Zynga, the company behind hit Facebook games like FarmVille and Cafe World, is going all out with the “ville” games. While many are still getting used to the idea of FishVille, which followed close to FarmVille and YoVille, the company has gone ahead and launched a new Facebook sim game called PetVillie.
According to the company, PetVille allow Facebook users to “raise, dress, and care for a pet” that they have creaed. Gamers can also visit their friends’s houses and play with their pets to earn coins that can be use to make their house the coolest on the block.
PetVille joins the legions of pet simulation games like Pet Society, Happy Pets and NeoPets.
On a quick impression note the game seems highly inspired by PlayFish’s Pet Society (which inturn borrowed heavily from Nintendo games such as Nintendogs and Animal Crossing).
PetVille follows Zynga’s recent patterns of letting other companies innovate a game category, review what works, then release their own version of the game using their secret social game sauce.
Going by Zyngna’s recent run of their games, PetVille might soon be a leader on the Facebook gaming chart or atleast on the pet simulation games.
If you have enjoyed Zynga’s games in Facebook, this one too seems fine to give a try, though it seems heavily inspired by PetSociety.
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