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GamingLives takes a look at Zynga's mobile real-time strategy release.
"With an impressive selection of infantry types, vehicles, structures, and aircraft, Zynga have broken clear of their Mafia Wars and FarmVille browser-based stigma and have an IP that can be taken seriously even by veterans of the Command & Conquer genre, even if it does plagiarise on an aesthetic level more than it perhaps should. The fact that it’s not as reliant on real-world purchases as much as other tablet-based freemium games is certainly a bonus, even if it does mean you can’t build your base as quickly as you’d perhaps like."
Empires & Allies by Zynga is an exciting military strategy game for iOS and Android devices. In this mobile title, you’ll have access to the weapons of modern war as you build the most powerful army possible. You can make use of nuclear weapons, tanks, helicopters, and other modern-day means of destruction, and join alliances so that you can be sure your defenses are up to speed. At the end of the day, your goal would be to defeat the terrorist organization GRA, as well as defend yourself from rival human players. So what do you have to do in order to build that perfect army? We hope we can answer that question through our Empires & Allies cheats and strategy guide.
Empires and Allies might be by the same company as the old Facebook game of the same name, but it's a completely different and modernized game for the iOS and Android, pitting players in an endless war against each other, with the highest of high-tech military equipment and a whole host of ways to build up your base.
