Infect Them All: Vampires Review – Grinds You To Dust
Do you like grinding? Do you like doing simplistic tasks for hours on end? Well, then we have a game for you! If the answer is no, read on anyway.
Infect them All: Vampires (ITAV) by Magic Cube Games & AQsystem is not so indifferent from those infamous Facebook games. You are a vampire, who must – wait for it – infect them all! Them, being a veritable host of non-vampiric beings.
At first you can only play one vampire type. As you progress you can unlock two more vampires, both with different abilities and characteristics – the first is unlocked after 1000 infections, the next after 6000. That’s a lot of infections. To tell the truth, the problem is that these rewards are not worth the effort. The challenge lies in the fact that the potential victims fight back and become increasingly more aggressive; you can upgrade your vampire’s armor, abilities, hit points and starting minions to help out.
I have personally never been the biggest fan of all the Facebook games ending in -ville. It’s all about accumulation of resources. That gaming challenge, in my biased opinion, is severely limited at best. At its worst, again in my honest opinion, it is a mindless clicking and waiting in one arduous circle of unfathomable pain and anguish. That is of course rather facetious of me to say because Magic Cube Games & AQsystem obviously put some time and effort into this game, but it for some reason it still feels sort of…rushed.
The lack of variation is ITAV‘s biggest problem. You basically perform the same actions time and time again. It becomes repetitive fairly quickly, and later on it really begins to suffer for a lack of variety. That is a shame – I want to believe that there is something hidden under the surface. As of yet, I haven’t been able to find it and the search is becoming less fun, a lot more so than when I started playing the game.
Infect them All: Vampires belongs to the group of games that are designed purely to kill time; nothing is particularly impressive. The music and graphics are both reasonable and even appropriate to the type of game this is, but remain to be noting more than that. That being said, the game’s cartoon-like feel and makes the act of devouring humans in showers of flesh and blood, kind of cute.
If anything, Diablo has a lot to answer for when considering the grinding gameplay of ITAV. It is a clear attempt to channel that feeling you get after hours of dungeon crawling in Blizzard’s famous title. While it doesn’t reach that vaunted level of gaming superstardom, it isn’t entirely terrible despite having probably given the impression that it is. In summary of its shortcomings though, ITAV needs to give players something more to do, or unlock or some other third thing. Only then would I be willing to invest more time into what is otherwise a perfectly fine little game. Hopefully upgrades and past-development support will make the game more fun.
If you like these types of games then you can definitely do a lot worse than Infect them All: Vampires. The game just lacks something extra to make it worth the time you have to put in to it.
Review summary Pros:
Cute graphics, and initially fun
Cons:
The grind just brings you down, needs more features
Rating: 68%
