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I wouldn't use it as a coaster!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 14
Date: June 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game is absolutly AWFUL!! and i can almost guarentee that anyone who likes it never played petz 3.. the best of all of the petz games when they were actually made by p.f. magic.. ubisoft has butchered a wonderful thing and i'm almost ready to take these cds use them as frisbees.. the playscenes are juvinile.. the mini-games are ... the nursery and litters are a sham and the game constantly crashes.. i wouldn't suggest you buy this or catz 5 for any other reason than to throw them in the fire so no one else has to use them..

not the best petz game...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: January 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

ubi did a very poor job of debugging this program. it hardly runs and it crashes a lot. none of the games work and it takes up a ton of disk space. it installs extra stuff that it shouldn't w/o prompting (direct x, acrobat, who knows what else...) petz 3 is the best version imo, if you have win 95/98, get p3 instead.

Didn't get a chance to enjoy it--beware!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: January 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Overall, this program was badly written. I had problems with it from the start. Once I got it loaded and played with it for a bit, I discovered that I couldn't bring up the screen saver options menu directly from the game. I would click on it, but it never came up--rather I got an nasty window saying there was a fault and that the game would close. Also, the game was very slow loading--that is, if it loaded at all. Most of the time it got stuck in the start up screen. And the problem is not with my computer, since I just got it and it has a fast processor and ample space on the hard drive. Finally, I got fed up with the whole thing and tried to uninstall it, but the game wasn't listed on my programs list to uninstall--it had installed itself on the drive somehow and wasn't recognized by the computer as a program that it could remove. I had to find a roundabout program online to uninstall this one game and it was only a week after I received it. Way too much effort for something that is supposed to be simple entertainment. I had Dogz 3 and loved it--UBI should have kept it basic like the previous versions and just added more toys and dogs. Period. Don't waste your money like I did. Get yourself a real dog.

catz/dogz

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: December 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

the games are cool. i have all of them except 1,3,and 4. i hope to get 5 for christmas. the others are really cool but i get bored after a while i hope this one is better

Good but gets bo-ring

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: September 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Ya i got Dogz 5 it wasnt the best.It was good for a couple of days and then BoOm it was so bo-ring i tired to play this game 13 times(and counting)before i got up and went to do something else.I mean all you do in this game is watch you dont do anything else you first feed or play with your pet then you watch and watch and watch for them to be finished and then you leave trust me dont spend your $$$ on this game.I hope this helps you.

Fun despite a few bugs

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: May 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The newest version of Dogz adds a few more breeds, though the pig option is taken away. The best part of this one is the new play areas and the fact that the "suitcase" is now the "toy closet". The toys have to be earned from playing games in the new areas, but most are not so challenging that young children would have any troulbe.

This version is supposed to be XP compatible, but I have still experienced a few bugs causing it to shut down unpredictably.

A far cry...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: August 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

As a devoted follower of the Petz programs, I had looked forward to the release of Petz 5 with fervor. The descriptions the company, Ubi Soft, presented seemed to offer a range of improvements: new breeds, toys, scenes, etc. However, within the first two hours of importing my six-year old Great Dane that had been with me from Petz 1, I found this newest version to be a disappointment yet again. I believe the best Petz series created was Petz 3, the last and greatest work of P.F. Magic. I agree with other seasoned Petz owners that many of the changes implemented in Petz 5 are meant to disillusion newer audiences.

Looking back at the evolution of Petz 1 to Petz 2 to Petz 3, one can see the drastic changes from each successive version. For example, Petz 2 had greatly improved graphics, more toys, breeds, and a host of other advancements from Petz 1. At this time, P.F. Magic also spawned an online community of avid Petz fans, with thousands of websites proudly displaying Petz adoptions, galleries, message boards, petz shows, etc. This thriving "family" of virtual Petz lovers prompted P.F. Magic to launch the nearly flawless Petz 3 program, where Petz could breed--a dream come true. Playscenes were also added, a modest handful of scenes that nonetheless captured the interest of a broader audience. Unfortunately, the unprecedented success of Petz 3 also captured Mindscape's eye, and the small but highly motivated P.F. Magic was dissolved into the jaws of a massive corporation.

However, it seemed that with the passing of P.F. Magic, the once soaring online community also died. Petz 4, which was produced by Mindscape, lost the energy and drive which made Petz 3 such a success. It featured nothing new. A few additional playscenes and voice recognition along with glittery advertisement were not enough to buoy the dwindling passion of Petz owners. Finally, Ubi Soft acquired Mindscape, which led to Petz 5. To be blunt, this game is a pathetic attempt to seduce consumers. They added new breeds, yes, but if one looks closely, the breeds are just physically altered "copies" of the original Petz 3 breeds. The personalities of these new breeds are not newly created. Ubi Soft just didn't take the time to make them, as P.F. Magic did. And yes, there are new playscenes, but that concept has gone from brilliant to normal to overused. Many other reviewers also commented on the astounding number of bugs the game has; it is yet another affirmaton of the haphazard development of the game. The mini-games, too, are a marketing ploy to jazz up an old gem...like an old house being retouched to look attractive to unsuspecting buyers. Look beyond the fresh paint and the new furnishings and you will find the same old framework, same old foundations. That is one of the greatest insults a company can make to consumers.

