By: Aseem Gaurav on August 19, 2012
After disappearing from the App Store due to some technical glitches, Electronic Arts has quietly re-launched the hit mobile app ‘The Simpsons: Tapped Out’. The company now promises an improved experience which comes along with a few bug fixes. The new app version now supports the Retina display on the new iPad, along with multitasking functionality that enables gamers to opt in and out of the game.
As you know, the app lets you build up the fictitious Springfield as per your imagination. The premise is: Homer fails to notice the nuclear power plant’s core temperature reaching the critical level, which leads to explosion in the plant and complete destruction of the town. The rebuilding process needs you for which you have to complete various missions, which will earn you virtual currency and collect doughnuts, so that you can purchase buildings such as Krusty Burger, the Kwik-E-Mart, Springfield Elementary, Duff Brewery, and place them in the town.
In rebuilding Springfield, you are free to add rivers, trees, streets and move objects, as you deem fit. Along the way, you can unlock more Simpsons characters, which you can use to perform tasks that reward the player with cash and experience points. You can use the cash to build buildings and decorations, while experience points can help in unlocking more content and buildings. Some of the characters that you may acquire in the process are: Flanders, Milhouse, Mr. Burns, Apu, Crusty, Cletus, and others. Characters can take up jobs like: Krusty can walk his pet monkey or Lisa can read a book.
While playing the game, you’ll notice that every task takes a certain amount of time, in some cases several minutes or even hours of actual, real time. But you can speed up the process by judiciously spending some doughnuts, the game’s secondary currency.
The app is the best in class in the city-building social game genre that has twists, original voices and a plot, which are bound glue people who are hardcore fans of the show. The main objective is of course just tapping the buildings, gain XP from visiting your friends and create/design your own Springfield.
Electronic Arts is calling this game "life-ruiningly fun," which it is. No wonder once you start playing, you won't be able to stop, and you’ll love every minute of it.
The Simpsons: Tapped Out is free, although in-app purchases of “donuts” start at $1.99 a dozen, 60 for $4.99, and so on--all the way up to 2,400 for $99.99.
The game is compatible with all devices running iOS 4.0 or later.
Download the app here.
After disappearing from the App Store due to some technical glitches, Electronic Arts has quietly re-launched the hit mobile app ‘The Simpsons: Tapped Out’. The company now promises an improved experience which comes along with a few bug fixes. The new app version now supports the Retina display on the new iPad, along with multitasking functionality that enables gamers to opt in and out of the game.
As you know, the app lets you build up the fictitious Springfield as per your imagination. The premise is: Homer fails to notice the nuclear power plant’s core temperature reaching the critical level, which leads to explosion in the plant and complete destruction of the town. The rebuilding process needs you for which you have to complete various missions, which will earn you virtual currency and collect doughnuts, so that you can purchase buildings such as Krusty Burger, the Kwik-E-Mart, Springfield Elementary, Duff Brewery, and place them in the town.
In rebuilding Springfield, you are free to add rivers, trees, streets and move objects, as you deem fit. Along the way, you can unlock more Simpsons characters, which you can use to perform tasks that reward the player with cash and experience points. You can use the cash to build buildings and decorations, while experience points can help in unlocking more content and buildings. Some of the characters that you may acquire in the process are: Flanders, Milhouse, Mr. Burns, Apu, Crusty, Cletus, and others. Characters can take up jobs like: Krusty can walk his pet monkey or Lisa can read a book.
While playing the game, you’ll notice that every task takes a certain amount of time, in some cases several minutes or even hours of actual, real time. But you can speed up the process by judiciously spending some doughnuts, the game’s secondary currency.
The app is the best in class in the city-building social game genre that has twists, original voices and a plot, which are bound glue people who are hardcore fans of the show. The main objective is of course just tapping the buildings, gain XP from visiting your friends and create/design your own Springfield.
Electronic Arts is calling this game "life-ruiningly fun," which it is. No wonder once you start playing, you won't be able to stop, and you’ll love every minute of it.
The Simpsons: Tapped Out is free, although in-app purchases of “donuts” start at $1.99 a dozen, 60 for $4.99, and so on--all the way up to 2,400 for $99.99.
The game is compatible with all devices running iOS 4.0 or later.
Download the app here.
