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Dora the Explorer: Backpack Adventure

Dora the Explorer: Backpack Adventure

List Price: $19.99
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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Disappointing Dora
Review: It's too bad that this title is nowhere near as good as the Nick Jr. TV show. It starts out nicely, but is short on content and gameplay and is very repetitive. The movies become dull, and children cannot click through them which caused alot of frustration.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: My 3 year was bored after 3 plays the first day.
Review: I would have to agree with the other reviewers of this game. This game looks and sounds like it is 3 to 4 years old, Infogames must have been put on a quick deadline to get it done. Graphics are very poor, details are lacking, and there is very little a child can explore on their own. There is little incentive to play it again after completing it one time at each skill level. My daughter loves Dora, but has not wanted to play this game since the day we brought it home. My advice would be to wait until it appears in the bargain bin at the store.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: good for 10 minutes of entertainment
Review: My 3 year old completed the backpack adventure in 10 minutes. Then she completed the hardest setting in another 10 minutes. Now the game sits on the shelf and she won't touch it because it's way too easy even for a three year old. Save your money on this one.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Look, I am all done.
Review: The overall design is great but there is only about 20 minutes of playtime. The game is very much like a TV show, you watched it and it's over.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Not worth the money, gets old very fast
Review: Our 3 year old wouldn't leave the store without this, so we gave in since it looked like a good educational, and fun program. Unfortunately, once you have played the game once (which takes all of 20 minutes)you have pretty much exhausted it for entertainment value. Oh sure, you can change the level to increase the difficulty but it really doesn't alter the game play, it just adds a few more items to each "puzzle". Although from the packaging we had high hopes for this game, we ended up being extremely disappointed.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Just like the show
Review: Just got this yesterday for our 3 yr old and it was terrific - just like the TV show. I had wondered why there were no "Dora" computer games when the show is so tailored to pointing and clicking and choosing what to do next. Two things I wish were different - they don't sing the whole song when they start on their trip to the library (Come on, vamanos, everybody let's go - they stop just before "Where are we going? -To the Lib-rar-y, yada yada yada) and I wish there were more adventures you can go on. You get just one path to follow to the library. VERY cute and a great game, even without the changes I would make.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Dora
Review: Dora's backpack adventure was too easy. My three and a half year old completed level 2 in about 15-20 minutes. The third level is only harder because it the activities are in Spanish. She loves Dora but was bored with it the second time around.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Very poor
Review: The children's show Dora the Explorer is ready made for computer games but unfortunately Infogrames has done a terrible job putting this together.

1.The game is full of glitches, I have run it on a MAC and a PC and have had problems with it on both platforms.

2. The game is VERY limited, my son loves Dora but was bored with this after a few plays.

3. My advice is save your money and buy some Dora books
instead.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Dora the Explorer takes you a short and boring journey
Review: My 4 year-old daughter completed this game in less than a half-hour. The short-length of the game actually caused her too cry! I was shocked at the lack of depth in the game given that it weighed in at over 250MB for the install.

She's crying as I type this. "I don't like this game!"

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Atari must really hate paying customers!!
Review: Well I would give this more stars if Atari support weren't so terrible!! The only reason I give it 2 stars is because my daughter loves Dora and likes playing this game because there are plenty of activities to try and places to go. HOWEVER, Atari seems to want to force you (due to their prehistoric copy-protection scheme) to keep the CD-ROM in the drive at all times in order to play the game! How ridiculous! Even though I paid good money for this game and it installed on my hard drive, it does not let you run it from your hard drive. Atari told me that you need to have the CD-ROM in to play it and they "cannot help me get around the copy protection". Well I don't know about anyone else's toddlers, but my 2 year old just loves to open the CD-ROM and take discs out to play with. So this leaves me out of luck if the disc becomes scratched after she's done with it! I think Atari should trust their paying customers a little more and allow them to install the game FULLY to their hard drive... if for nothing else to protect their investment! I will never buy another game by Atari because of this. They have no regards for their paying customers.


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