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My view was that while I wouldnвЂ™t recommend it to fans of the original, it might appeal to that new generation of gamers вЂ“ people whoвЂ™ve started playing on Facebook and/or mobile devices, and arenвЂ™t primed to be offended by a much-loved game of their youth going free-to-play.

#DUNGEON KEEPER 2 REMAKE FOR ANDROID#

When I included the new Dungeon Keeper in my best apps of January roundups for Android and for iOS, there were some cross comments, asking why The Guardian would promote this game at the expense of other, more deserving titles. Molyneux, it should be said, isnвЂ™t some old goat complaining about his baby being reimagined for a new generation: heвЂ™s making free-to-play games himself nowadays, and has been publicly enthusiastic about the potential of this business model to reach a wide audience of players. вЂњI donвЂ™t think they got it quite right, the balance between keeping it familiar to the fans that were out there but fresh enough and understandable enough for this much bigger mobile audience.вЂќ I donвЂ™t want to schedule it on my alarm clock for six days to come back for a block to be chipped,вЂќ Molyneux told BBC News this week. вЂњYet what we have here is the shell of BullfrogвЂ™s pioneering strategy game, hollowed out and filled up with what is essentially a beat-for-beat clone of Clash of Clans,вЂќ wrote Eurogamer.ДЇormer Bullfrog boss Peter Molyneux has weighed in to the debate too: вЂњI felt myself turning round saying, вЂWhat? This is ridiculous. вЂњIf you take away the fun of making weird dungeons, throw up timers longer than other games, and give less enjoyable results, what leg does this game really have left to stand on?вЂќ wrote TouchArcade. вЂњItвЂ™s like EA saw dollar signs after the success of Clash of Clans, and wanted to clone it in the worst way possible вЂ“ by using a respectable IP as its skin,вЂќ wrote Destructoid in its review. This yearвЂ™s iOS and Android remake, itвЂ™s fair to say, is not вЂ“ at least not in its current form. Rather than explore dungeons slaying and looting, the game put you in charge of the dungeon, digging out new rooms and populating them with monsters and traps.

#DUNGEON KEEPER 2 REMAKE PC#

Developed for EA by British developer Bullfrog Productions, it was released on PC in 1997.

The original Dungeon Keeper was brilliant. And while the game itself deserves a lot of that criticism, it has also become a focus point for the wider arguments around free-to-play gaming.

Still, in an increasingly-crowded field of controversial freemium EA games on mobile devices (see: Real Racing 3, Plants vs Zombies 2), Dungeon Keeper is causing the biggest stink. The gameвЂ™s average rating on AppleвЂ™s App Store is currently just 2.5 stars out of five, while its four-star rating on AndroidвЂ™s Google Play store is undermined by the publisherвЂ™s strategy of encouraging players to only review the game if they thought it was worth five stars. W ith most free-to-play mobile game controversies, thereвЂ™s a mismatch between the anger of people commenting online, and the review ratings in the app stores of people who are playing and enjoying the game in question.Д®AвЂ™s new remake of Dungeon Keeper? Not so much.

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