Lets Ride: Champion's Collection

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Product Features

• Care for your horse and practice your riding skills in this 2-for-1 game set
• Saddle up 8 horses for the most exciting 3-day eventing competition ever
• Compete in show jumping, dressage, and cross-country events
• Receive accurate scoring and expert commentary for an authentic experience
• Engage in competitions with up to 4 players on the same computer

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002Q2PCI
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,026 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Experience the pride and love of taking care of your horse and practice your riding skills in these two exciting games. Then compete in the ultimate dressage, show jumping, and cross country events throughout the world. Saddle up for fun!

Equestriad

You’re on a quest to become world champion! Along the way your horse will need lots of loving care. Jump in the saddle of eight horses for the most exciting three-day eventing competition ever!

• Show off your best skills atop 20 spectacular horses to compete against real Olympic and World Champion riders.
• Compete in the world’s top three-day event courses including show jumping, dressage, and cross country.
• Receive accurate scoring and expert commentary for a truly authentic experience.

Riding Star

This is the ultimate test. Compete at famous courses to qualify for the coveted Sydney Equestrian Title. You’ll be saddling up against 20 of the world’s best riders, so make sure your skills are sharp!

• Perfect your jumping and turning skills with eight stunning horses that walk, trot, and gallop in perfect stride.
• Compete against your friends or computer opponents in a 10-round Grand Prix season.
• Engage in competitions with up to four players on the same computer.

Product Description

Let's Ride: Champions Collection features three exciting games for girls. Give the young lady in your life a new gift - the experience of taking care of their own horses. They'll know the pride and love of the magical world of equestrian sports. They'll also get teh thrill of competition, as they participate in Show Jumping, Dressage and Cross Country events throughout the world.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars love it, December 22, 2005

A Kid's Review

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Lets Ride: Champion's Collection (Video Game)

i ove this game. my parents are three day eventers and they are really good. when i got this game i knew it would be fun here are the game info's:

Equestriad 2001: play in the real olympics and vers the best riders to become the best. choose famous people of make your own person and horse. cheats for this garm:
Mr. Happy- no dressage failures
New Years Eve and christmas snow- figure it out yourself it's cool
Phar Lap- unlimited energy on cross country
Tudor Park Regime- horse is the best
Kanahooka- ride shetland pony
Eq Devteam- good team com people
Tantalus Big Air- overreative rider
Bighead- horses get a big head
Genie in a bottle- unlocks all prizes, horse colors, and levals

3- Day Eventing
in this game youy earn points for taking care of your horse. first horse will be a paint named barney. then when you reach 150 point you get to ride a horse named thisle, 400 points a horse named taffy and then when you get 800 points you get toride blaze. you can unlock 5 diffarent levals by getting points. (Hint: to get more points do the trivia.) don't leave the game untill you put your horse away from riding. do a scavenger hunt, groom your horse,ride, feed, water and clean out the stall. theres a goat too!

Riding Star:
this came you can play Adventure mode and take care of your horse and do well in compitions or do practice which just takes you in a pasture too help you jump or do the multiplayer mode (one player too) choose from 10 diffarents levals of dressage, cross country or show-jumping, or do all three!

recemended to any horse lover of all ages an amazing game a must have!!!!!!

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not the best, but informative none the less., October 17, 2004

By 

Carolyn C. Degnan - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lets Ride: Champion's Collection (Video Game)

I have been a fan of the 'Let's Ride!' series for some time now, and eagerly keep watch for all the new installments to the series which was how I came across this game. Naturally I found myself eager to play this game as soon as I got my dirty little hands on it. Once installed I began to test play each of the three games, which came with this installment, and almost immediately encountered a few differences and as expected a few glitches along the way.

