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Vets R Cool

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 28
Date: November 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is incredibly lifelike. It is a great game for all animal lovers and sim crazy people. I love it.

Vet Emergency Reuires Patience

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: December 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought this software for my son for Christmas. He loves animals and I thought it would offer some educational fun. He watched me make a couple of feeble attempts at the game and heard how the Veterinary Supervisor told me how incompetent I was. He declined to play because he didn't want to be verbally ridiculed.

Provides entertainment, but hard to please the game!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: December 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty lifelike, lots of good info, but there are also some bad points about it. For one thing, it is hard to get a lot of "points" because things are a little oversimplified. A real vet would almost always perform a complete physical (or should) and you lose points in this game for doing so. Also it is sometimes hard to tell exactly what the game wants you to do next. Another problem with this game is that there are some mistakes. For example, in one case,the written history provided for the animal doesn't match what the vet tech is telling you. There are also gliches in the trivia game, where sometimes your available choices are not complete/the end of a phase is missing.

A terrific game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 60 / 62
Date: January 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I had never heard of Vet Emergency (or any of the Emergency Room games for that matter) until I saw it in a store one day and decided to buy it. I was glad I did! This game is incredibly realistic and I just couldn't stop playing it! I played it for about 4 hours straight before I had to go to work, then for three hours when I got home. The next morning, I was up and playing it again. In Vet Emergency, you are a just-out-of-vet-school veterinarian at Legacy Animal Hospital. The object of the game is to work your way up to head vet, not to mention saving the lives of dozens of dogs, cats, snakes, birds, lizards, and even a chinchilla. Another great feature is that along with the pets, you'll also have to deal with their owners, who can be a bit... strange.

When you start playing Vet Emergency, you will be allowed to name your character. The head of the animal hospital will give you a brief tour and explain how to use your PDA device. You'll then get to start treating patients. At first, you'll be assigned easier, not life-threatening cases, and as you work your way up, you'll get to deal with emergencies like gunshot wounds and hit-and-runs. The realism of the treatments is incredible. You are given multiple trays filled with veterinary equipment and you must decide on the best tools and procedure for the animal at hand. You earn points by doing something right, and lose points for incorrect procedures and taking too much time to treat the patient. At the end of each case, you must fill out the patient's chart. This is the most difficult part of the game, diagnosing and choosing which Hospital Orders to pick. Once you have diagnosed the animal and either released it from the hospital or sent it into Internal Medicine, Surgery, or ICU, your performance is evaluated. Doing a good job on multiple cases will earn you a promotion.

The only downfall to this game and the reason I rated it 4 stars instead of 5 is it is a little too difficult for younger children. Even on 'Easy' I was extremely confused until I began to figure it out. Another slight thing with the game is some of the gross graphics. Because of the game's realism, some of tasks such as examining the patient's 'butt' and taking fecal samples are a little disgusting. But overall, this is a fantastic game and I recommend it to older teens, and definately anyone interested in the veterinary field.

confusion, counter-intuitive, crash

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: January 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I play a lot of games, but this one was one hard nut to figure out. A proper tutorial or a guided case in the documentation would have helped a lot. Then, the introductory video for each case had no voice and crashed (maybe because I run W2K--I give it that much). My first case was a dog. I checked the right ear, then spent 15 minutes trying to find out how to turn the animal so I could check the other ear. Turns out, can't do that. Well, I don't know an awful lot about dog medicine, so after stumbling my way through the case I charted the confusion and clumsiness up to my ignorance and went on to the next case, an iguana. I know much more about reptiles. After going through diagnosis procedures (10 minutes to figure out the x-ray machine), I went looking for calcium supplements. Eventually realized that all medicine is given by applying syringe (then the game tells you WHAT medicine you just applied). The trays are too limited, the possible actions too limited, the PDA is clumsy to use (I guess like a real PDA) with too big a font for good reading and too many modes. I didn't have any fun at all and am very disappointed.

My Favorite Legacy Interactive Game!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 24 / 24
Date: February 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have every single one of the ER series games. I love them all. I recently purchased this game. If you think the other games have good graphics, real-life scenarios, and interesting game play, times that by two and you've got this game!
I love this game. The animals all look real, not some computer animated animals, and the vet-staff actually says nice things to you. Before you go into the treatment room, you can see a video preview of the case, by that I mean you see the owner come in and describe the problem to you.
Inside the treatment rooms, you have every kind of tool at your disposal. You even get to take the animal's temperature. And you don't stick the thermometer in it's mouth!
I REALLY recommend this game to anyone!!

Have Fun!

want to be a vet this game is it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: April 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I think i learned alot. You get to see alot of odd things that maybe people havent heard before. There are about 40 different tools. I think this game is good for every one to play even if your not a vet.

If confusing is what you want.....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: April 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I love all RPG Sierra games and I love animal science. I do have to admit the trivia is very enlightening and the 'easy' level is ok...but I spent money on this I really didn't have and I must admit, I'm somewhat disappointed. The game is very confusing and there are very few instructions in the book. I'm still looking through the book to see if I missed something but I don't think so because other people that have rated this game under 3 stars found the same thing I did. Well, I wouldn't say it's a total waste of money, but if you're an impatient gamer, maybe you should put this on the back burner.

Not a GAME at all -- a limited veterinary encyclopedia!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 17 / 28
Date: April 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

There is very little about this game that's game-like; nor is it much of a simulator. If you want to learn some trivia on animal health, this is something you might enjoy. For those of you looking first and foremost for a cool game, be forewarned:

- The graphics in this game are 100% still-shots and cheesy video clips that play like a B-movie.

- Your interaction with the animal is limited - click on a tool, and it becomes your cursor. Click it on the animal, then read a report. End of procedure. It gets worse -- there's only a few procedures you can perform, and no surgery or anything besides simple outpatient stuff. When giving an injection or a pill, they don't even bother distinguishing the different kinds of medication. You just give them a "medicine injection" - you have no idea what for!

- ZERO randomization -- the cases are completely static. Once you figure out the crude interface and are able to look up treatment protocol for the 35 maladies, your diagnosis and treatment are completely spelled out for you. Is your next patient a Chinchilla? Just scroll through the illness descriptions until you find the ONE, SINGLE, SOLITARY CONDITION that even involves a Chinchilla. No matter how many times you play the game, "Chilly's" condition will always be overgrown molars, and you'll always send him off to in-house surgery. So it goes without saying, ZERO replay value, except to review what you've learned.

- No tutorial. An annoying British lady shows you around your office, and then you jump right into the action. Don't look in the instruction book for help, either. You'll be learning this game mostly by trial-and-error.

So, my two cents: just watch Animal Planet for a couple hours, or read a book on veterinary medicine. Either one is cheaper, and will be about as interactive as this game is.

**Wonderful! A+!!!**

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 20
Date: May 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It's a great game for anyone (it dosen't matter if you have had past Veterinary experience or not) A nice British lady takes you over the entire procedure and explains everything carefully. You then get to actually CHOOSE the patient you want to examine from the Whiteboard, and hear a detailed description and a short video clip. You then get to use your tools and help the patient. You even get to complete the paperwork when you're finished! For anyone with little vet experience - the research computer will help you. You can research the patient's sickness, or click your PDA for helpful hints and tips. The tools you need to use even light up when it's time to use them on the beginner level. Once you get more advanced, you can move up to the second level, and then even to the third. You won't get tired with this game because it's always a good thing to go back and save all the patients you hadn't saved the first time around. What a wonderful game! A+

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