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DOG'S LIFE (PS2) | 
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Category: Video Games
List Price: £19.99
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Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 1567
Platform: Playstation2
Genre: adventure-games
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 3 - 18 years
Operating System: Playstation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 711719615019
EAN: 0711719615019
ASIN: B00009ZKV7
Release Date: October 31, 2003
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Usually NEXT DAY DELIVERY if ordered before 3pm Mon-Fri (Uk-Mainland)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
If a dog simulator doesn't sound all that much fun to you, think again: Dog's Life is just about the best thing to hit the PS2 in years. Admittedly it's an odd sell, and knowing that it's been developed by one of the guys responsible for 80s classic Elite quite frankly just adds to the strangeness. In any case, you control Jake, the wisecracking mutt; the nominal goal of the game is to rescue your canine girlfriend from the city pound. Most of the game involves your wandering around a variety of locales, both city-based and in the countryside, worrying sheep, taking part in mini-games such as the Peeing Game (nice) and helping out humans with unlikely sounding fetch-and-carry tasks. One of the highlights of the game is the smellovision view, which allows you to see the world from a dog's point of view. In this first-person (or first-dog) view you can also "see" smells, which you can collect for bonuses, and trigger various new tasks and games. It also allows you to track scents via footprints, which is rather cool and vitally important for many missions. If you want to just wander off doing your own thing, you can though, and once you learn the right button combinations for various tricks and, erm... going for a number two, it's almost as much fun just doing that and seeing who you can annoy. Barbara Woodhouse is no doubt turning in her grave. --David Jenkins
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 Great fun and good for a laugh, but lacking in variety October 13, 2008
Ms. J. A. Jacobs (United Kingdom)
I ignored this game for ages because it looked like one of those ones where you pet the dog, feed it and teach it tricks while it whimpers and yips at you in an irritatingly cute way. What a mistake to make!
This game is the complete opposite, and oodles more fun.
You take control of Jake the dog, who is rushing to rescue his next-door crush after she is kidnapped by dognappers. The aim of the game is to track her down, sometimes enlisting the help of local dogs (whose respect you can only gain by earning bones and winning mini-games against them) and collecting scents in the first-person mode known as "smell-o-vision".
The graphics are great and you are free to run around 3D environments, growling, barking, chasing cats, throwing chickens about and even having a widdle or a plop in the street right in front of people, whose reactions differ depending on the area. You can also let off wind to your heart's content, or throw said doggy plop around (nice) - pointless but great fun if you want to irritate the locals. Levels include the sunny green river and fields of the farmhouse, the ski-slopes of "Lake Minniwawah" and the dirty urban streets of "Boom City".
There are other kinds of dog in the game; dobermanns, St. Bernards, alsatians etc, which you need to help you collect more bones to up your status. They will only help you if you beat them in a selection of mini-games, involving either a chase, a race where you chomp as many biscuits as possible, a mimic competition, or even a peeing game, where you have to pee on as many corners as you can. It's terrific fun and even has funky music.
However, this is also a downside to the game, because after a while it becomes rather routine. You'll enter a level and it'll be a) go to smell-o-vision and collect smells, b) chase local dog, c) use local dog to get another bone, d) challenge local dog to peeing game, win bone e) find an object for a human, f) leave level. It's still a lot of fun, but the lack of variety starts to kick in after a while. Also, the human characters have a knack of repeating the same phrases whenever you walk past them, and if you stand next to them for too long they start to sound like a broken record. I never believed that video games could induce violent behaviour until I heard "I LURRVE MA AXE" and "Miss Peaches talkin' at ya!" about 6,000 times in ten minutes.
These are the only bad points about the game. There are actually some funny lines, for instance a sky tram operator whose brother you find injured on the mountain top says "Here's a bone boy, lucky I was saving it for when my brother got injured on the mountain top and a dog suddenly came along and saved him", and Jake himself is a likeable and cheeky character. The music is also very relaxing, verging on soft country chill music, and there are some nice vistas, particularly on the hill by the farmhouse and in the mountains.
Apart from the levels becoming rather routine, this game is great fun to play and also lets you play at your own pace. Definitely worth buying for its originality and humour.
 EXCELLENT!!!!!!!! June 11, 2008
Celia Lips (UK)
My friend hated it and gave it to me and how happy I was! You can walk all
over. You can walk on the field,in the village and loads more! You can play mini games and do tasks. It's a great game but has some hard parts.
You can go in houses, but some you need to find your way in. You need bones to play mini games. I think you should buy it!!! Hannah 8
Additive July 2, 2007
Faye (UK)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I received this game today and I am already addicted to it! I just want to keep playing it! No school, no chores, no clothes! It's great being a dog! It's true! You can bacially do anything a dog can do. Dig, fetch, swim, beg, hunt, mark territory, even foul the streets! (you can pooh or wee!!) You even have a smellovision mode which allows you to see the world though Jake's eyes. You can also control other dogs. This may actually come in handy when doing a hard mission! The graphics are really good and the controls are easy to get the hang of. I don't know all the controls yet so there is probably a lot of stuff still to do but you learn as the game goes on. The basic story - One of Jake's pals has been dog-napped and Jake won't rest until he has caught the dog-nappers! This is a fun free roaming game and it is very additive. You also have to do missions for people and you get rewards in return - bones! (e.g. rounding up sheep) The more bones you get the more popular you become! Some of the missions are easy, some are quite hard. This game is also quite funny. When the game started Jake just kept farting!! It was hilarious! I recommend this game, I know it's for 3+ but if you ask me I think this game is for all ages. Buy it! You won't regret it!
P.S. I forgot to mention - The dog (Jake) talks!
A dogs adventure January 24, 2007
crazykat (staffordshire)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I let go of this game last year, not because i got bored of it, but because i don't really bother with my playstation anymore. When i first bought this i got so addicted to it! Its a wonderful adventure with superb graphics and characters. The main aim is to control Jake the dog, does everything a real dog would do and your in control!
It's not babish at all like some would imagine. I could play on this now and still enjoy it, even now that i'm older, though it may appear to be a little boring for those that need action etc in a game.
Yet still, its well worth buying even for children as they especially would love this game!
And any dog lover of course.
Look - I'm a dog! December 14, 2006
rachelcreative (Midlands, UK)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Be a dog. Run, bark, roll around, sniff other dogs, wee up fence posts, (even have a poo!). Oh and follow clues to rescue your doggy friend of course.
Great animation, lots of funny touches, lots of different challenges to solve using different methods. Collect smells in your smellivision mode in order to challenge other dogs that meet along the way. Win a challenge (like a race or a peeing contest - no really!) and you can control that dog to help you do things you can't do by yourself.
Collect bones to become top dog - help people out to win bones (round up chickens, find burgulars ...)
Really good fun, simple controls (doing tricks is a bit more complicated), variety, humour and a story. Oh and did I mention you get to be a dog?
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