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Not good

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: September 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I must have gotten a bad cd,because everthing went wrong! First of all,on the Equestriad 2001(it has three diffrent games on 2 cd's,and this was one of the game's title) the announcer kept skipping(replaying and interupting such as: The sunshine's out to-) He meant to say The sunshine's out today,and he kept repeating it. Plus the 3 day eventing thing kept saying fatal termination and then it exited. Plus your horse could be out in the grooming area,and then from a distance you could still see the horses head in the stall! And the Equestriad 2001 didn't even jump that well! I probably got a bad cd,but it still caused a lot of uneeded stress! It's your choice.

ok the controls are horrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 32
Date: January 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

either my brand spankin' new laptop couldn't handle this or i'm an idiot because i could not get the darn horse to go ANY which way let alone the way that I wanted to go. HORRIBLE.

How aweful

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: May 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

No zero satrs??? This game is just terrible. The horse handles horribly and looks like he came out of a coloring book. If you go to the events, especially and jumping, you have to jump like 1 horse length BEFORE you are even close to the jump. I am disappointed that I spent money on this.

what a boring and stupid game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: February 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

this game was very stupid and boring. Only really little kids might like it,i thought it would be fun but the second game wouldnt even work.it is perhaps one of the most stupid horse games ever.the best horse game i have ever played was definetly equestrian challenge. it is extremely fun and i know everyone will like it.

Let's Ride - a dissapointment

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: October 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I just bought this software for our 6 year-old daughter who loves to ride. I have experienced the same as a previous rater - sound effects were annoying, when they worked. THe majority of the time the music and voices just skipped over and over. I couldn't even get the first game - where you learn how to care for your horse - to load on to our computer. When I tried to contact customer support, I discovered that there is no 800 number provided, just an e-mail address to send my request to....and that only got me a canned reply.
Our daughter was very excited about finding this game in the store, but quickly became sad that the game wouldn't work properly.
I'm taking the CDs back and finding something else as soon as possible!

Not the best, but informative none the less.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: October 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have been a fan of the 'Let's Ride!' series for some time now, and eagerly keep watch for all the new installments to the series which was how I came across this game. Naturally I found myself eager to play this game as soon as I got my dirty little hands on it. Once installed I began to test play each of the three games, which came with this installment, and almost immediately encountered a few differences and as expected a few glitches along the way.

(-Riding Star-)

In this game you are charged with the responsibility of taking care of a horse named Morning Star, or just plain Star as the NPC's shall call him, and riding him in a few misc. competitions. To tell you the truth this particular game reminded me of playing with a 'Tamagochi'. You have to watch the horse's Health, Thirst, Hunger, and Grooming all the while moving around the small ranch which the game is set at with your mouse to help you improve these statistics. Believe me you'll bore easily with this aspect of the game, as it soon becomes extremely repetitive. What saves this game from the Recycle Bin however, is it's challenging three-day events. All of which will take some time to get used to, seeing as you'll be going into all of them with blind. Not to mention the fact that they can only be played as far as I know in the `Bird's eye view' perspective. A word of advice, when you start the game up for the first time, click the multi-player option and from there choose whichever event you wish to practice, and then select how many players (Choose one.) you want to play alongside. You'll go through a few other screens until you come to one that says `Training'. Click it. You'll be able to play all the levels from the game, and be able to practice for them accordingly.

Pros:

- Challenging Three-day Events
- Informs you about the body and workings of a horse. Though not as much as one would have wanted. Refer to the Three-Day Eventing game if you want to learn more about horses.

Cons:
-Boring game-play
-Blaring background music that you can't turn down. (Glitch)
-Annoying music which gets old rather fast.
-Horrible camera angles

(I'm not going to bother with the Equestriad game that comes in this package.)

(-Three-Day Eventing-)

Now this is a game that I could play for hours on end. Like Riding Star this game also features a birds eye view in each and every competition that you'll come across. Unlike Riding Star, this game actually will make you WANT to stay in the stable. As I mentioned before this game is the one you want to play if you are in need of information pertaining to horses. They have Movement Charts on of the walls (It's in the Feed Room.) and a chart that shows almost all the colors that a horse my have on it's coat. Heck, this game goes even further than one would expect by actually having informative videos programmed into it. All of the videos (Each a minimum of three minutes long.) can be found next to the TV set in the Kitchen Area, and discuss topics ranging from `Grooming' to `Nutrition' and can be helpful to first time riders. As well as a rather large book and quiz cards (One of which shall ask you how many furlongs in a mile, etc.) that adds even more information into your mind.

