Product Description

Barnyard brings the animal world to life on your Wii! Players will start off as the 'new cow on the block,' form alliances with fellow animals, taking on challenges and sporting competitions, protecting the farm from coyote invaders, and doing lots of goofing off on the side. Players will be able to explore a fully interactive world and prove that they have what it takes to be the biggest party animal of all.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6680 in Video Games
• Brand: Blue Tongue
• Released on: 2006-12-04
• ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Dimensions: 3.00 pounds

Features

• Interact with your favorite Barnyard characters from the movie as you form alliances, join teams, go on quests and play mini-games
• Addictive free-form gameplay through areas like Walnut Woods, Dankweed Pond and the Barnyard itself
• Environment and gameplay change as nights and days of the week pass on the farm

Customer Reviews

Good choice for 8+ years
My two girls (8 & 10) play this a fair bit (almost as much as Mario Party). Doing wheelies everywhere on the bike is a favorite. Some of the mini-games are initially "too hard", but eventually they get through them, and are very pleased with themselves.

It has exploration, collection, cooking, slapstick, and puzzles. You have to "get past" the milk-squirting imagery, and the fact that both genders have udders, but that was inherited from the movie itself. It works best to use the nunchuck, but there is a wii-mote only option.

Very Fun Game to Play
I rented this game from Blockbuster last week and both my daughter and I have enjoyed it. She is only 4 but loves to watch me make the animals talk and run around kicking things.

As with any game this price range I reccomend you try it before you buy it if you have a local video store that rents games. There have been games that I have brought back within hours wondering what I was thinking but on this game I have enjoyed it so much we are going to purcahse it for ourselves.

Fun for kids and beginners
This game is based on the movie 'Barnyard' and you play a new cow who enters a farm and befriends other animals by doing tasks for them and partying with them. There is a huge farm in which you can roam around and as in many other games, you gain access to different areas as you complete 'missions', some of them as dumb as just finding stuff around, as fun as squirting milk on other animals and targets and as active as mud jumping, bike races, chicken chase or apple shooting. None of the missions are seriously challenging, but quiet a few are fun for kids and beginners. If you are a serious action gamer, stay away from this game.

Some cons:
- The voice for characters is poorly done. They speak only the first sentence and the rest you have read by pushing the A button. I didn't like this and neither did my five year old.
- I think the controls could have been better or more options be given. For simple actions performed in this game, it is a bit too much to use both the wiimote and the nunchuck. There is no option (atleast that i know of) to use just the wiimote analog controls which would have been less strenuos on the little kid's hands.

Over all, it is a fun game for the price!