GoPets: Vacation Island takes the same principle of the website, and shrinks it down. Players can create their own pet, and customize it with over 700 pieces of clothing and accessories. The resort is inhabited by Islanders and their pets, providing friends for the player and pet to interact with. Everything about this game is extremely basic. The design, the games, the level of interactivity is all very simple.

There just isn’t a lot of game there. The amount of pets is extremely limited, and there are only a handful of minigames. They did a great job on the customization options, and the ability to send your pet out and communicate globally through pictograms is awesome. If there were more game here, or if taking care of the pets required a little more effort, we’d be playing this for a while. Still, it’s a new idea that can, and should, be picked up and improved by a developer. But this vacation is over far too soon.

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GoPets is a community that is made up of both real people and virtual 3D pets that live on their owners? desktops. Each GoPet is a visually and emotionally unique creature that eats, sleeps, and plays with its owner. When a GoPet gets bored or restless, it leaves its home desktop to wander the net, visiting the desktops of other GoPets users.

When it travels, your GoPet visits your close friends and also introduces you to other users with similar interests. The GoPets service provides several modes of communication (including Instant Chat, web messages, and IKU, a unique icon-based message system) that you can use to strengthen your ties to your friends.

You can purchase items for your and other users? GoPets through the Shopping link of the GoPets website. Items can be purchased using Shells, the GoPets currency. There are three kinds of Shells: Gold, Pink, and Green. Green Shells are automatically earned through activity in the GoPets service (for example, just staying logged in to GoPets earns you a continuous trickle of Green Shells), while Pink Shells are given to users who undertake creative activities (like making new IKU icons). Gold Shells are purchased using real money. Each kind of Shell can be used to purchase particular items at GoPets stores (some items have Green Shell prices, some have Pink, and some have Gold).

Players on GoPets have the ability to create a pet. There are available cats, dogs, pandas, monkeys, sheeps and so on. GoPets are social, and enjoy interacting with other GoPets. These interactions include conversations, games, and professions of love and friendship which may result in a communal dance. GoPets love to travel around desktops of players all around the world in search of other places where there are treated politely and affectionately. GoPets never die or become sick, despite the lack of care or how low their status may become. However, GoPets will respond negatively to ill care and leave their owners’ desktop frequently. For example, when very tired, Gopets will fall asleep often.

GoLand

GoLand is GoPets term meaning a players desktop. New users are taken to a community desktop where books, food and clothing are able to be purchased. A user may purchase their own piece of GoLand by using the GoLand Map and searching for either a camping site or a tier 1 land. Camping sites are shown by a green paw, and only cost 1000 green shells; while the tier 1 lands are shown by an orange paw and cost 75 gold shells. Camping sites only allow 75 items to be placed onto the desktop, while a tier 1 land allows 250 items for non-subscribers, and 400 items for premium subscribers.

Gameplay

Players can decorate their desktop with countless objects and toys for GoPets to play and interact with. GoPets can use many of the items by themselves. To help new users better understand GoPets, there is a unique leveling feature. This enables users to not only earn shells as they increase their level, but allows users to grasp the concepts of feeding, dressing, training and/or bathing their animals. As GoPets users level up, they receive a certain amount of shells, along with unlocking all the items that are their same level. There are also different mini-games devoted to earn some prizes.

Although GoPets world is quite like webkinz, you don’t need to buy plush toy to play it. It’s less popular but community constantly grows. Also new feautres like Nintendo DS game are usually becomes part of the world.