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Hated it!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: July 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The game is too confusing. It was too hard to control the character around the castle. The cover isn't anything like the game - the cover looks fun but the game is too serious and boring. When you're done playing, theres no way to quit without killing the program. It was so bad I had to take it back.

help!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: July 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

ok so i know how to get the present but when i get i go to the hall and i head for the lounge and when i do i get cought by the old guy! how do i escape from him to go to the room? ok well ive tried like 10 times so plz help me!

I would not recommend this game!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game was a great disappointment to me. I am a three day event rider and bought this game along with Lucinda Greene's Equestrian Challenge to kill some time while I recover from a bad fall. I was really looking forward to this game with all its great reviews and when I started to play it it just became very frusterating. The plot line challenges are ok. Very trial and error. But the jumping is just plain boring. Four speeds??? I'm sorry cross country is not supposed to be a relaxing canter through the feild jumping fences. Which is about all you can really do and still manage to clear the fences. But most of the time no matter what you do you cant clear a stadium fence or get a refusal in cross country. As for the horse care it takes forever to groom your horse and to clean its stall you have to make the wheel barrow have a green arrow key over it. Getting it to turn green is sometimes impossible. There are some good points in this game. The idea behind it is really good and the plot is well thought out. My only complaint with the plot is all of a sudden your character is in love with Esteban. Which was kind of random. But I could live with that. The graphics are ok. Nothing to rave about. Dressage is interesting. I've read all the movements and still cannot do a half pass at the canter. They're fairly accurate for the most part. Though not always named correctly. Overall the game was just very frusterating to me. I still havent finished it quite yet. I cant get a clear round in either cross country or stadium. Also I felt that the game was a bit inaccurate as far as the presentation of a three day event. Cross country comes before stadium and there are not ribbons given for individual placings between events *also a complaint with Lucinda Greene*. I also did not understand "Talking" with your horse. It was a little too horse whisperer for me and very hard to understand. I can only hope that eventually they will come out with a good equestrian game that combines great plot, realistic and exciting riding, good graphics and good challenges all in the same package. If that is what you are hoping for in this game, you wont find it.

Doesn't Work

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: February 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is almost exactly like Horsez, which I have finished, but this game I bought but it doesn't work on our two new computers, my mom's old one doesn't have any sound which is of no fault to the game, and my grandma's computer cuts off half of the screen. But since Horsez and this game are exactly alike, I'd like to give some hints. For Ginger's present, you have to pick up the chess peice first, then pick up the phone number, but DO NOT MAKE THE CALL YET! No you have to go outside and into the director's office, which is near the front gate. It's a little sliver of black on the left side of the wall. On the desk there's a key. now you go to the library and get the key to the attic room. Now you go into your room which is the door by the staircase. Now you call the phone by the chess board. You now go up the stairs and into the door on the right. Now how to get into Esteban's room. First when you're in the library, you go out of the big circular window it's pretty straightforward where to go from there, once you're in the room, you go down the elevator and through the door to the right. You'll see Spike and the safe is in that room. Talk to Spike and he'll give you a clue. Next you go out the door down the hallway and take a left I think you'll be in your room and Ginger will be there. Otherwise you'll be in the lounge where Kiew is. Anyway talk to Ginger and she'll give you another clue. I forgot how to get to the lounge, but in there you'll find Kiew, you have to talk to her last otherwise she won't give you a clue. Now you go back to the director's office and use the clues to figure out the code. In Horsez it's 4224, but it could be different in Champion Dreams, I might be giving completely wrong directions, anyway, in Horsez, once you enter the code you get the key card. Esteban's room is through the door that's down the hallway that leads you to the office and to the right. In there there'll be a bag on the couch, search through the bag and you'll find what you're looking for.

A Review

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This isn't the best game. It doesn't have particularly good graphics, and gets boring after awhile. First, you pick your horse out of the choices that they provide, which are pretty much a palomino, a creamello, which is pretty much a lighter palomino, a bay, a black, a skewbald (which is a pinto with black and white splotches) a palomino pinto, and that's pretty much it. For some reason they call these "breeds" in the beginning, but near the end, no matter what breed you chose, they say that your horse is a thoroughbred. The basic shape of the horses are exactly the same, and have no distinguishing features at all. They all look the same, except for the color. You also pick out your character's name, and your horse's name, which actually doesn't matter in the game, so there's no reason to put the question there anyways. It would really be nice if you could customize your character in any more ways than changing hair color and clothing. Then you watch a couple videos that explain why you're where you are, and then you have a schedule that you have to follow. For the first couple of days, you have to do the schedule that they plan out for you, but after that you can do what you want, except you can't change anything after the first period. You also discover that there's a voice in your head called Elsys and it explains what to do and occasionally how to do it. You do three events, dressage, showjumping and cross country. You'll find that the jumping (showjumping and cross country) is fun at first, but it gets increasingly more challenging until it's just frustrating. You also might find that you don't really want to do dressage. I have to admit, it is really boring. This game is definitely not the best game on the market. You might be better off doing a little more research and finding a game that is better, which may not be all that hard to find. If you are really considering buying this, and you've read plenty of good reveiws, and you are thinking, "Oh, well, this is just one person. Every one else says that this game is good." Well, please, I'm begging you on my hands and knees, this really isn't the best game. It's your decision to buy it, but please think about it before you do.

