Catz 5

by UBI Soft

Product Features

• Features: 15 breedz of Catz Different breedz have different personalities Every Catz is unique Every Catz had their own likes and dislikes Dress your Catz in stylish clothing and accessories Has an initial assortment of Toyz and supplies Your Catz can have Kittenz Create your own carrying case Create your own Playscenes

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006JEL3
• Item Weight: 4 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: November 18, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (57 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,097 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #2 in Software > Children's Software > Virtual Pets
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PC

From the Developer

The Catz are back, in the fifth version of the bestselling Petz family of products from Ubi Soft. Now Petz lovers can enjoy multiple litterz of Kittenz, new weather effects, and day and night cycles in graphically updated play scenes including five new places to play with your Catz.

The Catz and Dogz virtual Petz product lines have sold more than 2 million copies worldwide, while spawning a huge community of loyal Petz owners. Dogz and Catz live on your computer desktop, from little Puppyz and Kittenz, you raise them as they grow, play, and learn together. When they grow up, many will start families of their own. Petz look to you for care, guidance, and training. For every Petz you adopt, you'll get to sign an Adoption Pledge promising to be a good Petz owner. Make sure your Dogz and Catz get plenty of healthy food, exercise, play time--and lots of love from you! Tasty treatz are one way to reward your Petz for good behavior, just don't overdo it. Use the spray bottle to keep particularly naughty Petz in line. Your Petz will run away if they feel neglected. Please adopt only those Petz you're sure you want and take good care of them.

Product Description

Catz that live on your computer and scamper across yourdesktop!Product InformationThe Catz are back in the fifth version of the bestselling Petz family!They play in their home Playscenes travel and explore faraway Playscenes andfrolic in Playscenes that you make especially for them. Now Petz lovers can enjoy multiple litterz of Kittenz new weather effects and day and night cycles in graphically updated play scenes including five new places to play with yourCatz.Catz live on your computer desktop from Kittenz you raise them as they grow play and learn together. When they grow up many will start families of their own. Petz look to you for care guidance and training. For every Petz you adopt you'll get to sign an Adoption Pledge promising to be a good Petz owner.  Make sure your Catz get plenty of healthy food exercise play time--and lots of love from you! Tasty treatz are one way to reward your Petz for good behavior just don't overdo it. Use the spray bottle to keep particularly naughty Petz in line. Your Petz will run away if they feel neglected. Please adopt only those Petz you're sure you want and take good care of them.Breed them play with them feed them and love them!Product HighlightsLitterz!Now Catz can have anywhere from 1-4 unique kittenz!Never-Seen-Before Playscenes and Mini-GamesCreate a whole new interactive experience for your Catz!Weather Effects & Day and Night CyclesExperience changes in the weather and watch day turn into night!Backwards Compatible!Owners of previous Catz can bring their adopted Petz into Catz 5.New BreedzScottish Fold Egyptian Mau Japanese Bobtail and more!Updated GraphicsSimply marvelous!New Toyz and ClothingProduct Features 15 breedz of Catz Different breedz have different personalities Every Catz is unique Every Catz had their own likes and dislikes Dress your Catz in stylish clothing and accessories Has an initial assortment of Toyz and supplies Your Catz can have

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

47 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love these virtual petz!, December 29, 2003

By 

Donna Hayford (???) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Catz 5 (CD-ROM)

Catz 5 was what I wanted most for Christmas this year. I got what I wanted--this game is pure FUN. I've been playing it nonstop ever since. Very much like Catz 4--except new mini-games, new breedz, are the big changes.

If you've never heard of catz or dogz (or any of the series), then you must know now! These games are about taking care of cats or dogs, raising them, feeding them, training them, and breeding them--basically it's like taking care of an animal around the house (except you don't have to scoop any litter or take any walks). =P It's the perfect gift for girls aged 8-13, or people who are cat/dog fanatics.

The scenes (places for catz to play in) in this game are pretty much similar to the ones in Catz 4, except now they have a Salon (umm...I think it wasn't in Catz 4 but I haven't played on Catz 4 for years), fantasy castle, AsianTemple, and a Haunted mansion. Yes, you can still design your own scenes for your catz to play in, and you now get to design your carrying case (w/ a paint program) for your catz! The scenes in this game are:
The Adoption Center
Backyard
Beach
Family Room
Fantasy Castle (new)
Haunted Mansion (new)
Kitchen
Salon (new)
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Arabia
AsianTemple (new)
Circus
Snow Scene
South Seas
Wild West

To get items in this game for your Catz to play with, you must defeat little miniature games that are in scenes, such as tic-tac-toe (as silver-girl said, it takes about 3-10 times to mark an X in your area), rock paper scissors, Simon says, obstacle coarse, and scarab crunch. Almost all the items in this game are old ones from Catz 4. Thank goodness in this game you can hold unlimited items in your carrying case, unlike in older versions of games where you have to hold a maximum of 9. That's one of the reasons we're all glad for this game.

A female cat in this game can have a litter of 1-4 kittenz. They are almost always mixed breeds, really if you have to different types of catz. There are 15 different breedz of catz in this game -- Alley Cat, B+W Shorthair, Calico, Chinchilla Persian, Desert Lynx, Egyptian Mau, Honey Bear, Japanese Bobtail, Maine Coon, Orange Shorthair, Persian, Russian Blue, Scottish Fold, Siamese, and Tabby. You can't cheat anymore with your computer calendar to speed up the birth of your cats' kittens. Usually it takes babies to be infants 2-3 days, and kittens in 7 days. Then it takes 3-4 days to become adults. They grow up so fast...*sniff*

You still have the screensaver, in this game also. But what I HATE is that you need the CD in order to launch it (like the review that person wrote who only bought this for the screensaver). Don't bother buying this for the screensaver either; it's nothing really. It's just your catz playing with random items.

Please do not buy this if you already have Catz 4 and you expect a lot out of this game. If you want the extra stuff, I say go for it. It's not much different than Catz 4--just more breedz, 4 more scenes, and mini-games which you play to earn new items.

Well, that's my review.

61 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars WARNING to all CDRW drive owners, March 12, 2004

By 

W. C. Bryant (Columbus, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Catz 5 (CD-ROM)

Just a friendly warning to all CDR/CDRW/DVDR/DVDRW drive owners. UBI Soft as a "feature" on their PC software that prevents installation from any drive with write capacity. Why they feel that's a valid anti-piracy measure, and why they don't mind blowing off an entire segment of the market, is entirely beyond me, but that's not the point here. Call UBI Soft tech support BEFORE buying this or any other PC game from them, and check to make sure whether or not you will be able to install. Software (such as Chessmaster 9000) doesn't come with a warning on the box (in "some" cases, they claim -- I haven't found a single box that does), nor is there a warning on the Amazon product pages (short of reviews like this). One could speculate that they're perfectly happy to let people buy their software knowing some won't be able to install it, but I'll leave their motivation to give no warning to consumers to your imagination.

UBI Soft's tech support has said that this "feature" extends to *all* of their PC titles. So fair warning, particularly to folks with laptops where DVD/CDRW drives came standard, ask before you buy. Perhaps if enough people have a problem with this flawed policy, UBI will smarten up. "Flawed" because limiting installs to drives without write capacity isn't going to slow a determined game cracker/pirate down, it's only going to prevent normal consumers from being able to install the game. Worse, they don't find out until they've opened the package and tried to install, which in some cases is enough to prevent a return and refund from the seller.

I'm certain this game deserves more than 1 star, and suspect it will see some good reviews from people who are able to install, but I can't give it more than a single. That's a commentary on UBI Soft and their "feature", not about the game itself.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Synopsis of Catz 5, August 10, 2005

A Kid's Review

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Catz 5 (CD-ROM)

In this game you can adopt your own Catz at the adoption center. Once you do that, you start taking care of them! Remember to feed them, play with them, and wash them every day! Be cautious, don't mistreat them, or they may run away! You will know they have ran away if you come to select them and there' s a big, red RUNAWAY across his/her picture. When you click on them, something will say, "Your pet has run away! Wait and they may come back!" However, one of my pets ran away and they never came back.

Your petz will remain kittenz for 3-4 days, and then the day will come when they grow up! They can then have kittenz! To have kittenz, you need a male and a female pet that LIKE each other. If they don't like each other, you will have to take sprays at them with the love spray or play some love songs so they will fall in love. You will know when they have fallen in love when they jump to the middle of the screen and a big red heart comes up saying they are expecting kittenz. What you have to do then is (if you haven't already) take care of your petz, come back the next day, and the next day, make sure to play with your petz! They should then have kittenz the next day.

When your petz have kittenz, you need to take the female out at the right time, then the playscene will turn into the nursery playscene, and a certificate will come up showing your new kittenz. Name them, click OK, and you'll be in the nursery where you can visit your Kittenz whenever you want by taking out the mother Cat, and you'll automatically go to the nursery. You cannot take out or put back Petz in the nursery; not even the father. I think that's kind of weird. To exit the nursery, just go to a seperate Playscene. They will come out of the nursery in about 7 days.

In Petz 5, the different places you can go with your Petz are called Playscenes. Here are all of them...

Back Yard
Beach
Family Room
Fantasy Castle
Haunted Mansion
Kitchen
Salon
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Arabia
Asian Temple
Circus
Snow Scene
South Seas
Wild West
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Editor
Custom Scenes
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Desktop

Be careful not to adopt too many Petz, even though it says you can have as many as you want, if you adopt too many, one of your existing pets will be deleted. Also, if it says the sound won't work when you start it up, then go to...
(:C)
Program Files
Ubi Soft
Studio Mythos
Petz 5
Then delete the file setupapi.dll

I hope this review helped!
-Somebody

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