Pocket Gamer:
It's often said that you've got to spend money to make money. Yet spending money probably doesn't mean hot-footing it to your local shopping centre and maxing out your credit card.
Investment is the key. Plunging cash into real estate - global economic crisis or not - continues to fill the wallets of those in the know to this day.
That's not to say Build-a-Lot 2: Town of the Year is built in any way upon realism. Instead, what's on the table here is a bit of a real-time strategy fest, with set goals given at the start of each stage and the onus on you being to find your own unique way to meet them.
This week Doug, Rola, and Carbine talk about a ton of games including: Bloodborne, Town of Salem, Hacked Pokemon ROMs, Mortal Kombat X, Smash Brothers Wii U, and the newest Narito fighting game.
STP: While the subtitle “Town of the Year” reminded us of the movie Hot Fuzz, one of the first things we noticed about Build-a-Lot 2 was a complete lack of a diabolical Neighborhood Watch Association, which was a little disappointing.
Build-A-Lot 2 is the game that SimCity needs to be on the iPhone. Instead of trying to go about building entire cities, complete with roads and infrastructure, on a tiny little screen, Build-A-Lot 2 (BAL2) pitting you as an up-in-coming “entrepreneur” that various mayors hire to make their cities “town of the year”.
