Real Adventures: Pet Vet

By Alex Kidman and Zoe Kidman on 29/02/2008

More Mindscape reviews , RRP: AU$39.95

The good:

  • Good depth of care for various animals
  • Tons of medical detail

The bad:

  • Very text heavy
  • Game elements are limited
  • Very slow pace.

The bottomline:

What happens when you let Vets write videogames? Real Adventures: Pet Vet is what happens, a starkly realistic – and thus sometimes tedious – medical adventure game.

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Editors' rating:

7.1/10

Users' rating:

8/10

Tags:

animals | ds | family | games | nintendo | real

If you've got a child who's really, really keen to become a vet, then they could do worse than to spend some time with Mindscape's Real Adventures: Pet Vet. The Real part of the name isn't kidding, either; this is a quite detailed simulation that puts you in the role of a new vet, charged with diagnosing and treating a variety of animals.

While real vets don't use a stylus to rub out circles to treat broken limbs, it's otherwise quite realistic, but that's double-edged. The game is very text heavy and very slow, and younger players - such as our test subject, a six year old girl who otherwise loves animals to bits - will quickly become bored with the medical terminology.

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Tonya
04/06/2008, 10:57 PM

rating
8
/10

Its good but you can have points deducted just for using one item twice by accident.

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