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Hypnotic and addictive!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

A peaceful, serene and strangely addictive diving simulation game, where you basically just "identify" sea creatures by interacting with them. The addictive part comes from the way you collect these identified specimens in your "encyclopedia" each time you identify one. It's like collecting baseball cards: the desire to fill your collection is hard to resist. The visuals are stunning, and it's amazing how exciting it is to discover some new form of sea life around every corner.

As others have noted, pretty much everything that takes place on the deck of your boat is of lesser quality and slightly silly. It's disappointing that there's no voice acting, just a character that "mimes" talking while dialogue appears on the screen. That shortcoming hardly seems fitting for a console game in 2008. It seems more like old Playstation 1 quality.

However, once you're in the water, the visuals are beautiful enough to make you forget that minor complaint. The in-game music by Hayley Westenra is hypnotic and uplifting, making underwater vistas take on an almost spiritual quality. At one point, when I found an elusive manatee in a secret sunlit cave, the music suddenly changed and I was practically ecstatic for a few minutes!

Even my daughter, who's only three and a half, enjoys finding sea animals (with my help) and interacting with them. Overall, I recommend this game to anyone of any age who wants a unique, pretty, and relaxingly open-ended gaming experience, with some cool surprises along the way. I've logged over 15 hours on the game so far, and there's still more to discover.

Refreshing and well done

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: February 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

As a certified SCUBA diver, I must say this is the best attempt to capture real life SCUBA diving in a video game. One does not need to concern themselves with the technical aspects of diving to enjoy this game. Those are left out. You don't even have to worry about dying. What this game does capture is the mental zone of being in a completely different world that reminds you that there is another planet down there. Did I mention that this game is only like $30 bucks? This is a great game for parents and their kids. I also commend Nintendo on the route they have decided to take with their game content.

Endless Ocean

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

As an experience scuba diver and with a ollege minor in Marine Biology, I really enjoy this game. It is very relaxing and colorful. After working all day, I think I will just put an hour in exploring the ocean and the next time I look it is closer to 3 hours. It is nice not to have any tension causing activity. May not be for those who like fast pace action but it is time to slow down and just enjoy.

The whole family plays together

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The best thing about Endless Ocean is the time we all spend together "exploring" the beautiful waters. The kids are 11 and 12 and both were sort of "whatever" first, but soon we were all hooked. The room is filled with comments like "ooh,ooh, what is that?" and "look over there, look over there!" We enjoy learning about the fish together and the gentle easy pace.

This is a hard one to describe, but it is addictive. We use it to calm the older one who gets kind of too caught up in the gaming because it's hard to get aggravated playing this!

WONDERFUL Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The BEST game I've ever played! So much fun! It's a satisfying game without going around and shooting things! Excellent music! I can't say enough! This game is AWESOME! (I'm a 40 yo mom that loves games).

Grand daughter loves it

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Endless Ocean was a birthday gift for my eleven year old grand daughter. My eleven year old grandson said, "Oh Grandma, that is such a lame game." I bought it for Sami anyway and she loves it! Her three year old sister sits beside her and squeals when she sees a sea creature. The seven year old brother complains because he never gets a turn. I guess the moral is, know the recipient. (Sami wants to be a marine biologist, if that doesn't work out I'm sure she will be saving animals somewhere.)

Expected better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: June 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

After all the rave reviews of this game I was somewhat disappointed with this due to one thing: actually getting in the water and swimming is gated by some annoying quest-like mechanics. One would expect to load up the game, go through a movement tutorial (this does happen) and then start swimming in various reefs from around the world. But no. There is a pointless choose hairstyle and skin tone step first. Then you have to walk around on a boat and talk to an NPC.

I bought this for my kids (6, 4, 3) thinking it would be a fun and educational experience and it is now, but whenever the game wants to advance the "story" I take over and get through it as fast as possible so the kids can get back to scuba diving.

ok

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: July 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

A nice non violent game I will let my granddaughter play. Its also cheaper than the real vacation.

Not for everyone

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: May 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

As a fan of the virtual fishtank I expected to find a lot more fun from this game. The characters are lame and the discovery process is flat. The protagonist (aka you) in the game is a pony-tail guy who's supposed to be a trained diver with no knowledge of the ocean. Huh? Except for the trained diver part, I couldn't relate at all. Your sidekick is all smart about the ocean but acts like a ditz. Moving around the boat (and moving the boat around) is tedious. Swimming around and looking at fish is enjoyable for a while, but it does get old.

relaxing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: May 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is very relaxing if you want a break from the norm of playing games. This is an educational and low key game. Not bad for me but for two kids 6 and 3 noway too young and there is alot of reading for them.

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