Virtual Villagers 5: New Believers

The anticipated installment in the fame Virtual Villargers series has finally been launched as one of the eccentric titles of this New Year. Virtual Villagers 5: New Believers, the fifth chapter in this sim saga, begins where the fourth title left off, revealing who or what could be rattening the wonderful island of Isola.

This time around, Last Day of Work, the creator of this game premise, strikes together your villagers with the original inhabitants of this magic island. According to the plot, those natives or heathens, in other words, sabotage the island. This fact makes you convert them into true believers during this play. To our mind the choice of ‘god-like’ theme is rather weird if not say risky. Virtual Villagers 5: New Believers might hurt player’s religious beliefs. But if you pay no attention to the story, this is an ordinary building game that has not altered much from the previous installments.

As usual, each your villager has its own character settings and screens that allow you to be always aware of their individual preferences, skills and abilities. Due to ‘god-like’ thematic there are some new powers, allowing you to control animals, weather or even bring to life dead villagers. This is the main spin on gameplay from the developer that adds more challenge there. However, the village environment becomes more various and even more attractive than ever, with eye-popping decorations. The character animations are borrowed from the previous titles, a bit snippy and dated at times. After all, Virtual Villagers 5: New Believers is a fine addition to the building games library and push up everything that is especially worthy about this game series.

10, February 2011