by Amy Jo Browne

Created on: November 09, 2010

Frontierville is a Zynga game, which can be played on Facebook. It allows players to create a virtual homestead based on the old west. This is an MMO farming type game, for people of all ages. If you have a love of the old West than Frontierville just may be the MMO you are searching for. The game was launched in the summer of 2010 and is kind of like Sim City and Farmville rolled into one with a new twist. That twist would be an old west setting, with the ability to raise a family to help on the old homestead.

Players begin the game with a wagon in which to live and a few basic tools to clear the land. the first missions within the game is designed to give you enough experience to move up the first  few levels easily. Building a house and gathering special items, which can be found as you chop trees and clear land, complete these missions.

Unlike most of the MMO games online, Frontieville allows players to get married. Players can even raise a family as children are born into the family, best of all souse and children can also do chores around the plot of land. The spouse and children allow have special missions within the game for some very cool items.

 Players are given missions to complete to gain experience and items needed to climb the levels. The higher the level the harder the missions become, so be sure to add neighbors to help you with the missions.

It’s best to try to add the people off your friends list as neighbors within the game as they are very beneficial to the gamer. Neighbors can feed animals; pick fruit off the trees, harvest crops or cut down trees on each other’s homesteads.

Buildings within Frontierville are built with the help of neighbors. Once built these buildings are utilized for different tasks such as the house where a gamer can create fine clothes, which can be used for other tasks in the game.

As the player clears the land, harvests trees, or feeds the animals coins and pies are given. Other items such as a bear claw, flowers, feathers and many other things pop out with the coins  and pies. Those items are gathered for collections and once the collections are completed, the player can turn them in for special prizes.  

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