Jumpstart Pet Rescue | 
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List Price: $39.99
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 207
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: adventure_games
ESRB: Early Childhood
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 20797
Model: 20797
UPC: 876930007071
EAN: 0876930007071
ASIN: B002HEX27U
Release Date: August 26, 2009
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| Features:
| • | Jump Into Learning on the Wii Join the JumpStart friends in a rich world full of learning, music, and creativity! JumpStart Pet Rescue contains 5 Discovery worlds where Preschoolers navigate through 5 stories in a search for lost pets. Each Discovery world contains a guided story told by one of the JumpStart friends, leading children on a learning adventure through more than 50 learning lessons an |
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Product Description
Jump Into Learning on the Wii Join the JumpStart friends in a rich world full of learning music and creativity! JumpStart Pet Rescue contains 5 Discovery worlds where Preschoolers navigate through 5 stories in a search for lost pets. Each Discovery world contains a guided story told by one of the JumpStart friends leading children on a learning adventure through more than 50 learning lessons and 20 activities that teach kids over 75 essential skills they need to succeed. As kids progress through the adventures they improve their pre-reading skills memory creativity motor skills listening and much more! Features: JumpStart Pet Rescue immerses each child in a wildly imaginative and rewarding 3D learning environment that offers hours of exploration and adventure. As children travel through the different worlds they play learning games to earn rewards. As worlds are completed children earn storybooks that are read aloud to them. Children are given the freedom to express themselves by changing the way they look and dress and by decorating their house any way they like. Pet rescue and care are incorporated into the game storyline. Children can feed groom play with and train their pets. Format: WII Genre: KIDS (VG) Rating: EC Age: 876930007071 UPC: 876930007071 Manufacturer No: 20797
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 8
 Too much like a computer game November 23, 2009
Jenna M. Hoosier (Philadelphia, PA)
I bought this game for my 4-year-old daughter thinking it would be a cute Wii game for her. She has the Jumpstart computer games and it is the first game I have seen with the Early Childhood rating on it. I agree with most of the other reviewers in that it has educational aspects and is fairly easy to navigate. She already has the Dora Snow Princess game (which she loves) and I was looking forward to more active and interactive gaming; however, this game plays exactly like a computer game. You use the wii remote like a mouse and basically just point and click on different things. In the Dora game you have to do different activities within the game, ex. tilt remote to walk, move in circular motion to raise flags, tilt back and forth to climb, etc. This is not the case in the Jumpstart game.
That being said, this game is definately not terrible, it just does not take advantage of all of the unique ways that the Wii can be used. It may be a good option for someone who does not have the Jumpstart computer games.
 Wii Pet Rescue November 14, 2009
Gram
I bought this so my grandchildren could play with the Wii. They really enjoyed it. This is for preschoolers and up.
A Game for my Granddaughter November 10, 2009
Grandma of 4 (Mattapoisett, MA USA)
I received a "wish list" for my Granddaughter's birthday. This game was on it so I purchased
it.
She is very happy with her game and plays it every day.
 Frustrating for pre-schoolers November 9, 2009
Jim (Houston, TX USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm a grandfather with a 3 year old grandson. I wanted a game that he could enjoy and get involved with. It was also important that he be able to do it by himself, so that he would get the satisfaction of accomplishment.
Unfortunately, at many times this game is frustrating. It is very hard for him to move the character around. Perhaps this would be easy if this were a PC game and he could use a mouse. Instead, the WII controllers are very sensitive and I have often seen him patiently trying to get the WII hand over an action icon and hold it there while trying to press the A button. In fact, I have to concentrate very hard myself to navigate this game. If you try to use the cross pad keys to move your character, it moves so quickly that it zooms past the target position and once again causes great frustration. We tried the nunchuck instead, but it is even harder to control. He gets stuck in places and can't move. He can jump, but can't jump OVER anything (the game doesn't allow it.) Sometimes the game locks up and the console has to be restarted. Sometimes objects in the game simply go white. If you move around it, the color of the object is back. Most of things in the game are too small to be clicked. If you approach a character to talk to it, the game leaves you positioned in front of the character where you can't see the character as he speaks. Children don't like this. They want to see the characters talk. So now, instead of feeling that I'd given him a nice gift, I feel that I am torturing him. He DOES like the game, but watching him struggle to use the over sensitive controls is nerve-wracking for me. It would be great if the control sensitivity could be turned down, but I don't see a way to do it. So my rating is that it's just OK.
 Fun game with lots of variety October 20, 2009
F. Martin (Carmichael, CA USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
My five-year-old granddaughter loves this game. It has two modes - explorer mode and story mode. In explorer mode, she can go to any world and play with any pet. In story mode, she has to complete tasks in order to find and play with the pets. In either mode, she can name, feed, and bathe the pets. Taking care of the pets is her favorite part. Both modes are easy for her to play. She needed a little help the first time, but now she can play it by herself with very little assistance. That is important to her - she likes being independent. There is a "movie theater" in one of the play areas. The movie theater has a few fun little sing-a-long movies that get the kids up and moving. There are a number of other fun activities that she enjoys, including painting billboards, going to the library, delivering mail, and changing her character's appearance. There's a lot of variety in the game, so it keeps her engaged. She would play this game all day if we let her.
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