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Equestrian Challenge Review (continued)
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Manufacturer: Red Mile
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ESRB Rating: Everyone
Platform(s): Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows Me
Release Date: November 21, 2006
Average Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars
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Retail Price: $19.99
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Date: 2008-06-13
A very realistic, fun game
Equestrain challenge is a great game. You ride in 2-star, 3-star, and 4-star events that get progressivly harder. The events are just right, not so hard it takes you forever to get through them, but not so easy that you're done with them in a few days. Though a large part of the game is riding, you also take care of your horse by feeding, watering, brushing and making your horse happy. As you win different events you unlock things that make the care of your horse easier. A problem with the game is that when unlock more horses as you progress though the game they don't have devolpment-points which you get as you go on to harder levels. Once you finish events you earn developement-points that make your horse perform better. Without these points you can not win the harder events. When you get new horses they don't have these points...so you can't compete in the harder events with them. I don't mind this to much, but
it would be more fun if you had a lot of horses to ride in the harder events. That is why I gave it four stars for the overall rating.
Even with the problem, the game is still very fun and I reccomend you get it.
Date: 2008-05-28
Best horse game ever!!!!
This game is the most realistic horse ever! I love it.... my friend and I have been playing non-stop!!!!
The horses are gorgeous and for once the dressage is fun!!! The cross country and show jumping are so awesome!!!If you want a sweet horse game,buy it!!!!
Date: 2008-05-27
All-round great!!!
I bought this game a few days ago, and I must say, it is the best I've played so far... The graphics are very real, the events are challenging but exciting, and the senery that you ride in is just beautiful! Also, it's very easy to understand ( no puzzling moments), and you have a "trainer" guiding you through the whole game... It's great! I highly recommend it to anyone!
P.S. If your looking for a great western horse game, try " Let's Ride!; Silver Buckle Stables"... my second favorite :)
Date: 2008-05-04
grade A
this is a grade A game because it is just like the ps2 version and would recommend it to anyone.
Date: 2008-04-01
BE WARNED - Little or no support available
BUYER BEWARE!
I bought this title for my soon-to-be 10 year old daughter (who has several of the "Let's Ride" games as well as a few other of the available 3D horse riding games. They all have similar features, some just do it better than others.
While this game looks polished and runs smoothly, I was extremely upset to find that there were NO INSTRUCTIONS in the box. I bought it here from Amazon, and it was in a shrink-wrapped box, but there were only setup instructions which included information that to get the full manual, go to the maker's website. But while the website was correct, the page where the manual supposedly was downloadable wasn't there (page not found error in browser). I browsed the entire website - which is 100% marketing - little or no support. Nothing.
What makes this such a big deal is that there are icons on the screen while practicing/competing that represent your horse's stamina, hapiness, whatever (who knows since they aren't labeled w/text?) but because of the lack of instructions, it's impossible to complete an event w/out your horse tiring out and failing.
This game would be great if the manufacturer (and/or distributor) supported it properly. But like most of the horse game genre, there's little or no support available. Right now it collects dust while my daughter plays scratched up older titles. Every time she tries to play, it just frustrates her to the point she now says, "I hate this game!" As such, I can't give it more than a one, no matter how "pretty" it looks.
*** UPDATE 5/29/2008 ***
I emailed the publisher asking how to get instructions (got the email from the website listed on the installation instructions) and received no response. This game is still practically unplayable and I stand firmly behind my original one star rating. Too bad, I would have much preferred to have removed it.
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