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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 7.5 inches | | Product Width: | 5.5 inches | | Product Height: | 0.5 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.22 pounds | | Package Length: | 7.48 inches | | Package Width: | 5.35 inches | | Package Height: | 0.55 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.22 pounds | | Release Date: | January 21, 2009 | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 28 reviews |
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| | Game Information | | Platform: | Nintendo Wii | | Media: | Video Game | | Item Quantity: | 1 |
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| | Features | Interact with over 30 species of animals in the forestUnlock forest areas such as swamps, woodlands, and castle ruinsInterconnected world changes in real-time based on your actionsDifferent tasks to complete and challenges to solveUp to four players can play together at the same time
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| | Customer Reviews | Average Customer Review: ( 28 customer reviews )
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69 of 73 found the following review helpful:
 My kids love it! Jan 23, 2009
By Angel Ellis
"My Horns hold up my Halo!"
I have a 12 and 10 year old. They have been waiting for this game to come out for months! They have now been playing it non stop and absolutely love it. The graphics are truly beautiful and the animal movements are great! They have also played Viva Pinata, and that is what this game reminds me of! You need to do certain things in order to attract animals to you. (Example: Acorns will bring squirrels). Once the animal comes, you earn it's trust by interaction (petting, feeding ect...) Once you earn a certain species trust, it will unlock chances for a different species to visit you, depending if you have what it takes to attract it or not! The concept is brilliant! Not only are you able to interact with animals, it is teaching kids to be responsible by taking care of their animals. I highly recommend this game to ANYONE that is an animal lover! I'm the mom and even I love it! *grins*
UPDATE:
After playing the game for a bit I personally feel that if there was a game that was a mix between Viva Pinata and Nintendogs....this is it!
Players are able to farm and plant different types of trees and plants for your animals. Certain animals will try and eat the saplings and you must protect them if you want them to mature.
As in life, some species of animals eat other types as a food source. Let's say you have a bear cub that eats rabbits, but you don't want him to. You can train him/her as a baby to not eat rabbits, so when he grows up he will be a herbivore (plant eater). It does take a good amount of work on your part to achieve this, but it can be done!
Animals come in a few different colors, but nothing unusual. Bears are brown, rabbits are white and brown ect... If you are the type that love to have pink and purple animals have no fear! There are game missions you can complete that will give rewards that will allow you to change animals to special colors. Different missions have different rewards so there is no telling what all you can get!
I honestly feel that this game will give hours and hours of enjoyment while teaching some good life lessons. It teaches that something worth having may take a little hard work, but the rewards are well worth it! It also teaches you to be responsible, if you are lazy or careless your plants and animals will retire.
All in all I give this game 5 stars, way to go EA games!
47 of 49 found the following review helpful:
I love all Sim/Tycoon games, but this one was disappointing. Feb 02, 2009
By Angela Streiff
"Tea Traveler"
Let me start by saying I'm a huge fan of the Sims games. I have been a fan of them since they started making Sim City and Sim Theme Park for DOS. And like many of you, I really like The Sims, Sims 2 and pretty much anything Sim related on any platform. But I was disappointed in SimAnimals (for the Wii). I guess I was just expecting a bit more from the game.
When you start the game, your in what feels like a tutorial mode where it explains what to do step by step. Giving squirrels acorns and petting them to make them your friends. Then after making so many animals happy by befriending them and putting food in front of them, it opens up another area of the map for you to explore.
This is the part where you think to yourself, "Ok, now to really play the game and see what's out there to explore". Quickly I realised that the second spot on the map is just another area of the woods, where you make some more animals your friends by feeding them and petting them, thus making them happy so you can open another area of the map. Through out the whole game you never quite feel like you leave the tutorial mode.
When going to a new part of the map, you are basically just opening up new (usually larger) animals to befriend and new plants to feed them. I was left wishing for more to do in the game.
If I had known the game was this (for lack of a better word) dull and had so little to do in it, I would not have paid $50 for it. I really wish I had a nicer way to put this, because I LOVE Sim/Tycoon games, even the simplest ones, but this one was just not worth the money. I wish I had waited until some reviews were out and realised it was not worth the $[...]. My kids will play it some (8 year old twins, one boy, one girl), but seem to tire of it quickly and move on to something else.