Good premise, bad execution

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: October 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

As someone who has also played more than my fair share of horse games, I was a bit frustrated and disappointed by this game. For starters, the NICE thing about this game is that it has a more complete manual than most UBISOFT games. However, in keeping with tradition for UBISOFT, on the downside, there are still MAJOR gaps to be filled in - as you can see from other reviewers questions. The sequence of events is not always naturally progressive so there are some areas that you need to make a leap of logic to fill in.
There are some areas - such as talking to your horse - which continue to be mysterious no matter how many notes you take. What your horse "does" doesn't always match up to the descriptions given. Also, having found something in the manual that didn't match up in game play, I am a bit suspicious that they made sure everything "written" had a matching equivalent in game.
Additionally, while the level of the game scales up - as in the courses get harder - so too does your level of expected competency. As you get to the last week in the game your expected level of competency is higher than any other week, and the challenges are MUCH harder. As most who have played the game know is near impossible to make any jumping circuit without having at least one refusal(on the cross country course) or at least one bar down (in the show jumping), but during the last week thats exactly what's expected of you. Suffice it to say, with 34 cross country jumps and 15 show jumping jumps, the odds are just that much higher that you won't succeed. I've found myself saving and repeating courses over and over again just so I can try to get the best score possible. You get three fails at any week or task before you're expelled.

And as a side note, I am NOT a fan of the "love interest" side story, mostly because I find it to be VERY creepy and very disturbing at the end. I just found the concepts to be more mature than should be in a game of this level (E for everyone).
Overall the game is entertaining, but frustrating requiring more hours of repetition than actual progressive game time.

HELP ME!!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: July 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I really love this game! I almost wasn't able to play it because I scratched the disk terribly. My dad cleaned it about 7 times and it worked! Anyshwa, the way the horse moves is terrific! I put "Help Me!!!" on the title because, just like a lot of people will be, I'm stuck. You will come to a part where you have to get Ginger's present (You'll learn who these characters are in the game). Esteban forgot it in the attic room. Your mission: to retrieve it. Now, it sounds easy, especially because the attic is right up some stairs. WRONG. In orded to get the attic door UNLOCKED, you to get a phone number (You don't have to write it down.), steal a chess piece, call on a phone to disrupt the LOOKOUTS playing chess at another place, get past the lookouts AGAIN, and well, I haven't gotten past the 2nd lookout, so I can't tell you anymore. Well, hopes this help!

P.S. In the library, read entertainment 5. Go to the site it says and you will find stuff to collect. ON YOUR GAME COMPUTER

P.P.S. In order to unlock the attic door, you have to go to the library, which is past the 2nd lookout, which is also LOCKED.

If anyone reads this and finds a way to get past the 2nd lookout and succeed in the mission, WRITE A REVIEW!!!! I'D LIKE HELP PLEASE!!!!!

BUY THIS GAME!!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Champion Dreams: First to Ride is the BEST GAME EVER. I have my own horse and have seriously bought every single horse game since the first "Lets Ride!", and this game beats them all. The storyline is similar to Saddle Up: Time To Ride, but in this game you are at a riding academy. Also, this game has the most gorgeous horses!In most riding computer games, the horses are ugly and so are the people, but all of the characters in this game are very realistic looking. The thing I really loved about this game was the fact that it was challenging. With almost all of the horse games I have ever played (excluding Saddle Up: Time to Ride,and Equestried 2001) I have felt that they are way too easy, and no fun at all. But this game is different in the sense that it is actually a challenge. (Normally, when I beat a game, I never play it again. But I have already beat this 2 times and am working on my third game.) I love the atmosphere of being at a riding school, and this game has just the right amount of competetion and mystery. THIS IS THE BEST RIDING COMPUTER GAME EVER. If you love horses and you don't buy this game, your crazy!!

Stuck

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have no idea on how to find the key to the attic room while getting Ginger's present. Where is it? Please, If anybody knows where it is can you tell me?

Champion Dreams

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I don't know if it's our computer or the program but you can't see the horse when you're riding it. You can see it when you groom. It's fun to buy show clothes though.

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