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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 5.51 inches | | Product Width: | 7.49 inches | | Product Height: | 0.56 inches | | Product Weight: | 2.0 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 24 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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0 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 My kids couldnt play it May 23, 2010
My kids love the WII Sport so I figured they could play other WII games we bought this one. A complete waste of money It was hard enough for me to work it but to expect my little ones 4 & 6 to use it was not happening. They should give it a skill level, they rate them E for everyone based on the violece but nothing telling us what ages the game is good for. So it was a complete waste of money. The only good to come out of it is I realize, I need to research the games before I buy. So if your buying for small children this is not the game to buy.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Great idea May 13, 2010
Taking a God Game to the animal level. A little too involved for me but my 12yr old daughter loves it.
 Sim Animals Apr 24, 2010
My sister has always enjoyed the Sim games. She liked this one very much. Enjoyed making up the animals most of all.
Neat idea, but... Apr 14, 2010
I purchased this game for my wife, who enjoys sim-type games in general. She did like the game for the most part, but I could tell watching her play that she would get frustrated almost every time she played, which to me is not a good sign for a game that by appearances should be relaxing and fun to play. The biggest issues I see watching it are:
1) bigger animals eat smaller animals with too regular a frequency. Now I understand that's nature, but you don't get that many animals in at a time to start with. If you are trying to complete a task that requires 3 ducks to live in an area, for example, you are lucky to even get 3 to move in. And if a bear, wolf, or fox decides to eat 1, 2 or even all 3 ducks, well then you're out of luck. And trust me, they eat them, and lots of other smaller animals, way to often. I understand from other reviews, etc., that somehow you are supposed to "train" the bigger animals not to eat the smaller ones, but I failed to see how that could be accomplished. Yes, the game does tell you when 2 animals are "fighting" and one is about to end up down the others gullet, but we have yet to figure out how you are supposed to save said soon-to-be-dinner animal from its inevitable fate.
The same problem can almost be said for the plants and trees you are supposed to grow. There are a lot of tasks requiring plants and trees to be grown from seeds, but many of the animals apparently like the tasty new growth and will gobble it up incessantly as you try to get new plants and trees started. In short, everything is hungry. All the time. And even if you feed things with stuff you've stored in your backpack or picked up off the ground, they'll still be more than happy to go eat that small critter/tree sapling over yonder for desert.
All that said, she did plug away at it on a nightly basis and, through determination and constant vigil to keep animals and new plants alive, she did manage to make it through about 87% completion of the game, until...
2) A few glitches apparently exist in the game as well, one of which ended up catastrophic. A couple of the tasks would never complete, which should in turn unlock additional tasks and rare plants. By all appearances all conditions of the tasks were met in the area, but no matter what she did, the tasks would never show completed. This would, of course, prevent her from finishing the game completely. But that turned out to be irrelevant anyway, as a few nights ago she saved the game as usual, and when it went to the start-up screen after, like it always did before, her saved game had disappeared. Normally it would show the save in a saved game slot with the percentage completion, but poof, it just wasn't there any more. She restarted the game, etc., to no avail. I looked in the data section of the Wii and the saved game does still appear there, but the game won't recognize it. So apparently for some reason the saved game became corrupted and the game can no longer read it. Considering the game was somewhat frustrating in the first place, and then to have the saved game lost after several hours of game play, was really irritating to put it mildly. She put the game away in disgust, and I am highly doubtful she will ever pick it up again. Can't say I blame her just from watching it, she has other games she can move on to that I have to believe will be a lot more relaxing than this one turned out to be.
Boring and repetitive Jan 01, 2010
I love Sims games, but this one is by far the worst I've ever played. Compared to other sim games, this one is very shallow in terms of the plot and goals. It's highly repetitive (as other reviewers have described as well) as you have to feed and pet animal after animal, area after area, without much else to do. I gave up halfway through because it was becoming so tedious. The graphics and navigation movements are quite crude considering the year this was put out. Also, the rough way the controls are set up to accomodate using the Wii controller (and the wrist movements you have to make to collect and plant seeds, and pet the animals), your hand and wrist can become painful and sore, almost like carpal tunnel.
If you are looking for a cute Sims game, My Sims Kingdom is 10 times better. If you are looking for a fun animal sim game, Viva Pinata is unbeatable.
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