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  • Trial Madness 2 Review
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    Trial Madness 2 Review

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    If there's one kind of game that's hard to find on Facebook these days (and gaming platforms in general, for that matter), it's the simple but maddeningly challenging games that defined the gaming scene in the 1980s. Trial Madness 2 fills this void nicely. You won't find deep social options or ambitious graphics here, but you will find hours of addicting gameplay that force you to learn how to navigate a motocross bike through ancient ruins and down the necks of giraffes.
  • World Golf Tour Review
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    World Golf Tour Review

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    World Golf Tour is the brightest title in a recent proliferation of beautiful and satisfying golf games on Facebook, and it follows and improves upon the exciting developmental trends established by its competition. From its breathtakingly realistic courses to its surgically precise swings and putting motions, this is a true golfer's social game, complete with real-time multiplayer options and a wide range of recognizable gear. Rookie players might be a little overwhelmed by the wide range of choices here, but it's safe to say that no other social game on Facebook comes so close to the experience of a real tournament.
  • Dragon Age Legends Review
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    Dragon Age Legends Review

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    Electronic Arts' EA2D studios recently asked why no one's really ever made a decent turn-based RPG for Facebook. And, finding no suitable answer, set out to make just that. The offspring of this wild endeavor is Dragon Age: Legends, which could be dismissed as mere promotional tripe were it not for the game's obvious complexity. Within moments, Legends reveals itself as a rich and sprawling game—full of surprises and tiny innovations—and EA2D's so taken with this little project that the studio has taken to calling it "the first real game on Facebook."
  • Wild West Town Review
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    Wild West Town Review

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    The Old West is undergoing something of a Facebook revival these days thanks to titles like The Oregon Trail and FrontierVille, and we've reached that stage where one Western-themed game feels much like the other. Clipwire Games' new Wild West Town moseys far in this precarious direction, but it thankfully distinguishes itself by offering a memorable experience based the popular FrontierVille formula. Here we have a game with a story to tell; indeed, you might say its strength is that it has a story at all.
  • The Merry Manor Review
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    The Merry Manor Review

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    If a name like The Merry Manor strikes you as the kind of thing that droll Victorians called the local asylum, then the crazy choices the developers make in this new farming sim will do little to dispel this impression. Here is a game that requires you to fork out more cash than any title we've seen in months, while saddling you with decidedly antisocial social options and a curious and disheartening absence of sound. Indeed, aside from an endearing interface and commendable attempts at a storyline, The Merry Manor comes off as a brilliant example of how not to make an attractive Facebook game.
  • Dog Show Friends Review
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    Dog Show Friends Review

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    Can you teach the pet management genre new tricks? NBC's The National Dog Show and Purina seem to think so, and they've released an adorable new Facebook game called Dog Show Friends to prove it. But before you pick it up, keep in mind that this puppy's not fully grown. Since it hasn't yet launched its eagerly awaited competition and trophy modes, it currently plays like a merely enjoyable, though standard, pet management game. The good news is that it does this well, and what we've seen so far bodes well for the changes on the horizon.
  • Castaways Review
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    Castaways Review

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    The problem with Castaways is probably also its strength. Long stretches go by where you merely wait, your progress stymied by your stamina bar as the minutes inch pass like ants across the sand. The scenery rarely changes, and when it does it bears a strong similarly to what you've already seen. You hunt, you scavenge for food, you look for scraps for shelter, and then you get back up in the morning and do it all again. In short, it's probably quite similar to the life of a real castaway.
  • The Oregon Trail Review
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    The Oregon Trail Review

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    The Oregon Trail is brutal. When it's not subjecting you to the ills of dysentery and incurable snake bites, it's plaguing you with bugs and forcing you to spend lots of virtual currency. It's very much the same game that swallowed many hours of free time back in the 1980s, but it loses some of its addictiveness in the transition to Facebook. There's more than enough cholera to go around, but a host of bugs and an over reliance on cash items leave this new incarnation broke down by the trail.