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Barbie Horse Adventures
Vivendi Universal Games
Activision
Platform(s)Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, Windows, Wii, Xbox
First releaseBarbie Horse Adventures: Blue Ribbon Race
September 17, 2003
Latest releaseBarbie Horse Adventures: Riding Camp
October 21, 2008

Barbie Horse Adventures is a series of

children and involves various aspects of equestrianism
.

Gameplay

Players take on the roles of Barbie as well as other members of

racetracks
).

Gameplay is based around various aspects of

riding horses by various methods, including trick riding and participation in horse racing. Players may be attacked by hostile animals such as porcupines and skunks
.

Additional non-equestrian gameplay is provided by customizing the player character, who typically gets a large and diverse wardrobe with which to play dress-up.

Games in the series

The games in the table below are listed in chronological order by release date. In addition to the games in this table, the equestrianism-based gameplay of Barbie Riding Club (1998) and Barbie: Race & Ride (1999) make them spiritual predecessors to the Barbie Horse Adventures series.

Title Release date Platforms
Barbie Horse Adventures: Blue Ribbon Race September 17, 2003[1] Game Boy Advance
Barbie Horse Adventures: Mystery Ride September 23, 2003[2] Microsoft Windows
Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue November 4, 2003[3] PlayStation 2, Xbox
Barbie Horse Adventures: Riding Camp October 21, 2008[4] Microsoft Windows, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, Wii

Blue Ribbon Race

Barbie Horse Adventures:
Blue Ribbon Race
Single-player

Barbie Horse Adventures: Blue Ribbon Race is the first game of the Barbie Horse Adventures video game series based on the Barbie line of dolls by Mattel. The game was released on the Game Boy Advance in 2003.

The player takes on the role of Barbie and races horses through various tracks of the Primrose Hill Charity Cup.[1] To complete the tracks successfully, Barbie has to collect items along the way.

Unlike all later games in the Barbie Horse Adventures series, Blue Ribbon Race used 2-D

minigames.[5] Barbie can change into several different sets of clothing, enabling her to play dress-up.[5]

Mystery Ride

Barbie Horse Adventures:
Mystery Ride
Single-player

Barbie Horse Adventures: Mystery Ride is the second game of the Barbie Horse Adventures video game series based on the Barbie line of dolls by Mattel. The game was released on Microsoft Windows in 2003.

The plot involves

logic puzzles
.

Mystery Ride is the first game in the Barbie Horse Adventures series to use

grooming, and training horses. Barbie can also change into several different sets of clothing, enabling her to play dress-up
.

Common Sense Media gave Mystery Ride 4 out of 5 stars, complimenting the horse riding as "amazingly realistic" and saying that the game overall was "very satisfying to play".[6]

Wild Horse Rescue

Barbie Horse Adventures:
Wild Horse Rescue
Composer(s)
John Guscott
Matt Black
Platform(s)PlayStation 2, Xbox
Release
  • NA: November 4, 2003
Genre(s)Adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue is an

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).

Riding Camp

Barbie Horse Adventures:
Riding Camp
Developer(s)Pixel Tales
Publisher(s)Activision
Platform(s)PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS, Wii, Windows
Release
Genre(s)Adventure, role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player

Barbie Horse Adventures: Riding Camp is an adventure role-playing video game developed by Pixel Tales and published by Activision. It is the fourth game in the Barbie Horse Adventures video game series based on the Barbie line of dolls by Mattel. The game was released worldwide for PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS, Wii and Windows in 2008.

Barbie Horse Adventures: Riding Camp is an

sandbox world
, allowing the player to take part in a wide range of activities.

The core gameplay is based around

breeds
.

As Barbie, the player has the option of completing various

horse races and can also buy diverse sets of clothing, enabling Barbie to play dress-up
.

IGN noted that though it was not a sophisticated game, it was a good game for its target audience of young girls.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Barbie Horse Adventures: Blue Ribbon Race". Giant Bomb. Retrieved 2012-05-15.
  2. ^ a b "Barbie Horse Adventures: Mystery Ride". Amazon. Retrieved 2012-05-15.
  3. ^ "Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue". Amazon. Retrieved 2012-05-15.
  4. ^ a b "Barbie Horse Adventures: Riding Camp". Amazon. Retrieved 2012-05-15.
  5. ^ a b "Barbie Horse Adventures: Blue Ribbon Race". Amazon. Retrieved 2012-05-16.
  6. ^ Gudmundsen, Jinny. "Barbie Horse Adventures Mystery Ride". Common Sense Media. Retrieved 2012-05-16.
  7. X-Play. Archived from the original
    on 2005-04-06. Retrieved 2009-05-31.
  8. ^ "Barbie Horse Adventures: Riding Camp Review". IGN. 2008-12-31. Archived from the original on January 1, 2009. Retrieved 2012-05-16.
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