Hearthstone App Review
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft Mobile Game Review
Basically, the game is an easy-to-learn strategy card game with incredibly designed deep gameplay and beautifully polished. Obviously, this game is inspired by the card game Magic. The Gathering, where you summon minions by playing with your cards to attract the enemy.
The style of the game became so popular that other game developers started including card collection with power statistics. If you are an NFL odds enthusiast, then you might remember Madden NFL was the first game to include card collecting feature in their games.
Blizzard is the right company to create this kind of game just because they are obviously very good of making, RPG and strategy games like World of Warcraft, StarCraft as well as Diablo. After only playing a few games you will be easily addicted as the gameplay is designed in a way to keep you entertained all the time.
They also created a very good tutorial for beginners, teaching players how to play the game. This is a very good strategic move by Blizzard just because people will abandon the game if it is too confusing.
Blizzard knows how to attract people in the story of the game and Hearthstone is no exception. As we mentioned, the game starts with easy AI opponent that walks you through all the features and options of the game.
Firstly you automatically draw a card, and then you use your available spell crystals to play one of the cards that you possess. There are different types of cards such as spells, minions, or other skills that you can use to take away your opponent by diminishing the other hero's points to zero and come victorious.
Each card has different power, attack, and defense number. Also, many of the cards have special abilities such as changing turns or healing, but most of them are monsters that should keep you protected from your opponent. Once you destroy all his cards, he is left out venerable and you can attack the opponent.
This might sound confusing, but once you open the game the tutorial mode explains everything perfectly and you will get the hang of it in no time.
The key in this game is to play strategically. Anticipating your opponent's next move and carefully placed cards can make you win the game.
There are nine different basic decks that you can use and all of them are filled with Warcraft characters separated into classes. You start the game playing as Mage, but you can change your deck playing as Druid, Priest, Hunter, Warrior and several others. Depending on the deck you choose, your cards will have different abilities such as healing skills for the priest, Rouge has stealth, Warriors have strength and etc.
While you play your first rounds you will earn additional cards that have different skills. After you complete your practice rounds you will know that some cards have better skills than others and expanding your deck of cards can bring you more possibilities to counter attack your opponent.
The standard deck is 30 cards, so you will have to choose wisely all the cards that you want to go on the battlefield. The game will make a suggestion in order to pick the best starting set for every battle. This game is very strategic and you will have to perfect your strategies and know all the cards and their skills in order to win.
Hearthstone is a free-to-play game on any device, but it is designed for bigger screen size devices such as tablets just because some of the cards are impossible to read on a smaller device. If you haven't tried this game, go ahead and download it, it will keep you entertained for hours.
