 Great game from a parent's point of view |
| Review Date: October 3, 2009 |
| Reviewer: C. Spagnuolo, Northern Colorado |
Overall we give EA MySims Agents 5 out of 5 fun game play, a great story line, challenging puzzles, and good interactivity. We love the fact that it is so well suited for younger kids, encourages reading, reading comprehension, deductive reasoning, and problem solving. We would highly recommend this game for Wii owners with children over 6 years old. And oh, by the way, it wasn't just the kids who loved the game. We've been having a great time playing it too!
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Fun for the whole family
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| Review Date: November 3, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Katherine Berry, Kansas |
| My son loves playing on the Wii. I love point-and-click adventures and mysteries. This game combines both of our preferences in a cute, entertaining way. I'd worried at first that the mysteries and "dispatch missions" would be too difficult for my 9 y/o, but he picked up on the clues easily. Interestingly, I've seen his inductive and deductive logic improve in the process. Me? I just think the Sim Agents are adorable, yet I find the play is interesting enough to keep me entertained, too. |
Fun game!
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| Review Date: January 1, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Kerri Kane, Seattle, WA |
| This game was fun to play and fun to watch being played. It was a Christmas gift this year and was played everyday since. The characters are cute and fun, you can design your own and there are others already made. Like Trebor, the robot afraid of kelp and Dr. F the mad scientist, his creator. The comments are funny for the kids and had my husband and myself giggling. The characters speak in gibberish, which took a little getting used to at first, but become part of the appeal of the game as some of the gibberish is pretty funny too. You do need to know how to read to play the game. Great and creative missions, some not too easy or too hard puzzles along the way. My 10 year old struggled only slightly with some of the puzzles but did get them all solved. The only thing is as someone mentioned, it's not a long game. Still not a reason to not purchase it, but maybe the next one can be a little longer. She just finished the game last night and we're all like, when's the next one coming out?? Great job EA on everything with this agent sim game, it's very fun, bright art, smooth animation. I hope EA does another one just like it, don't change the kooky and cute characters, maybe a few more different puzzles, a little longer game, (with possibly some alien related mission, or a ghost one, there's tons of ideas to go with, all the legends out there, loch ness!) but that's it. Ok, request out and review in :) |
One of my Favorite games
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| Review Date: January 25, 2010 |
| Reviewer: , |
| When I first got this game on Christmas, I wasn't really interested in playing it, but then i got started, and it was one of those games that you could simply not put down. A couples things were bad about this game, but its still a game that i would review for five stars. After you're done readin this, go buy the game |
Great family mystery solving fun!
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| Review Date: March 25, 2010 |
| Reviewer: E. Rogers, New England, USA |
My 5 and 7 year old got several Wii games for Christmas, and this was one of them. It sat on the shelf for two months until they had played out their other games. Once they tried it, they declared it the best game they ever played. We all sat together as a family and worked through the mysteries and puzzles at the end of every day, and when we turned it off every evening, we couldn't wait to play the next day. We talked about it at breakfast, lunch and dinner. What did we need to do next? Who did it?
The best thing about this game is that it requires kids to read and solve puzzles to get through it. My 5 year old is a good reader, but he didn't understand how neat it is to read, and he would never just pick up a book and sit down and read it. This game got him really excited about reading because he had to read to make progress in the game. About a week after we finished the game, I found him in his bed reading a book to himself for the first time!
There are little puzzles that need to be solved in order to unlock items or get new clues. These puzzles are one of the big highlights of the game. It's great to watch my kids thinking process as they are working through them. The puzzles start out fairly easy, and get harder as the game goes on. I think most 6 year olds can solve the easier puzzles on their own, and the hardest ones are still kind of challenging for adults. Once you've solved the puzzles, they go into your arcade unit back at headquarters so you can play them again.
The kids also loved all of the little extras such as changing their characters costumes and customizing the office spaces at headquarters.
Our only disappointment in the game is that it seemed a little short. We solved the game in a little less than 2 weeks. That was partly our fault for playing it so obsessively, but we were kind of sad to see that it was over. We are hoping for a sequel.
If I had to compare this to other games we know, I would compare it to Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility. On the whole, we liked Agents better, and found it to be more engaging. Also, Agents doesn't have some of the tedious, repetitive parts of Harvest Moon, such as having to go to bed every night.
It was great family fun, and as a parent, I never felt guilty about my kids plying it, which I can't say for all games. We are looking forward to more Sims games like this! |
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