Sunday, February 17, 2013

Doomsday Preppers Review

By George Harding

If you’ve watched National Geographic cable channel, you may have seen this program about those who are convinced that a catastrophic event is likely to happen in the near future. They protect themselves from such an event by taking precautions. This may include stocking supplies, food and water, digging or constructing a survival building. Sometimes it can involve neighbors and neighborhoods.

A game with this name has been produced by G5 Entertainment that is really fun to play. It starts with a landscape reminiscent of Nevada, but you can see a stone arch in the distance, it’s more likely to be Utah. There is an old-style telephone booth beside the road and the top of what turns out to be an elevator.

From time to time a car or bus will pull up and let off passengers that want to take the elevator to its lower levels. This is your underground bunker, saving you from the apocalypse and giving you and your friends survival possibilities.

As you descend underground, you see that there are several levels, which you can expand over time. Your friends, as they enter the elevator are assigned to a level, to do whatever work needs to be done. You can assign job as needed and reassign from time to time.

As work progresses on the bunker, you earn gold and diamonds, which you can use to obtain benefits. One of the benefits is to open up new levels in the bunker; there can be as many as 135, each manned by your friends.

Players will also be able to improve their gameplay experience with in-app purchases that offer premium items, speed up processes, increase prepper skills and efficiency, and provide other bonus features that help them construct the biggest and most prepared bunker as possible. Special game content can be unlocked by watching new episodes of the show every week.

There is a social aspect to the game in that you can interact with your friends in several ways, including your Facebook friends.

The game is available for iPhone 3GS and higher, iPod Touch and iPad with iOS 4 and later, and is downloadable free.

I tested the game on my iPhone and am still having fun with it. As the game progresses, you get notices that such-and-such progress has been made, which is your que to log in and take the next step in constructing your bunker.

Lots of fun!

Doomsday Preppers   https://itunes.apple.com/app/id573940836?mt=8       Free

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