IGN are one of the first who reviewed GoPets Vacation Island which was released for Nintendo DS. Looks like they not very impressed. Here are some highlights:

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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