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  • Booleez Review
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    Booleez Review

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    Virtual pets is a once-hot Facebook genre that's cooled down without entirely going away. Occasionally you still see new virtual pet games like Booleez, though you rarely see them offered with such basic gameplay attached. Booleez wants to pull inplayers by offering a dazzling array of customization options for your monster. You have to pay for each new virtual pet design element and, as always, the cooler elements tend to be more expensive. While you can design an interesting and personal pet in Booleez, though, you can't really do much with it once you have it.
  • Sacred Seasons 2 Review
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    Sacred Seasons 2 Review

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    Facebook is becoming an increasingly popular platform for massively multiplayer role playing games (MMORPGs), particularly 2D games like Sacred Seasons 2 that aren't graphics-intensive. Sacred Seasons 2 is a full-featured, but otherwise perfectly standard, MMORPG that offers virtually every option you could want. The worst to be said about it is that the gameplay is a bit stale and the interface is not very user-friendly. But you do get to explore a bit more freely in Sacred Seasons 2 than you do in most MMORPGs on Facebook, as the game's quests aren't at all linear.
  • Treasure Land Review
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    Treasure Land Review

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    Treasure Land is a Treasure Isle clone, which is a fairly unusual thing to encounter in early 2011. What's interesting about Treasure Land is how it clones Treasure Isle. While the current version of Treasure Isle puts a big emphasis on quests that require players to spam notifications at each other, Treasure Land is effectively a clone of the Treasure Isle that launched in early 2010. There are few quests and you only really need to work with other players to obtain certain key items. Otherwise, the emphasis is on clicking tiles to dig for treasure.
  • MinoMonsters Review
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    MinoMonsters Review

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    MinoMonsters is another attempt at creating a clone of Nintendo's super-popular Pokemon series for Facebook. This stab at social monster collecting dispenses with social mechanics almost completely and zeroes in on the monster battling and collecting aspect of the game. The game makes a lot of the right calls with regard to not making you pay for monsters, but makes a lot of bad calls when it comes to balancing the combat-oriented gameplay and implementing the game.
  • Twilight Wars Review
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    Twilight Wars Review

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    Twilight Wars is a Facebook-friendly take on simple multiplayer deathmatch gameplay. While this sort of game is popular in FPS format on consoles, Facebook's platform calls for something a bit simpler and scaled down. Twilight Wars uses a top-down perspective, similar to the first two Grand Theft Auto games, and cartoony graphics that seem conceived with appeal to anime-loving kids and teenagers in mind. Twilight Wars does have a backstory, but it's a mish-mash of manga-style post-apocalyptic clichés that's much less interesting than the actual gameplay.
  • Woho World Review
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    Woho World Review

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    Woho World is a management sim about running a sunny island resort that begins with a typical tutorial. The tutorial asks you to purchase a Ghost House from the store and put it on your island, so you know how to purchase and place buildings. Diligently I clicked upon the store, but what I found there was distressing. The purchase arrow was pointing not to a Ghost House, but to a River Drift ride. Purchasing and placing the River Drift did not satisfy the tutorial. Scouring the atore revealed that the Ghost House the game wished me to purchase was a locked item that wouldn't be available to me until I reached level 22.
  • Galaxy Online 2 Review
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    Galaxy Online 2 Review

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    Galaxy Online II has a lot in common with Infinite Realms. Both games are space-themed sci-fi strategy games that use variants on the familiar Travian formula. Most new attempts at strategy RPGs on Facebook attempt to find ways to make the game simpler and more streamlined, but Galaxy Online II runs in the opposite direction. If anything, it's far more complex than your average Facebook strategy game. This means it can offer more depth and ultimately more satisfying gameplay, though its learning curve is steeper as a result.
  • Space in Trouble Review
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    Space in Trouble Review

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    Space in Trouble is a clone of Taito's Space Invaders that suffers from sluggish controls. Games like this were once common enough, particularly in the early 80s when there was a huge market for fast-paced Space Invaders variations like Namco's Galaga. To encounter one in 2011 is shocking, even on Facebook. If Space in Trouble was presented to a computer science professor as a proof-of-concept coding project, it would not deserve a grade any higher than a B. That something like this was published with the expectation that people would spend money on playing it ad-free is almost unthinkable.