Global Warfare is one of the latest games on Google Plus. There are lots of similarities between this game and Evony at http://evony.com
Global Warfare is made by Kabam https://www.kabam.com/games/global-warfare which is making a total of 3 games for Google Plus (out of 18) and it has Google Ventures as a strategic investor as well (and a member on the board). Google is clearly wanting to bet on online gaming with its earlier strategic investment in Zynga as well. It also acquired http://www.labpixies.com/ (which makes the game Sudoko Puzzles and Flood It but it has more games in reserve as can be seen at https://market.android.com/search?q=labpixies, so clearly G+ is being selective on Games directory at https://plus.google.com/games/directory)
With these gaming companies and others like http://www.digitalchocolate.com/about/ and http://www.rovio.com/index.php?page=company and http://www.popcap.com/ – well they are all there on G+
is gaming the ace in hand in G+ plans for Facebook- time will tell.
Evony of course was a very good game, as it was also very similar (allegedly) to Civilization, and though its advertising campaign of semi clad characters draws flak, it got the worlds attention and recall. While Evony was situated in medieval world, Global Warfare is a modern warfare equivalent.
Features in Global Warfare-
- Alliances,
- multiple player online gaming,
- social sharing and rewards,
- in game purchases,
- persistent world
Some drawbacks-
- Slight clutter in gaming space (and lack of nice fonts!)
- Lack of help forums (or easy availability)
- Lack of in game search for searching or navigating alliances
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