Great Free Ap Games - BattlePath Monsters
Ok, so I haven’t been playing many games recently because I just haven’t had time. Too many hobbies… band, website, facebook and painting models…that’s right, I said it… painting models! So all the Geek hours in my day have been taken. But yet I feel slightly annoyed at myself, as if I am not using my time efficiently enough and that is unfair on you, the geek reader. At the minute I can either read one of the many books I have, play a game or paint; I cant do all 3, leaving me with a backlog… if only there was a way… WAIT A MOMENT!
After long months of racking my brain, trying to figure out an answer to my quandary I have finally come to my eureka moment! It was simple, what are the common denominators in my geek working day?
New Iphone, attached at all times, least it be abused and my family / facebook friends learn that I have had a sex change and my name is mattilda.
Itunes on at a middling volume so not to break my concentrationHobbies, painting, writing, watching stupid stuff online
hmmmmm ….How about I trade in the music for audiobooks and download some of those free to play games on my iphone? My god… I’ve just tripled my Geekput! I can now listen to the books I’m going to review, play a game on my iphone and do other stuff at the same time. Just call me Matt Geekdom Brunel…..I feel so industrious.. so much so that I shall write a review of one Ap game, whilst playing another and listening to a book! If my theory is correct, there should be 2 more reviews coming your way shortly. I know.. how impressed are you?
BattlePath: Monsters
Straight to the point:
an MMORPG esq game by Spacegum, that uses Google maps as a template for you to build a kingdom, attack monster and destroy other players! It’s got the same formula as most free games: play away for free till your heart’s content but if you spend a bit money, look at the shiny things you can have… give me, give me, give me!
It’s addictive and very easy to use - 8 GPPs
What we like
Easy to play - It’s an MMO but a bare bones MMO, not complex at all and even novices will find it easy to play.
Level cap is like, 400! - you get a level for every weapon style you increase in. I am level 18 melee, level 5 ranged, level 1 prayer and level 1 magic = level 25….375 levels to go! Giving you ample game time; I’ve been on it for 2 weeks.
Doesn’t eat up all your time - like most free games, you can’t do everything straight away and it takes ‘real world’ hours for actions to happen, for example: it might take 24 hours for a crop in farmville to grow or 6 hours for you to recruit a soldier in Battle Nations. Similarly In this game’s case, if you want to attack someone’s kingdom, you have to lay siege to it and this can take anywhere between 10 minutes and 6 hours, depending on how much money you have; the bigger the kingdom and the higher the level of the enemy, the more expensive it is, but the better rewards you get if you win. This does give you a bit of time to do other things instead of being fixed on one game for 250 hours solid… damn SWTOR!
A world the size of our own.. oh wait that’s because it is our own!- It’s a fantasy world superimposed over Google maps so whenever you move in real life, your character in the game moves with you, meaning you will encounter other players, lay waste to new towns and find different types of monsters to kill. Or, If you get bored and its raining outside then you can always teleport to the states for a bit of monster bashing in Vegas, or how about a trip to Japan to take on a rival clan?
PVP and Kingdoms! - one of the main pulls for me in this game, is the chance of world domination! My kingdom is now spanning most of Denton, Ashton, Audenshaw, Droylsden, Openshaw and is working its way towards Manchester City Centre. Unluckily for some other players, they are standing in my way of dominating the North West and shall have to be laid low. Unluckily for me, there are some other kingdoms in the area, who seem to have the same idea and I keep getting attacked! Thankfully I have a pop up message when that happens and I usually get back in time to defend… It isn’t easy carving an Empire for yourself.
Niggles
I can see that if you don’t pay for extra skull points, things could get harder for you later on in the game, especially if you come up against bigger monsters and are boxed in with enemy kingdoms around you… but I guess they have to get their money from somewhere…. shit I bought some skull points, just so I could compete with an enemy clan south of Manchester!
I am unsure what happens if two opposing kingdoms meet and they both have used protective crystals? From what I have read in the help menu if you hit another kingdoms sphere of influence, you can’t go any further until they are defeated, but how does that work if both sides are protected all the time? Or if the guy in the other kingdom has even less of a life than I have and is always defending it?
Wish List
maybe a few more options with regards to your villagers; can they defend the town themselves? Maybe build fortifications around your sphere of influence or go off and do some jobs … just things to add a bit more longevity to the game.
Conclusion
Great game that you can pick up when you want and play for a bit without being sucked in for days worth of play. Yes its addictive but at least it gives you a bit of respite to go and do other things; something that can’t be said about a lot of other MMOs.
We liked this game alot.
Matt Geary
01/05/2012
