Advantages: Good graphics, humorous at times, just plain fun Disadvantages: Loading screens very slow, some pointless missions, not sure I'd play the whole thing twice
...things on my list was Pippa Funnell's Ranch Rescue. I know it's probably for kids but the Wii is supposed to be FUN and having played a couple of her other games on the PC, I had found them to be a little more complex than the usual horsey games out there - which mostly consist of competing and endless irritating cleaning of stalls. This was no different and actually a lot of fun.
Pippa Funnell, in case you are wondering, is one of Britain's leading ... ...and a bronze, has won Badminton Horse Trials three times, and has a number of other successful games to her name for various platforms.
THE STORY
Your character is a young girl, Lily, who lives on a ranch with her Uncle Dylan. Uncle Dylan is surprisingly young and dishy in a cartoon type of way. At the start of the game you own one horse, who you name, but pretty soon you are given a foal to take on.
There is a great deal of action plot-wise at ...
bamamo 11.01.2009
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