Learn Geography

by Dreamcatcher

Product Features

• Play as one of 2 interested geography students
• Develop a relationship with the other children in the class
• Advance through grades 2-8 as you successfully complete lessons, exercises, and mini games

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0028Q7J9E
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches ; 4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: December 27, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,044 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Become a geography master!

Now you can explore our fantastic planet on the Nintendo DS. Get to know the different continents & cultures in a variety of fun games!

Discover fun facts in one of over 10 mini games, search the cities of the world for treasure in a scavenger hunt, and test your knowledge agaist over 400 multiple choice questions!


FEATURES

* Hundreds of exciting facts and insights about the countries and peoples of the world.

* Educational quizzes with questions about the en tire globe.

* A variety of fun mini games (from “city search” to “paint the flag”) combine learning and fun at the same time.

* A giant treasure hunt around the world all based on the facts you’ve learned in the rest of the game.

Product Description

Become a geography master! Players take the role of an interested child in geography class. The lessons are both fun and engaging. Players can choose between 3 game modes (Exercises, Training/learning mode, Mini Games) and choose a variety of countries and lessons within each. The DS's touchscreen is the main workspace for all lessons.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Ugly, confusing, and not fun, February 18, 2010

By 

buru buru piggu (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Learn Geography (Video Game)

There's no 2 ways about it. "Learn Geography" is just plain terrible. It's slow to load and looks like old Windows 3.1 software design from the 80's. The graphics are ugly and the interface is very poorly designed and counter-intuitive. It's educational, but by brute force. It makes learning a real chore. Do not give this to your kids except as punishment. They will hate you.

It's not suitable for grades 1-4 because there's a lot of reading involved and very little incentive to play or anything to hold their attention. The "Geopedia", where you learn about the countries, is all text facts that appear in the upper screen, with just the country flag. Nothing else. No photos of the people, clothing, famous landmarks, food, etc. The bottom screen is taken up by a giant ALERT message pop-up that tells you to see the upper screen and double tap to close. This is a pointless waste of space, and no, you MUST double tap to close this box and return to the world map. You can't single tap, or push a button. You scroll around the world with the + direction pad. When you see a little check box over the map, you can tap it to zoom in and select a city. But to pull up the facts about the selected city, you can't tap again. You must push A. Then the ALERT pops back up. WHY?? On top of that, the world map is ugly. The countries are filled with a cross-hatch pattern that makes them look like colored burlap potato sacks.

GeoHunt is a confusing Easter egg hunt where you have to find the location given by the trivia hint, such as "This city is the most popular tourist attraction in the world". You then have to fly your plane to it. The interface is VERY confusing and it's very difficult and not at all fun. Even how to get to the questions is poorly-implemented. It's not clearly marked on the screen and I poked around randomly before I figured out what the point of the game was. This game is not suitable for children. I am an adult with a college education and I had difficulty with the questions. Imagine how kids would feel.

This title is just awful. It's ill-conceived shovelware. It's not fun and it's not entertaining. Please do your kids a favor and not subject them to this poorly-made piece of junk. Get them something else, like Where On Earth is Carmen Sandiego? DVD or an appropriate level game from the the highly rated ClueFinders Adventures series.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worst game ever, February 15, 2010

By 

RDrops - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Learn Geography (Video Game)

This was the game of the day a few weeks ago. I thought it was interesting and hey why not? My FI loves geography and teases me on how I am not good at it. So I thought this game would be a fun way for me catch up to him and also from the screen shots he would like playing the game to test his current knowledge.

This game does not TEACH you geography at all in a structured way. There a lot of mini games which are actually not that fun in which you need to have already known a lot of geography to pass/finish.

I couldn't figure out where the lesson plan or if there was a lesson plan. From what I can tell after touching everything it's basically learning by trail and error.

What was even more frustrating was the responsiveness of the touch pad with the game. I play a lot of games and I know my DS touch pad works well and it was really annoying when I was trying to move or touch things in this game that I had to do it multiple times for it to register that action. It could be that the game was just slow and it was slow... it was very slow, I tested it out and sometimes it was just slow but most of the time it's just not registering my touches.

I believe that they made the place you're suppose to touch so exact that it doesn't move on unless you touch that particular pixel which can be hard to find, I usually just mash around the area I know where it's suppose to be an hope I touch that pixel.

I can forgive bad graphics (this game has horrible graphics). I can forgive badly made mini games (most of the mini games were bad but some were sort of fun). I can't forgive bad responsiveness. When I touch something with my stylist I want it to register in the first touch not the 5th touch.

I spent about 2 hours with this game and my FI tried this game thinking that I was being too hard on it, he played for about 15 minutes. We both agree this is probably the worst game ever that we own and we own a lot of DS games.

DON"T BUY THIS GAME!

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Boring, February 13, 2010

By 

Richard J. Andrews Jr. - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Learn Geography (Video Game)

Ok, I'm a little bad with Geography and thought this would be a fun way to learn some. WRONG. This thing is boring, and the worst part is that it doesn't even teach you. You basically have to KNOW Geography before you LEARN Geography. If it does teach you, they set it up so bad that you can't even figure out what section that is in. How hard is it to set up world map, and if you tap on it, it tells you what part of the world, and some information about it. THEN after you learn, it can test you. I'm not sure how this is for Grades 1-4, but your kids will hate it.