CraftedBattle Review – Minecraft meets Counter-Strike
App Type: Uncategorized
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By: C-Apps
Version #: 1.2
Date Released: 2013-01-17
Developer: Christian Wehr
Price: 0.99
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Think Minecraft meets Counter-Strike. Sounds like a perfect concoction doesn’t it? For one, you have the free reign of building your own map and terrain, and for the other you get to run around freely carrying guns blasting away at your enemies.
However, while the key idea is promising, the game disappoints in actual execution.
CraftedBattle has users create their own battlefields through 3-dimensional blocks that can be strategically laid all over to make a map you can use to your advantage. While this system works fine, I felt that the graphics would have been a little more refined. Perhaps the developers deliberately created the block texture effect to emulate Minecraft but I felt that game would’ve done better with sharper graphics to keep up with the modern games of today.
When it came to actual first person game play though, CraftedBattle proved to be an utter disappointment. For one, the robotic AI characters were extremely predictable and easy to manipulate around. For beginners this might serve as a blessing but as one gets better at the game it starts to bore real quickly. For two, there was a lack of visible visual effects which brings us back to my initial gripe on graphics. With a crude joystick to turn around with and two buttons for shooting and jumping, it was no surprise to why this game bored so quickly.
The developers could have done better by making the game a little more realistic rather than give it this neither here nor there feel.
CraftedBattle is a game and genre with plenty of potential, albeit wasted in this app.
Priced at $0.99, this is definitely not worth my dollar.
Quick Take
Value:Low
Would I Buy Again:No
Learning Curve:Moderate
Who Is It For:Gamers who would like to try something new, especially fans of both shooters and builder games.
What I Like:The creative concept of the game shows much promise
What I Don't Like:The actual game play itself is a great disappointment
Final Statement:Hopefully much is done in later updates to turn this into the next big thing
craft Features:
*Create and edit your maps right on your device.
*easy map-creation
*3 firearms at choice and a knife as backup
*up to 15 AI Enemies
*deathmatch mode with or without teams
*map import/export
What the customers wrote:
'It's pretty fun, and I like to make my maps which is very fun in this game.'
'This game is exactly like minecraft, in the way you can build, but there is guns and deathmatch, not survival or creative.'
'It's a really good game'
'It's so adicking can't stop playing'
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Article By Eng Wei Jie
A water polo player from Singapore, Wei Jie devotes most of his time to training. However, when he's not occupied by water training or pushing himself in the gym, expect to see him squinting at his iPhone testing out new apps.
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