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A "Hotel" not fit for your dog
posted by JMichaud (BETHESDA, MD) Feb 1, 2009
Member since Jan 2008
9 out of 10 gamers (90%) found this review helpful
In Hotel for Dogs, the game, you help the characters in Hotel for Dogs, the movie, run a Hotel for Dogs.
You start off with three dogs, but it quickly grows as the game progresses through the ten chapters.
Each dog has needs that change from time to time; they have to be fed, cared for, brushed, and led to a place where they can do their "business" (if you know what I mean.)
Most of the tasks can be done by any of the four kids running the hotel, but there are a few that aren't; only Dave can rescue stray dogs and only Heather can care for sick dogs.
Another task you will have to do is search through the rooms in the hotel for parts to build contraptions - one that is used as the bathroom, one that cools dogs off, and so on.
The best part of Hotel for Dogs is building the contraptions; using a screwdriver and hammer are great applications of the motion controls.
But everything else in this game goes wrong. The kids and dogs wander about the Hotel, making it hard to keep track of where they are - and you do have to keep track of where they are. If a dog gets sick, you'll have to find Heather in order to treat it. If a gadget has to be fixed, you have to search and find Bruce and so on. This makes the game frustrating.
And the in game graphics are so bad that a kid feeding the animal looks a lot like that kid playing with the animal which looks a lot like the kid brushing the animal or any other things the kid does with the animal.
They're so bad that even finding the rooms where the game puts the contraptions into is tough.
Also, the game gets repetitive real fast. Every level has you doing the same things; finding parts, building things, keeping track of where kids are and ordering them to care for the dogs. The hotel stays the same and all the dogs act the same.
Hotel for Dogs, the movie, didn't get great reviews, and I have a feeling Hotel for Dogs, the game, will also fail to live up to expectations. SKIP IT.
You start off with three dogs, but it quickly grows as the game progresses through the ten chapters.
Each dog has needs that change from time to time; they have to be fed, cared for, brushed, and led to a place where they can do their "business" (if you know what I mean.)
Most of the tasks can be done by any of the four kids running the hotel, but there are a few that aren't; only Dave can rescue stray dogs and only Heather can care for sick dogs.
Another task you will have to do is search through the rooms in the hotel for parts to build contraptions - one that is used as the bathroom, one that cools dogs off, and so on.
The best part of Hotel for Dogs is building the contraptions; using a screwdriver and hammer are great applications of the motion controls.
But everything else in this game goes wrong. The kids and dogs wander about the Hotel, making it hard to keep track of where they are - and you do have to keep track of where they are. If a dog gets sick, you'll have to find Heather in order to treat it. If a gadget has to be fixed, you have to search and find Bruce and so on. This makes the game frustrating.
And the in game graphics are so bad that a kid feeding the animal looks a lot like that kid playing with the animal which looks a lot like the kid brushing the animal or any other things the kid does with the animal.
They're so bad that even finding the rooms where the game puts the contraptions into is tough.
Also, the game gets repetitive real fast. Every level has you doing the same things; finding parts, building things, keeping track of where kids are and ordering them to care for the dogs. The hotel stays the same and all the dogs act the same.
Hotel for Dogs, the movie, didn't get great reviews, and I have a feeling Hotel for Dogs, the game, will also fail to live up to expectations. SKIP IT.
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