现在，社交网站Facebook中不乏各种城市建设和军队建造类游戏。而最近，社交游戏开发公司MegaZebra将这两大游戏元素融合于其新款游戏Magic Island之中。玩家可以在其中打造一个资源充沛，军备雄厚的社会，并实现自己统领全球的梦想。

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据游戏邦了解，游戏开始，玩家首先要在自己的城市（Home Island）建造市政厅（Town Hall）。作为Home Island的中心，市政厅可以确保玩家在进军全球的过程中仍保有安全稳固的后方阵地。随着市政厅不断升级，玩家可以解锁更多的建筑类别，这些将有助于玩家最终实现统治全球的梦想。

另外，玩家在游戏中建造各种建筑都需要集齐一定的资源，如金矿，石材和木材等。首先，玩家只能建造部分基本设施，完成任务后将获得大量的资源奖励。另一方面，玩家也可运用采石场，金矿等生产性建筑采集各种资源。生产类建筑的等级越高，单位时间内采集的资源就会越多。

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据游戏邦了解，玩家如果想在游戏初始阶段快速提升等级可以使用游戏虚拟货币Diamonds立即完成建筑建造。初始阶段，城市可容纳的建筑数量有限，玩家需要提升等级才能容纳更多的高级建筑。

在资源采集方面，玩家可以通过各种技术研究提高采集速度。以建筑学为例，完成对该门学科的研究之后，玩家建造各种建筑所需的时间将有多将少。除此之外，玩家只能静待系统时间的流逝或者寻求好友的帮助。

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在Magic Island中，直到玩家完成船厂建设并拥有可行驶到其他玩家城市的船只之前，该款游戏并不提供任何的社交活动。同样战斗系统也要求玩家的城市中要配备可以生产展示的步兵营。

根据上述讲解，Magic Island可以先使用Diamonds加速任务完成，解锁各种建筑建设，开发不同的军队如步兵，铠甲兵等。完成之后，玩家就可以开始向自己统治全球的梦想迈进。当然，玩家可以先到好友的城市中一探虚实。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

While there are plenty of city-building games available on Facebook, and even quite a few games that allow you to build up an army or head into battle against others, MegaZebra is hoping to combine the best of both of these worlds with their newest Facebook game – Magic Islands.

Magic Islands seems to be especially worthwhile for those players on a slower internet connection, as it is played through mostly static images. That isn’t to say there isn’t a lot going on here, however, as you’ll be able to build a resource-heavy or arms-heavy society and then take your resources (or military powers) and spread your domination to the far reaches of the Earth.

Meet us behind the break for more details about Magic Islands on Facebook.

You’ll start building your Magic Islands by creating a town hall – securing a Home Island that will be your safe haven as you start to build up an army capable of conquering the entire world. Your Town Hall serves as the central hub of your Home Island. AS you upgrade the Town Hall, you’ll unlock access to purchasing and building other kinds of structures, all of which will help you in your quest for world domination.

Each building that you’d like to construct requires varying amounts of resources, which come in the form of Gold, Stone, and Wood. You’ll complete quests to start the game, allowing you to complete the construction on some basic buildings, with these quests rewarding you with mass amounts of these resources. Otherwise, you can use your constructed buildings, like Stone Pits, Gold Mines and the like to generate more of these resources, that can be collected over time. You can upgrade these structures to produce more Gold, Stone, etc. per hour, and therefore more resources overall in a 24 hour period.

In order to upgrade your town more quickly at the start of your journey, you can spend Diamonds, the game’s premium currency to instantly complete the construction on any building. Your town can only hold so many different buildings at the start, and you’ll be able to upgrade this capacity as you go along.

In addition to gathering resources, you’ll be able to perform research into various technologies, the first of which is Architecture. The items that you research will have a real impact on your gameplay experience. In this Architecture example, for instance, you’ll be able to speed up the construction time for buildings once you’ve learned it. You can either wait for the required amount of time to pass so that you’ll learn these new technologies, or you can ask your friends for instant help.

Magic Islands doesn’t really become a game about social activity until you’ve finished the first few quests in the game, and have upgraded your Island to the point of having a Shipyard, capable of creating ships that can travel to other settlements and perform various actions. As for battles themselves, this too will require some upgrading on your Home Island, as you’ll need to unlock and build the Barracks, where troops can be produced just as buildings like the Stone Pit produce Stone, as an example.

In this way, the gameplay does seem to be rather slow to start, but can easily be quickened by spending Diamonds to instantly complete tasks. Once you have unlocked the ability to form armies, you’ll have different kinds of units (Soldiers, Guards, and so on), and will be able to send your troops out to battle. You’ll also be able to visit the lands of your friends to see how their progress has gone in comparison to your own.

Magic Islands has already gathered a few thousand players in the very short time that it’s been available. We’re not sure if it has enough staying power to really make a mark in the Facebook gaming world, but we’re glad to see a game that combines more than one genre in a way that technically works. （Source：Games.com）