If you want to get this, I recommend waiting a little while and perhaps the price will drop to make it a better price for what you get.
34 of 35 found the following review helpful:
Beautiful graphics and an interesting game Jan 25, 2009
By PT Cruiser
"PT Cruiser"
Even though the Wii isn't noted for it's graphics this game takes full advantage of what is possible and the graphics are some of the best I've seen on any Wii game. The animals and their settings with all the plants and trees reminds you of a Disney movie. The movement is a little jerky at times, but not really bad. Being able to interact with the animals is really cool. I played this with a friend's kids, but I have to admit there was an attraction to the game even as an adult.
The animals are wary of you to begin with and you have to earn their trust. Then again, if I saw a big white hand coming out of nowhere I'd be frightened too! You earn their trust by offering them food and interacting with them. You can interact with the plants and trees too, by picking them up and moving them or planting them. You have to take care of them so that they grow and keep the animals from eating them when they're small. You quickly learn to plant the types of things that each animal likes in order to attract them. If you don't make friends with the animals they're afraid of you. One thing that was a little disturbing to me (but the kids thought it was cool) was that the animals can eat each other, just like they do in the wild. So you have to plan their environment and puts plants and other animals around that they are compatible with. The kids wanted to smack the animals too (!) but this makes them afraid of you and you can end up with a terrible environment as well as a good one.
There is enough game play here to keep kids busy for a long time and provide entertainment for adults as well. It is much like the other Sims games where you have control over the environment and can make it turn out any way you want to. If you like the other Sims games I think you'd probably like this one.
All in all, it's a charming family type game and would be a good addition to the Wii library.
22 of 26 found the following review helpful:
 Unintentionally creepy Mar 07, 2009
By Sarah Lawrence-Oldfield
"oldlaw"
We picked up this game to play with our daughter who loves animals but has this love somewhat tempered by an understanding of the cycles of life and death in the animal kingdom. The game starts out benignly, with the player learning how to interact and befriend animals. Skills are picked up and areas become open as tasks are completed. You have many quasi-realistic systems such as animals needing a certain type of food to be successful desiring to live in an appropriate environment and find a mate. Pollution is in some of the areas and can be cleaned by the player. As you proceed, Sim Animals starts to add some strange parts that get more twisted as they play out in the game world.
As mentioned earlier, you befriend animals and they become more comfortable with you. They get used to your interactions so much that you can put them in your backpack and move them to other areas. Cute, a neat game mechanic. You can even name them! Timmy the Squirrel for instance. Then you get missions to get animals to befriend one another. "Get Timmy the Squirrel to be friends with a Deer." A bit strange but manageable in the name of animal cuteness. Timmy's playing with a fawn, awwww!
Now the game introduces carnivores with missions of their own. Suddenly you have a weasel that needs two squirrels to be happy. So what do you do put Timmy and Tommy in your backpack and drop them off in Happy Acres with Mortimer the Weasel? Yup. Bloodless carnage ensues. Our kid is pretty smart but was feeling very manipulated and sad. She even got sad that she could zap the predators with lightning to drive them away! All in all the mix of "realistic" ecology and warm fuzzies did not go over well with us. The pacing of the game was dull and the landscapes and situations were uninspiring. At the same time the game got crazy in a lame way as you have to look all over the map for the bear who's mauling all your little buddies.
Overall a big disappointment for big and little gamers.
Brian
12 of 13 found the following review helpful:
 Fun but made my daughter CRY! Feb 12, 2009
By S. Leveille
My daughter got this game for her 7th Birthday and today she finally took some time to play and loves it.. that is until the weasel came along and ate 2 of her rabbits and one of her squirrels, she was crying, i felt awful! So if you have a sensitive kiddo who loves animals it might be good to explain to them first about the cycle of life before hand!
Otherwise it is alot of fun, she was jumping up and down every time she got a new animal unlocked!
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