Prehistoric Tales Reviews

Interesting little game... for a few hours. Then it becomes a tedious micro-management grind. Once you get your village up to a good size, it takes up most of your time just clicking all over the place to gather resources. With so much clicking going on, it's hard to plan how to expand your village, think about how best to increase your army, or decide which artifacts would be most efficient to wear. The game has both achievements and trading cards. The achievements are all simple to get, and all unmissable as they pop naturally as you play. You simply have to put in the time playing. It should probably take you about 6 to 8 hours to get all the achievements, and once you have them there's really no point in playing any more. Graphics are cartoonish, but yet appealing. Background music is pleasant and relaxing. Combat is turn-based, and on a small grid. Once you get the dragon unit ([i]called "ancient snake" here[/i]), combat becomes awkward because the dragon takes up four spaces and is thus often blocked from moving by either geograpical limitations ([i]like boulders or trees[/i]) or by your other units. The game is easy and casual. It's a great time-waster to play from start to finish on a rainy weekend. The only strategy in the game is during combat. Even though my total time played will probably be less than 10 hours, it was well worth the 44 cents I paid for it. I've only experienced one bug so far... during combat one of my guys refused to move. When I turned "[i]auto battle[/i]" on and then off again, that fixed the problem.