Down Town Show Down

There’s nothing quite as pleasantly surprising as a mobile game that starts out looking like one thing and morphs into something else. Downtown Showdown, the second release from Colopl for the
western market, is like that. Early on, it seems like just another Sim City-style city-builder, but as you play more, it reveals some more competitive DNA.
That’s because you’re not only trying to build the best city you can, but also to take sides in the conflict between rival businessmen Zach Gold and Bill Banks. On top of that, there’s also a very real competitive multiplayer element, where you have to recruit attacker units to muck up cities built by other players and compete to see who can build the best city in a limited amount of time.
“After less than one year on US soil, it is incredibly encouraging to already have a second title going gold,” Shohei Yoshioka, CEO of COLOPL NI, Inc., said in a press release. “We started with an action RPG designed for the portable lifestyle for our first title, and with Downtown Showdown, we are contributing our own hybrid genre to the world of mobile games.”

Some of the key features that help make Downtown Showdown what one early reviewer on the App Store has called “a cross between Sim City and Clash of Clans” include the following:

• Hundreds of building units: Choose from a rich selection of residential, commercial, and industrial buildings to place around town to satisfy and attract residents.
• 7 types of Attackers: Level up and deploy spies, graffiti artists, monsters, and more to destroy rival cities and pillage resources like timber, food, and coins!
• Showdown real-time competitive building mode: Face off against other players to build the most strategically sound city possible within a limited time.
• Worldwide contest: Build the best city possible to rise up the leaderboard and improve the team’s score. Trophies are awarded each week to the winning team. Will Zach Gold or Bill Banks emerge victorious?
• Friendly travel between cities: Visit friends’ cities to help them recover from Attacker invasions and share resources to speed development.

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