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BEWARE!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 20 / 23
Date: December 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game has a MIS-PRINT on the box and description!! It says that this has a Ham-Country with a bakery, school, playground, bookstore, etc. THAT'S NOT TRUE!!! If you are buying the game for that reason, dont do it! You will be very disappointed! I have had this game for almost a month, and I have played it for over 40 hours (total time). I raised 6 hamsters, acquired every single accessory, cage, toy, food, and everything else (of which there are generally 6 of each type of item). I played all of the mini-games, and of course I let my hamster explore my "room" every day. I clean up after the hamster, brush it, feed it, etc. The game gets very mundane & boring after a few days but I only kept playing so I could see the "ham-country" which I have now sadly discovered does not exist. I called UBIsoft about this, and they were clueless about the whole thing. Imagine that! I feel like I wasted my money and all my time on this game. It's cute that the hamster learns to "talk" (you speak to it, but it responds with text in a message box), and it's okay that you can play "catch" with the hamster (you throw a ball with the stylus, he catches it and throws it back to you). And most of the required item-acquiring mini-games are tolerable at best, but seem geared toward the pre-school aged children, so except for on the "difficult" setting, they can be done with your eyes closed, pretty much. But your hamster himself doesnt really do anything. He just runs around the cage, plays with a toy sometimes, runs in his wheel, eats, and occasionally sits on his hind legs and says something quirky to you. This is all adorable and fun the first few days, but like I said, the fun-factor diminishes greatly after that. I definitely dont recommend this game, unless you just rent it or borrow it from a friend.

Disappointed

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 12 / 15
Date: December 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Yes the Hamsterz are cute...but after a while they do and say the same things, and nothing new really happens after you've acquired all of the items. You can teach them to play with a toy, only to find that a minute later they have forgotten how to, and you have to sit there and wait for them to figure it out all over again. You can pet and brush them and make them happy, then when you try these things again a little later, they run away from you and their happiness meter drops to zero again. It makes no sense why these things happen and it's very frustrating! I've put hours and hours and HOURS into this game, expecting one day to find my Hamsterz built a "Ham-Country", but this never happens. Actually, you can only play with one hamster at a time in the cage and they can never interact with each other. Overall, I'm pretty disappointed.

Kids love it

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: December 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I got this game for my daughter, which is 8 yrs old. She loves it...
She shows me new things every time she plays with it. I think its pretty cool!!!! That's my opion.....
Peace out!
Dukeblue1

Furry feet

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: December 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Want a hamster? If yes, this is a game for you! Start off picking from 5
different breeds of hamsters and then take care of it! You can feed it,
groom it, hold it, pet it, play with it, let it out of its cage, and
A LOT more. Here is a tip, let your hamster out of its cage often to find cool stuff lying around. Also, you can play hamster mini games! Although
its weird, you can teach your hamster to talk too, and you can do downloads with other peoples hamsters if they have the game.

DONT BUY! THE UBISOFT COMPANY LIES!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 15 / 22
Date: January 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I like hamsters so I bought this game espically since the thought of them building "ham-countries" would be really cool.To the point: there is no ham-country. You can keep more than one hamster but not at the same time. If they had the ham-country the fact that the hamsters say and do pretty much the same thing would be excusable, but Ubisoft downright lied on the packaging. I wish I hadnt bought this when it first came out. That I couldve read reviews about it before I bought it. Now Im stuck with this crappy game. I dont even want to sell it on Ebay and have someone be disppointed with it too. They'd probably as for their money back as well.I wrote to the Ubisoft company twice and they NEVER returned my emails. I'll NEVER buy another Ubisoft product again. Want a hamster? Go out and just buy one. It'll be alot cheaper than raking out the 32 bucks like I did for this stupid game. Ubisoft-you suck!!Stephany

No "Ham-Country"

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Before I got this game, I thought it looked kinda cute. When I played it, it was okay, but pretty boring overall. You can teach your hamster to talk, which was kind of fun but sometimes I said one thing, and it thought I said another thing. Also, in order to play the mini games, you have to wait for your hamster to want to play and then it picks a mini game and a difficulty. The biggest dissapointment was the Ham-country. There isn't one. After I played it for a while, I couldn't find anything about the ham country in the game booklet or in the game. I looked at some sites, and other reviewers said there is no ham country, and it was a misprint. Overall, this game was a huge dissapointment, but still a little fun if you like taking care of vitual pets.

You just didnt play long enough!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: January 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My BFF has this game for over 2 months, and she has the playcround! The truth though, is this: its really just furniture to use. . . you people are crazy, play the game longer!!!!! C' mon! play the game and THEN WRITE! not meaning to be rude, but Duh!

Cute Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: January 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a cute game for young children. You get a hamster and then have to take care of it (water, food, fun etc). My daughter loves it, but it can get rather boring after a while.

Hamsterz Life is the Best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My 10 year old dau. loves this game. She enjoys taking care of her "hamster" and bringing him to life. The item was priced appropriately, shipped, and well received by all.

Dissapointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game was a let-down.

The North American version seems to have a problem and the Ham-Country was left out of the final game. I suggest contacting UbiSoft to verify before purchasing, to be sure of what you are getting. I haven't seen any updated news as to if the game will be re-released correctly. That is information I saw while visiting gaming fan sites that were discussing this game at great length.

Another problem with the gameplay is the very poor text translation. Some of the phrases the hamster says are difficult to understand because the English is so poorly typed.

The hamsters are cute and the mini-games aren't too bad, on the random times you will get to play them. The hamster chooses the difficulty and game each time, sometimes it may be easy and others very difficult. Like another reviewer stated, you do have to wait for the hamster to want to play before you get a chance at the mini-games. That all together puts another cramp into the fun.

Overall, not worth purchasing. If you can find the game for rent, it's not too bad for a short term bit of fun though.

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