The Croods Review

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Developed by Rovio - the creators of Angry Birds franchise successful - The The Croods is a village-building game freemium (includes microtranzacţii), created in collaboration with DreamWorks can be downloaded from the App Store and Google Play.

I have tested it on iPad 2 and was surprised to learn that in order to play The The Croods must always have an active Internet connection, the need for an account Rovio.

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The game supports Game Center, where you can view all sites achievement gained during the game and you are reminded that notifications are expected again in the game.

In the game The Croods family lives on a farm, and three of its members should be developed. Here come into play the wise person family, grandmother (Gran). It comes with a revolutionary idea called Hunt & Gather. The grandmother is the one who coordinates all, it comes with ideas and you have to fulfill the requirements if you want to evolve further. Ugaa are Gruga and two other family members. It deals with food preparation, and he handles and other special animals. During the game will be available and EEP, Sandy, and Guy thunk, but so as to be accessible is long and hard ...

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The objective is to obtain resources for the taming family, catching and putting to work up to 10 prehistoric creatures, which will be available throughout the game. Everything starts from zmeurele which are the main source of food for both the family and for some creatures.

Each animal depend on each other to survive, and most important creatures are first available in the game: Molar Bear (a sort of hybrid between a polar bear and platypus). He eats raspberries and offering carrots. Carrots are a source of food in exchange for Bunny Beast, giving stones that are used in construction and so on. Like I said, everything is closely linked.

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To catch the animals must prepare a specific traps. Once caught, they should be tamed (a period are kept in a paddock and fed) and then are put to work, but before that has to create an environment in which to work.

All this consumes resources, the costisituare of them extremely rare crystals that are created very difficult coming in here can help you buy them with real money (in-app purchase).

Unfortunately, I'm not at all acceptable prices, the need to fork out at least 4.49 euros for 118 crystals that can help largely hastens construction, development and too much a creature stuff like that.

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A second important source of money, which are obtained as hard as crystals and are necessary, unfortunately, to be able to advance in the game. 1090 pennies all costs 4.49 euros, but even this will not be enough throughout the game.

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Casa (The Cave) can be improved with a larger pantry, where you can store more resources, but of course we will have to turn to pennies very difficult. The Court can clean the trees and rocks to make room for several creatures and their jobs and can build various statues and the like to improve the appearance of the farm.

Once there is no place in the yard, Gruga will work on a lift to jump over the fence, where they will be accessible another spacious courtyard with other wildlife nearby. In the courtyard there is a stone presents a kind of tree development and creatures can always visit a neighbor with a very firm developed since the beginning of the game, which will help us later.

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The sources, which will be available in the game as they get, are raspberries, stones, feathers, leaves, carrots, fish sticks, mud, bones and soups.

And besides Bunny Beast (a giant rabbit) and Molar Bear, Chapter creatures we Giralephant (giraffe-elephant hybrid) or Albatroceros (hybrid albatross rhino).

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With advancement win game and experience that will help you grow in level, with each level becoming affordable new options.

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The first is The Croods At sympathetic, even for someone who does not know what Farmville or SimCity. You start with some coins and crystals in your pocket and at least 2-3 levels through them easily. Then slowly but surely begin to need more resources, the greatest enemy of the game time.

Almost everything takes a long time to be created, constructions, new prescriptions Ugga, the evolution of a work environment of a creature are few. The crystals eliminate the time, opens up possibilities of making pennies quickly level and are used for almost anything. It is increasingly unavailable, was forced to resort to in-app purchase if you want to go further. By levels 7-8 are forced to wait even 2-3 hours to develop a working environment of a creature or another to create a new creature, to give a small example.

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Already at 10 it is almost impossible to do anything. If you exit the game, the creatures will not have food, so it will not automatically produce resources and unable to advance in level and that pretty quickly. The notifications are announced shortly if you leave the game, because the animals are starving. That makes it grow during the game, it's true, but the time spent in it will be almost nonexistent.

The game received 4+ rating, probably meaning that any child can play. Management game with cartoon characters and in-game purchase for children from 4 years up does not seem at all normal. Respect Rovio intention of trying something new, fun animations of the characters somewhat sympathetic and good music sometimes more sometimes raise morale, but still has exaggerated some aspects.

It's not necessarily transactions in-game, it's normal to be there, but not so costly and not dedicated to children. Especially after the first levels you have no chance to advance in the game without spending a cent. If you exit the game, the development is stopped if you play, you must wait 3 hours to build something ...

So although the initiative to try Rovio games of farming and market development, implementation was not successful. It would have been a cash game and there is no time now to do any matter or even be free, but other options in-app purchase.