Rock The Vegas. Be a Tycoon and Build Vegas Your Own Way!

Never ones to rest upon their laurels, the developers of popular Android titles such as Paradise Island and Crime Story have created another splash in the market with their new title Rock The Vegas. It gives you the opportunity to build your own version of the casino metropolis from the sand up! In typical tycoon style you start with very little, but with some patience and luck you could looking at your own neon strip that never sleeps!

Pros

• Superb graphics!
• Fun gameplay!
• Social elements!
• Design your city exactly how you want!
• Cool sound!
• Lots to build!
• Loads of achievements!

Cons

• Building your city takes some time, slowed down by waiting as your finances to accumulate.

Features:

Rock The Vegas is an ambitious and detailed tycoon game with all manner of other gaming elements thrown in. While you can happily build your strip into a popular gambling hotspot you can also have a go at a slot machine yourself! This is actually great as you win about 1 in 3 times, significantly boosting your money early on and letting you build more.

The graphics are decidedly sweet. There is plenty of detail and you can see cars, bright lights, builders, etc. all bustling along in the city you are creating. One cool feature is that you can switch between day time and night time whenever you like. It looks pretty cool switching to night mode and seeing all the neon lights come on!

Rock The Vegas has quite a few social aspects to it. You can befriend other users, send them gifts, visit them and vote for the best cities. This makes the game more engrossing if you have a few buddies playing it too. It becomes more immersive, and like the giants of the accumulative tycoon genre Farmville and Cityville.

One element I enjoyed about the game a great deal was the freedom you have with building the city the way you want. You’re not dictated to by some ‘neighbour’ or assistant and there are no set paths to follow as you build. You are restrained by what you can build until you increase your levels, but you have no pop ups telling you what to do, which is refreshing.

The game is bound tightly together by a large collection of achievements to attain and buildings to create. You can improve your buildings too, and you have the freedom to move buildings about if your grand plan changes as you go along!

I did find the game a little slow at times, it’s the kind of thing you have to do little and often rather than accumulating lots in one big sitting. You often have to wait for money to come in from rents or profits, and does seem to drag the game a little. Especially so when you cannot build much beyond a motel or a bar in the early levels. It just feels a bit frustrating at times that you can’t build more- you get to a point where you just have to wait, which isn’t much fun. You can, of course, invest real cash into game money and chips, etc. so the motivation is there to do that if you want to.

All in all, it’s a fun and novel addition to the tycoon genre and offers a new yet familiar gaming experience.

Fun Factor:

Rock The Vegas is a great game and lots of fun. It is a bit of a slow burner, but thoroughly enjoyable on the whole. The social element to the game; from visiting friends cities to posting pics of your city onto social networks creates a community around the game. It becomes a social gaming platform in its own right as you continue to build and share.

Addictive:

While I wouldn’t phrase the game as addictive, I would say it’s compulsive. You do feel drawn back to the game after not playing for a while and you will undoubtedly have to collect cash when you go back. It’s the sort of game you play little and often rather than in big sessions.

Graphics:

Graphics are bright and of high quality. There is lots of details and even the menus and help sections are well produced and clear. Controlling the day time and night time is also lots of fun and a neat feature.

Accelerometer, Vibration & Sound:

The sound is good, although it feels a bit out of place in a game about gambling, casinos and neon lights. It’s a kind of smooth ambient dance track when I would have thought some kind of Tony Bennett/Tarantino Flick soundtrack would have fitted better. Saying this, I really really like the music, it’s great in fact, it just seems slightly out of place. This doesn’t really detract from gameplay however.

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