Customer Reviews

Dogz 5

5 star:		(56)
4 star:		(25)
3 star:		(9)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

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.

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.

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 ^^;

Hello everybody! I have just purchased and have recieved the game and have liked it alot. I disagree with all the negative reviews being written about Petz 5. People should at least respect that the men and women who made the game put alot of effort and arm grease into creating this product. The mini-games are cool, and challenging. They may be hard at first, but you have to keep on practicing to get it right. All the host characters crack me up. Especially the bulldog with the beard dressed in a pirate outfit that comes out to play with your petz when you go to the playscene "South Seas Island" There are sooo many cool clothes and toys, including: A lion outfit, a zebra outfit, an elephant outfit (includes ears and trunk !lol!) denim pants, black leather pants, an Arabian princess outfit, Santa Clause outfit, a cool plaid vest, a turban, many more pants, T-shirts, and socks. Unicorn doll, coool leprechaun doll, a fish bowl with real fish you can feed, a nightlight that plugs in real electrical outlets in the Kitchen and Living-Room. Remember, there's so much much more!! I give this game five stars, two thumbs and four paws up. Keep it up P.F Magic and Ubisoft!

Hey! This is Qweenie @ QP4. I just got Dogz 5 the other day and I have to say it is pretty good... Well, here are the pros and cons of it:

Pro: 5 new breeds.
Con: No more adopting pigz.
Pro: Some new toys.
Con: No more toy closet, you must find all the toys yourself and/or win them from the mini games.
Pro: New playscenes.
Con: It takes a bazillion years to get from one playscene to the next and sometimes locks up.
Pro: Improved graphics.
Con: All the old bugs from Petz 4 are still there. (Although I haven't seen that darn Debug and Abort sign yet.^-^)
Pro: You can make litters!
Con: The maximum petz in a litter is only four and some people such as myself like to do at least five. =(
Pro: There are some neat weather effects and day and night cycles!
Con: They are just graphic effects and the petz don't even notice.

Okay, there are a lot more pros and cons of the game but I'm getting tired of writing this review so you'll just have to find them yourself. ;-)

- Queen Qweenie @ Qweenie's Petz 4 (and soon to have Petz 5 stuff!)

Dogz 5 is a great game for dog lovers, especially if you don't have a real dog. The game, along with the previous versions, is not a very realistic simulation, though, as a lot parts are left out. A few of these are: your Dogz don't go to the bathroom, you are not required to walk your Dogz, and your Dogz will not have more than four puppies. But, the game is still very fun. A few reviewers have mentioned that there isn't a toy closet anymore. Actually, your supply case becomes a portable toy closet, and works just the same way; except you have to win a lot of the toys in mini-games. While the environments and toys have better graphics, the Dogz themselves have the same graphics from Dogz 4. In fact, the game has a lot of the features from Dogz 4, such as the playscenes, costumes, and playscene editor. There are 5 new breeds, which are: Golden Retriever, German Shepherd, Jack Russel Terrier, Pappillion, and Pug. There are a bunch of new costumes, including the ones the hosts wear in Dogz 4. There are a few new playscenes, including Salon (which is where the clothes closet is), Asian Temple, Haunted Mansion, and Fantasy Castle. There are now day and night cycles, which can be set to your computer's clock, and weather effects. There are some new toys. There are now mini-games for you and your Dogz to play. You get your toys from the mini-games. And now your Dogz can have litters of 1-4 puppies. One downside is that you can no longer adopt Pigz. If you own a previous version of Dogz, you can import your Dogz to Dogz 5, making your older version pretty much obsolete (unless you want Pigz). I would recommend this game to dog lovers and owners of previous Dogz games.

