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Epic Pet Wars goes against everything our parents ever taught us. We’re not supposed to like it when any living thing gets hurt. We’re not supposed to make animals fight each other, but lo, have times changed, especially on a digital level. Thanks to Pokemon, it makes perfect sense to some people to hurl trained animals into battle against each other and Epic Pet Wars continues this tradition.

It’s an iPhone based App that also works through Facebook. With around 25,000 members running around, sending balls of fluff into battle, playing it allows you to step into a world filled with animal cruelty and fun. You start by picking a species of pet that appeals to you, with each species with different advantages and disadvantages, you give it a name. From there, your job is to make a strong pet to win battles with and of course, create a posse – much in the same way that a mob is formed in another famous Facebook application, Mafia wars.

It follows the standard fare of statistics, from HP to Energy and so forth. Energy is used for more than fighting, it’s used for foraging, training and of course, petting. PETA, don’t worry – it’s not that strange kind of petting. You need to give your pet some loving and reassurance whenever it loses.

As Epic Pet Wars has the word wars in it, you can expect battle to feature majorly in the game. Unlike many games with a similar system, it provokes more action than simply waiting for the results of your latest battle. If you’ve ever played a console RPG, you’ll recognize the commands immediately, in this case, Attack, Flee and Use an Item. The battle is turn-based. Just like most RPGs, you gain experience and money and you can purchase items such as weapons and armor to make your cute widdle monster into a battling fiend.

You can even invest to provide your creature with constant income. The best part about Epic Pet Wars and one that many Mafia style game players would enjoy is that battling requires no energy at all, which means you can battle as long as your pet is able to. As is always the case with games, there’s a slight hitch – one, the design of the game obviously suggests that you can only play when you’re online. The worst part of it is that there are some options only available to paying customers, which means that if you want, you can literally pay your way into the leaderboards.

Overall, it’s an App that’s really hit and miss for a lot of people, but if you’re going to play a Mafia Style Game, Epic Pet Wars should be on your list of games to try. It’s filled with enough clever innovations to make it stand out from the crowd.