Online Game

I was thinking of what to review about this week and then an idea came about. I started playing online games first before moving on to other types of games. Then another idea pop out. Why not club penguin?

I used to play club penguin since 2006. I was playing some games on Miniclips.com and I noticed that club penguin was in Miniclips top 10 game list. I decided to check it out and it was all about penguins (I was obsessed with penguins). I created an account.

There are two types of account. One is for normal users. You get to access everything but buy limited items. The second time account is membership account. You get to access everything and also able to purchase a variety of items. Knowing myself, I took the normal account.

E.G. of Members only items

E.G. of members only items

Once you have created account you can choose the server you desire to go. There are two types of server. One with the pop chat button means that you chat box is disabled and you are only allowed to use in built sentences (a.k.a Ultimate Safe chat) to talk to other penguins. Those without are the one has chat box enabled and also have in built sentences to use to communicate.

Types of server

Once you choose a server, you get to access the world. Bascially the world is just  a big penguin town with many places to visit. There are four main tabs. They are places, games shops and pets. Places shows generally the places you could visit. Game tab specifically highlights places the penguins can play a game. Pets section shows places the penguins to go with their pets. Yes penguins have pets too. 

Currently in Shops tab.

My character

If you click on your own character, you get to see a profile card that indicates your name, a star (normal user.), coins and stamps. Also if you click on an tab at the right side of the pop up, you will get to see accessories for penguins you purchased or got for free. 

Once you enter the server. 

There are few icons in this page.  News paper Icon is for newspaper, Mail Icon is to check your mails sent by other penguins, "M" badge is a moderate badge where you could send  complain about other players.  The phone icon is actually my secret agent icon (Shhh it's a secret.) Map is to show the game layout of the whole game. The chat bar has few icons which I am not going to cover. (Snowball meant for throwing snowball)

I am a secret agent. Shhh

Newspaper of Club penguin

Welcome to my crib! It's pathetic but these are the only free items. 

I have two pets. It is blue and red in colour (That's the only two that are available for normal users) These pets are known as puffles. There are few types of coloured puffles. Each coloured puffle has it's own personality. 

I think I have covered the basics of the game. Even though, this game is meant for children, it's actually quite complex and interesting. It's not like habbo hotel.It's different. Every year they have a variety of events and parties. Beside festivals like Christmas, they have events like the avengers battle, star wars and few other events. 

On top of that, you get to play activities with your pets, or other penguins. You also get to earn coins to buy food for pets or other items in the world. You also get to be a tour guide or a secret agent (or both). I had to go through test in order to be a secret agent and a tour guide. I also tried to be a Card jitsu master (Currently holding onto black belt) but failed to get pass the Card Jitsu Sensei. 

If you feel emo and don't want to chat with anyone, you could just go around every place and not get bored. Almost every area you visit has some activities or some form of interactive items. I think this is pretty impressive. 

I have played few Massive online multi-player games and I feel Club penguin is quite neat. It has all the activities that is needed. The games might not be very unique as it is a common game (Sled racing, Fishing,surfing) but it's really entertaining. 

I won't really recommend this game for hard core gamers or gamers who does not like children games. I would recommend to selective causal gamers and those who don't mind playing any form of games. 

If you ever interested to play this game: 

http://www.clubpenguin.com/