3 stars (Dora's PC Games - Animal and Backpack Adventures) - I bought Dora's animal adv (using Win2000) for my 2.5 yr old and he loves it. At first it was kinda hard for him. But he mastered it. Now at 3 yrs, he loves to play with it with no help. There are good memory game, fun facts, numbers. Lotsa activites. I rate this one a 5 star for fun, educational and overall. Worth getting.
BUT then I bought Dora's Backpack adv (using Win98) and there were so many problems with it. The trio came on very slowly. The game exited itself or froze up while playing. I'm not sure if it's b/c of Win98. The game itself is okay if there are so many bugs in the game. I rated this one a 3 stars for fun but 1 star for too many bugs.
2 stars (Dora Animal Adventures is pretty poor) - I am StoryMaker. My sis Chocolate Dog got Dora Animal Adventures for her 7th birthday on July 14 from her grandparents (part the reason I through on that extra star for the overall rating!). It is not very fun. We are not preschoolers but I bet preschoolers would think the same! The installation takes a long time when it loads the files even if you choose Minimum and the shortcut it makes says "Play Animal Adventures" instead of "Dora Animal Adventures" (we rename it though) and it is annoying because there is a JumpStart Animal Adventures too! I do not like the Sign-In screen. You must press the arrow buttons to start a new game (scroll to blank field journal) or countine a game (scroll to used field journal) and of the paints to color your FJ there is no red and red is my favorite color so I must use pink and you can only put one animal sticker on your FJ (I need to choose!). Most of the places lead you to a boring game where you find the animals (whitch is too easy even on level 3) and your cursor turns into a camera and you click it. Actullay, wherever you click it always takes a pic of the animal. All the animals do tricks when you find them, but the Anaconda Snake turns into a balloon animal...does not teach how dangerous it is! And it also dosen't tell any facts about animals. And in the move like the animals game you just choose whitch animal she acts like, not whitch way she goes. I could do it faster then it does in the game and when you get to the animal Dora is stupid enough not to pick it up before it jumps up and Boots the monkey says, "Look how high the baby is!" and in the rapids game if you but into something nothing happens, you just stop and you can just click a million times and Dora will jump over everything. And, the rapids game is the most action-arcade-ish, and it can get boring! And the feeding game badly teaches colors because Diego calls the light orenge leaves yellow leaves and the frog wants to eat bunches of grass and mangos! But I like the "Stunt Puppy Enertainment, Inc." thing at the start. Also, sometimes the screen turns white for a second. Let's say Artari makes bad games, because they made a bad "Pajama Sam 4: Life's sure ruff when you lose your stuff!". [...]
3 stars (Game is nice, Keydisk is hard for 3 year old) - The game is simple but there are a number of things for my 3 year old to do. My big complaint about this game is the fact it has a key disk that must be in the cd drive for the game to run. Key disks are such a hassle for 3 year olds who you don't want opening and closing the cd tray on your computer. I'd like to just have an icon on the desktop she can click to run the game.. Can't happen when she needs to put the disk in the CD player. Frustrating. |
