Bratz Rock Angelz

by THQ

Product Features

• Help the Bratz girls start their own fashion magazine
• Play as all 4 Bratz girls (Cloe, Jade, Sasha, and Jasmin)
• Live the life of a Rock Angel; adventure through Bratz City and London
• Travel around the globe in search of the perfect scoop
• Enter the Bratz: Rock Angelz room makeover sweepstakes

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000AB0RPC
• Item Weight: 4 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: October 4, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,475 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

You get the chance to live the life of a Rock Angel as you help Cloe, Jade, Sasha, and Yasmin start their own fashion magazine. The search for the perfect scoop will take you around the globe, where famous places and famous people make for amazing adventures.

Features:

• Adventure through Bratz City and London as you make a success of your fashion magazine
• Play as all four Bratz girls (Cloe, Jade, Sasha, and Jasmin)
• Freely explore Bratz City and hang out with people you meet along the way
• Enter the Bratz: Rock Angelz room makeover sweepstakes

Product Description

Based on the upcoming Bratz Rock Angelz doll line and hi-stylin CGI home video, the Bratz: Rock Angelz videogame is packed with tons of adventures that not only take the Bratz girls to London and Paris, but to the height of fashion and music super stardom as well. After Jade gets fired from a summer internship at Your Thing Magazine, the Bratz girls decide to start their own magazine. The search for the perfect scoop takes the girls around the globe, where famous places and famous people make for an amazing adventure.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Awful game and awful role models!, February 6, 2006

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Jeanette C. (Utah, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bratz Rock Angelz (CD-ROM)

I know this is long, but bear with me, there's a lot of say.

This game deserves negative stars in every aspect. It is poorly thought-out, designed, and rendered and the product descriptions and packaging are deliberately misleading. We've gotten better games for free in a cereal box!

The description claims you can "Play as all four Bratz girls (Cloe, Jade, Sasha, and Jasmin)." Wrong. Players can choose to be one of the four at sign-in, but it makes no difference when you play. The game has only one storyline and there are NO variations. The same character goes through the same motions every time and the game predetermines every move. Players are not allowed to decide any outcome, no matter how small. When you enter a room, there is only one thing you can click, nothing else works. You can't explore, you can't look at things in detail, you can't even decide what ingredients to put in your smoothie! You have to play exactly as the game determines. When you go to find pictures, they're the same pictures in the same place every time. When you have to get paint, you have to pick the same color every time. And so on. After two, maybe three times through, your child will be bored. Mine was.

On the technical side, it's pretty dumb. The characters don't move realistically at all and their mouths don't even come close to syncing up with the dialogue. The backgrounds are dull and flat and the animation of the story bits between the tasks is in a completely different style, the characters don't even look the same!

The Bratz are very poor role models in everything from their behavior and look right down to their spelling! They only care about fashion, shopping, and boys, all conveyed in a whiney, valley-girl type tone that is annoying on the computer but truly horrifying when it comes out of your seven-year-old! And they dress like hookers. In another deliberate mislead, the cover shows the girls modestly dressed, yet in the game they all wear micro-mini skirts, cropped tops, gobs of makeup, and stilettos. Think Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, only these are supposed to be teenagers and your child will idolize them. The game incorporates many different ethnic looks, which is good; however, the politically-correct racism is readily apparent - ALL the bad guys are blonde-haired and blue-eyed.

Obviously, I am not impressed with this game. My seven-year-old wanted it because she is ready for something more challenging than the Barbie games. However, she was able to get through the whole thing in less than two hours, quicker than any Barbie game. She loves to play Princess & the Pauper partly because of the design-your-own art projects such as the cakes and stained glass windows. At the end of P&P, she is left with a feeling of pride that she has created something totally unique, something that is truly special to her. The Bratz game only resulted in frustration because she wanted to choose a pink dress and the game only allowed blue.

This was our first experience with Bratz products and believe me, it will be our last!

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting...but has a long way to go, December 15, 2005

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A Pensive Student (Wellesley, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bratz Rock Angelz (CD-ROM)

Prior to purchasing this game, I had been really excited about playing a game that was targeted towards a female audience. However, after playing it, I was somewhat disappointed. The soundtrack is perhaps the biggest plus of the game, with catchy tunes lining the entire gameplay experience. This is a game that you must devote all of your senses to in order to play it properly. It is also incredibly (and perhaps too easy to) skip the story modes. If you press any random button, you completely miss the story. This happened to me a couple of times, and when it returned to gameplay mode, I was confused. It is also very hard to pause the game. It's not possible to pause it during storymode, either...and I found this out the hard way.

The game also does not let you do too much thinking on your own. If you don't choose the right answer, the game lets you know it, and you can't go about doing a task in a variety of different ways. In other words, there's typically only one way to do all of the tasks asked of you. There are only very few instances where you actually have a choice in the matter. You can't even "freely navigate" the world of the Bratz--you have to go where the game tells you to go...otherwise, you get stuck. And both sadly and quite honestly...there's not much to explore in this game.

Most people will probably be able to finish the game in one sitting...as a rather unskilled gamer, it took me about two hours to complete the overall game. Additionally, this game does not have much in the way of replay value. One of its selling points is that you can play all of the characters, which is misleading. In actuality, you do play all of the characters, but it is done within one user name. In other words, after you switch usernames, you are playing the same exact game over again, just with the chance of increasing your old scores.

Although I did find the game entertaining while playing it, I was still quite disappointed with the experience...the "good" characters behave in a rather catty and/or airheaded way at times, and I was disturbed to see that the "bad girls" were noticeably fatter than the skinny "good girls." I wondered what this would be teaching the adolescent girls of today, especially with the extremely unhealthy pressure they're getting from the media to be very thin...

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Bratz Rock Angel, January 2, 2006

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Zoneey (Chandler, AZ) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Bratz Rock Angelz (CD-ROM)

My 8 year old blew through this game in one day. This I was disappointed with because I couldn't find this game anywhere except online.. Although she is still very intersted in this game. Graphics are nothing exceptional. I don't feel it is a bad choice for girls. I think at best it is for 7 to 8 year olds.