If you have kids, ever want kids, or just happen to have kids in your house sometimes and you love video games then this is a game you need to check out.  Available on the XBOX Live Marketplace (you need to have a silver or gold membership to download!) for 800 points, A Kingdom for Keflings is one of the most interesting, addicting, non-stressful, colorful video games I have ever played.  The first xbox live arcade game to offer in game  use of your NXE Avatar, you play a giant that helps the Keflings (they are pretty tiny) gather resources and build their kingdom.  There are no winners or losers and the pace of the game is as fast as you want it to be.  Filled with department store muzak (not too annoying but after hour 9 of playing i was jamming to my ipod and had the music turned off!) colorful imaginitave buildings and a customizable world where you can spread your kingdom out as you wish, Kelfings delivers a great fun gameplay.  The most eye brow raising this game will cause is your giant’s ability to kick the little keflings if they aren’t working, but no one gets hurt (if you are having a particularly bad day this is quite fun) and you get a good laugh from those watching as your giant becomes the work enforcer!  Other great aspects involve up to four player multiplayer so that you are your friends can build kingdoms together and have fun helping the keflings live and be happy.

This is definitely a great game if you have young ones or are looking for a safe game to play with youth students at church!

Check it out at http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/a/akfkxboxlivearcade/

Though the gameplay can get a little repetitive when gathering resources it does help expand the mind in designing efficient worlds and in remembering how blue prints go together to form buildings.  This is a great game, completely worth the 800 Microsoft points!

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