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Petz Dogz 2 | 
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| From: UBI Soft Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99 Buy New: $11.87 You Save: $8.12 (41%)
New (29) Used (10) from $10.22
Avg. Customer Rating: 11 reviews Sales Rank: 2112
Platform: Nintendo Wii ESRB: Everyone Media: Video Game Autographed: No Memorabilia: No Batteries Included: No Age: 5 - 20 years Operating System: Nintendo Wii Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3 Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 17322 Model: 17322 UPC: 008888173229 EAN: 0008888173229 ASIN: B000T22Q7O
Release Date: June 4, 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Condition: Never used, but out of shrinkwrap. It was a duplicate gift.
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| Features:
| • | Choose from seven adorable breeds, including Boxer and Husky, each with different fur colors and textures | | • | Mix and match with Fantasy Breedz, including robot, tuxedo, zebra and more | | • | Keep a daily Pet Journal where you can record your thoughts and show off badges and puppy photos | | • | Take photos of your pup to print and share with friends | | • | Use your sniff radar! There are a lot of interesting objects hidden in the world. |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description Pick a puppy pal from a pack of fuzzy and adorable puppies in Petz Dogz 2! Together, you and your new cuddly companion will encounter a world that's fun to play in, explore, and share. Dress up your puppy in fun puppy clothes, play for hours with new toys, or look for hidden surprises that can give your puppy new abilities. Customize your puppy's environment with items and toys, and unlock more goodies as you get better at caring for your new best friend. Watch your puppy grow, go on quests and adventures together, and unlock awesome mini-games. Carefully read well what other puppies tell you. It might contain a clue. Buy accessories and give them as gifts to other villager puppies, they will wear them! Collect insects, flowers and fruits to get special items! ESRB Rated E for Everyone
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
Dog of a game September 14, 2008 My 9-year-old found this game so frustrating and difficult to understand, they were in tears after an hour of trying to play it. It doesn't appear to save data so you have to go through the entire initial story each time. The story line is violent, which is not what this game tries to sell itself as. I think it was someone's attempt to simulate Webkinz, but id didn't work. At ALL.
If your kids are too young to read yet, this game will be totally useless for them, as there is a lot of text to read.
You don't really get to choose what you want to do- there is no just "wandering around" getting to know the game. It always forces you to play the next "course." There is danger of your puppy "dying" from attacks. My animal-loving kids ended up hating it.
Fun but misleading August 26, 2008 You gotta wonder if the product descibers and the product manufacturers were on the same page. Seven different breeds, mix and match, keep a journal, rewards, etc. all lies! This game starts with you choosing and naming your puppy (And there are about forty breeds to choose from!) and then you guide your puppy through a virtual world according to instructions from others, like, go to Dolphin Coast so we can play. Although other characters talk to you, you have to imagine what your puppy is saying back, to some extent. For example they'll say, "I need some cloth." and your puppy will bark, and they'll say, "Oh, you'll get some for me? Thank you!"
About the plot. As everyone has said, it is about an evil wolf named Ivlet. Naturally, the box neglected to mention this all important fact and made it sound like, "Oh, happy day, la la la, I'll just dress up my puppy and design my village" when it really is so much more than that. You can't "design your village" anyway; what they're referring to is helping to rebuild the village after Ivlet destroyed it; you have absolutely no say in what the building looks like. The only designing you do is planting flowers.
As someone mentioned, this probably would be too violent for a five year old, so maybe you should wait until your child's a little older. However it is extremely mild for a game with a villain (you defeat him by throwing pebbles).
This game can get boring after a while; all you do is run and find people and/or sniff out objects. There is very little variety. Also, at some point the aquarium guy asks you to catch a fish for him in Polar Fields. You apparently have to go to a special dock to be able to catch it. I found the dock and fished for fifteen minutes and I still haven't caught it. Talking of fifteen minutes, there is a really long cutscene near the beginning of the game that takes about that long if you skip the text.
But the worst thing about the game is more of a moral issue. Your puppy is sent by adults into very dangerous situations; although your parents tell you to let the authorities get the Magic Hat back from Ivlet, Beat (Who is supposedly the good side of the magic hat) convinces you to go get it back anyway; worse than that, you are later encouraged by several adults to fight the monster instead of them. The fish the guy at the aquarium wants you to get is to cover up a lie that he'd already caught it himself.
All in all, this is a fun game which can get a bit annoying at times, but don't let your child learn morals from it.
~Russian Blue Witch (RBW)
PET DOGZ FOR WII August 18, 2008 THIS GAME IS OKAY, IT LACKS ALOT, BUT WOULD BE OKAY FOR A YOUNG CHILD.
Games for kids July 27, 2008 Bought this game for my daughter but she liked the Catz version better. Disappointed that the dog and cat are exactly the same. I would have only bought one, not both. Still very enjoyable for any child who loves animals. I actually played and did have a good time. Took me about 2 hours to beat the game. Nothing hard but my daughter enjoyed watching. We had a great time together.
Fun game, especially for the price! June 23, 2008 I got this game primarily because it had a miniature schnauzer available as a breed(!), but I actually find it fun and a great way to utilize Wii gaming without such fast-paced gameplay as I get with Mario Kart Wii, PES 2008, or Guitar Hero III. The graphics are solid, the different locales in this game are expansive, and the tasks are numerous. Also, this game seems to be very similar in style to The Dog Island for the Wii which came out more recently (both from UbiSoft), so I recommend this one if you want to save some $$$ but get a fun-to-play game at a great value...
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