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Build a fortress and train your Dragon Army to battle against thousand of other Dragon Tribes from around the world in this strategy game created by Spacetime Games.
App Name: Battle Dragons
Developer: Spacetime Studios
Cost: Free
Market: Google Play
At the beginning of the game, you will spend most of your time watching numerous, but helpful tutorials on how to initially setup your base camp, sheep corral, dojo, etc. Afterwards, you will have access to the Battle modes. The game has three Battle modes: Story, Player vs. Player and Sparring. This is the type of versatility you want for a game like this and I applaud Spacetime Games for not forcing its players to only playing the story mode. The Story simply takes you on a series of progressively difficult battles to put your Dragon Army to the ultimate test and rewards you with gold and sheep. The Player vs. Player battle mode allows you to compete against your friend’s tribe. But, be careful! As you would in the Story mode, you will lose dragons and currency if you lose your battle and you will also lose your Guardian dragon. The Sparring mode is useful to train your army without losing any dragons while earning coins and sheep at the same time.
Personally, I am not a huge fan of RPG, strategy games; but I will make a special exception for this one. When first playing, I thought that this was going to one of those games where the majority of the game play lies within scrolling through the options menu for your character, clicking on its abilities and standing idly by while your characters find. Little did I realize that in order to play this game effectively, you have to approach each battle with a solid game plan and you have more control over where to place each of your reptilian combatants in battle. Including the freedom to position your army, this game has numerous advantages such as being able to play against other “tribes” worldwide, the multiple battle modes, the games capability to save your progress when you reinstall the game, if there ever comes a time that you uninstall it.
Battle Dragons does an excellent job of incorporating social media elements into the game such as syncing your Facebook friends and Google+ account to the game. The only downside is the only to play this game is using an Internet connection. There should be an offline mode, exclusively used for improving your base camp, progressing through the Story mode and training with the Sparring mode. The app is only a mere 13MB and is worth the free purchase.
