Facebook Game: CityVille Review

Short Notes:

Genre: Social Games

Time Unit: Realtime

Theme: Entertainment

Fee: Free

Developer: Zynga Inc.

Platform: Facebook
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Zynga announced a great news that CityVille has lunched on Facebook. CityVille game structure is similar to other social games Sim City, FarmVille and FrontierVille. It is all about building a city. At beginning level, you have to start with a small town. Then your task is turning it into a thriving metropolis and to do this you'll have to erect various types of buildings. Businesses will provide a steady stream of income, houses and apartments will increase your population and provide rent money, and community buildings make your city more enticing to new residents. You also have to build farms then decorations and then expand your businesses by setting up franchises in neighboring towns. You can explore your city size through incremental upgrades.

In CityVille game your tasks are helping to make city bigger and better. You'll be tasked with setting up certain buildings, increasing your population, and more. You build homes and businesses through the crossing game level (the bigger the building, the more clicks it takes to complete); collecting rent results in a splash of coins, experience, and other goodies; and there are collections to complete, which result in bonuses. You'll even have to chop down trees to make room for further development.

There also has farming. You have to plant crops, each of which takes a certain amount of real world time before it can be harvested. The difference here, though, is that harvesting crops doesn't earn you cash. Instead, the crops are used to supply local businesses. And if the businesses don't have supplies, they can't earn you money. You'll also have to worry about storing your goods. Any crops that aren't used to supply businesses are stored away, but if you don't have space, you can't store them. So you'll have to build farms and other structures to make sure your crops don't wilt away.

 You can also play CityVille with your Facebook friend. Once added as a neighbor, you can visit a friend's city and help harvest their crops, collect their rent, or send tour buses to areas of interest. You can even set-up franchises in empty lots to earn some extra money and once you have enough neighbors you can buy and sell goods via train. One is the great problem is hard to play alone. You need to have a community where from you get help if you need anything. If you don't have enough friend then you can not complete the building. And if you can't complete the building, you can't expand your population limit. The only solution to those looking to play all by themselves is the in-game cash, which is separate from the coins you collect during the game. You can use cash to pay for non-friend staff members, but you'll earn additional cash so slowly that this will take quite some time. Of course, you can spend some real-world money to get cash as well. So you either need lots of friends, lots of money, or lots of patience to grow your city.

Pros:
Fully rotatable 3D buildings make your city fun to look at. Mission structure offers clear and interesting goals. Collectibles and farming elements are well-implemented. Game’s visuals are bright and extremely inviting.

Cons:
Community buildings force solo players to pay a “no friends tax” much too early. Facebook has made keeping track of notifications fairly difficult, but CityVille is most fun when you’re engaging heavily with the social mechanics.
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