If you are a big fan of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies, than you will thoroughly enjoy playing The Hobbit: Kingdoms. Based in the same era, this city-building game has tons of features to explore and a kick ass world map where you can check out the cities of other players. Are you more of a pacifist who likes to form strong alliances or you Evil and would like to hurt your neighbors by attacking their cities and raiding their recourses? Find out by playing The Hobbit: Kingdoms, which has been developed and successfully released by Kabam. The game has been downloaded over ten million times with a rating of 4 out of 5 on Google Play Store and a 4 star rating on iOS App Store.
Your ultimate goal In The Hobbit: Kingdoms is to rule over as big as an empire as possible. Your gameplay in The Hobbit: Kingdoms starts off with a small tutorial in which you can choose your race. You can either be with the Elves or with the Dwarves. At the beginning, your city will be very small and unpopulated, and it is your goal to construct buildings to give a home for refugees. Once you have done that, you need to construct recourse buildings in order to be able to feed your people. There is a main quest line which you can follow to gain experience points and recourses, after which you can use those to further progress your city. Leveling up in this game will unlock many more buildings and troops which you need to become more powerful.
Once you have done a few of the quests, you can start training troops. Having an army is very important in The Hobbit: Kingdoms because you are prone to being attacked by other players and you will have to have a strong and large army to defend yourself. Training troops and maintaining them takes a lot of food, so be sure to stock up on a lot of recourses before you attempt to train a large number of soldiers.
It’s completely up to the player in how they want to play the game. You could either be nice to some of the players and form alliances by befriending them or you could be unfriendly and simply attack their cities and raid their recourses. It is important to not look weak towards others in the game because this will make you get attacked a lot. There is a nice chat feauture build into the game where you can send messages to other players, but you can also send a friend request if you rather send more private messages to others.
The Hobbit: Kingdoms In-game store
There are two types of currencies in The Hobbit: Kingdoms. The first one is the basic gold coins which you can earn by completing quests and the second one is the premium currency called Mithril. At the beginning of the game you will have a total of ten Mithril in your inventory. You can use Mithril for a lot of things in the game such as purchasing items in the in-game shop.
There are five categories in the in-game shop, starting with miscellaneous, where you can purchase items such as the Rune of Destruction, which can instantly destroy a building, or the Open Gates booster, which will add 1000 refugees to your city. The second category is called Speed Up, and in this category you can purchase boosters that can speed up building construction and troop training. The third category is the Combat category, where you can purchase runes which will give a huge boost to your military. The fourth category is called Recourses, and in this category you can purchase every recourse that is available in The Hobbit: Kingdoms. The last category is called Chest, where you can purchase different kinds of expensive chests which are filled with boosters and other goodies.
In order to make these purchases, you will need a lot of Mithril. The price for Mithril differs from $4,99 for the smallest package of 50 Mithril up till $99,99 for the largest package of 1600 Mithril. There is also a way to earn free Mithril by completing offers. What you will need to do is, download and play other games and after you successfully done that, you will receive the amount of Mithril promised to you.
If you are currently playing The Hobbit: Kingdoms, you are likely finding out that you need a lot of gold, stone, wood, and mithrill to help you get weapons and other items. The bad part is, it costs real money if you want to get these items from the app store, and most people hate paying for that.
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When you first start playing The Hobbit: Kingdoms, you should follow the main quest line. The quests at the beginning are very easy to complete and rewards you with a lot of recourses that are useful to your gameplay later on. By completing these quests, you will also learn how to properly play the game because everything gets explained to you. You can access your Quest Log by tapping on the quest button at the bottom of your screen. There are also a lot of other useful buttons in the menu that you can tap on to check the status of your city, your army and many other things.
There is a chance game in The Hobbit: Kingdoms where you can use Galadriel Tokens to play. Once you accept to play the game, you will see nine chests which are locked. You are allowed to pick one chest and open it. By playing this chance game, you can earn a lot of goodies and boosts in recourses. I would also recommend players to log into the game often because there are daily rewards that you can earn by doing so. The value of the daily rewards rises significantly, the more you play the game.
In order to be able to defend your city and attack other cities successfully, you will need a large army. You will need to have enough food for these soldiers because everybody needs to eat. Therefor it is important that you always have a huge amount of food stored up in your storages. In order to be able to expend in The Hobbit: Kingdoms, it is important that you collect as many City Relics as possible. You can trade in a 100 City Relics for a City Deed, which you can use to rule a second city. Having two cities is of course much better than having one city, because you will be able to produce twice as much resources and troops.