I'll admit it, I was a bit iffy about this one. I figured that Dogz 5 couldn't be THAT much better than Dogz 4... but guess what? It is!
Here there's all new breedz such as pugz, golden retrieverz, papillionz, etc. And this cool stuff like mini-games- I love the agility one... sooo cool! Then, when your dogz breed, you don't have to take tons of time to make the litterz- they already have them! Sometimes you get only 2 pupz but hey it's better than one, right?
I absolutely LOVE this game and I'm working on an all new Dogz 5 website for it called... Wooferz Kennelz!...

As a big petz fan, I feel I can give a well-informed review of the game based on my years of playing with them, breeding, owning sites, hexing etc. Here's my down-low on the game:

The first thing I noticed about it was that in the manual it says "when you cheat with your computer's calendar to speed up the birth of your Puppyz, the mother will become stuck in her pregnancy status. If this happens, there is no way to fix it! Be patient, don't do it!" This seems pretty threatening, but I still have been able to time-forward without having to deal with stuck pregnancies.

There is no longer the Playpen, the Clothes or Toy Closet. The Salon had basically taken over the Clothes Closet. The supply shelf now acts like the Toy Closet, but you will have to do a lot of hunting around in the game to get all the toys. When you win the mini games, you are rewarded with a new toy. I think thats both a positive and a negative. Its positive because you want to spend more time in the game playing to win toys, but negative because when you want a certain toy, it may not be available. As for the Playpen, I wish they wouldn't have taken it out. I don't know about anyone else, but I used it basically as my breeding room because they were no distractions.

The new breeds are cool, but I found that the Golden Retriever has a major problem with the sleepy syndrome. When I was in the adoption center, almost every one of them that I took out had the syndrome. I guess they chose not to fix that bug from the last versions.

The mini games are fun, but there are some problems with them too. In the agility game, I could not get my dogz to walk full length of the catwalk, all they did was sit there. Also, in the gopher tic-tac-toe, its hard to get your pet to fall on the right spot...it will often drop them on a different square than you wanted it to. I think the easiest game is in Arabia, so if you want to win some toys quickly, I suggest going there first.

I guess I've been spending time talking about the negatives, but the game is good overall. The best feature is definitely the litters. It makes a breeders work so much easier :)

Thats my review...I give it three and a half stars out of five overall. Hopefully Ubisoft will get some of our improvement suggestions and add a patch so that it will become a five star game.

Dogz 5 is a wonderful game that I got a few weeks ago. I currently have about 50 dogz, of all different breeds. To me, this game is lots of fun, but my mom and some of my friends think it's boring. It kind of depends on what you like. If you like creator games like Roller Coaster Tycoon or Zoo tycoon, or if you like control games like the Sims, then this is the game for you.
If you do get bored with taking your dogs out and feeding, watering, and playing with them, there are a bunch of mini games in different play scenes like the Scarab Crunch in Arabia, Tic-Tac-Toe in the Wild West, or Simon Says in the Haunted Mansion.
After three or four days, when your dogz have become adults, you can choose to breed them. Making them fall in love is kind of tricky, but the puppies are really cute! Unless, that is, you breed a Poodle with a Chihuahua like I did once. The puppies weren't really what you'd normally call "cute."
A friend of mine has Dogz 4, but I think Dogz 5 is WAY better. It may not look very good, but it's great. It's worth the price.

If you've played Dogz/Catz 4, you'll understand how much fun this game is. You can breed your Petz, enter them in Showz, and teach them tricks. Now that Petz 5 is coming out, everyone that has played Petz is excited. Now, there are day and night cycles, weather effects, petz have litterz up to 4 kittens/puppies, and there are five new breeds! What are the new breeds? Well, for sure are Pugz and Papillonz for the Dogz, but no word yet on Catz. There is a posibility that another Dog might be Colliez. Of course, there will also be Mini-Games and more toys and clothes and playscenes. Currently, there is a really nice playscene out of the "Grooming Palor", now you can bathe your Petz! I highly reccomend you buy this game. Visit my petz site, ... to check out some of my Dogz and adoptions, and go to Petz.com to see updates! Thanks, hope you have a wonderful time with Petz 5!