Although Petz 5 clearly is a far cry from its predecessors, the future of these beloved virtual lives lies in the hands of big companies. It is important to support sales and offer constructive critism to remind the makers that we demand quality because we are important. These eager, new fans of Petz 5 do not deserve the disillusionment Ubi Soft uses to veil its blunders.

an improvement, but still needs some work

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: November 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

As a big petz fan, I feel I can give a well-informed review of the game based on my years of playing with them, breeding, owning sites, hexing etc. Here's my down-low on the game:

The first thing I noticed about it was that in the manual it says "when you cheat with your computer's calendar to speed up the birth of your Puppyz, the mother will become stuck in her pregnancy status. If this happens, there is no way to fix it! Be patient, don't do it!" This seems pretty threatening, but I still have been able to time-forward without having to deal with stuck pregnancies.

There is no longer the Playpen, the Clothes or Toy Closet. The Salon had basically taken over the Clothes Closet. The supply shelf now acts like the Toy Closet, but you will have to do a lot of hunting around in the game to get all the toys. When you win the mini games, you are rewarded with a new toy. I think thats both a positive and a negative. Its positive because you want to spend more time in the game playing to win toys, but negative because when you want a certain toy, it may not be available. As for the Playpen, I wish they wouldn't have taken it out. I don't know about anyone else, but I used it basically as my breeding room because they were no distractions.

The new breeds are cool, but I found that the Golden Retriever has a major problem with the sleepy syndrome. When I was in the adoption center, almost every one of them that I took out had the syndrome. I guess they chose not to fix that bug from the last versions.

The mini games are fun, but there are some problems with them too. In the agility game, I could not get my dogz to walk full length of the catwalk, all they did was sit there. Also, in the gopher tic-tac-toe, its hard to get your pet to fall on the right spot...it will often drop them on a different square than you wanted it to. I think the easiest game is in Arabia, so if you want to win some toys quickly, I suggest going there first.

I guess I've been spending time talking about the negatives, but the game is good overall. The best feature is definitely the litters. It makes a breeders work so much easier :)

Thats my review...I give it three and a half stars out of five overall. Hopefully Ubisoft will get some of our improvement suggestions and add a patch so that it will become a five star game.

It has it's up and downs

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: December 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Dogz is, without a doubt, one of the neatest computer games ever made. I was very excited with the release of Dogz 5, though I was slightly disappointed when I got the game.

The mini games are okay, but at first confusing. Also, you have to WIN your toys. I have played one of the easiest mini game, a game where you basically swung you're Dogz around to kill the scarabs, and have gotten the same toy over and over and over (and so on). Very rarely do I ever get a new toy. Some important items come with the carrying case (also, you now have your toys in the carrying case, which I think is quite handy. The worst mini game is the Tic-Tac-Toe one. Its very hard to get you're Dogz to land exactly where you want it to. I have to place my Dogz one space below where I want the mark to be.

The Dogz breeds are cool, except for the German shepherd. It, with all due respect to the makers of Petz, looks like someone squeezed its muzzle, enlarging its head. It has a huge head. And it looks like it is angry, because of its "eyebrows". The Papillion is cute, but is very hard to train. They jump at the treat, beg, and will not do the trick! I have tried to get my Papillion (on Dogz) to sit for thirty minutes, and I got nowhere.

The pet scenes are cool. The bath in the salon [was bad] though. Its the same as putting your Dogz on a chair, it doesn't clean they or anything. The Asian Temple was the worst of the play scenes, mostly because it's basically just a room with a big monkey in it. The monkey is for a mini game, but that's about it.

I hope this review helps!

All right but nothing great

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I first got Dogz 3 and I liked it so I decided to get Dogz 5. I got bored of it after about 2 days. The Dogz are kind of cute, but they look nothing like real dogs. The dogs react the same way to all of the toys. If you put them on any ledge they will get very sad and scared. They can't tell the differnce between being brushed or bathed. They refuse to drink any water(so in real life they would be dead). Though it is fun to see what the new born puppys look like. And my dogs always fought with each other. I think that kids ages 5-8 would probably enjoy this game. But kids older then that should get nintendogs.

graphics-B(the dogs look really unrealistic)
sound-B+(the dogs barks are pretty bad but the background noises are good)
gameplay-B( there isn't much of a point to the game and there isn't a whole lot to do)

closing comments:overall I give Dogz 5 a B+. It is a fairly good game for younger kids.

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