Petz

Petz

Company Gameloft is introducing another pet simulation game now. After Catz and Dogz comes also java game Petz on the displays of our mobile phones. We had an opportunity to take care of only one kind of animal in the previous games; in this game you will look after 9 various animals simultaneously. Can you face up to this challenge?

Graphics is made in 2D; you see the events on the display from the bird perspective. Pets are very nice animated; you can see them in the various activities. The initial part of the game is made as a tutorial and you can see many cinematics there. You begin only with one pet and you will have gradually more pets. There will be dog, cat, hamster, turtle, parrot, rabbit and other animals in your own home zoo.

You move on the display with symbol of the hand. If you click on the ground, you can call one of your pets all of them on this place. If you choose one of the animals, you can crab and move the pet, pet it, view the statistics of the pet or give it veggies. Very interesting option is statistics. This part of the game is something like RPG. Each pet has 3 basic characteristics: hungry level, thirst level and happiness level. Your task is to feed, give water and pet the animal in order it has the highest degree of the basic characteristics. Each pet has also 3 secondary skills: climbing, obstacles and swimming. You can increase these skills with the veggies given to animals. But there is limited amount of veggies, so you have to decide which skill of which pet you increase. The question is: “What are these secondary skills for?” Your pets will need them in the competitions. Yes, similarly as in other pet simulations, also in Petz your pets will take part in the competitions. Each competition has 3 disciplines: swimming, obstacle and climbing. As you can see, the disciplines are same as the secondary skills of the pets. If you increase the swimming skill of your pet, it will be better in swimming, etc. The competition is a relay. You have to choose one of your pets for each discipline. The competitions are very good variegation of the game.

Except of competing with other pets at the stadium, you can play with your own pets in the living room of your house. You can buy various toys for them in the shop. The basic toys are cheap but the better ones cost lot of money. Another question: now can I earn money? You will receive money from time to time in the envelope at the door of your house. The better way of earning money is win them in the competitions. The shop offers you also the habitats for the pets, food for them or you can buy also new species of pets there. Your house consists of the living room, bedroom, bathroom and the garden. At the beginning of the game you can play with pets only in bedroom, later you will discover and unlock other rooms.

I enjoyed the music of the game. The melody resounding in the menu and also in the game was very natural and balmy. You can't play many games with the melody in the background and also with sounds at the same time. You have this opportunity in Petz. The sounds of individual animals are very pleasurable and funny, really very good.

The game has focused on many details, also on the relationships between your animals, which affect the performance of the pets in the competitions. You can see the relations between pets in their statistics. Sometimes there are conflicts between pets (the inscription “warning” occurs on the display) and you must react very quickly. You have to take one of the rebels away to other part of the room.

This game offers many opportunities to the player. I can compare it with game Disney Dogs (DD) which I played 2 weeks ago. DD has positively better graphics in comparison with Petz, but the game Petz has more opportunities for the player, offers bigger variability and the game will entertain you longer that DD. You will discover all the locked places and most of the pets relatively soon in Petz, but you will have enormous motivation to win always harder competitions and earn more money for buying new toys and habitats for your pets. The RPG system will also attract the player to the game. You will improve the skills of your pets and enjoy their successes in competitions together with them. It is a very catchy game. The fans of pet simulation games will be very satisfied and also other players could try it, the opportunity of taking control over various pet species in your private zoo and rich opportunities in the game are the guaranty of good amusement for them.

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