Aron's Dive Into the Gang

Urban Rivals

Hello everyone My name is Aron, and I’m here to help Kawiado with reviewing games by giving them a look at from a more avid gamers’ point of view and this time I will be having a look at Urban Rivals, this is my first one so please, bare with me as I try my best to give it my all.


Story

Urban Rivals has an interesting story I’ll give it that, gang wars breaking out in a city, many people, creatures and other things breaking into fights over theses magic pills. Yes that’s right people, over pills, but no ordinary pills. These pills have the ability to grant someone even more power then they have which is all made by one person by the name of Morphun which I think is a throw back to Morphius from the Matrix.

Now due to this massive gang war breaking out, it seems to have a vacuum effect pulling more people, and in some cases, animals into this fight like a spreading plague which makes me wonder, why doesn’t the police force (If any left) kill this person
Who is making the pills that are the cause of all this?

But all and all, the story is okay, and a bit from the norm, but still interesting by my view.


Game Play

Now the game play of this is very, very simple. The stats for each cards are this, Attack, the amount of power the character has in a fight and Damage, how much damage the character inflicts on the other player if they win the fight. There are also pills, in each battle, you get 12 pills to use each pill, adds on more attack the character you give it to so if the one your using has 8 attack, the pill will add another 8 onto their attack, Damage can’t be changed by the pills unless you use three of them to activate fury, which adds a 2 to the damage they deal, knock your opponent down to 0 HP first, or have higher HP by the time the fight is over and you win.

Almost all character have an ability, the gang that they are in, has a gang ability that activates if only members from one gang are in the fight everyone has this. The ability the character has is next to the yellow box, the gang ability is next to the green box.

Now fights are executed in four rounds, you get four people in the battle, each person can only battle once so make sure you don’t use the one you’ll need in the end to early so there is a bit of strategy their. About the abilities of the fighters, some abilities can only be used with cretin conditions, like losing fights, or being the one to start the brawl, so pick carefully.

Each character can level up with the EXP they get from either, knocking someone out, or getting the crap beaten out of them, winning gets more EXP, and characters abilities are unlocked as they level up, so keep that in mind. If a character who is at MAX level enters a fight, the EXP that they would of gotten goes into an EXP pool that you can go to later to improve other gang members.

There are game modes such as the normal way of playing were luck comes into play as well as the attack of each gang member, and Death match, were higher attack always wins, there are more but you’ll have to see for yourself.


Overview

Over all, that’s all there really is to the game. There’s a market, you buy stuff, you sell things to players, you get rewards for ranking up, but all and all it’s okay, nothing too in-depth, nothing way too simple, but still very simple I say it’s more of a casual gamers game then a hard core one. The frequent updates are nice, but not nice enough to see me on every day, maybe once or twice a week maybe three but not every day.