The Croods

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  • Summary: From the creators of Angry Birds and the creative minds at DreamWorks Animation: a FREE new game based on the upcoming motion picture phenomenon! Meet the world’s first modern family: The Croods! These cavemen are breaking out of the Stone Age with the use of a new r-evolutionary tool:From the creators of Angry Birds and the creative minds at DreamWorks Animation: a FREE new game based on the upcoming motion picture phenomenon! Meet the world’s first modern family: The Croods! These cavemen are breaking out of the Stone Age with the use of a new r-evolutionary tool: the IDEA! The Croods will Hunt & Gather their way through spectacular new landscapes as they tame fantastic and never-seen-before creatures. Help The Croods survive the wild…and each other!Pre-hysterical Features: - Trap & tame 10 evolutionarily mixed- up creatures! You’ve never seen anything like the Girelephant or Molarbear! Think you can catch them all?- Create wacky inventions with Grug to open and explore new areas!- Decorate your pre-historic world with the latest in caveman fashion accessories!- Meet your favorite characters from the feature animation film from DreamWorks Animation!PLEASE NOTE! The Croods is completely free to play, but some in-game items can be purchased for real money. If you don’t want to use this feature, please disable in-app purchasesAlso, please note that a network connection is required to play.Find out more:www.rovio.com/thecroodswww.thecroodsmovie.comBecome a fan of Rovio and The Croods on Facebook:www.facebook.com/RovioEntertainmentwww.facebook.com/theCroodsFollow Rovio on Twitter:http://twitter.com/RovioHQTerms of Use: http://www.rovio.com/eulaPrivacy Policy: http://www.rovio.com/privacyThis free version of The Croods contains third party advertisements. Please see our privacy policy for additional information.… Expand
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  1. Positive: 0 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 6
  3. Negative: 4 out of 6
  1. Pocket Gamer UK
    Apr 1, 2013
    50
    First off, The Croods is extremely slow to get going. Secondly, though Rovio has added a little bit of thought here, it's not sufficient to elevate The Croods above the overcrowded freemium building masses.
  2. 148Apps
    Mar 19, 2013
    50
    It's tough not to be cynical when confronted by such an uninspired freemium town building sim such as this. It hardly uses the movie license well.
  3. Modojo
    Mar 18, 2013
    40
    In The Croods, there's very little to do except draw yourself inevitably towards the murky world of in-app purchases, and given the current climate and presumed audience for the game, that may not turn out to be the wisest move for Disney or Rovio.
  4. Gamezebo
    Mar 22, 2013
    40
    Ultimately, The Croods is a slow, mediocre game that doesn’t require you to do much beyond tap the screen on occasion. Only the littlest fans of the movie will get anything out of it—and you might want to turn off in-app purchases before you let them get too far.
  5. MacLife
    Mar 20, 2013
    30
    The Croods isn’t the kind of game you’d expect from a Rovio and DreamWorks partnership, and it fails to leverage the strengths of either while beckoning for your wallet.
  6. Digital Spy
    Mar 19, 2013
    20
    Whether the game is just poorly thought out or a cynical cash-grab to prey on children and their parents' wallets is debatable, but either way The Croods demands far too much time for too little reward to be worth a download.

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  1. TheQuietGamer
    Oct 3, 2014
    5
    Another village-building game. Outside of characters and some creature designs it doesn't really do much with the material from the fantasticAnother village-building game. Outside of characters and some creature designs it doesn't really do much with the material from the fantastic family-movie. As always with these free-to-play village/town builders, you'll do a lot of waiting on timers. For whatever reason they just feel a lot slower than the average game of this type, making progress feel almost non-existant. Of course the game offers up micro-transactions to help speed things up, something you want to watch out for if you're thinking about downloading this for the young movie fans in your house.

    However with little in the way of fan-service and snail paced progress, you're probably better off not considering this one at all. It's a rather dull use of the movie's name and just isn't much fun at all. Younger fans might get a kick out of it for a little bit, but they'll probably just ditch it quickly and get back to Angry Birds. It really is just a waste of time.    … Expand

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