(-Riding Star-)

In this game you are charged with the responsibility of taking care of a horse named Morning Star, or just plain Star as the NPC's shall call him, and riding him in a few misc. competitions. To tell you the truth this particular game reminded me of playing with a 'Tamagochi'. You have to watch the horse's Health, Thirst, Hunger, and Grooming all the while moving around the small ranch which the game is set at with your mouse to help you improve these statistics. Believe me you'll bore easily with this aspect of the game, as it soon becomes extremely repetitive. What saves this game from the Recycle Bin however, is it's challenging three-day events. All of which will take some time to get used to, seeing as you'll be going into all of them with blind. Not to mention the fact that they can only be played as far as I know in the `Bird's eye view' perspective. A word of advice, when you start the game up for the first time, click the multi-player option and from there choose whichever event you wish to practice, and then select how many players (Choose one.) you want to play alongside. You'll go through a few other screens until you come to one that says `Training'. Click it. You'll be able to play all the levels from the game, and be able to practice for them accordingly.

Pros:

- Challenging Three-day Events
- Informs you about the body and workings of a horse. Though not as much as one would have wanted. Refer to the Three-Day Eventing game if you want to learn more about horses.

Cons:
-Boring game-play
-Blaring background music that you can't turn down. (Glitch)
-Annoying music which gets old rather fast.
-Horrible camera angles


(I'm not going to bother with the Equestriad game that comes in this package.)

(-Three-Day Eventing-)

Now this is a game that I could play for hours on end. Like Riding Star this game also features a birds eye view in each and every competition that you'll come across. Unlike Riding Star, this game actually will make you WANT to stay in the stable. As I mentioned before this game is the one you want to play if you are in need of information pertaining to horses. They have Movement Charts on of the walls (It's in the Feed Room.) and a chart that shows almost all the colors that a horse my have on it's coat. Heck, this game goes even further than one would expect by actually having informative videos programmed into it. All of the videos (Each a minimum of three minutes long.) can be found next to the TV set in the Kitchen Area, and discuss topics ranging from `Grooming' to `Nutrition' and can be helpful to first time riders. As well as a rather large book and quiz cards (One of which shall ask you how many furlongs in a mile, etc.) that adds even more information into your mind.

This game has a scavenger hunt, as well as four horses and a hungry goat to interact with. In the beginning you can only ride one of them and have to earn the others by working around the stable and doing well in competitions (Which are easy.). Each horse needs to be fed it's own special mix of Oats or Sweet Grain, which can be found on the clip-board next to the horse's stalls (If you screw up the mixture, don't worry the goat will eat it,) and each had their own bridle, halter, and feed bucket. Now wait! Before you write this game of as too hard, you'll need to know that you can't even enter the other horse's stalls until you unlock them. Which you should be happy about, seeing as you also need to muck out the dung in each stall every time you go riding, and every time you come back. All in all I loved every minute of this game, and hope whomever reads this review does as well.

Pros:

-Informative. It's hard NOT to come out of this game without learning a least one new thing.
-Easy to play.
-Simple Controlling scheme, which makes maneuvering the horses rather easy.
-Amusing
-Tremendous Replay Value

Cons:

-No other NPC's that you can talk with.
-Glitchie jumps, which will refuse to allow you over no matter how well aligned you are for them.
-Glitched horse dung in a few of the stalls, which you won't be able to remove.
-Somethings don't work even when they are supposed it.
-Nauseating camera angles in the Stable
-It has the evil talking horse of doom as a narrator.


All in all I believe that this game package deserves quite a bit of praise for at least attempting what it did. Even if some of the results ran into the sub-par range.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For all of you........., November 18, 2005

A Kid's Review

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Lets Ride: Champion's Collection (Video Game)

For all of you complaining about how you can't clean out manure in Taffy's stall, I'll tell you how. Okay, you wave the shovel (or whatever you have) by one pile, and the other will disappear, and then you move you shovel around the stall slowly until it dings and the other one disappears. Ex. One pile is under the feed bin, and another is right in the middle of the stall. You move the shovel on the one in the middle, and the one under the feed bin disappears. Then you move the shovel over around the water bucket or over by the wall on the other side, and bada-bing bada-boom, it disappears. I LOVE this GAME!!!