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Oregon Trail 5th Edition

Oregon Trail 5th Edition

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Awesome Game!
Review: The Oregon Trail is no disappointment to people who want a challenging, fun game! The graphics are solid and the begginning is fun, but the middle is the best. If you want to relive the Sims mixed with problem solving geography, and also even history involved, this is the game for you. Highly reccomended!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: A VERY CHEAP GAME!
Review: THIS EDTION IS THE WORST!! FIRST OF ALL IT IS ALMOST AN EXACT COPY OF OREGON TRAIL 2, EXCEPT FOR A FEW CHANGES! THEY HAVE TAKEN MUSIC FROM THE OTHER VERSIONS, LOOKS LIKE THEY COULD HAVE COME UP WITH NEW MUSIC!! THE NEW CHARACTERS BAD, THEY LOOK LIKE THEY ARE FOR 1ST OR 2ND GRADERS! THE MUSIC OVERLAPS, THE THEME SONG PLAYES WHILE THE MUSIC IN THE TOWN PLAYES. I WOULD NOT RECOMEND BUYING THIS GAME!!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Oregon Trail 5th Edition
Review: This game moves along very slowly and my son quickly become bored. In order to run this game on Windows XP Home Edition, you will have to jump through some hoops to get it to work with compatibility mode.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Oregon Trail 5
Review: This is a wonderful game. It teaches more valuable lessons while learning about the historical oregontrail. In addition it's fun. Any child or adult would enjoy this game.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: More stable but less interesting than version 4
Review: Version 4 was full of bugs and agonizingly slow but it clearly reflected an effort to expand the game and make it more interesting.

This version reverses direction. It is quite stable and should run on just about any recently purchased Windows computer.

The trade off is the game play is diminished. The other members of your party no longer have occupations or much personality. The screen no longer scrolls as you hunt. There are less choices to make and overall the game is more likely to bore the adult who tries to play it with children. The only thing not simpler is the the purchasing that still confused my 9 year old brother (who is good at math) so badly I had to make his purchases for him to keep him from quitting.

The lack of feedback at the end of the game is quite irritating. No longer can you tell what items that you were carrying were worth something once you got to to Oregon. So you can't tell what to bring next time. Was the Grandfather clock worth more in Oregon? How about the extra supplies your carried? You will never know.

Overall it is a big step down from version 4 except for being more stable.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Cute game
Review: When my Oregon Trail 2 game stopped playing audio I went with this game. I liked the cartoons of following the pioneer children along the Oregon trail which you're not forced to watch if you've played the game 100 times and dont want to listen to the dialogue anymore. I like the hunting, fishing, and gathering options though on hunt mode it seems as though theres more wildlife despite conditions that would dictate otherwise. All in all the gameplay is solid, but disappointingly similar to Oregon Trail 2. I was expecting a few more options with this game. But for the price, I cant complain too loudly

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Good Solid Game
Review: Wow, when the reviews I'd read said it was an update of Oregon Trail 2, they weren't kidding. It is almost exactly the same, with a few great updates (the fishing and gathering options, as well as the story of the Montgomery family). I really enjoy this game, and always have. I think they probably could have done a bit more improving on the old version 2, but I'll still play with great enjoyment very often.


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