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Summary: the new edition
Review: I was surprised that Dogz 5 came out, I'd been a fan since the original Dogz and it had taken a 2 year or so break.
But, the game is pretty worth it, the scenes are cool, some people don't like that it loads too slow, but mine is fine, I've had no problems.
The annoying thing is the host characters, when your teaching your petz a trick or trying to get them to fall in love one comes baralling out and knocks everything around.
I love all the new toys, though some seem pretty pointless ([stink]as the Christmas Balls... there is no Christmas Tree).
The new breedz are cool, and the new litters idea is also cool.
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Summary: not the best petz game...
Review: ubi did a very poor job of debugging this program. it hardly runs and it crashes a lot. none of the games work and it takes up a ton of disk space. it installs extra stuff that it shouldn't w/o prompting (direct x, acrobat, who knows what else...) petz 3 is the best version imo, if you have win 95/98, get p3 instead.
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Summary: Dogz 5 - Who let the Dogz out?
Review: I bought Dogz5 for my grand-daughter and all of the features provide her with hours of enjoyment. I give it an enthusiastic 5 stars!
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Summary: Grrrreat Game!!!!
Review: Hello everybody! I have just recieved Dogz 5 in the mail and have been playing it since!!! I think it is a grrreat improvement than the other Petz gamez. Okay, here it goes:1. Breedz- Definitely an improvement. Updated graphics make your petz seem real and lifelike. There's also five new breedz: Pappilion, Golden Retreiver, German Shephard, Pug, and Jack Russell. I have a Jack Russell named Nina and boy is she such a sport! She's already an adult and has lost all the spots on her back. Her ears are more a dark-brown than the honey-hazel ears she had when she was a puppy. 2. Toyz/Clothez- I was surprised when I went into the Salon to go dress Nina for the first time. There's many more cool clothez than there were in Petz 4 including: An Arabian Princess outfit, denim jeans, black leather jeans, a cooool red-plaid vest and so much much more! The toyz look like they are real and the fish in the fishbowl are definetely cool. You even have to feed them with Fish food! 3. Playscenes- All the Playscenes are purty cool, including the South Seas Island. Your Petz can dig up bottles with messages in them ,gold doubloons, and pirate treasure. Also there is a Playscene editor where you can make your own Playscenes. 4. Host Characters- The Host characters are so funny! Misha, the Jack Russell that comes out to play with your petz at the Circus grounds cracks me up. She keeps doing backflips and ends up landing on her back. The pig who comes out in the Backyard snorts up a storm and she's best friends with Nina. 5. Mini-Games- The Mini Gamez are a bit challenging at first but you have to keep on practicing to get it just right. You win toyz at the mini-gamez and you can store them in the Supply Case. Speaking of Supply Case, you have to store all the toyz you find in Playsccenez and such in the Supply Case. There's no Toy Closet. I enjoy that feature cause it kept annoying me you had to keep going back to that room to get toyz in previous gamez. Now in Petz 5 you have all the toys right there ready to play with your Petz. Overall, Petz 5 is a great game, for young and old. It's worth every penny you spend on it.
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Summary: Grrrreat Improvement!!!
Review: Hello everybody! I have just purchased and have recieved the game and have liked it alot. I disagree with all the negative reviews being written about Petz 5. People should at least respect that the men and women who made the game put alot of effort and arm grease into creating this product. The mini-games are cool, and challenging. They may be hard at first, but you have to keep on practicing to get it right. All the host characters crack me up. Especially the bulldog with the beard dressed in a pirate outfit that comes out to play with your petz when you go to the playscene "South Seas Island" There are sooo many cool clothes and toys, including: A lion outfit, a zebra outfit, an elephant outfit (includes ears and trunk !lol!) denim pants, black leather pants, an Arabian princess outfit, Santa Clause outfit, a cool plaid vest, a turban, many more pants, T-shirts, and socks. Unicorn doll, coool leprechaun doll, a fish bowl with real fish you can feed, a nightlight that plugs in real electrical outlets in the Kitchen and Living-Room. Remember, there's so much much more!! I give this game five stars, two thumbs and four paws up. Keep it up P.F Magic and Ubisoft!
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Summary: A Grreat Improvement!!!
Review: Okay, here it goes. Petz 5 is by far the best of all the other Petz Cd's!
The breedz are wonderful, especially my little German Shephard puppy named Rochelle. Here are the names of all the new breedz (sorry if I'm missing any) German Shephard, Pappilion, Golden Retriever, Jack Russell, and Pug. I haven't got Catz 5 yet, but I here there is some wonderful new breedz in that game too.
There are over 100 new toys you can win and find in playscenes (you store all of them in the Supply Case) The mini-games can be challenging, but sooner or later you'll win them. My favorite game so far is Rock-Paper-Scissors. Other people might find the mini-games childish, but even my grandma loves them.
