Clash of Clans review
Parents need to know that Clash of Clans is a strategic action game that pits players against both artificial-intelligence characters and real-world opponents. The app’s license agreement requires all players to be at least 13; teens 13 to 17 are supposed to have a guardian agree to the terms, but it’s on the honor system. There are frequent battles with explosions and the cries of defeated soldiers, but there is no graphic violence. The game’s core component is its multiplayer mode, wherein players can attack the villages of other players (and defend their own), but they don’t communicate with each other directly when these attacks occur — though there is a global and intra-clan chat functionality when players are in their own villages. Fortifying a village and building an army cost money, and the game uses in-app purchases to help players buy in-game currency to upgrade quicker. Read more about how to get unlimited gems in Clash of Clans.
I’ll start by saying that this handheld game is a well-designed strategy title. It’s fun and colorful. But if you boil the gaming action down to its simplest terms, you’re essentially building and defending your own goodies while trying to break down and steal everybody else’s stuff.
You start out with a tiny village-like place with a few tiny buildings, a tiny cannon and a tiny army. And then you work to make them all bigger. Much bigger. For this is a world of marauding hordes of goblins and vast attacking multiplayer clans. So tiny clearly doesn’t cut it here. You’ve got to build, my aspiring chieftain. And quickly. To do that, you’ll need two substances: virtual gold and elixir.
“All defensive walls, non-defensive buildings, heroes, everything, every last upgradable thing is complete,” Tyrael said. “Nothing you can click has a button that says upgrade anymore.”
“Clash of Clans” is a free app, but you can move along more quickly if you pay for features. This is a “freemium” model. It’s free to play, but you could end up paying a premium. Players are always tempted to pay real-world dollars for the virtual in-game currency, gems, to help get ahead in the game. For example, if a player wanted to upgrade their base to match Tyrael’s, it would cost them just shy of $12,000.
While Tyrael has purchased the occasional upgrade, he says the overall amount is minimal, around $50 and that he preferred to upgrade the old-fashioned way by playing the game. More info on how to get free gems in coc.
Just about the time this game hooks you with its quirky cartoon troops and try-to-outfox-the-defenses strategy challenges, you realize that all of your dreams of “bigger and betterness” require some major time investment. Once they’re beefed up a bit, your troops are no longer developed in mere seconds; they now take several minutes (read: many, many minutes) to train. And the bigger barracks and buildings start demanding literal hours of construction time. Why, you’d have to check in every half hour all day long to be able to really keep track of your community’s real-time development.
The new March Clash of Clans update arrived on March 5th, as expected. Supercell doesnt release updates on the weekend, so they can actually fix any problems that surface. The March 2018 Clash of Clans update is available now on iTunes or the Google Play Store.