FarmVille Review

Way back in 2009- 2010 when FarmVille first came out, it was all the rage. I myself loved and relished the game as did many others. I got to the point of sessions where I'd set my alarm clock to 4 o'clock in the morning just to wake up and harvest the most profitable crops! These were the days when Zynga (the developers) weren't greedy. These were the days before FarmVille cash (a real life paid currency) and everything that doesn't cost that these days are priced at extortionate prices of say, 1 million coins for an animal. So the game has plummeted downhill min quality and popularity, however still quite a few people play it for some reason.

In he game you own a farm, and do things you normally do when owning a farm such as harvesting crops and trees, owning animals, etc. Problem is, the game is a fee-to-play model. Which means it's riddle with everyone's favourite microtransactions! The problem is, Zynga aren't even trying to hide their greed with the ruthless paid content, they've spent more time adding purple unicorns than the have spent adding to the bare-bones structure of the game. There's just nothing gameplay wise, except waiting to harvest your crops and sitting looking how much better your friend's farms are than yours.

The sound effects in this game are nothing short of abysmal. Depending on what animals you have on their farm, they'll make a random noise every now and again from a small selection of royalty- free stock sounds. The more you have, the more noises are made. My game has reached the point where I literally have around 400/500 animals on my main farm, and oh boy you can imagine the spam that comes out of my speakers. The music in this game is great, but it's literally just the one, main theme that loops endlessly so much that it'll be ingrained into your skull. So when you see a game like this actively try and make you turn off the sound while playing it, you know they didn't really try.

So yeah, try the game out if you want. It's not that good, but it is free. But just make sure that you can take the amount of in-game pop-up spam you'll receive, because they love letting you know how much you should buy everything for crazy- high prices. Also watch out for the in-game 'quests', if you can call them that. You'll receive far too many that really puts off returning players considering all the pop-ups actually hinder you from just playing the game.

Farmville gets a 3 out of 10.