Product Description

Barbie as The Island Princess follows the storyline of the popular DVD launch in a fun party-style format. You'll play as Rosella the shipwrecked princess who is raised by a "family" of animal friends and rescued by Prince Antonio from her tropical island. Through a series of mini-games featuring music and characters from the movie you will venture from Rosella's island home to the Prince's coastal castle in a fun fill adventure! Features 28 exciting mini-games featuring music singing dancing and more! Experience 5 beautifully recreated locations from the movie: the Deserted Island, the Royal Ship, Harbor Village, Apollonian Castle and the Greenhouse, all while interacting with your favorite movie characters. You can even design your own wardrobe of clothes fit for a princess. Come join the fun with Princess Rosella, Prince Antonio, Tika, Sagi, Tallulah and more! Customizable princess clothes ESRB Rated E for Everyone

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15184 in Video Games
• Brand: ACTIVISION
• Released on: 2007-10-30
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP
• Format: CD

Features

• Live the exotic life of Rosella the Island Princess!
• Interact with your native animal friends
• 28 different exciting mini-games
• 2-player capability
• Lush, colorful backdrops in 5 distinct locations

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Customer Reviews

Not the quality/fun of the prior Barbie games
This game is a Christmas present for our bright 6.5-year old, and after about an hour of play, she's pronounced it good, but not as much fun as the other Barbie games (she has Barbie of Swan Lake, Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus and Barbie and the 12 Dancing Princesses) which were all solid 5 stars.

Continuing the progression of more advanced/smooth-running graphics in each new game, this one is visually very appealing, but the 'mini game' format is more like a collection of arcade games than a story. In Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus, for example, Barbie went through the levels of the game to defeat the evil Wenlock (?sp). Here, the games are completely separate with no ultimate goal. From a parent's point of view, that's bad.

Also, the games themselves don't seem the least educational...just games with no skill building, although to be fair, we have seen only about half the games so far.

Last, many games do require a bit of reading, so it's not suitable for children who are pre-readers. My 1st grader can read about 80% of the instructions, and I would say most of the UI (User Interface) designers don't have children, as the words in the documentation could have been simplified. Despite both of us reading the directions on the 'buncha bananas' game, it didn't seem to work, as Barbie would not move forward more than a few steps.

In summary, while my daughter is enjoying the game, I don't expect it to hold her attention for repeat play as the other Barbie games have. I suspect this game was rushed out for Christmas delivery, and would have benefitted from a little more thoughtful design that would have tied the plot lines of the book and movie into the game.

Stay Away, Very Disappointing Game
This game gave us an error screen in one of the mini-games on the Prince's boat, and we can progress no further. Even if we overlook this, my daughter was bored with the mini-games (the ones we could play) and stopped playing it. My advice: Stay away from this title!

Game error cause crash at prince's boat stage
I bought this for my 5 year old daughter. As another reviewer wrote. At least for the PC version, you can never get past the boat stage (I believe that's the second of 5 or so stages).
It crashes and I am forced to task manager out. And no, it's not a hardware, user error, related issue. I have built many computers in my day. DirectX was updated and installed. Necessary hardware, memory, video card and drivers are all up to date.

This is most likely just bad programming, and poor follow up. There are no updates or patches as of yet on Activision's website- a horrible website I may add. Why do some web designers feel the need to use flash everywhere. Less running clocks, more quick loading please. Once again, not me, I use superfast FIOS.