Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue
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| File:Barbie Wild Horse PS2.jpg North American box art for PS2 version. | |
| Developer(s) | Blitz Games, Mobius Entertainment (GBA) |
| Publisher(s) | Vivendi Universal Games |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox, Microsoft Windows |
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| Genre(s) | Adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue is an adventure video game developed by Blitz Games and published by Vivendi Universal Games. It is the third game in the Barbie Horse Adventures video game series based on the Barbie line of dolls by Mattel. The game was released for PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Game Boy Advance in 2003. A Nintendo GameCube version was planned, but it was cancelled. [citation needed]
Gameplay
Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue is an adventure game played from a third-person perspective. A storm comes in and causes the gate at a ranch to open, letting horses and foals run away. Barbie must track down the foals and horses through 3 parts of 3 different settings: the forest, the mountains, and the beach. There is an average of three foals plus one horse that can be found at the end of the section. In the 2nd part of the section, a missing horse will be found by someone else, and Barbie must race them.
Reception
The game has been heavily criticized by the gaming press. X-Play dubbed it a Game You Should Never Buy[1] next to Monster Garage: The Game and Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing. In the episode, X-Play co-host Morgan Webb called Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue the worst game ever made, and continues to reference it so in ongoing episodes after giving the terrible review of having a 1 out of 5. IGN gave it a 4/10 rating, and XGP Gaming rating it a 4 out of 10.
Decent reviews, which mainly point out that the game was being geared towards children, were given out by TeamXbox (3.8/5) and the British Official Xbox Magazine (6.7/10.)
Xbox 360 compatibility
The Xbox version (and by extension, Xbox creator Microsoft) has been ridiculed for being a rare game for which the Xbox 360 is backwards-compatible,[2] while some of the more popular Xbox games remain unplayable on the newer console. It is viewed as a minor licensed title which has little appeal outside of its niche market. However, it has been reported that the backwards compatibility of the game on the Xbox 360 was a side effect of emulation of a different game.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Satterfield, Shane (2004-03-23). "Games You Should Never Buy". X-Play. Archived from the original on 2005-04-06. Retrieved 2009-05-31.
- ^ See Penny Arcade strip for January 9, 2006 [1]