This game has a scavenger hunt, as well as four horses and a hungry goat to interact with. In the beginning you can only ride one of them and have to earn the others by working around the stable and doing well in competitions (Which are easy.). Each horse needs to be fed it's own special mix of Oats or Sweet Grain, which can be found on the clip-board next to the horse's stalls (If you screw up the mixture, don't worry the goat will eat it,) and each had their own bridle, halter, and feed bucket. Now wait! Before you write this game of as too hard, you'll need to know that you can't even enter the other horse's stalls until you unlock them. Which you should be happy about, seeing as you also need to muck out the dung in each stall every time you go riding, and every time you come back. All in all I loved every minute of this game, and hope whomever reads this review does as well.

Pros:

-Informative. It's hard NOT to come out of this game without learning a least one new thing.
-Easy to play.
-Simple Controlling scheme, which makes maneuvering the horses rather easy.
-Amusing
-Tremendous Replay Value

Cons:

-No other NPC's that you can talk with.
-Glitchie jumps, which will refuse to allow you over no matter how well aligned you are for them.
-Glitched horse dung in a few of the stalls, which you won't be able to remove.
-Somethings don't work even when they are supposed it.
-Nauseating camera angles in the Stable
-It has the evil talking horse of doom as a narrator.

All in all I believe that this game package deserves quite a bit of praise for at least attempting what it did. Even if some of the results ran into the sub-par range.

Ok. Could be better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: December 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Let's ride champions Collection is OK. The game that is most fun is Equestriad 2001. I love it. The graphics are fine. But when you win a Championship your person will get on the horse and when she waves SHE HAS NO HANDS!!!... That is very odd I think. I think the game is more for the kids of like 5-8 the game has to have a maturity level. It is very comlicated at first like you can't jump to early or your horse will either fall on you knock a jump off or refuse it. I hate the Mary KIng rider, when you are in training your horse goes either too fast or too slow. And when you are in Championship Season the horse Star looks like you can take their head off. When you look in one of the books it says a mans private areas that was very RUDE. Espicially for little girls that doesn't know anything. On the 2nd disk I think that it is almost impossible to get a perfect round without knocking a rail song. and if you don't want to sit there for hours building up player points don't play this game. If you don't want to explain the birds and bees to your kid, don't get this game! Oh yeah I am 9 yrs old.

Equestriad is the best game of the collection!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I got this game for the fun it. Most of the game collection won't work on Windows Vista. But Equestriad works perfectly. It's a great game.

lots of gliches but okay overall

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i got this game with a gift card and couldnt wait to play cuz i luv the first lets ride game. the first part of the game (riding star) gets boring in a short time in the small stable. and the eventing is wway to hard for a little kid but for and older one (like 10) it will be fun. the sacond part of the game(equistriad) is really fun but has tons of glitches. the voice skips and reapeats and a couple times i got stuck in a jump. the jumping is kind of bad but other than that i love that part (the type of person i am i dont really mind things like that) and then the third part of the game (i forget the name! champion season? i dunno it doesnt matter) is very kool!! it teaches u TONS of info of horses. there are a bunch of charts on the gaits of horses and colors of horses and there is a huge book about horses that u can read. there is even a tv where u can put tapes in to watch about horses!!! (like grooming, talk, ect.) there are a few glitches like in sum stalls u cant pick up a pile of horse poop. and oh ya, there iis a scavenger hunt!! if u like horses and want to learn about them then u should deffinatley buy this game!! ( i also recomend lets ride! the legacy of rosemond hill- its awesome!!)

Pretty Good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: August 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

When you buy this you will recieve two cds. One will have two games on it and the other one will only have one. The tree games are Championship Season, Riding Star, and Equistraid.

Championship Season: Here you own a horse farm. There are four horses and a goat. At first you only can do stuff with Barney a paint. When you earn horse points you will get the other horses. An easy way to get horse points is do the trivia games. You can take your horses to the schooling area and competitions. This was my favorite game.

Riding Star: On Riding Star you play as Sarah Greene and come and get to take care of this guys horse named Morning Star. You can groom the horse, clean out the stall, put water in the buckets, food in the food bucket, saddle up your horse, and put your horse in the paddock, and go to competitions. The grooming supplies are in the tack room in the dresser thing. To the right of the screen you will see how healthy your horse is and all that other stuff. On the top when your horse is in the paddock, stall, when your grooming, and shen cleaning the stall you'll see a continue. When your horse is in the paddock or stall CONTINUE will make it a new day. Riding star is pretty fun except the competitions can be kind of hard.

Equistraid: Equistraid wasn't my favorite. It can get pretty boring. You choose what horse you want and you go to competitions. That's about all you do.

All of them are pretty fun. The price for this game is good because you'll get bored if the game after a while. I hope this review helped you!

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