency isn’t an issue. So far, we’ve only had a chance to try out the PvP gameplay, which, without the chance to upgrade and customise our weapons felt mostly like your average third-person shooter, but from what we’ve heard this one’s going to be a lot of fun.

Wildstar
Come to think of it, I’m not sure if this one will be Free to Play either. Let’s just assume that it will be eventually, and go with that. Wildstar is the latest brain-child online game from NCSoft. Developed by Carbine Studios, Wildstar is a Sci-Fi MMORPG with a cartoonish art style that looks to be bringing a number of new features to the table.


While there’s no official release date as yet, we did have the chance to play around for a few minutes and learn a little about some of the features to come. One that caught my eye was the challenge system, which activates additional challenges upon the completing of a quest, such as completing it again within the allotted time frame. The class creation system also looked to be something unique, though we’ll need to wait another few months before we can talk about it. 

Allods Online (Expansion)
Allods may not be the latest  in F2P MMORPG gaming, but it’s certainly one of the greatest. There’s really no denying it: at present, Allods is about as good as it gets, and with the implantation of some of the features we saw at Gamescom, we've been getting really excited again.


The most obvious updates are those made to the user interface, such as the chat and guild windows. Though there were plenty more than that. Most interestingly was the new upgradeable player housing system, which builds on the old ‘flying ship house system’ by allowing you to change just about every 
part of your ship to make it feel like home.

Fish World


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Fish World puts you in control of a virtual aquarium. Take care of your fish, feed them, decorate their tanks, and keep them happy! Get your friends involved with gifts, caring for their fish, and cleaning their tanks.

Fish World Review and Information

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Genre: Aquarium Simulation
Developer name: Tall Tree Games
There are several Aquarium related games on Facebook, Happy Aquarium and Fishville collect the most users, maybe because of that Fish World doesn’t have more players, as for the game itself, it is similar to those mentioned. You have your own aquarium (more as you advance in the game), have to breed various species of fish, feed them, keep them happy, and eventually sell them. You can also decorate you tanks with multiple items. As usual some items and fish will only be available as you level up. The graphics are nice and the fish and decorations detailed, nothing wrong there.
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All the social features are included, gifting, visiting your friends to help them out in their aquariums, etc. Some extra nice touches (that are more and more usual), include quests, that involve you to ask your friends for something, like the strawberry Crab quest, that when finished will grant you a crab to cleanup your aquarium, all you need is to ask your friends for a algae to feed him.
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Another quite unusual, or at least it has nothing to do with aquariums, is the possibility to play bingo, this can be used when your are waiting for some fish to grow or other stuff, or just to pass time.
Fish World is one of the best aquarium simulations on Facebook, but maybe all the offer are too much alike, and the competition stated recruiting first.

FishVille


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Fish Ville is an addictive game where you raise cute baby fish, feed them as they grow, and decorate your fish tanks with friends!
You will love FishVille. This virtual aquarium simulation game will take your breath away with beautifully animated fish taken straight from the ocean world in all its glory. Ever felt like the little guy in a big fish pond? Join us in FishVille for a chance to raise exotic and rare fish on a dazzling fish world adventure!
FishVille is a real-time aquarium simulation game developed by Zynga, available as an application on the social-networking website Facebook. The game allows members of Facebook to manage a virtual aquariums by rearing fish.