I love this game, I play it often. It’s well designed aesthetically speaking, and it’s fun. My only complaint is that the tiles are too big, making the game not only too short, but unfair. More times than not, I can go through an entire game with not even one opportunity to buy a house or grow a family. This also means it’s a lot harder or nearly impossible to gain attributes and bonus crowns. It drives me crazy. If you spin and land on any number larger than 5 then you’re just gonna breeze through the game with little opportunity to do much of anything. Very frustrating. This is a large part of why I still like certain aspects of the classic game more. Aside from it being a bit dated compared to this game, it’s laid out better in general - more tiles and longer gameplay - and there are way more opportunities to buy houses and build families. Makes things more fair.

I played this game so much with my kids growing up, and my daughter and I played the original Game of Life app many times. We were thrilled to see Life 2, especially with the great reviews. The game was fun the first time, but on the second game, you could already see just how little variety there was. There are maybe five careers to choose from in each side (college versus job). True to the board game, you only get a couple to choose from each time, but after one game with two people, we’d pretty much seen it all. Why not modernize the game and add oodles of careers and a bigger variety of action cards? We love the game, but it was same-ol’-same-ol’ in under an hour. There’s so much potential here. Slso, $4.99 for a new map feels steep, especially if you experience all the options in under an hour. The art and animations are great and expensive to produce, but as a player, I’m more about do I want to play this again? A huge database of careers, action cards, items to buy, classes to take, etc. would go a long way in enticing us to play longer, and since the careers and action cards don’t have animations, it wouldn’t be as labor intensive as creating new maps.

The game of life is of course a basic board game. Although the aspect of the app game that makes it more exciting than the original is the graphics. I think the only setback is the spinner is the only interaction one has with the game. If there was a actual ‘dunk contest’ instead of a spinner rank to decide a winner it would be more fun. The roads should have more interaction with the individual players. If there is more side competitions with players versus a spinner than the game may be better than Mario! Money is a major component of this game. Every turn a person is gaining or losing their money. It could be more interesting if the players switched items or places on the board. Having a cards event interact with the players may be more fun as well. Instead of a card it could be a new direction of the board that op me (like shallow coral reef for a career as shallow water observer). Ball games are always a win so even something simple like a golf or bowling contest would improve the game.