Product Description

- Diagnose and cure various animals !- Take care of and play with the animals !- Manage the hospital !- Interact with your relatives !- Customise your character !

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #576 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Released on: 2007-10-12
• Platform: Nintendo DS

Manufacturer's Description
Pet Vet explores the world of animals and medical care. The story begins the day you open your newly built pet hospital. Your mission is simple: take care of animals, learn and acquire new qualifications to become a master vet and build the most evolved hospital by increasing its capabilities, comfort and finances and try to reach the highest level in terms of efficiency.

Customer Reviews

Unassuming title for children
My daughter(8) finished this after approx 6 weeks of casual play, seemed to enjoy what appears to be a glorified tamagotchi. It's a very simplistic 'pet hospital' management game, targeted at the younger gamer. The player is in charge of the family practice, complete with extortionate fees (realistic in this sense, I guess).

Punters arrive with sick animals (starting with cats), a diagnosis requires playing a few mini games, based on scribbling, blowing, copying and the usual DS antics. Nothing like Trauma Centre's operating theatre, though, just removing the odd flea, sticking a thermometer in various places, following ECG traces, etc. The animal is then housed in a pen, til it gets better, through patient aftercare and recovery, based on feeding, cleaning (NHS take note), and playing with the furry creatures - mental wellbeing is pivotal in recuperation in this practice (NHS take note).

Cured animals command a fee, when accumulated, allow expansion to build kennels, pig pens, stables, rabbit runs...etc. There's little difference between the different animals, the process of aftercare is very similar.

Excess money can be used to buy paraphenalia for your house, vet certificates, etc. Horses can be exported to Pippa Funnell 2 via the DS wireless link, apparently, if you know someone with that title, but not to the Loctite factory. None of the animals can actually die (should be no tears), you can't raise the fees nor bill for unnecessary medication, so everything is at a very simple level.

It's all run of the mill, very average gaming for the younger gamer, but my daughter likes it (hence the 4 stars), and I liked the cover on the box.

A bit boring....
I must say, the company who made this must have rushed it. I mean, it's good when you diagnose the animals, but to heal them, you just pet them. It's not a very good game to buy. I have it and don't like it at all. If you're looking for a great vet game, check out The Sims 2 Pets (For DS!)

Well...
Everything feels very rushed when new animal pens are built, but I suppose this makes it good game play having a bit of a challenge. The pets are cute to look at and the vibrant colours make a happy atmosphere. Obviously not reccomended for non-animal lovers.