Developer : Vivendi Universal Games
Release date : November 4, 2003
Synopsis :
Barbie Horse Adventures is a series of video games based on Mattel’s Barbie line of dolls. The series is aimed at children and involves various aspects of equestrianism.
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 and Xbox in 2003.
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.
The game has been heavily criticized by the gaming press. X-Play dubbed it a Game You Should Never Buy[7] 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).
.Source : Wikipedia
