World Famous Comics: Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus
Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus
From: Vivendi Universal Interactive Publishing Average Rating: Binding: CD-ROM ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Format: CD-ROM Label: Vivendi Universal Interactive Publishing Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product. Manufacturer Minimum Age: 6 years Manufacturer Maximum Age: 14 years Model: 21940 Platform: Windows XP Release Date: September 13, 2005
Features:
Join Annika, Shiver, and Brietta on a fantastic adventure
Journey through 4 enchanting kingdom locations in search of clues
Solve puzzles and play exciting mini-games to defeat the wizard
Use the Wand of Light to complete 20 levels and special challenges
Product Description: Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus takes the adventure of the 3D movie and brings it to your daughter! Let her experience the great adventure Barbie faces in a beautiful fantasy world.
Don't Be Fooled by a Deceptively Boring Beginning This a "more" 3D game than the Swan Lake game because you actually move around in 3D environment.
At first I thought this game was really boring (compared to Swan Lake). BUT my four-year old daughter persisted and continued to play, and she eventually figured out amazing parts of the game that the beginning had completely belied.
My girls love this game! My 5 and 3 year old girls play this game constantly and they both can win it without assistance. Great game.
Varied difficulty, old style 3d graphics I got this game for my four year old [she turned four three months ago], and she can do, or muddle through most of it. But there are a few mouse based puzzles that are just really hard, where you have to move an object through a maze without touching anything. I am a graphic artist who illustrates with a mouse, and they are a little challenging for me, so they've got to be quite hard for kids. Most of the challenges consist of matching puzzles, of which some are pretty nicely drawn and challenging, as the objects to be matched are pretty similar. A few of the matching puzzles are painfully simple and repetitive, but they are probably pretty well targeted at the five or six year old.
The complaints about the quality of the graphics are from folks unfamiliar with 3d renderings and modeling. The quality is fairly consistent with late 90s games and older online 3d games. It's adequate [particularly when objects are in motion, it doesn't matter nearly as much how elaborately they are rendered -- imagine the difference between observing a painting and watching a play], and considering the price of the game [I got it for $10 in a retail store], it's fine. The shifting perspective can be bizarre, but it occurs only in limited areas of the game.
Lots of fun for my granddaughter This computer game is lots of fun for my granddaughter. It took her a while to get into it, because in the beginning she got a bit frustrated with the program, going round in circles, but eventually she got through the intitial stages and then she loved it. She is 10 years old and pretty handy with her computer games. I can recommend this game based on her experiences with it.
Great for preschoolers We LOVE this game at our house. My little ones are 4 and 5 and play it over and over again. We have the CD-Rom version and the graphics are nice. The puzzles and games are age appropriate for 4 and 5 year old children. The game recommends age 5 and up, but I can see why so many reviewers were disappointed. This is not something an older child would like. The puzzles are a little on the easy side--matching, etc. and perfect for younger children. Great if you have a little Barbie fan or two. Parents of older children should skip this one.
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