There are tons of new clothes too. In some Playscenes, there is even a Host Character (for example, Jolly Roger, a full-grown Bulldog comes out to play with your dogz in South Seas Island) Some people have been spreading rumors that you don't need to feed your dogz on Petz 5. NOT TRUE!!! In fact, there's even a medicine bottle where you can apply medicine to your pet's food and water if they are sick.
If your petz run away, you can go to the Adoption Center and check out the brown bulletin board to see if anyone has found your pet. If there is a note saying your pet has been found you are given one more chance to give your dog/cat a good life.
I give this game five stars, two thumbs up, and four paws up.
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Summary: The skinny. I'm mad obsessed...
Review: ... Having the toys in the travel case is a nice new feature, but having to play all the mini-gamez to get the toyz is a bit irritating. Now you can only have one mother out at a time and only in the nursery, which is annoying, too. All the features from previous petz is continued except for the toy closet, of course. Excellent how they actually CHANGED it this time- Petz 4 was much the same as 3, but this is really different and worth the money. I don't own it personally as of yet, but my friend has it and we've been experimenting for 5 hours or so. Can't wait til I buy it, I can upload my 100's of petz... ~o~ The new breedz they added have really expanded the possibilities of what one can breed without hexing, yay. Oh, you can't adopt pigz/bunniez anymore, but they were useless anyway. If you really want to see them, there is a pig host in the backyard. (Though I haven't seen a bunny yet)
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Summary: It has it's up and downs
Review: Dogz is, without a doubt, one of the neatest computer games ever made. I was very excited with the release of Dogz 5, though I was slightly disappointed when I got the game. The mini games are okay, but at first confusing. Also, you have to WIN your toys. I have played one of the easiest mini game, a game where you basically swung you're Dogz around to kill the scarabs, and have gotten the same toy over and over and over (and so on). Very rarely do I ever get a new toy. Some important items come with the carrying case (also, you now have your toys in the carrying case, which I think is quite handy. The worst mini game is the Tic-Tac-Toe one. Its very hard to get you're Dogz to land exactly where you want it to. I have to place my Dogz one space below where I want the mark to be. The Dogz breeds are cool, except for the German shepherd. It, with all due respect to the makers of Petz, looks like someone squeezed its muzzle, enlarging its head. It has a huge head. And it looks like it is angry, because of its "eyebrows". The Papillion is cute, but is very hard to train. They jump at the treat, beg, and will not do the trick! I have tried to get my Papillion (on Dogz) to sit for thirty minutes, and I got nowhere. The pet scenes are cool. The bath in the salon [was bad] though. Its the same as putting your Dogz on a chair, it doesn't clean they or anything. The Asian Temple was the worst of the play scenes, mostly because it's basically just a room with a big monkey in it. The monkey is for a mini game, but that's about it. I hope this review helps!
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Summary: catz/dogz
Review: the games are cool. i have all of them except 1,3,and 4. i hope to get 5 for christmas. the others are really cool but i get bored after a while i hope this one is better
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Summary: an improvement, but still needs some work
Review: As a big petz fan, I feel I can give a well-informed review of the game based on my years of playing with them, breeding, owning sites, hexing etc. Here's my down-low on the game: The first thing I noticed about it was that in the manual it says "when you cheat with your computer's calendar to speed up the birth of your Puppyz, the mother will become stuck in her pregnancy status. If this happens, there is no way to fix it! Be patient, don't do it!" This seems pretty threatening, but I still have been able to time-forward without having to deal with stuck pregnancies. There is no longer the Playpen, the Clothes or Toy Closet. The Salon had basically taken over the Clothes Closet. The supply shelf now acts like the Toy Closet, but you will have to do a lot of hunting around in the game to get all the toys. When you win the mini games, you are rewarded with a new toy. I think thats both a positive and a negative. Its positive because you want to spend more time in the game playing to win toys, but negative because when you want a certain toy, it may not be available. As for the Playpen, I wish they wouldn't have taken it out. I don't know about anyone else, but I used it basically as my breeding room because they were no distractions. The new breeds are cool, but I found that the Golden Retriever has a major problem with the sleepy syndrome. When I was in the adoption center, almost every one of them that I took out had the syndrome. I guess they chose not to fix that bug from the last versions. The mini games are fun, but there are some problems with them too. In the agility game, I could not get my dogz to walk full length of the catwalk, all they did was sit there. Also, in the gopher tic-tac-toe, its hard to get your pet to fall on the right spot...it will often drop them on a different square than you wanted it to. I think the easiest game is in Arabia, so if you want to win some toys quickly, I suggest going there first. I guess I've been spending time talking about the negatives, but the game is good overall. The best feature is definitely the litters. It makes a breeders work so much easier :) Thats my review...I give it three and a half stars out of five overall. Hopefully Ubisoft will get some of our improvement suggestions and add a patch so that it will become a five star game.
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