Petz Hamsterz 2 | 
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| From: UBI Soft Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99 Buy New: $14.30 You Save: $15.69 (52%)
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Avg. Customer Rating: 7 reviews Sales Rank: 1261
Platform: Nintendo Ds ESRB: Everyone Media: Video Game Autographed: No Memorabilia: No Batteries Included: No Age: 5 - 20 years Operating System: Nintendo DS Shipping Weight (lbs): 3 Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.7
MPN: 16390 Model: 16390 UPC: 008888163909 EAN: 0008888163909 ASIN: B000SQ5LP0
Release Date: November 13, 2007 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Condition: Brand new, Sealed!!!!
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| Features:
| • | The second game in the Petz Hamsterz series | | • | Adopt a hamster to care for and train | | • | Choose from five types of hamsterz |
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Product Description Adopt a cute hamster from different breeds, raise and train him. As your hamster grows stronger, he can build his own Ham-country with its own bakery, school and bookstore and invite other hamsters.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
Horrible game... returned it to the store!! July 20, 2008 2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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!!!
Hamsterz 2 Nintendo DS July 17, 2008 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
great game July 9, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
Boring May 27, 2008 4 out of 6 found this review helpful
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!
If you only buy one virtual hamster game this year, it should be this one. April 8, 2008 12 out of 20 found this review helpful
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!
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