Product Description
Join Bob the Builder on a very busy day, which makes repairs and hunts for tools! How to help children of their favorite animated friend, they engage in exciting games and activities that teach key skills, such as nursery letters, counting, patterns, shapes and much more. Child Bob help them through their busy day repairing roofs, painting pipes and finding tools by matching shapes, practicing hand-eye coordination and identifying letters, objects, colors and designs in six learning adventures. Four shorter arcade-style games, focused on shapes, counting, colors and letter order, keep preschoolers on their goal of science. Providing hours of fun playing, V. Smile smartridge that works with all V. Smile Learning Systems.
Product Features
- Bob the Builder engages child in learning adventures
- Learning Zone games teach letters, numbers, colors, counting, patterns and shapes
- Smartridge educational game works with V. Smile? TV Learning System and the portable V. Smile Pocket
- 3-5 years
Well, I’ll start by saying I have my Master of Elementary Education and I am myself a gamer so I am more picky about things than others might be. One thing I don’t like about the entire system and all the games is that they are designed so that the screen ‘bounces’ the whole time your child plays. This is trying on the eyes. That aside, some games are better than others. The graphics are too small on this game and blend in with the background.
Also, there is no game play instruction for the child in any of these games, so you have to figure out which objects are ‘good’ or ‘bad’. For example, in this game, falling books are ‘bad’, and so is running into the blue cat, which causes you to loose life points. My son wanted to have his character play with the blue cat that is normally part of the stories.
I really expect better overall design and thought about how a child plays a game, and more instruction to the child is needed. Since this was my son’s first system, I’d hoped they would provide pointers to him on what to do. In the VSmile ELMO game, one of the internal games gives some direction on what to do (such as: “hit the colored buttons to ….”), but I haven’t seen that on this one yet.
Honestly, he was almost as ready to play on the grown-ups Wii bowling game and needed about the same level of assistance from us. When I was a girl, I played Mario Brothers. Perhaps my memory is off, but I thought the graphics back then were a bit better (or at least the same) in terms of contrast between objects internal to the game and it wasn’t as hard for me to figure out how to play the game (how to move and what the goals were).
At one point in this game, Bob climbs up on a roof to find missing cutouts while trying to aviod roof pieces of the same tan/yellow color and pattern from falling on his head. Given that the cause of the roof holes is someone kicking brown boulders into the roof, it would have been better to have those as the hazard. They would have been easier to see. As it is, the little squares that fall and look just like the roof Bob is trying to fix blend in too much with the roof so my son doesn’t see them coming.
I’ll add one other comment: We bought the second joystick hoping that my son’s younger sister would one day play with him. The games do not easily guide you or your child through how to select options such as “two player”. In addition to that, I would love to see the games have a two player version that allows one player to play on the easy level and one player to play on the harder level. Smart programing would allow for this since many families are like ours and have several kids of different ages that could play the same game, just with minor differences. Failing that, it would be nice just to be able to toggle between the easy and hard settings more easily.
This is a very small boy, playing, my daughter is not intrested. In alphebet hand is not as helpful as one would think, because in reality, not just to identify the letters in order to add arrows to tell you how to do it, so the kid as my son can shoot it and do not pay attention to the letters, and not much from him. It really does not help with the matching of skills and such. cordination eye and hand. This is a fun game for my son and he likes to play it and more, but he simply does not get as much from it as I wish.
My 3 y / o son love this game the race to increase the collection of fruit and nuts and bolts of the case is even more fun. V.smile his game each day and left Align even better. GET THIS GAME! GET A V. SMILE! FIND ROOM WHILE learn!
Overall, the game is pretty good for my 3 years of age. The graphics are very good and the game is fun. At a time when the masters of the game, there are no additional levels to extend the game.
My son is 4 and loves his new Bob the Builder V-Smile game. He chose it, and immediately start the game (you do not need Mom's help at all!) A good buy!