Ubisoft breeds more Petz

By Patrick Caldwell, GameSpotPosted Aug 7, 2006 5:51 pm PT

It's raining cats, dogs, and more as Ubisoft adds more games to its Petz strategy franchise, steps out from the PC-only platform.

Ubisoft today announced five more games in its Petz line of strategy games, as the series makes its transition from the PC and Game Boy Advance to Nintendo's newest portable system.

Ubisoft and developer MTO are bringing Dogz to the Nintendo DS in November. Dogz lets players choose from a variety of breeds--18 were in the GBA game--to groom and play with. Its counterpart, Catz, does the same for lovers of the more domestically restrained animal species.

Dogz Fashion, meanwhile, will skip the DS in favor of release on the Game Boy Advance in September. As its name implies, Dogz Fashion lets players adorn the four-legged critters in garishly designed outfits and enter the dogs in fashion contests.

Ubisoft also announced new games based on two other species of animals--horses and hamsters--both set for release in November. In Horsez, for the PC and DS, players will raise their young foals into strong stallions and mares. On the other hand, Hamsterz Life for the Nintendo DS focuses on building and customizing homes in which the hamsters live.

35 Comments

  • miss_tegan

    Posted Dec 7, 2006 3:58 pm PT

    i hate how they dont have dogz fashion for DS!

  • Sam_Lowery

    Posted Nov 17, 2006 3:03 pm PT

    I knew they were going to do this if the dogs one was a sucess, but I thought they'd call it Nintencats or something. I wonder if they'll have several different versions.

  • hladyb4

    Posted Aug 11, 2006 7:54 pm PT

    I'm sure these games (Dogz, Catz, Horsez, etc.) will appeal to someone. Maybe younger kids or someone who wants a pet, but can't have one. It holds zero interest for me, but then if everyone liked the same thing, we wouldn't have so many different game genres.

  • _Sam_

    Posted Aug 11, 2006 12:04 pm PT

    I don't think I'll be playing any of these

  • Platyphyllum

    Posted Aug 9, 2006 10:08 am PT

    Why Nintendogs when you can have the superior Hamsterz Life?

  • asimplerapper

    Posted Aug 8, 2006 11:21 am PT

    Why Dogz? When you have the superior Nintendogs!

  • OHJOY90

    Posted Aug 8, 2006 10:50 am PT

    Hopefully Oddballz will get a sequel as well.

  • comthitnuong

    Posted Aug 8, 2006 10:39 am PT

    i dont think a pet game will get a good rating

  • SAM_ANDREAS

    Posted Aug 8, 2006 10:33 am PT

    Yay!!!............ Ughm... I mean... I don't know what to think about it.

  • reece590

    Posted Aug 8, 2006 10:18 am PT

    LOL, Back in Grade School I used to play Dogz on the schools coputers.

  • Platyphyllum

    Posted Aug 8, 2006 8:11 am PT

    Nintendogs was a huge success, hopefully Ubisoft manages to make these games a success too! Although it doesn't sound too exciting to play with dogs, or cats, or horses or...HAMSTERZ! WOOO! I'm definitely buying Hamsterz Life.

  • HarlockJC Site moderator

    Posted Aug 8, 2006 7:50 am PT

    Either way they will sell like crazy.

  • lgoldberg

    Posted Aug 8, 2006 6:24 am PT

    Real pets are SO much more fun than console pets. The only excuse I can think of to buy this game instead of taking the free kittens that are sometimes offered in walmarts parking lot is if you live in a Manhatten apartment where pets are banned.

  • foumou

    Posted Aug 8, 2006 4:08 am PT

    please stop this madness i still brain dommage after playing catz

  • aus_pride

    Posted Aug 8, 2006 3:37 am PT

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  • risi37

    Posted Aug 8, 2006 3:36 am PT

    Noooooo

  • IrenicApollyon

    Posted Aug 8, 2006 2:34 am PT

    please, ubisoft, stop.

  • soul_motor

    Posted Aug 8, 2006 1:36 am PT

    Dear God, please help us from this abomination.

  • jakeboudville

    Posted Aug 8, 2006 12:03 am PT

    Looks boring to me

  • gameloverx

    Posted Aug 7, 2006 11:12 pm PT

    I would rather play with my 3 dobermans than play that excuse of a dogs game

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