Amazing game

I love this game it’s awesome the second I downloaded it. I played with my brother. It’s good on mobile. It’s fair it’s randomized. It’s hard and you need good strategy but overall, it’s an equally balanced game. you can’t pay to win, and the only stuff that you can pay for is maps and cosmetics. I seriously think that this is a good game. it doesn’t take up too much storage and is fun to play. Overall, it’s a good game, but there is one thing that I have to complain about the fact that you cannot lose money when using action, I’ve played for two days now, but it won’t let me lose money while doing action in the first game. Sometimes you would have to pay the bank or you would get a cinema and you would have to pay the bank not in this game in this game. You stay with so much money that it’s starting to lose its flare compared to the first game which is worth five dollars well, this one is worth three. I would definitely like it if they could make it possible to lose money while on action.

Good game, needs more

I love this game so much, it gives me a nostalgic feeling while playing. After reading other reviews I see I am not the only person who feels the game needs to be more versatile and spontaneous. This game is fun but almost every game feels the same. The job choices are always the same, I wish I could pick from a wider selection besides, pop start, robot designer and astronomer. Also it doesn’t feel like it matters what paths I choose when it comes to family or education. I hardly ever get the option to choose housing or families. When I do get to pick a family it’s not fun because I can’t pick twins or get a spontaneous tile that says “you had triplets”. It just feels like I’m constantly playing to get the little icons which isn’t a very interactive experience. I don’t mind how short the games are because they shouldn’t be that long but at the same time, I paid for the app and yet I don’t have any options to play different maps. The options for the different maps if you are going to make me pay for them, should just be separate games. This game would be so much more fun if the puzzle pieces I collected would lead to me unlocking other maps. I understand that the company needs to make money but I still think it’s ridiculous that I pay for the game and there isn’t any actual progress I can make in the game.

I’m actually surprised .....

I really enjoy the original game Life 1, and based off the reviews for this new Life 2, I was a bit apprehensive . I have to say that the earning of puzzle pieces, gives an incentive and feel of accomplishment when the game ends, rather then in the original game, if I won, there was no real feel of victory and felt anticlimactic. There is still non stop action in this new version , just like the original , however, the one MAJOR flaw and disappointment I have is they did away with ALL the “player vs player “ competitive games that were such a big and more importantly , FUN component in the original version. How and why they would take out those mini player on player games, I’ll never understand. Those were a major part of the game. Now it’s just spinning the spinner. Really shot themselves In the foot making what could have been a Awesome new game into a decent game. Although, I can’t say I like it more or less, it’s just a coin toss at this point. If they added the competition games to version 2, then that game would have everything I wanted from day 1 in the first game. I always said they should keep score on players to add incentive to want to keep playing, and the puzzle pieces do it. Hope they add the side games to the second version, and I’m a 40 year old female saying this and I love playing. Just sayin.

Not as described

In the description of the app, it describes how everything is available upon purchase and that access to more content can be purchased with a season pass. That’s what I expected. What I didn’t expect was the game to be so wanting. I remember enjoying the first Life app. I was excited for its sequel especially since they seemed to have added other ways of winning besides having the most money. During the game, players try to gain investment points, career points, and happiness points on top of money. The entire board is literally made up of spaces you can land on to increase any of one of these. The only spaces that are different are action spaces and tax spaces.. On action spaces you spin for any one of these (including the possibility of getting taxed/losing money). So… there really isn’t that much to the game as it claims. That’s it.. that’s literally it to the game. Plus, I think the app might be a little buggy? At one point when I got the marriage event my partner choices wouldn’t disappear from the screen. So I had to continue playing with 3 large squares blocking me from seeing anything. I couldn’t close out of the app because then it would’ve ended the game for everyone. It was really distracting and made this game even less enjoyable.

Fun, but replayability and low value

I played this game so much with my kids growing up, and my daughter and I played the original Game of Life app many times. We were thrilled to see Life 2, especially with the great reviews. The game was fun the first time, but on the second game, you could already see just how little variety there was. There are maybe five careers to choose from in each side (college versus job). True to the board game, you only get a couple to choose from each time, but after one game with two people, we’d pretty much seen it all. Why not modernize the game and add oodles of careers and a bigger variety of action cards? We love the game, but it was same-ol’-same-ol’ in under an hour. There’s so much potential here. Slso, $4.99 for a new map feels steep, especially if you experience all the options in under an hour. The art and animations are great and expensive to produce, but as a player, I’m more about do I want to play this again? A huge database of careers, action cards, items to buy, classes to take, etc. would go a long way in enticing us to play longer, and since the careers and action cards don’t have animations, it wouldn’t be as labor intensive as creating new maps.

A 3d wonderland of many worlds

The game of life is of course a basic board game. Although the aspect of the app game that makes it more exciting than the original is the graphics. I think the only setback is the spinner is the only interaction one has with the game. If there was a actual ‘dunk contest’ instead of a spinner rank to decide a winner it would be more fun. The roads should have more interaction with the individual players. If there is more side competitions with players versus a spinner than the game may be better than Mario! Money is a major component of this game. Every turn a person is gaining or losing their money. It could be more interesting if the players switched items or places on the board. Having a cards event interact with the players may be more fun as well. Instead of a card it could be a new direction of the board that op me (like shallow coral reef for a career as shallow water observer). Ball games are always a win so even something simple like a golf or bowling contest would improve the game.

Could be improved

I love the game of life and was excited to try this one but I was disappointed in a couple of things, mostly the lack of children. In the four games I have played so far, I have landed on a child spot one time. I think if you didn’t want to develop the maps further and make them longer, which I do recommend it takes like 10 minutes to play one game and I spend 90% of it watching my opponent take their turn, you should add a if you roll 1-3 you get 1 child or pet 4-7 twins or one kid and a pet or two pets, 8-10 triplets at the end of the family path or could customize with 2 kids and a pet or something along those lines. I go down the family path to have kids and I haven’t gotten a child once. Also more career options, let us choose the cards like in the actual board game and lastly houses. I haven’t landed on a house spot one time, partly because I have been trying desperately for kids but that is an essential part of life considering our pegs would die if they lived on the street for their entire lives. If I was able to have kids, I would probably enjoy the game a lot more because it is fun other than those few criticisms

Good game, but prefer original

I bought the original The Game of Life from Marmalade Studios and really enjoyed that. It was pretty close to the classic board game experience, but with the convenience of being digital. Was looking for the option to play Online with Friends, but the only option was to be matched with other players via Facebook. I wanted to play with my family on the other side of the country, we currently do that with Marmalade’s Monopoly app. When I saw that this game offered that functionality, I was excited... until I downloaded and started to play it. It is advertised as a sequel to The Game of Life. I know that I shouldn’t have expected the same experience but I didn’t enjoy the new gamification of the action cards with the different attributes. The graphics also were a turn off for me as they seemed overly simplified and geared towards children. I recognize this is a game and therefore should appeal to children, but I liked the graphics from the original version better. Still bright and colorful but not in an elementary school way. I really wish that they would just add the Online with Friends (in a custom private room) function to the first game.

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