The best game for the Wii yet!
I may not thave actually "played" this game, but I can tell you that as someone who loves shallow horse-centric games with gimmicky controls, it's pretty much a given that I will purcahse of 8 copies of this game so I can sleep with 7 copies while I keep one in the drive (the Barbie Pony games were starting to smell, so these would replace those). The aspect of Petz Horsez Club that most excites me is the fact that Ubisoft mispelled two out of the three words in the game's name on purpose. This not only tells me that Ubisoft "gets" how I feel as a glossy-eyed tween who is bored by correctly spelled words, but also proves that they are both "hip" and "with it", which is important for a game company.
As if that wasn't enough to sell this game (which it obviously is because, come on, pets is spelled with a Z!), the box of the game features actual photographs of horses as opposed to anything resembling the game's actual art style! The last thing I need to be reminded of is how mediocre this game is going to look. I want to stare at pictures of cut-and-paste-google-images stallions while I pretend to enjoy shaking the Wiimote like someone experiencing a seizure. Ubi knows that all I need to see in order to get conned into buying this game is the word, or in this case, something resembling the word "Horse" or "Pony" or "SUPER MAGIC PRINCESS BUNNY TEA PARTY" and it will be in my shopping bag before you can "who brings a shopping bag to a video game store?" (answer: shoplifters).
I can only speculate as to what other amazing tilty controls this game will have to further imerse me in a world filled with pixelated horse-looking mamals. Maybe I will have to flick the Wiimote upwards in order to make the horse jump, or perhaps move the Wiimote to aim my rifle at the horse who injured itself on the track and now is of no further use to my Dickensian father/horse jockey/bookie. Who knows? Maybe it wil come with a mini horse that I can strap the remote to, and then I move the horse which also moves the remote which then moves the horse on screen.Regardless, I hope it comes with at least 4 peripherals.
In conclusion, Petz Horsez Club is a super amazing game that anyone who stil watches back episodes of Dragon Tales will love.