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Summary: A great game for animal lovers!
Review: I bought this game for my 3 1/2 year old for Christmas 2003. When I got it I realized that it was for ages 5 and up. Well...I put it in my computer and let my daughter play it anyway. At first it was hard and got her frustrated (she's only 3 1/2). Now...she will play this game for hours upon hours if I let her! She LOVES it! She loves saving the animals, cleaning them up, giving them water and playing with them. The graphics are so life like and adorable! She gets so excited whenever she plays it. It amazes me that she has pretty much mastered this game! The main thing that you're kids will learn with this game is problem solving. I think this game is great and recommend it to anyone...even younger then 5 years old. Definately a great buy!
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Summary: This is a GREAT game for girls!!!
Review: I bought this game last week for my daughters and they have played with it almost non-stop! The animals are very lifelike and cute. They love being able to give the puppies a bath, pick burrs off the bunnies, and brushing all of them. The games are challenging, but not too hard. They can pick which animal they want to play the games with. The only thing that my daughters haven't liked is that they haven't gotten to bandage or "doctor" a rescued pet. The supplies are in the check-up room, but they aren't allowed to get to them. This may actually be good, so they won't try "doctoring" their pets at home, but if that is the case they should have Barbie explain why they aren't allowed to get into that cabinet---or maybe they haven't found the right pet yet. Either way, this game is truly worth buying.
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Summary: AWSOME
Review: I love all the cute animals espeshily NutMeg the hamster. When I first played the games and rescues were kind of hard but I am getting better. My favorite game is KittenKeepAway. I love the way people con adopt animals. Well thats my opinion thanks.
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Summary: from a person that loves animals
Review: I love this game! In it you get emails or telephone calls saying that different people need your help because they saw or lost an animal, and they need you to go help them. You don't have to go on these missions if you don't want to though. The thing that I don't like about it though is that there are only about fifteen missions to go on. Once you rescue an animal, you take them into the vet area to take care of them. You give them a bath, feed them, and do other things with them. There are some great games that you can play, like a turtle obstacle course/race, a game where you try to get the treat into the puppy's mouth, and a hamster maze. Sometimes the hamster gets out and you have to try and find him. Once again, I love this game!
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Summary: Great for most, but not the one I care for
Review: I was surprised by the great reviews on this game, so it must just be me and the five year old I bought it for. I was so excited to buy this game for her. She LOVES animals, especially dogs, and I thought this would be great for her. Unfortunatly she hasn't played it for more than an hour. She finds the hamster maze extremely frustrating, as do I. She wanted to give the golden retriever a bath when she first started but was unable to. She could only bathe the pets she rescued, or so I am told. She was also annoyed that only Stacey could answer the phone for the rescue. She asked how come Barbie couldn't answer it. I give it a three star, because the graphics are really nice and it seemed to have a good story line. It just didn't impress the five year old much. Guess she'll stick to the Putt-Putt games.
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Summary: THE MOST ADORABLE (maintence free) PETS EVER!
Review: My 6 year old daughter received this CD-ROM for Christmas, and, ignoring all her other multitudes of gifts, proceeded to play it for the entire day! The graphics on this program are just so life-like AND the faces on these little critters are just so ADORABLE you can't help but fall in love with them! This program is wonderful for encouraging empathy and caring, and for encouraging problem solving skills! There are MANY different missions that require your child's "help" in rescuing various animals (including a monkey and a cockatoo!) from all sorts of sneaky and precarious spots! There's also a vet center (but no bills to pay!) and fun games in the playroom that include a turtle race and a hamster maze. In addition, your child is encouraged to pet and groom the critters. All in all, a wonderful product - my only complaint is that you couldn't CLICK on more things to make them "do stuff"! But that's just me! A SUPER PROGRAM, nonetheless; ESPECIALLY for young girls who love animals!
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Summary: Okay for a rainy day
Review: My mom got me this game for christmas and I loved it. Now that was two yrs ago. Now I only play it when i'm really bored which is like never. One you get all your paw and purr awards it is just the same rescues over and over again.And also the thing that annoys me the most is that you can never keep any parrots once you rescue them. Also how do you know if the turtles were not wild to begin with? On the positive side the puppie kittens and rabbits were so life like. Overall a good game but play only if you are really bored and you need to pass the time.
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Summary: Overall, one of the better Barbie games.
Review: The graphics in this game are adorable. The Barbie Pet Rescue Center looks like a very homey animal hospital. It is very modern...she has a computer for storing the animals' records and getting new missions via email. The check up room is realistic looking. You can bathe dogs, pull burrs off rabbits, and give out water and vitamins and dog biscuits (even to animals who are not dogs.) The play room is just so cute. There are two sections under Stacey's watch. The three puppies (a beagle, a dalmatian, and a yellow lab) sit in baskets and play a treat-catching game. The hamsters are cute but the game is very hard. I'm no good at it (and I'm 14. Yes, and I'm playing this game!) The bunny game on the other hand is so easy I completed it in 6 seconds, exactly. Then there are the kittens. Their game is with a wind up mouse and the arrow keys on the keyboard. Their little maze of cat furniture is very realistic. The turtle race game is fun but takes a long time. And last but NOT least is Sage, a golden retriever who, despite her habit of chasing chickens, is adorable. Her little doghouse has a yard and pillows inside...it's so cute...if this was real I'd adopt her! Anyway, the object of the game is to go on rescue missions with Barbie. Although amusing at first, you usually complete all the various reacues quickly, and then it gets monotonous. Barbie moves very strangely, for as great as the animation of this game seems to be. The missions involve clicking on useful objects to guide a reluctant animal towards you, then bringing it back to the center. There are a few problems. One: All the animals are referred to as females. Highly unlikely. Two: Almost all of them belong to families who are missing them. The emails and phone calls say "I think they're in Hideaway Hollow" or wherever. So...if the owner knows where the pet is, why don't they go get it themselves instead of calling Barbie? Three: Why does every single animal need coaxing? Four: For every animal Barb says "Her vital signs are strong. What a healthy girl!" Why don't some of them need medical attention? It would be educational if they allowed kids to help Barbie with a virtual operation...but I'm digging too deeply into this. There are a few unrealistic things, and it can get boring after a while, but overall the Pet Rescue is really cute and fun.
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Summary: What A good Game
Review: This game is great and I love all the games except the kitten keep away. But otherwise the game is the coolest and I am hoping to by one know and it would be so cool if you could send me one for free. Much love Britney.
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Summary: A Nice Game
Review: This game was quiet enjoyable and the graphics were very good. You rescue different animals -- dogs, bunnies, cats ect. -- during the game. After rescuing the animals, you take them back to the 'PRC' (Pet Rescue Center) to give them a check-up and name them.
One of the things that's kind of annoying is that the animals Barbie rescues are always girls. I'm a girl, so it really shouldn't matter, but that makes the game pretty un-realistic.
Also, you'll find the animals in odd places that they couldn't get to or trapped in in real life. The adventures you go on to rescue the animal are always the same. And, Barbie will rescue turtles, which she really shouldn't be able to tell whether they are pets or wild.
Anyway, it was a nice game all around. I recomend it for eight and under. If your son or daughter likes animals, this would be the game for them!
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