Oregon Trail + Farmville = Frontierville Review, New Zynga Game Hits Facebook

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Love it or hate it, Farmville is the most prolific game on the planet. That’s a fact. Capitalizing on it’s success or in response to its hemoraging players, Zynga Games has released a new “ville” game called Frontierville. It’s like Farmville but in the Old West. At first glance, it looks exactly the same as Farmville but the game goes a lot deeper. The main problem with Farmville with short of planting crops and making your landscape look pretty, you couldn’t do anything. Frontierville looks like its trying to change that. The game is a lot deeper and more focus on the social aspects of the game, assuredly to get more private data to sell to advertisers.

You can buy things and plant things and raise things. The game is technically still in beta and the network is buggy. I lost connection numerous times and had my game reverted back a few hours. I’m sure it will get better as they put more work into it but man is it frustrating to come back and find your cabin lying around in unbuilt pieces rather than housing your new things. In fact, it did it just now as I was typing that. If only I could go back in time and get unmarried in real life…

However, it looks like Zynga has some more plans on the horizon. There are signs on the edge of your property named Gold Rush, Oregon Trail and Rattlesnake canyon. We’re aren’t sure what’s coming but we can guarantee you that it will make our girlfriends leave us alone to play some real games.

Check out the game for yourself at http://apps.facebook.com/frontierville/

PS. This game is free.

PPS. It must be stated that the author of this article had to play Frontierville to write this review. Don’t judge him.

PPPS. He might still be playing it. This shit’s addictive.

PPPPS. When you are building a building, the progress bar says ‘Whacking’ and it totally looks like you are whacking off. Hawt.