FarmVille and CityVille are released by same company, Zynga.
In gameplay, FarmVille focus on farming, CityVille orientate on building a city. In FarmVille, the player as a farmer and in CityVille the player is a Mayor.

You can play FarmVille on Facebook and iphone. CityVille is only available on Facebook for now. Let us see what are the differences and similarities between these two games. (FarmVille abbreviation as FV, CityVille abbreviation as CV)

Basically, as online community games, players need to play with their friends called neighbors, visit their farms or cities, help them out, send them gifts, and even buy stuff from them. You take care your farm or city, collect money and rewards, and you will level up, you can buy more things for your farm or city.

These two games both can grow plants, after harvest you can make by-product out of it in FV. In CV, your crops become goods for you to supply business shops/stores. And you can’t harvest trees in CV. Build buildings: various buildings in both games, but as mentioned above, FV buildings are for farming purpose, Horse stable, Pigpen, Barn and ex. CV do have farming houses, but more residential and business building, for example: Apartment and Bakery. In both games, some buildings need your neighbors to send you materials or staff to complete. Animals: Not too many kinds of animals in CV, and they are more like decorations. While in FV, your animals can help you make money, finding treasures and you can sell them. Speaking of “sell”, you can sell most of your property in FV. And in CV this function seems doesn’t exist. Another difference is you can customize the farmer’s look: eyes, hair, outfit….. You can’t customize your mayor. Actually, you don’t see your mayor around, “he” only appear when he needs give you a hint or mission.

Why FarmVille is popular? Many people think it’s because most of us living in the city, play FarmVille is just like another life in the country side, most importantly, we nurturing our crop, watching it grow, and waiting for harvest. And we feel guilt if we let our crop die.

Why CityVille is popular? I think CityVille is like extended version of FarmVille, you are more like a “God” now. It keeps the farming feature, so you still can be a farmer. It added more features, have your franchises in other cities, you are a successful businessman. You build roads, houses, school, museum, find staffs for your community, you are a mayor. Multiple roles bring mixed fun.

Ok, I think I have to go now; otherwise my crops are going to die.

My favor game is Galaga. Galaga published by Namco in 1981, it was an arcade game, also a computer game. The player control a space ship (you have 3 space ships from the very beginning), the mission is to clear all the bee-like enemies (named Galaga). As the player, you only can move your space ship left or right to shoot enemies, also to avoid hitting by enemies or its bullets.

The most special part of this game is the boss Galaga will fly down, try to capture your ship by using a tractor beam. If you get caught, you will lose a life. But if the captured ship it’s not your last ship, you still have chance to get it back by shooting the boss galaga (don’t shoot at your own ship then you failed). If you have successfully got your ship back the awesome part is now you have 2 ships combined together, means that now you can shoot 2 bullets at once you’ll have wider attack range which I think is a brilliant idea, no one has done that before.

I like the feeling that you let your space ship get captured on purpose, and then you shoot very carefully try to shoot at the boss not your ship. I feel satisfied every time I success. I also like the army-badges appear on the right bottom of screen, the more level I completed the more badges I get. I think the reason why I like it is because those army-badges looks like you are some kind of war-hero, that the government honors you with those badges. Furthermore, the more badges you have the more space ship you got.

Another reason I like this game is, the game is simple, by saying simply I mean the controls is simple, you just need to push left and right arrow keys, and space bar(or Z) on keyboard, you can concentrate on shooting and dodging. The game maybe looks easy but it’s not a easy game, those “flying-bugs” sometimes really get your nerve, makes you really want to kill them. Although, it’s not a 3D game, doesn’t have fancy sound effect, doesn’t have beautiful graphic, but I still enjoy playing it.

try this game in here:
http://nintendo8.com/game/118/galaga/
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