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sims 2 pets

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 23 / 32
Date: November 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a really cool game. In this game you are like a vet. First you make your person and your pet. Then people come with their pets and you have to diagnose them. You have to cure them and take care of them. You also have to take care of your self too. At the begining it is a little bit hard and confusing but better when you get the hang of it.

A bug

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 21
Date: November 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I got the Sims 2:Pets as a gift and i totally love it. But at times the screen tends to freeze up, mainly when you try to go to the grooming table. The top Left and Right buttons work but the touch screen stops working and so do the buttons, and unless you saved right before that you are pretty much screwed. Its not my DS, its the game. The game is fun but the having to start the system over isn't.

Your View of This Game Will Change After Awhile...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 13
Date: December 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

When I first got this game I was overly eciteted. I thought I would never get bored - but after about a week it got pretty boring. This game starts off so very fun. Especialy making your sim and pet. The grafics aren't bad but their not good. If you have played past sims games for ds and gba you will notice and be dissapointed that there is no relasionship panel nor a phone.

Good concept but...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 13 / 16
Date: December 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was intrigued by the veterinary practice concept, but I was expecting it to be more like Trauma Center: Under the Knife. This game is very repetitive. Basically, all you do is give flea baths or flu and worm meds. Some people even bring their pet to you complaining that it's ugly, and you have to dress them up in a bumblebee costume or a tux and top hat. Creating your own meal was an interesting addition, but also got old quickly. There are no relationships in the game. You can only leave your house/office to go to the park to interact with other people and their pets, which means nothing because, again, there are no relationships in this game. Also your day is done at 5pm when your vet office closes, so no leisure time after work. Fortunately, after being incredibly disappointed with Sims 2 for DS, I decided to rent this one before buying it, and I'm glad I did. I'll stick with the Sims on PC.

an okay game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: December 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this game is just an okay game. i totally thought that this game would be soo better. its kinda like the pc games. the graphics are very good, but its not that fun. unless you want to be a vet when you grow up, its not that good.

So Fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: December 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I got this game and a DS and a couple pther games for my DS for Christmas 06'. This lets you be a vet, and a sim at the same time. It is so much fun I have yet to become bored with my game ( if i ever do). This could keep me entertained, hrs on end. I reccommend this game to EVERYBODY!!!

Fun at first and then boring forever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 17
Date: December 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I gave this game 2 stars for the fun aspect. I had creating my sim, picking a pet, and being able to cook different foods using different combinations of available ingredients. But overall I have to give it one star for several reasons:

First are the bugs that aren't completely worked out, the music will go silent frequently then randomly turn on again, and as someone else mentioned, it sometimes freezes.

The second reason is that the game controls aren't very good. You find yourself having to cancel lots of directions you give your sim because when you tapped on an object or more frequently a customer, just tapping on the DS screen once will bring up the interaction options and then select whatever interaction was underneath the area you tapped. You could unintentionally argue with your clients (why would you do that to someone you just met anyway?) I also have a big problem with the fact that everytime you finish with an animal at one of the stations (i.e. the grooming station, the training area, the bath, or the diagnosis table) the animal is put away and you have to go open the kennel and retrieve the animal again. It's also an incredible hassle to search through your item inventory. The inventory list shows only 4 items per screen (not with pics, with words) and there is no method to the madness. Your food is mixed with your pet supplies and your toys and your furniture and the pet decorations and your recipes and if that's not cluttered enough, your houses land is listen on there, as well as your pet if you put it in the storage bin too. (Poor neglected Spot).

Despite all of this I think the games biggest flaw is the poor playability. I something that makes a game great is that you can play it over and over again and it's always at least somewhat entertaining even if it isn't constantly dynamic. I've played for a total of about 5 hours which is about a calendar month in Sims world. Thus far I've only treated about 18 animals and all of them have either had worms, fleas, or the flu. Each animal has to be treated at least three times (once per Sim day for three days) and for some reason this is the case even if you buy the more expensive Super flea shampoo or more expensive worm medicine. It got very repetitive, very quickly and even though I was finally able to save enough scratch to increase the volume of my business, I found myself asking.. "Why?" The customers came in droves as with them the endless stream of familiar and monotonous tasks.

I was quite disappointed with this game because I've always been so satisfied with the all of the Sims line of games so far. If you really feel you MUST play this game, I highly recommend renting a copy first.

Does anyone really like this game at all?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I got this game from my aunt for Christmas. I played for a while, soon to discover that it was hard and confusing. I think the time passes to quickly! I mean, I just told my sim to use the shower, and about five minutes later our time, a notice said, "Is that smell you?". I don't have time to let my sim shower every few sim hours. I need to treat my patient. And why would anyone want to fastforward the time in the game? It was hard for me to walk around in my house or whatever too. Just thought I would share my opinion with anyone.

Read my other reviews, "Give Dogz a chance" and "Nintendogs is an awesome game".

So disappointing for Sims2 fans

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 17 / 23
Date: January 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am a die-hard Sims 2 (PC) fan and also love Animal Crossing for the DS, so I thought I would like this. Unfortunately, I have found it to be extremely boring and repetitive. There's no sense of working towards a worthwhile goal in the game, the tasks are boring (curing pets of the flu, fleas, worms, dressing them in inane costumes). The creativity of the PC Sims game is completely missing (after you create your doctor and choose your pet). As another reviewer noted, cooking can be amusing. It's kind of like Cookin' Mama. Otherwise, it became so tedious that by the second day of owning the game, I stopped playing. The time passage is also problematic as you are forced to sleep when the clinic closes so there's no development of your sim or relationships. I would only recommend this game to someone who loves animals and would like to care for virtual pets.

It depends on how you look at it

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: January 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First of all i would like to mention that I am twelve, just so you know.

In this game you get to create a vet and your pet. You can choose from either a cat or a dog. The dog breeds that you can choose from are Beagle, Pug, Boxer, Border Collie, English Terrier, Chihuahua, Poodle, King Charles Spaniel, Springer Spaniel, and Shiba Inu. The Cat Breeds are Siamese, Persian, Exotic, Maine Coon, Abyssinian, Bombay, Ocicat, Egyptian Mau, and Japanese Bobtail. So overall you can choose from 11 dog breeds and 9 cat breeds. And you can also create a mixed breed by choosing it's parents. After you create your sim and pet you move into your house which is also a vet clinic. Now you must take care of your sim and pet. Your sim has need that need to be taken care of such as hunger, bladder, social, and so on. You can find out what you sim needs by looking at the meters in the left hand corner of the screen. To find out what your pet needs you must got to the blue bin near the door to your house and open it. This is where your pet and your patients are kept. It is fairly easy to figure things out from here, at least it was for me. With this game it really depends on how you look at it. If you are looking for a fast-paced exciting game then this game is not for you. If you are looking for a game with lots of violence in it again this game is not for you. Sure the graphics aren't great, but the pets are cute. There is pretty much only one sound track, but it is a has a nice happy tune. So if you don't mind not so great graphics and you love pets, then you will probably enjoy this game. Here are my final scores for the game.

Graphics 6\10 Not the best, but not the worst

Sound 4\10 There isn't really much to be said about the music it's just OK

Gameplay 7\10 I don't play this game a lot but when I do it is fun and time goes by quickly

Overall 7\10 It's a pretty good game, yes, it could have been better, but it could have been a lot worse too.

Closing comments Finally I would like to thank you for reading my long review. I hope it helped you.

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