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No doubt FGOL is working on content updates - new sharks, pets, environments - but more significant is the lack of competitive or multiplayer aspects. There are daily missions but they aren't particularly engaging. More speculatively, though, once players have unlocked the top tier of sharks, it's not clear why they would then stay playing. It sets a clear requirement: the way to access the best sharks is through commitment, be it in the form of buying hard currency or many hours of grinding. This is a great way to engage players, as by the time the game gets monetarily demanding, they're absorbed. Pets are one nice way of boosting your score This is where the main hook - no pun intended - of the game lies: the first few hours of Hungry Shark World boasts a smooth progression, but as you get to the more powerful sharks, IAPs become more and more compelling. Still, it is easy to notice that, as you advance, the number of coins or gems needed to unlock sharks and buy goodies increases more rapidly than the number of gained coins. More significant is the lack of competitive or multiplayer aspects.īut you can also buy a pink wig, hula skirt, bow tie, sombrero, laser gun or tiki torch amongst many other items to pimp your shark, both visually and in terms of its characteristics. Rewarded video ads are a key indirect monetisation method in Hungry Shark WorldĪnd gems are the really valuable option in terms of unlocking larger and more aggressive sharks. so you can see that each gem is worth 100 gold. Of course, if you want to progress faster in the meta-game, you can buy gold and gems in the store. This is the key monetisation loop for Hungry Shark World. There's a limit of two video revives, and the gem cost increases every time you die. When it's full, you enter the gold rush mode, which is a limited time period when everything is golden - a great opportunity to boost your treasure.īut, as with all endless games, at some point your shark's life will deplete and it will be game over, unless you spend some gems or watch a rewarded video ad ( Mobile Strike most likely!) to regain your life. To bring additional spice to the experience, you'll come across gold fish to eat, which slowly fill up your gold meter. Otherwise, eat it.Īs you devour other creatures, you'll also be getting experience, and accumulating the game's two currencies: gold (softer) and gems (harder). In terms of gameplay - just as in nature - if it's larger than you, spiky or odd-looking, avoid it. The more you eat, the more points you get and the longer you survive. In total there are 17 different sharks to unlock.

You start off as a blacktip reef shark, only being able to munch on small fish, turtles, crabs and tourists.

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Its art design is more cartoony - potentially widening its appeal - while, more importantly, it's the first game in the series to be designed from the ground up with F2P retention and monetisation in mind. The fifth game in Ubisoft/FGOL's Hungry Shark series, Hungry Shark World shares most of the core gameplay elements with its predecessors. This time, we’re diving into the depths of Hungry Shark World, the latest chomp-'em up in the series from Ubisoft-owned studio Future Games of London. The end goal is to see whether the game makes a good enough case for us to part with our cash, or whether players are content - or engaged enough - to 'freeload'. In each instalment, we consider the incentives or pressure applied to make in-app purchases, their perceived value, the expansion offered by IAPs and the overall value of the experience. Welcome back to the In-App Purchase Inspector - our regular look at free-to-play games from the consumer's perspective.

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