Product Description
Blaze the Oregon Trail like never before! Optimized for DVD-ROM, this new version of the best-selling classic now features improved full-motion video, super 3d graphics, and superior digital sound.
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The Oregon Trail 3rd Edition fills the screen with photorealistic, 3-D graphics and full-motion video to re-create the 1848 Oregon Trail experience more vividly and interactively than ever! In this new audio-based version, children come to understand much more about the backgrounds, skills, and motivations of historical wagon train travelers, and what they needed to do to reach their destinations alive. Along the trail, you meet multidimensional characters who react realistically to challenges during the journey, demonstrating how decision-making and team-building skills are critical to their mutual survival. (Ages 10 and older)
Review
"How the West Was Fun" would be an apt subtitle for this third rendition of the acclaimed educational game simulating the trials and tribulations of a mid-1800s wagon train journeying Westward. Once again, though, it's survival of the fittest. Every dizzying decision, from how to treat snakebites to where to cross raging rivers, could be your last or your best. A cast of characters can steer you in the right direction-or not. It's a movable feast or famine when the supplies you purchased run low and you have to live off the land, picking berries and nuts and herbs, hunting and (new to this series!) fishing. There's hellish hail storms, yucky yellow fever, and brutal buffalo stampedes, among a hundred wicked surprises and setbacks along the way to Oregon City. One other warning: This dusty old trail has gone state-of-the-art. To experience the awesome full-motion video, photo-realistic graphics and real-time, 3D, first-person perspective on history that so dramatically raises the stakes in its pioneering portrayal, you'll need either a Pentium or Power Mac pulling your wagon. (Don Oldenburg, Parents' Choice®) -- From Parents' Choice®
Young pioneers will want to hitch up the wagons and hit the Oregon Trail in this revamped version of the popular history title. The trail starts in Independence, Missouri, where you pick your travel partners and outfit your wagon. Once you're on the trail, you've got to ration your supplies while making the crucial decisions necessary to keep you and your companions happy and healthy all the way west. A helpful handbook loaded with tips and facts proves a vital resource for greenhorns and old coots alike.
Likes: "I liked how we got to go hunting." Bruno "I like the trail and how fun it is to travel to Oregon." Kiah "I liked that the people were lifelike. I also liked that they talked Western." Jimmy
Dislikes: "It is hard to get out of a store or a hotel." Jolie "It won't let you go on the real trail without talking to a fake Western person for 20 minutes." Mandy
Rating:3/4
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