Neopets Review

Making you pets prettier is also great. Especially if you get some paint brushes (with a lot of luck..or money).
Try it out, you shall not regret it.

Cons: Hard to get a lot Neopoints(currency); aimed towards a younger age group these days, so lots of younger kids but still better behaved than most.

Verdict: Give it a shot, and be active in community and forums (AVOID newbie forum). It has a much more expansive world than most virtual pet games w/ its own economy and globe. I haven’t played in a while though, so I don’t know how much the change in ownership has affected it.

yet still i like it a bit =D

The Good–
Neopets is a flourishing land. It harbours games for the gamers, contests for the math geeks and artists, and puts a particular accent on the designing of webpages and formatting of pre-existing layouts. The land itself is rather small and becomes tiresome for exploring, but plots and other events occur within the site offering new opputunities to earn “neopoints”, the currency of the world. Most users are friendly, and often join a club called a guild to interact with other players. Indeed, many people join for he chance to hang out on a controlled forum. It offers collecting everything from stamps to avatars, and oppurtunities to train and dress up a pet. Neopoints are earned by winning contests and playing games, and also from random events. For the poorer players, free food can be had every day, and a great stock of items from the money tree (but remember this is real time; items disappear quite quickly). Players can own one shop each where they can sell items to earn a profit. Neopets has its own stock market, allowing people to invest in different neopian companies. The pets can be trained up, intelligence can be raised, and a petpet or a petpetpet (guess what those are) can be given to pets for company. Neopets also has a newspaper for which players can submit comics, articles, stories, series, and questions. The best questions appear in an Editorial each week.

The Bad–
The combat system – yes, there is a combat system – is poorly thought out. It is slow, and does not take place immediatly. Rather, a game can last weeks or months with the only result being a change on the pet lookup or perhaps an avatar. Inflation has also reached crisis point, and so feeding one’s pet and such can cost up to 2,000 NPs a day. Of course, there is the off-chance of picking money off the floor, but it doesn’t happen in large amounts: only one or two hundred NPs at a time. However, TNT (theneopetsteam) has made a bold step in reducing inflation by giving out paintbrushes by winning a gold key in a rather cheezy RPG that slows down the computer and gives it bugs.

The Ugly–
Neopets was sold. It now belongs to Viacom which has forced the splendid old site to go through a series of revamps, leaving it unrecognisable. The format has changed, all neopets converted, and recently, the HTML and CSS filters have changed, leaving graphics makers stumped as to how to get around the changes. Several ways have been found. The format also changed, ruining old lookups that were coded to fit the old layouts. Selling neopets was the worst thing Adam could have done.

So there we are. Overall a seven. Points docked for Viacom, combatives, and slowness.

I’ve seen my cousins play this game and they really seemed to enjoy it. Basically you have money and get your fantasy pets. It also seems really safe and secure which is always a plus. I would recommend for kids ages 10 and under.

The cutness of the pets says that you need to play it.
I say: if you like pet games! GO TO PLAY IT!
I can say: it is more a text based game… but in the game are a lot of minigames, in 3d, 2d.
You adopt a pet and going to feed him, earn money, build a house, and FIGHT! Yes, FIGHT!
This is the thing of the game i liked most because i always defeated my friends, muwhahahahah!

Ok, if you like pets this is still the best pet game on net!

So i give it a: 7! Yes a 7!