When I started up The Hobbit: Kingdoms for the first time, there was a small but educational tutorial on how to play the game. I think this tutorial was a very good idea by the developers because a feature-rich game such as The Hobbit: Kingdoms can be very confusing for a lot of casual mobile gamers. In the tutorial, you learn how to construct new buildings and upgrade them, learn how to train troops and perform researches to further advantage your city. After the tutorial ended, I felt like I had enough knowledge about the game to start my own city and expand it. I like the fact that you can pinch and zoom in to see your city in more detail, or zoom out to see your city from further away. I like games that are challenging, because that is just the way I am, so for me it is a nice thing to have other neighboring cities which belong to other players. I can interact with these cities in a friendly way and form friendships, or I can choose to attack them and plunder their recourses. While the graphics are decent and overall the gameplay is nice, the game did have a few negative aspects.
The first negative aspect I noticed about The Hobbit: Kingdoms is that the game makes it feel like you should spend real money on it if you ever want to have a chance against more powerful enemies. In the beginning of the game, everything goes pretty fast, but as you progress through the game, constructing buildings, performing research and training troops can take a lot of hours, which leaves you vulnerable for enemy attacks. You can speed up a lot of things in the game by using mithril to purchase speed up boosters. Mithril is the premium currency in The Hobbit: Kingdoms, and it isn’t cheap at all.
The second negative aspect I noticed about The Hobbit: Kingdoms is that there are annoying pop-up advertisements right when you are about to tap on the screen. I can understand that the developers need to generate an income by implementing advertisements in their game but when the ads are obstructive to the gameplay, it makes the game feel like a cash grab.
Next to having a lot of advertisement pop-ups, there are also a lot of pop-ups about in-game store sales. These pop-ups tell you that there is a sale in mithril or any other booster and you should get it right now, because you will receive a great bonus with it. These kind of sale pop-ups are understandable, but they are very annoying and obstruct the gameplay as well, same as the pop-up advertisements.
Artwork: I give The Hobbit: Kingdoms an 7/10 for its artwork. The Hobbit is well known for its fantasy themed world full of elves, orcs, dwarfs and other mystical creatures. I think the developers did a decent job of implementing the same kind of artwork in the game The Hobbit: Kingdoms as they would be in the movies. I could also tell that the developers spend a fair amount of time on all the objects in the game such as buildings, characters and the world map looked pretty nice.
Music & SFX: I give The Hobbit: Kingdoms a 7/10 for its music and SFX. The soundtracks and sound effects which you hear in this game are pretty familiar to the sounds you would hear in The Hobbit movies. This doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a bad thing because the whole theme of this game is set in the era of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. I think the developers did a good job implementing the soundtracks and sound effects in such a way into the game that it does not annoy the players or take them out of their focus.
Story & Originality: I give The Hobbit: Kingdoms a 3/10 for its story and originality. The Hobbit: Kingdoms really lacks originality because I can name a couple of other games that use the exact same game mechanics. It seems like game developer Kabam thinks that people will not notice that a few of their games are practically played the same way, just have other themes. Because of this, the game felt like a cheap knockoff, which it really is, even though the game mechanics are copied from their own games. The only good thing about The Hobbit: Kingdoms, however small it may be, is that there is a bit of a backstory in it and you can choose which race you want to play as.
General Gameplay: I give The Hobbit: Kingdoms an 7/10 for general gameplay. The game starts off with a small tutorial, teaching you the basics of the game which I like about games in general because some of them can be very confusing for casual gamers. The gameplay itself becomes pretty straightforward after you have played for a couple of hours, but because there are other players playing, which you can also attack if you wish to do so, the gameplay remains thrilling. In my opinion, The Hobbit: Kingdoms is the most fun once you have a trained a large army which you can then use to invade neighboring cities and raid their recourses.
Addictiveness: I give The Hobbit: Kingdoms an 7/10 for addictiveness. Even though I knew that The Hobbit: Kingdoms was just another knock off city building game, I still gave it a fair chance to see if the game was actually playable. If you are really into Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies, I can imagine that this game will appeal to you. The fact that The Hobbit: Kingdoms have been downloaded over ten million times already tells me that it is fairly addictive for many players. There are a lot of features to explore in this game and a lot of buildings to construct or upgrade. The only real problem that stops The Hobbit: Kingdoms into becoming a very addictive game is the fact that in late-game, it takes so much time to construct/upgrade buildings, research and other options, that it feels like you have very limited gameplay time left. The only way you can speed things up is by spending Mithril, which costs a lot of real money to purchase.
All things considered, I give The Hobbit: Kingdoms an 6/10.