Barbie Horse Adventures: Riding Camp | 
 enlarge | From: Activision Inc.
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1079
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: role_playing_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 75695
Model: 047875756953
UPC: 047875756953
EAN: 0047875756953
ASIN: B001AZ7RMS
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Barbie as a role-playing game - Take the role of Barbie at Riding Camp; develop riding skills, perform a variety of horse care tasks, explore and go on adventures! | | • | Quest-based gameplay in an open world - Enjoy the freedom to explore the entire island, compete in time-trials and challenges, earn trophies, medals and ribbons for outstanding performances | | • | Customization - clothes and accessories are unlocked as you complete quests | | • | 15 different horses to ride - each with their very own personalities, unique qualities and individual skill sets |
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Product Description
Barbie Horse Adventures: Riding Camp puts you in the role of Barbie as you explore the wilderness with your horse. It is the ultimate in horse racing as you and Barbie compete for victory. This role-playing game takes you to riding camp, where you develop riding skills, perform a variety of horse care tasks, explore and go on adventures. It's a quest-based gameplay in an open world where you have the freedom to explore the entire island, compete in time-trials and challenges, and earn trophies, medals and ribbons for outstanding performances. Added with customization features, clothes and accessories are unlocked as you complete your quests. 15 different horses are also available for riding, each with their very own personalities, unique qualities and individual skill sets. There are also 8 unique locations to explore, in a race to reach the finish line.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Okay Game but a Little Confusing January 3, 2009
Jamie C. Darzi
This Christmas we decided to buy a Nintendo Wii game system and wanted to purchase a Wii game for each of our children. Our daughter is 5 years old and loves horses. After reading reviews on different horse games, I decided that most would be too hard for her. At the time, I couldn't find a review for the Barbie Horse Adventures, but took a chance anyway and purchased the game for her.
The game starts with Barbie arriving at Riding Camp which has lots of storm damage. She is instructed to pick out some riding clothes and a horse. Afterwards, she is shown how to care for her horse by feeding it and grooming it. This is all easy to follow but somewhat time consuming. Next, the riding instructor gives Barbie her first adventure, to ride around the arena in a timed race. From here, the player finds adventures such as riding events, storm clean-up events, and horse care events. At the completion of each adventure, camp credit is given for purchasing riding clothes and horse gear. You also earn awards for riding events.
Some things about the game were very intuitive and easy for my daughter to pick up. Controlling the horse isn't too bad although my daughter tends to over steer with the Wii remote but I blame that on "operator error". My reasons for giving the game an "Okay" rating is the confusion of finding your way around the island for the adventures. The map is hard to read on the screen and I found myself going back to the game paper insert for help. There are signposts occasionally but they are hard to read when you are riding past them on a horse. I have found that I need to play the game prior to my daughter playing it so that I can help her navigate and pick adventures that she will want to do. That said, it took me a couple of times of play to find our next adventure at the Racetrack. Another downfall of the game is relying on vocal instructions during game play to tell you about different items. For the first few days of playing the game, a virtual cell phone would ring. We had no idea of how to answer it. During one game, we happened to go a route and the instructions for cell phone use popped up as a helpful hint. We found that the cell phone was very important to the game (including how to exit the game) yet we hadn't known how to access it for the first few times we played.
After several hours of play, I think that I can navigate fine through the game but my 5 year old would rather take care of the horses and ride throughout the pastures and not take on the adventures. She does seem to enjoy the game now but it has taken her a while to warm-up to it. In some ways, Barbie Horse Adventure: Riding Camp is like the PC software game, Let's Ride which my daughter loves to play. I think that my daughter does better with the Let's Ride game but of course there is more riding interaction with the Wii controller than with a PC mouse.
I believe this game is for a 6 to 8 year old. Some of the adventures were quite easy and would likely bore someone older than 5 or 6. I think someone much older would find the whole game on the dull side.
 Great for ages 5+ January 1, 2009
Magnolia
This game is a good game. I can see it getting old if you have finished the "assignments". It really is very easy but I think you might need to be 5+ to play without frustration. You basically just ride around and ask your instructor what to do. Hell give you assignments like "run this trail" or "go find the water to water your horse". But my 5 year old probably would give it a 7 out of 10 stars and I think its decent.
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