Paws & Claws Pet Vet 2: Healing Hands

by ValuSoft

Product Features

• Care for 9 creatures great and small, now including lambs, fawns, kittens and puppies.
• Treat your patients in your very own clinic, or take your pet care business on the road with the Pet Vet ambulance
• Examine your pets with the actual medical instruments the professionals use ¿ stethoscopes, swabs, casts & more.
• Create your very own in-game character, customizing everything from head to toe, even choosing from work, riding or casual outfits.
• Show off your many talents by decorating your pet vet office ¿ add a splash of color on the wall or hang up a picture.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000PWTKG8
• Item Weight: 12.3 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: June 15, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,676 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Paws & Claws Pet Vet 2 is the exciting sequel to the best-selling game for kids in 2006

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Slow mouse performance kills enjoyment of this game, September 9, 2007

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William W. Davis "famousdavis" - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Paws & Claws Pet Vet 2: Healing Hands (Video Game)

I'm writing this review on the strength of my kids' experience playing the version 1 of Pet Vet at a friends house one weekend, and then coming home and installing a one-hour preview of this Version 2 release. My kids liked the Version 1 release (it's just called Pet Vet), but they disliked this Version 2 release (called Pet Vet 2: Healing Hands). Why? Because the mouse action was terribly slow and delayed, unlike any other game I've seen. It's not the hardware -- they're running on a fast 2.6Ghz Pentium 4 laptop with 512MB RAM and plenty of disk space. No other game is slow like this one, and by slow, I mean the mouse action is slow and terribly unresponsive. I can't see anything that would be a set-up issue, so I'm presuming it's just lousy $20 kid software written by an independent developer and marketed by some company called ValuSoft. Because the mouse response was so poor, my kids really didn't like the game, so we're not going to buy it. My advice is simple: try the preview version by downloading from the the Internet (not from the Valusoft website -- strangely, they don't offer the download for Version 2, just Version 1), and if you like, then pull the trigger and buy the game (from Amazon -- it's cheaper than from ValuSoft directly). You might be better off buying the Version 1 release, which is what we're currently pondering.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars High video system requirements, but fun game!, December 31, 2007

By 

DaveC2000 "davec2000" (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Paws & Claws Pet Vet 2: Healing Hands (Video Game)

We initially had trouble getting this game to work as it required a video card with a "pixel shader", which was not supported by our onboard video adapter on a brand new PC. After installing an inexpensive Nvidia 8400GS video card, the game works perfectly. Any basic gaming video card should work for this game. It was a bit surprising that a game for 8 year olds required a more advanced video card, but now that we are past that hurdle, my daughter has really enjoyed the game. She has said that Pet Vet 2 is better than Pet Vet 1 on Nintendo DS or Pet Vet 1 for PC. I find this game fairly entertaining to play with my daughter and aside from the having fun, it does have some good aspects around planning and budgeting to grow your vet practice.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Great idea, Poor Game, December 29, 2007

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Kim Mcannally (USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Paws & Claws Pet Vet 2: Healing Hands (Video Game)

The game idea is a lot of fun. However, the game itself crashes back to the desktop sporadically. Very frustrating. I'm running it on a 2.5 GHz desktop with Vista, a GeForce 8300 GS graphics card, dual-core processor, etc. Fast computer handles Sims2 and ALL the expansion packs, Zoo Tycoon latest versions, Roller Coaster Tycoon, all expansions. No problems with any of these, but this Valusoft game won't work properly!
Healing the animals is fun, building up your "estate" is fun. But the constant crashing is a pain in the rear-end.
I updated my video drivers, uninstalled and re-installed the game and it worked fine for one day. When I rebooted the computer, BOOM, it started crashing again.
My advice, save your money and stay away from valusoft games. That's what I plan to do from now on.