Misplaced Pages

Animal Genius

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages)
This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources.
Find sources: "Animal Genius" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2023)
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Animal Genius" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
The topic of this article may not meet Misplaced Pages's notability guidelines for products and services. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted.
Find sources: "Animal Genius" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
(Learn how and when to remove this message)
2007 video game
Animal Genius
Developer(s)Big Blue Bubble (DS), Artech Digital Entertainment (PC)
Publisher(s)Scholastic, Ubisoft (DS only)
Platform(s)Nintendo DS
Windows
macOS
Leapster
Release
  • NA: September 25, 2007
  • EU: July 18, 2008
  • AU: August 1, 2008
Genre(s)Puzzle game
Mode(s)Single-player

Animal Genius is a puzzle video game released for Windows in 2003, the Leapster in 2006, and Nintendo DS in 2007. Jack DeVries, writing for IGN, gave the game a score of 6.5/10, concluding that it is a decent title for young children with an interest in animals.

Gameplay

Animal Genius consists of mini-games that test animal smarts, quick thinking and instincts on the quest to win 25 animals that live in five different habitats around the world—rainforest, Arctic, grasslands, ocean, and woodlands. At the start of the game choose a habitat to explore. After choosing a habitat, the player can earn up to five animals for that habitat by playing the mini-games. Each animal is worth a different point value. During the game, there is an "Animal Alert" where one of the unlocked animals can wander off into the wrong environment.

To earn the points needed for that animal, the player must choose any combination of the Scratch and See, Matchomatic, Creature Collector (or Feature Finder in the Leapster), or Maze Munch games. Once the player earns enough points needed for an animal, they must then answer ten questions about the animal in Animal Expert.

After successfully answering the questions, the player wins the animal for the habitat. To win the first animal in each habitat, it requires 25 points or 10 points (in the Leapster). To win the second animal, 50 points or 20 points are required. For the third animal, 75 or 30 points are required. For the fourth animal, 100 or 40 points are required. For the fifth and final animal in each habitat, 200 or 50 points are required.

References

  1. DeVries, Jack (12 October 2007). "Animal Genius Review - Nintendo DS Review at IGN". IGN. Retrieved 21 May 2012.

External links


Stub icon

This puzzle video game-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: