John Deere American Farmer with John Deere Builder Bundle

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Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000J4T6G6
• Item Weight: 4 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: September 22, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,972 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

The John Deere bundle includes a farming and building simulation where you build and manage your own farm. You not only select the types of crops, livestock, and employees, but you also have to purchase the equipment and manage several construction sites. So put your hard hat on and get ready to build a successful farm with John Deere American Farmer Deluxe and John Deere Builder Deluxe!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A fun and relaxing game, October 17, 2008

By 

Dustin Williams (Arizona, USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: John Deere American Farmer with John Deere Builder Bundle (CD-ROM)

This is truly one of those fun and relaxing games that's great to play after a hard day of work. :-)

The game play is fairly straight forward, as you're given a wide variety of farming missions to complete, ranging from cultivating different crops to raising live stock. However, the game play is entertaining, as you will frequently encounter many dynamic issues that can ruin your ability to make money, such as unpredictable pests infestations (that rapidly eat up your crops), to poachers snipping off your farm animals, and out-of-state, hillbilly family that decides to "show up" one day and move in with your family... Of course, they always want free room-and-board, but best of all, you can always make them work!

In this game, there's a constantly changing free market that affects how much money that you can make from selling particular crops and animal products. Of course, there's always some radical diet trend that can greatly enhance or upset the crop or animal product prices. You'll soon become familiar with the outspoken Bridget (Hollywood star) that constantly promotes a vegetarian diet --she has a bad habit of showing up just when the price of beef gets to the point that you're about to become a luxurious, wealthy millionaire! Instead, you'll find that the price of beef is now suddenly so low, that you'll have to almost take out a loan from the bank, just so that you can make payroll for your employees -- until the beef market can recover from her "statements." ;-)

The game technically is in 3D, but since the camera movement is limited, it's more like a 2D game (set at a 45 degree angle). The game works glassy smooth on my system, which is a MacBook Pro (4 GB of RAM), running Windows XP (via Apple Bootcamp).

In Summary:
I have thoroughly enjoyed this game and for it's price, I would certainly recommend it for kids and adults alike. It's good, clean, family fun!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun for passing time - game play could be smoother, August 30, 2009

By 

J. Joyce - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: John Deere American Farmer with John Deere Builder Bundle (CD-ROM)

I enjoy this game - especially for the price! There are some gameplay things that could be improved - zooming out further, not having the camera jump around when you select your employees, etc. But it's fun to 'play farmer' with if that's what you are out to do.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Son Loves the Game, December 16, 2010

By 

Julie M. Siemek - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: John Deere American Farmer with John Deere Builder Bundle (CD-ROM)

My son (age 18) loves farming games and the entire farming scenario. After trying this game as someone else's home, he just had to have it. Amazon had the best price and the game was in excellent condition. Thanks!