May 23, 2011
Facebook, Games, Internet
Old news now, but Zynga is still a fair bit of. The company has downsized staff of 150 employees last month and shut down the steps studio.The sure raised some concerns about the future of the company, but social game maker to push the release of the highly expected new title.
Zynga announced today that CityVille 2 is available now on Facebook. Zynga.com game will launch soon. Following in the footsteps of Farmville 2, CityVille two completely rethinks how city building game played. New look and feel Zynga CityVille 2 features Brian Reynolds, a leading designer FrontierVille, Civilization II and important strategy title.
“CityVille a runaway hit that brings players to experience real social city building and fun. Quickly catapulted to match the most popular figures of social and stay in place for more than a year after its launch, reaching 100 million MAU in reaching its peak, “said Mark Nelson, Director of Design for two CityVille, Zynga. “Drawing inspiration from the original CityVille, and FrontierVille, CityVille two sinks player storyline flavored with a unique and interesting character, and provide a 3D beautiful city where players can compete or play your friends as they build their city unique. ‘
CityVille player jump outcome can expect a number of new features that separate it from the predecessor:
District social center of the city – is the French invent the next quarter or the Chinatown district, let it shine customized personal style player ‘by. Friends may visit each district to compete for VIP status to earn extra prizes, with the most frequent visitors gather to honor the leaderboard bragging rights and reputation points.
Nice to make your neighbors – In CityVille 2, players will engage and interact with your friends to help build their city, and collect craft supplies from friends. Player can also exchange strategy by talking with friends in real-time via in-game chat.
A new look – The 3D graphics in CityVille 2 allow the player to switch between different cameras, rotating buildings and seeing their city in a way that they thought. And, for the first time in Zynga games, they can also flip the switch at night, or during the day.
Bedlam – like a real city, CityVille two of unexpected events. From a realistic fire and explosion damage vehicles and traffic jams, the best players have to respond to their city. Each interactive and dynamic vehicles serve a special purpose – Vehicles police to catch criminals, power shortage repair truck and fire truck putting a four-alarm fire – and puts the player in the driving seat of every vehicle .
Cast of characters – CityVille 2 featuring colorful group of characters that sends the player to a series of fun and challenging quests related to the story of “whodunit” mystery triggered an explosion in the city Mayoral Estate. Some city movers and shakers including Rosemary escarole, a community activist; Kurt Steele, a wealthy industrialist, and Tre, the reality TV star wannabe.
Some players may not want to switch to CityVille 2 more though. To help keep the players from the original content of the game, Zynga has released a number of extensions to the original CityVille over the past few months.
Zynga desperately need a hit now more than ever. Facebook remains, however, not the best action now. Companies must aggressively invest in the mobile market continues to change if it is to survive.