Ski-Doo Snowmobile Challenge - PS3 Game (Retro Fam)

Favorite game of kids everywhere. I enjoy it as well since I'm often drafted to play when wolves need taming or a cave needs exploring and they are too nervous. Ha!

I was confused the first time I played. The tutorial wasn't very good. Some of the instructions would disappear before I read it all. Why people liked this game, I wasn't sure. But I gave it another try and started learning by playing and found there was a lot more to the game than I thought (like using Redstone to send signals to pistons to move blocks).It became a race to build a shelter before the monsters got me, and there were lots of materials to harvest and things I could build. It's an open world, a very large square area of deserts, trees, mountains, and endless caves. I found out from my kids that you're supposed to defeat a dragon, but I'm having fun raising animals, expanding the town, and building a castle. I got tired of gathering all the materials myself, and the monsters were slowing me down too much, so I put the game on peaceful creative mode which gives me endless supplies and lets me fly around so I can build pretty fast. It's like virtual Legos and I love building with different blocks and how I can create village houses or a garden or whatever and walk through it with my character and show my kids my awesome creation, then they show me what they made. The choices are not infinite, but there's good variety. The PS3 version is further behind than the PC version; hopefully we'll get the additional updates (like horses) some day.You can play up to 4 players split screen together. My kids (ages 11, 9, and 7) LOVE this game. The neighbor kids acros.

This is a fun game for both me and my kids. I could play for hours if I wasn't a stinking adult with responsibilities. My 7 year old son is like a Minecraft guru and he's noted that there are a lot of differences between this version and the PC version. The PC version has extra blocks and can have hacks added. It's also a lot easier to join a online multiplayer game with PC. In the PS3 version you have to invite a friend or get invited by a friend to play together. All in all the PS3 game is better for us because we can do split screen together.

I am writing this review for my daughter who bought it. The price point was pretty good ($20) and she had been wanting this game for a while. She saved up her allowance and she went for it. She has practiced and played enough where I am thoroughly impressed with her creations. Sh.e is 10 years old and she has given me an interest in this game as well. This game is something that could help spark some creativity in your children watching them create awesome diagrams and worlds right in front of you. Who knows, perhaps she will have a new interest in design and desire to be an architect one day. Her words, "I like it because you can make your own world and do just about anything in it that you want to do".