Some social games companies are opting to offer Google an exclusive because the search company says it will help promote the game. Players can also develop their military base to build up their troops and construct factories to produce weapons. McGutterpants an army of fearless Cats led by the honorable Generalissimo Meow or a militia of brain-starved Zombies led by the cadaverous Colonel Stiffenberg.Įach develops special weapons, which give each faction a different strategy, and then players get to attack one another by rolling the dice. Players must pick a faction, either the Humans, led by General William P. Instead of replicating the board game or console version of the game, EA says it has added a plot.

Meanwhile, Electronic Arts, the second-largest social game maker on Facebook behind Zynga, is following up the successful launch of The Sims Social with a Hasbro game title, Risk: Factions. A fun twist is that the game can be set to speak to you in Pirate or English, French, German, Spanish or Russian.

The game has a city-building theme, where you must build rum distilleries, lumber yards and gold mines so you can build ships and defend yourself. The new game, Pirates: Tides of Fortune, was created by Israeli developer Plarium.

Rather than tell the stories separately, here’s an overall look at how Google plans to chip away at Facebook’s dominance as a platform, and how EA is challenging Zynga as the top social game maker. The two independent moves illustrate how quickly the social games industry evolves. Meantime, Electronic Arts also rolled out a new title today on Facebook that represents a follow-up to its big hit The Sims Social. Google is launching a new social game today on Google+, the third title to launch exclusively on its social network.

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