Product Description: You don't have to dream about life with a horse anymore. In Gallop & Ride!, you are the new owner of the Old Mill Ranch, and it's up to you to renovate, manage and care for your stables and the horses.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Hey, Horsie-lovers? Like the details? This game is for you...
Great game with very detailed grooming. Your horse is sensitive, if you don't clean his feet gently you'll make him uncomfortable and then you have to massage him and make him trust you again! Lots of WORK in this game. You can just ride of you want to tho in 'quickplay' mode. But I like the vast detail and sensitivity of this game. You need to earn credits to feed your horse and buy him medicine and you can read horse 'books' and buy new clothes.. and breed your own foal! Hundreds of combinations of horse coats, saddles, etc., can be obtained. You can even braid your horses's tail! The riding stables are run down and it's your job to fix it up and get the property looking good again, too, eventually, but that's a side story, really. Lots to do, so much I haven't mentioned, a quite game, will update when more has been achieved, but for now, the riding is very realistic and free, and you can switch to your joystick on the nunchuck if you get tired of flapping your arms like reins.
Very surprised at the detail and work and beautiful riding mountain scenes. Love it! Great horse reign controls.
('Me and my Horse', for the wii was incredible frustrating compared to this great game.
Gallop & Ride is also about 30x more detailed and emersable than the sweetheart of a game "Petz Horse Club" for the wii which was very enjoyable as well (see my review on "Petz Horse Club" which is a great, but very different wii horse game compared to Gallop & Ride".
I'd just stay away from "me and my horse" it just about drove me nuts. If i ever figure it out i'll update this.)
Rating: - A little addictive
My daughter got this for her birthday, and asked mom to help with one of the tasks...well, I got addicted. Overall, fun...a couple of quibbles are that some of the actions get repetitious after awhile (e.g. having to groom/clean hooves...seems like the game could give you a pass on those). The free riding with the nunchuk and Wiimote is good, really seems like reins, but eventually I found it easier to use the joystick ("alternative control scheme"). Very family friendly, except there is an option to breed a foal...could raise questions!!!
- Hey, Horsie-lovers? Like the details? This game is for you...
- A little addictive
