Dogz 5

by UBI Soft

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006JEL5
• Item Weight: 5 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: November 18, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (95 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,002 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #5 in Software > Children's Software > Virtual Pets
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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As computer technology improves, so has this outstanding life simulation series, which is now in its fifth edition (see also Catz and Babyz). New features include weather effects, continually updated day and night, five new playscenes, and five mini-games like concentration and tic-tac-toe. Each pair of dogs can now have up to five puppies -- previous editions had just one offspring. You start at the adoption center by selecting a pet from 15 breeds. This takes you to one of the playscenes, for instance a backyard, or a bathroom, or a winter scene. It is possible to create your own scene by importing a digital picture and creating a "floor" and "ceiling." Key to using the program is a nicely designed suitcase menu, that makes it very easy to jump from one scene to another, or pull out endless menus of pet toys, outfits to try on, boxes for them to climb in, and much more. While there is no direct educational content in this program, the open-ended nature of the activity makes it ideal for children to experiment with menus, create with sets of graphics, and play with ideas related to caring for living creatures. The bottom line? This is the best life simulation program available. Created by Studio Mythos. See a demo at http://petz.ubi.com. Copyright © 2001 Children's Software Revue

Product Description

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

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.

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Grreat Improvement!!!, December 5, 2002

By A Customer

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

Okay, here it goes. Petz 5 is by far the best of all the other Petz Cd's!
The breedz are wonderful, especially my little German Shephard puppy named Rochelle. Here are the names of all the new breedz (sorry if I'm missing any) German Shephard, Pappilion, Golden Retriever, Jack Russell, and Pug. I haven't got Catz 5 yet, but I here there is some wonderful new breedz in that game too.
There are over 100 new toys you can win and find in playscenes (you store all of them in the Supply Case) The mini-games can be challenging, but sooner or later you'll win them. My favorite game so far is Rock-Paper-Scissors. Other people might find the mini-games childish, but even my grandma loves them.
There are tons of new clothes too. In some Playscenes, there is even a Host Character (for example, Jolly Roger, a full-grown Bulldog comes out to play with your dogz in South Seas Island) Some people have been spreading rumors that you don't need to feed your dogz on Petz 5. NOT TRUE!!! In fact, there's even a medicine bottle where you can apply medicine to your pet's food and water if they are sick.
If your petz run away, you can go to the Adoption Center and check out the brown bulletin board to see if anyone has found your pet. If there is a note saying your pet has been found you are given one more chance to give your dog/cat a good life.
I give this game five stars, two thumbs up, and four paws up.

28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Definately worth your $$, December 7, 2002

By A Customer

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

yes, this is a great game. i was very dissapointed when i got my new computer and found that my Dogz 4 game would not work on it because i had Windows XP. But Dogz 5 is the perfect alternative. Now, although there are a lot of wonderful new things about Dogz 5, there are some drawbacks. i have listed the pros and cons:

Pros:

* 5 new breedz!!!! - golden retrievers, German shepherds, jack russel terriers, papillons, and pugs
* Dogz can have up to 4 puppiez at a time!!!
* New playscenes - haunted house, fantasy castle, Asian temple, and Salon, which includes the bathtub and clothes closet
* Nursery - a room only availiable to momz with babiez
* all new toyz for your petz to play with!!!
* you get to take all the toys you own to any scene and play with as many you want!!!
* 5 mini games!!!
* Weather and day/night cycles!!! the weather changes, so it could be sunny one minute, or raining or snowing the next!!! and you can adjust how fast you want it to go from day to night!!!
* new and improved graphics!!!!
* you have a second chance to take care of one of your neglected petz that has run away
* many new clothes items!!!

Cons:

* no toy closet :-( , you have to find the toyz or earn them by winning mini games
* some of the mini games are hard, and you sometimes get a toy you already have
* no more adopting pigz, but there is a host character pig in the back yard
* no backrounds already made to choose from when creating a custom playscene

as you can see, there are waaaaaaaaaaay more pros than cons, so this game is definatley worth it.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dogz5, November 12, 2002

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"krinielle" (San Fransisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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

I'm one of the winners of the Early Adopters Sweepstakes for Dogz5, I'm just writing a review on some of the new things and changes. The biggest thing is the compatibility, for all of us trying to run 98 software on XP..it just doesn't work that way!, The new 24 bit graphics is nice, the previous playscenes all have alterations of some sort, yes the Playscene Host characters are still there, the new minigames are a bit confusing at first, and I'm sure if you've looked into this you know the new breeds, day-night cycles, multiple litters, so I'll tell you what you don't know. There are new toys including a plush unicorn, Bakon Treats, A ghostbox, a Scarecrow toy, a paw shaped nightlight, a hummingbird feeder, and more!, Now a big change, if you've had Petz software before this, is there is no Toyz Room, You start off with a few toys from past games, the ball that rolls on it's own, ect, and you have a scrollbar on your inventory so you can hold as much as you want! Well I don't want to spoil the game too much more for you, so I hope this helped longtime petz fans, and new ones aswell ^^;