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Simple, but fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: March 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this after playing my daughter's Horsez 2 game. Overall, it is fun, but it is very simple. For the most part, if you feed and water the hamsters, they will be happy and you'll accumulate a lot of stars (the stars are used like money). My biggest complaint is that there isn't a lot to do and there are options for things like adding a second story to the house, but it is never available when I go to the pet store. In all, the pet store selection is extremely limited. It would be more fun if I could build a large house with lots of accessories.

If you only buy one virtual hamster game this year, it should be this one.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 20
Date: April 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Hamsters! Is there anything they can't do?

If you answered "yes, there are a number of things they can't do," you'd be correct. "Petz: Hamsterz 2" simulates the limitations of our rodent friends quite nicely. They can't speak, their available color options are limited, and while their built-in behaviors are not as numerous as those of mice, they can do a lot more than than invertebrates such as worms and other insects. Go hamsters!

Where "Petz: Hamsterz 2" fails is in its missed opportunities:

1. It doesn't capitalize on its "urban" sounding name, which despite containing two terminal letter "z"s to indicate plural, does not contain a single hip-hop reference.

2. It doesn't acknowledge the 10-year anniversary of the "Hampster Dance," which was an array of animated GIF files that first appeared online in August 1998 and was copied by dozens of pretenders. It is unclear to this reviewer whether the omission was deliberate or due to copyright and intellectual property disputes. Either way, it's a darned shame.

Perhaps the inevitable "Petz: Hamsterz 3" will remedy these oversights. Personally, I'd like to see armed "hamsterz in da hood" to the sped-up theme to Disney's Robin Hood. I know for a fact there is unmet demand for video games featuring rodents carrying firearms, as evidenced by recent next-gen "Sonic the Hedgehog" spin-offs.

Criticisms aside, this is by far the best hamster simulation I have played in this year, this decade -- dare I say, ALL TIME? If you, your child, or an elderly dependent likes rodents, but not the feel, odor, of risk of hamster-borne illness, this is a required purchase!

Boring

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: May 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this product for me and my 6 year old son because we own a hamster. The game is very limited to what you can do. It says there is a lot of stuff you can buy it but there is never anything avaliable in the pet store when we go to buy stuff. It really just has food and water and a cage but none of the cool toys are two story houses it talks about. Also, from what I can tell your hamster doesn't have babies to take care of either. Very boring not a lot to do. I kept playing hoping for more but have lost interest. So has my 6 year old!

Loving it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 27
Date: January 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This was a gift for my son and he plays it so much that he hates to put it down

Hamsterz 2 Nintendo DS

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My daughter, 11, was really happy to get this game at first but tired of it quickly. The hamsters are moody and don't do as much as the product info says. Graphics are pretty good. She likes Hamsterz Life better.

Horrible game... returned it to the store!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

DO NOT get this confused with Hampsterz 2!!!!! I made this mistake and found out the hard way. My 3 year old daughter originally played Hampsterz because a friend owned it. So I went to the store and got it. Well I got Hampsterz 2. The guy at the store said its the same thing, just more features. WRONG!!!!!! Its is COMPLETELY a different game!!!!! and hard too!!! My 7 year old even cant stand it!!! There is very little hampster play. You spend most of the game talking to the computer in imaginary friend sequences in the bedroom. After reading information online I discovered my mistake and have since returned the game for the REAL Hampsterz game!!! Hampsterz 2 was a shady attempt to sneak in a different game under the Popular Hampsterz title. Its a shame. I'm glad my video game store allowed me to return it with no hassles!!! Otherwise it would have been going in the trash!! If you look on ebay there are TONS of these for sale CHEAP, and only ONE hampsterz game for twice as much as it retails. That alone shoudl tell you something!!! Dont waste your money on Hampsters 2!!!

great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

hamsterz is a really fun game. your hamster has a baby in 2 months. buy stuff for your hamster. do your name at the begining and what you look like. get your kid this game it is really fun buy a hamster a hamster wheel i am 6.

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