Urban Rivals

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title = Urban Rivals
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developer = Acute Mobile
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designer = LLCz Productions
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released = 17-Jan-2006
genre = Strategy Card Game
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platforms = PC
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requirements = Flash or Java
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Urban Rivals is a massively multiplayer online game played using cards. [http://www.urban-rivals.com/ Official Site] -Official Site]

General information

Urban Rivals is a free online multi-player card game. Each card represents a character (some of which are based on real people or well-known fictional characters). Each character has a specific Power and Damage, and belongs to a clan. Some cards have abilities that are either triggered or countered by another card's ability. However, a card should be at a certain level to reach that ability.

Gameplay

After each fight, players receive battle points. These points are used to upgrade one's player level. More points are earned from fighting against a player with a higher ranking, from having a character defeat a higher level opponent, or leveling up after a fight. A bonus is given if a player has Pillz remaining after inflicting a KO. But if the battle times out, whoever caused the game to time out gets nothing.

Characters receive experience after each fight, with which they level up and become stronger. The current level is displayed on the character's card with yellow stars. The total number of stars shows the maximum level. Characters earn more XP when fighting characters at higher level and when they win.

A player's level is based on their current number of battle points. When a player reaches Level 5, they can join a Guild. Upon reaching Level 10, they can create their own Guild. Upon reaching Level 15, they can play in ELO mode. In all cases, every time the player reaches levels 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, and 50, they get a free Leader card.

Clintz are the currency in Urban Rivals. They may be obtained by fighting, selling characters, or winning tournaments.

Credits may be purchased for money, and used to buy booster packs. They can also be earned from ELO tournaments and from daily tournaments.

Tournaments

Every other hour, there are one-hour tournaments where players have the opportunity to win Clintz or free credits. There are also more strategy-based ELO tournaments, which last a week. In ELO, players start out with 1000 points. A player can challenge anyone up to 150 points above him/her, or up to 50 points below. [ [http://www.urban-rivals.com/game/rules.php?show=elo Urban Rivals - Game's Rules: The ELO system (level 15+) ] ] Players gain more points from defeating higher-point opponents, but will also lose more points if they lose to low-point opponents. If you do not play in ELO for a few days, your score will gradually reset to 1000. At the end of the week, the top three players receive a collector card. The players who scored 4th-100th receive a random Rare card.

Comics

A free online comic book is published biweekly on Urban Rivals official website since December, 2007.

Critical reaction

"Urban Rivals" received 88% from Game Vortex [cite web|url=http://www.gamevortex.com/gamevortex/soft_rev.php/3459/clint-urban-rivals-pc.html|title = Clint: Urban Rivals review|author=Ricky Tucker] and 7.1 from Jolt Online Gaming. [cite web|url=http://www.jolt.co.uk/index.php?articleid=9459|title=Review: Urban Rivals (PC)|date=Thursday August 30th 2007|author=Colin J Barnwell]

References

External links

* [http://www.urban-rivals.com/ Official site] In English