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I'M A FARMER. IT ISN'T ANY EASY LIFE.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Farming can be pretty hard and most people think the opposite. This game doesn't demonstrate that. Most people think that farming is an easy life. As "S.Kochel" said in her review " the average farm family makes a lot of money " and " teachers are low paid so I don't want my cousin to be that". I disagree.You would likely have a better life teaching.

There are also quite a few virises. Those could use some work. When I'm in the middle of the game it will shut down. There should also be more time in the year for the farmer to work. I think that you should be aloud to rent land if you couldn't afford to buy more land.

I'm offended by the characters. Not one person should have to listen to them and there rude talking.

Hard to play a game that doesn' work

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: January 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game won't load correctly and the patch doesn't fix it. Tech support at Bold Games / Take2 is unresponsive. Simply kick back an automated response that addresses nothing. Unfortunately this was a Christmas present...straight to the garbage.

what a farm boy thinks

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is a lot of fun to play. The things it lacks is that the farm season only last nine months instead of twelve so you dont get an actual account for the year. if you raise livestock lets say you have 100 cows how is it that only 5-10 of them have calves. the last thing is it does make the farm life seem like it is easy and farmers make a lot of money but what they dont realize is that farming isnt a 9-5 job its a 24- 7 job with lots of stress and problems. but enough of that the game is fun and im going to get the second version and recommend this one toany one looking for a game for the family

Lots of fun!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

There are quite a few things in this game that aren't exactly realistic. However, if they were to make everything realistic according to the real world of farming, it would make for a pretty complex game. Even though it is lacking some aspects, this game is a lot of fun to play, and can be pretty addicting.

I would definitely recommend to purchase the Deluxe version. It includes many features left out of the regular version, such as putting cattle to pasture, purchasing horses, setting workers to auto-task certain buildings, and putting up hay. You can purchase these games from places like Walmart or Scholastic Book club for around $12. I couldn't find the Deluxe version on Amazon.

An upgrade is needed

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: February 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a program full of bugs... you can't win...you can't even patch the problems the prevent you from winning.

I can appreciate the comments that it is not "realisitic"..I live on a farm and it is not realistic, but then I didn't expect it would be...I just thought it would be fun. Its annoying habit of denying you to remedy situations was not however. It was just frustrating.

This could be improved so many ways and I was looking for a patch for it before I wrote this reviewbut that doesn't exist so...

... The graphics are dark to the point you think you are living in Alaska 6 months of the year! Who farms in the dark?
.....You can't find the equipment when you need it because it is so dark
...and Ellie May saying "you got it partner" gets on the nerves after the 50th time you have her search the property.

If "Budding Millionaire" (Charlotte, MI) bought the farm and acreage as claimed, I will attest to the fact that she "bought the farm" in all senses! It is NOT possible!

This game would be decent at $4.99 and makes me glad I have an Allis in the pole barn.

If a farmer fun, but not realistic.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: August 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is a lot of fun if your a farmer. But its got some things missing in it. Like you can't do haywork, or spread dry fertilizer, or chop corn for silage, or cut oats and bail straw, or no till your corn, and most of the names of the machinery you buy aren't right, or if you don't have enough time to cut your beans or shell your corn ect. in time you can't go on into Nov. or Dec., and lots of other stuff is missing. In real life farming is a lot more fun than this game makes it seem. But it is a great game for people who don't have any experience with farming.

Famers and Video Games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty good. Cept, im a farmer myself - i dont have "seasons" to work - unlike the game displays. Also, you cant rent land on the game. but other than those flaws. its a pretty good deal. and in refference to the Teacher/Farmer comparison review - Teachers make way more than a farmer. I would tell anyone they're better off at making themselves a Teacher than a farmer. I dont know anyone who took up being a farmer for the money - most take it up as a desire and a way of life. Not for the money.

This and farm supports!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 17
Date: December 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for my cousin, so he can get a job. His dad is a composer and makes quite a bit of money, and I don't want my cousin to suffer by being something low paying, like a teacher. So, knowing that the average farm family makes lots of money, I bought him this for an education. Now, he can play this and learn the ends and outs of farming. The other thing that will help is going to be, or course, government price supports and crop insurance. So with this game and government programs, I expect my cousin to exceed and do well and soon he'll be making more food than he can sell, and getting paid for it all!!!!

Pretty good farm simulator

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a pretty good farm simulator, although there are a few bugs in it. You can become stuck in buildings and such, however this raley happens to me and I've put a few hours on this game. I would recomend picking it up from a local software dealer though as you should be able to get it for $9.99 now.

Disappointed Dirt Clod

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: April 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Don't waste your money. I bought this hoping it was a modern, more appealing take on the old sim farm. My 4 year old loves John Deere and I thought he would enjoy playing it. Nope. The interface is too complicated and filled with tedious tasks for a kid to stay interested - Seems you spend most of your time getting people in and out of vehicles, which would be great if it were an equipment simulator, but it is not. Too many selections are needed to access regular tasks like hiring crop dusters or checking market trends. The only positives are that the graphics and animation are better and there are more choices in equipment. But overall the game is incredibly tedious. There is no way to schedule tasks in advance (a great feature of sim farm). You can miss your planting or harvesting windows if one of your dolt employees wanders off. I don't want to buy more land as I cannot even fathom the aggravation of getting crops planted and harvested in more than 6 fields. The 4 available crops are a joke. Sim farm had 20 or more. As others noted, you really the ability to assign workers specific tasks - You can lose half a season if one wanders from the veggie plots to clean a barn on the other side of the farm - especially since in the process they will avoid any vehicles! You also need a pause option where you can assign several workers tasks, instead of losing valuable time trying to find out where Clem wandered off to. Where are the equipment sheds? What self respecting farmer will leave a 300,000 combine sitting in the rain? Finally, I truly expected many more equipment choices given the John Deere headline. Maybe even a dealership where I could go test drive, after all, the dinosaur sim farm let you fly the crop duster. This is the first John Deere toy I've ever bought that was a disappointment. Maybe they should have given Ertl a crack at it.

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