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If you thought Build a Lot 3 is one of those boring sequels without anything new, you are wrong. The game has some fresh new challenges and alternations that encourages players to strategize. The third installment transports you to the lush green valleys of Europe where you spend your time building and renovating English Cottages, Swiss chalets and Spanish haciendas. Its intuitive point-and-click interface is complemented with informative menus that help you to play the game.
For beginners, there is a tutorial mode that touches the important aspects of gameplay. Apart from the tutorial mode, the game includes a campaign and a casual mode. The campaign mode has 43 challenging levels whereas the casual mode is more like a sand-box mode that promises extra hours of gameplay.
The campaign levels come up with different challenges such as building a certain number of properties, earning rental income and raising a town’s curb appeal. The game does not limit you to expand your real estate empire in a single location unlike other Build a Lot games, but allows you to fly back and forth between England, Spain and Switzerland. Thanks to the passport system!
Build a Lot 3 allows you to paint and landscape houses to increase their curb appeal. You can get clever by buying a cheap derelict building, renovate it, put a new coat of paint and sell it at a neat profit. In fact, one of the most fun features is painting houses with different colors. You can also build landmarks around low curb appeal buildings to have a positive impact on customers. But, beware as building industrial buildings can lower curb appeal.
New features in Build a Lot 3 game include weather systems and various random crises. The weather system introduces rain and snow weather conditions. These are not for fancy purposes. The weather conditions affect the pace of the game, especially when you are doing some outdoor jobs like repairing and painting.
The introduction of various crises adds more entertainment to the game. Your properties may get engulfed by fire or some troublesome neighbor may disturb the neighborhood, anything can happen. These random occurrences never cease and discourage you to collect rent. But, if you build friendly service stations like hospitals or fire stations you can get saved from any unnecessary expenses.
