

If you dont have a CityVille Skies blimp toy, touch the virtual blimp on the screen with 2 fingers to play. Touch the blimp and watch the engines start as you take to the sky to start flying and completing your quests. Pilot your blimp over the cityscape to pick up passengers, transport building materials and more!If you have a CityVille Skies blimp toy, place it on your iPad screen. In early 2011 the original reached an eye-popping 100 million active players - a feat no other social game has accomplished.Toy meets iPad play experience.THIS APP WORKS WITH THE CITYVILLE SKIES BLIMP WHICH IS COMING TO STORES NEAR YOU SOON!Now you can explore CityVille from above! In CityVille Skies, you can use your blimp toy with your iPad to fly over your city and go on quests to help citizens. The original CityVille remains one of the company's most popular titles. Zynga undoubtedly hopes that the launch of CityVille 2 will reverse the company's shrinking player base and stock price. Testing a high profile mobile game in a smaller territory is a common tactic for social game makers. TechCrunch reports that the title is currently available for testing in the Philippines. The title is currently in closed beta testing, with an open beta & launch presumably to follow in the coming weeks.


New to the formula is a much more robust crafting tree, another idea borrowed from the more complex and properly "game-like" FarmVille 2.

CityVille 2 will see the return of neighbor visits, friend-staffed construction crews and a large variety of buildables. Although the sparse announcement post didn't specify, it is also very likely that CityVille 2 is another Zynga title built on Flash 11, giving the company access to the right mouse button for gameplay functions and other usability improvements. Like FarmVille 2, this city building sequel maintains the same semi-overhead viewpoint, with one major difference: the graphics are rendered in full 3D instead of 2D like most of Zynga's previous releases.
