Customer Reviews

Barbie Team Gymnastics

5 star:		(16)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

My husband brought this game home for our daughter who loves gymnastics. They installed it and ran all the intro stuff, she was getting very excited by the way-cool graphics.

Then we got a message, "CPU Not Supported." A quick trip to the Vivendi Universal website confirms that our processor, the P4, is not supported by this game and that there is no patch available to fix this.

Reading the box would not have told us this. The system requirements were Windows 95/98/2000/ME and "Pentiun II processor or higher." Well, P4 is higher than P2, and that chip wasn't released yesterday. I think that's simply unacceptable.

My daughter was disappointed, the product is going back to the store, and it's getting one star for not supporting a widely distributed processor. We can't run it on our laptap either because Windows XP isn't supported. Ridiculous!

Reviewed 13 April 2004 by mad-haus.

This is the best coputer game ever made it lets children who want to be gymnasts see how hard you have to work to earn your title as the best.I have played this game about 25 times a day since I have gotten it and it never gets boring it just keeps getting more and more interesting every time I play it.I love this game it is my favorite computer game out of the hundreds of computer games that I already have I may still be playing this when I am ninety-five!

This game rocks! I'm in gymnastics, and I just love it. You start off in the lounge, where you choose the girl(s) you want to practice with, and you can choose one, two, or all three. Next you go to the roster and choose the gymnast and apparatus you want to work on. You can also look at each gymnast's notebook, which illustrates all the moves they know. You can choose the moves you want, then put together a routine. Once you have finished, you get either a red check, which means you have to practice again, or a green check, which means you have done your routine well. When you are done, you can go to compitition! After each compitition if you win you get new leotards and cooler, harder moves to put in your routines. (Hint: if you find that you have finished all the compititions and there are still blank spots in your notebook, then go to barbie.com/gymnastics, and you can download new moves to fill your notebook with!)

My daughter is on pre-team in gymnastics and is almost 6 yrs. old. I'm always looking for toys/games that are gymnastics related for her. I just bought this for her and I am hooked. I spent 2 days creating routines and competing to win the gold! She likes it as well... though it is a little difficult for her because you have to use the arrow keys and your space bar at just the right moment to perform the routines. She IS able to do it, but it is somewhat difficult for her. She will soon get the hang of it as it doesn't really upset her... she just keeps on playing anyway. I recommend this game for anyone who is in gymnastics or just has an interest in the sport. It is AWESOME to see the computer world creating more games for GIRLS now!

For all those people having problems with this game on Pentium 4 computer, there is now a patch from VUgames that you can download. I'm happily running this on a P4 using XP and DirectX 9.0c and it runs fine. Graphics are still a little coarse, but quite acceptable given the standards used when the software was written. My daughter is now very pleased, and hopefully this information will help make some other kids happy too. The game is a good way to learn some of the names of the moves. Cheers!

I brought this game home a few weeks ago for my daughter that is 6 years old and in gymnastics lessons. She was so excited, so was I because I was a gymnast too. Unfortunatly the game does not work on new computers with pentium 4 processers. I find this very strange that a computer game will not work on a better computer system. It should be the other way around! The game is just useless to us. We have a dissapointed 6 year girl. I have not been able to find any other gymnastics games yet.

Buyer beware: if you have a Pentium 4 you will not be able to play this game

Barbie Team Gymnastics is an excellent game for anyone who is a gymnastics fan or loves Barbie. I have always loved watching gymnastics on television and wondered how they performed those big skills, so I went out and bought this game. Your mission is to help Barbie, Christie, and Teresa work their way up to the Nationals and win the team trophy!

To play, you start off by choosing the gymnast that you want to practice with, which can be Barbie, Christie, Teresa, or all three of them. You are then taken to the team roster, where you can choose the event you want to go to, or look at the gymnasts' notebooks, which show all of the skills that they have learned. When you are in the practice room, you can create your routine using the skills you know and then practice them with the gymnast to get them correct. If you score on or above the target score that Kyra, your coach, has for you, Kyra will tell you that this routine is ready and you will then do another event. There are four events, vault, beam, floor, and bars, and after you finish practicing the routines and getting them down, you can go to competition!

If the team places first in the competition (there are four total), all the gymnasts will recieve new, more difficult and spectacular skills to put in their routines and new leotards to wear in practice and competition, too! The game is so much fun and really helps time to fly by. It is fantastic for any Barbie or gymnastics fan and is quite easy to play, too.

This game is awesome. It's fun to get the new moves and the new outfits. It seems a bit complicated at first but after a few minutes it's easy to understand. The girls can do full twisting double backs and double layouts and loads of other things. I highly recommend this game!

I am in gymnastics and this is an awesome program. My older sister thought it was stupid at first, but now she likes it as much as I do. It's great!!!!

this is a great cd-rom for gymnasts everywhere,my best friend is also fasinated with this wonderful game.i am in pre-team gymnastics and i cannot wait until i can do all the tricks the gymnasts can do in the game.every time you win a compition you get a new leotard and you earn new moves.this is truly a great game and i seriosly recomend it.