Friday, 15 August 2014

WWE SuperCard Review

May I have your attention please? I have just received a free game from the anonymous Google play store (I say 'received' when what I actually mean is searched for, couldn't find, had to go on my computer and find it on the play store on there, plug my phone in to my computer and wait for it to transfer shortly (about an hour) for it to go on my phone, but for the purposes of the joke I thought I'd leave this part out) (also available on IOS).
   Basically, it's a card game not unlike top trumps but with very slightly more strategy as you have to train up your cards (by removing your other rubbish cards and using them as xp), there's certain bonuses for certain cards when one of the particular stats is what's challenged on, there are certain people that work better as a tag team and there are bonus cards you can use once per match (eg. chair, ladder, table, sword, power drill, dinosaur, flamethrower, all the wrestling tropes). There are also different rarities of cards, and the more rare they are, the better they are (obv.), and you get more of these as you get better.
   There are 2 modes, exhibition, where you just take one person at a time and King of the ring which seems to be some kind of league system that takes days and you can't change the first 10 cards you picked despite the fact you've gotten your group about 5 times, 5 times, 5 times, 5 times better by this point. Plus, if you really want to win, you keep having to look back in it and checking on their stamina and swapping them out for fitter, far worse people while the original persons stamina slowly recharges on the bench. Of course the big problem there is that there's about 45 games in a season, 1 happening every hour (the happen bu themselves so it's not like you always have to watch them) and as people generally have to sleep and work and other wastes of time they can;t always be checking on the fitness after each game! That said, it seems like no one else does either.
   Exhibition is far simpler and easier, you play a quick 5 on 5 top trumps style game against your opponent with the things I mentioned earlier taken in to account. You get 2 cards for a win and 1 for a loss. Not all matches are the same though, as I said you have a team of 5 but only have 3 (I'm going to call them 'battles') battles per match, but these can be a mix of tag, solo and diva's matches, sometimes with all single matches and sometimes with just 1, but it's all based on the top trumps style stats. Just in case you were wondering I've played 100 games (they take like, 20 seconds each) and won 88, losing 12, the product of a night well spent).


   There are other problems too, menu's could be simpler and not have to back all the way back out to select someone not starting to train or set your champion (though I don't really know what that does) and I often find myself having to wait for the network to connect.
   Being a freemium game you don't have to pay, although there can be a pay to win aspect as you can buy card packs with actual money, and even though when it comes to playing console or indie games I'm all for supporting developers I'll never, EVER! put money in to a free game (EA should know that from me by now)
   Of course, it is based on wrestling so that's a massive turn off to many, but it's a pretty fun and simple way of spending a few minutes when you're on the bus or whatever, and I always struggle to put it down as I always want one more match. Of course everyone has been saying how good Hearthstone is recently, but without playing that myself and therefore having no basis on it's quality I think I can biasedly say Hearthstone's time is up WWE SuperCard's time is now! Obviously it's no snake 2, but what'cha gonna do, brother?        In summary then as it's free and is it worth a try? Yes Yes Yes etc. Just try not to get addicted to it like I did last night. And thats the bottom line cause i said so (break glass).

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