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- Create and watch entire 3D gymnastic routines for Barbie
- Compete with Team Barbie to show off your gymnastic routines
- Successfully complete the four levels of competition
- Choose special team outfits for each competition
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Amazon.com Review
Is the fiercely competitive world of female gymnastics ready for the perkiness of Team Barbie? Barbie Team Gymnastics is probably a dream come true for any girl who loves both gymnastics and Barbie. However, don't rely on this game to teach any lessons about sportsmanship: either Team Barbie cheats, or the judges in this program all work for Mattel.
Play begins in the lounge, where Barbie and her team-mates, Christie and Teresa, await practice orders. Players must guide the girls through practice routines on the vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor. Moves are executed by hitting the arrow keys and space bar in a sequence that suddenly appears on the left side of the screen. If a player hits the wrong keys, or doesn't hit the right keys soon enough, their gymnast will bobble or (gasp!) fall off their apparatus, and the coach, Kira, will chirp "Don't give up!" as the program churns relentlessly onward. Maintaining composure after knocking Barbie off the beam is difficult, but just like an actual competition, the good players shake it off and keep going.
Young gymnasts will probably enjoy sweating out their mistakes, the realism of the sounds (that hollow thud as hands and feet contact the balance beam) and the 3-D images of gymnasts performing their moves as the "camera" swoops in for different angles. Another nice touch is a replay component that allows players to watch their routines once completed. It's hard to watch the routine as it's being executed, because you must instead keep your eyes on the "Power Bar" that orders the keystrokes for each move.
When players master enough walkovers and handsprings to earn a high score, they're allowed to attend local, sectional, regional and national competitions where prizes are trophies, new moves to add to their repertoire and, of course, new team outfits. Here's where the cheating came in: at a local competition, we ran our Team Barbie members through their paces and scored 9.2s and 9.3s, while our competitors consistently scored 9.5s and 9.6s. Despite this, come trophy time, Team Barbie got the gold with a score average that was mysteriously boosted to 9.4! For this blatant disregard for the lessons of loosing and accurate maths, Barbie Team Gymnastics gets an 8.3 for style, and a 7.0 for execution. --Anne Erickson, Amazon.com
Manufacturer's Description
Go For The Gold & Create 3D Gymnastic Routines For Barbie & Her Friends!Create and watch entire 3D gymnastic routines for Barbie, Christie and Teresa, using hundreds of gymnastics moves. Compete with Team Barbie to show off your gymnastic routines on the Local, Sectional, Regional and National levels. Successfully complete the four levels of competition to win a Gold, Silver or Bronze Medal! Earn special gymnastics moves and new team outfits as you win each competition! Three-player action! Play individually or with up to two friends! Choose special team outfits for each competition! Save your gymnastics routines and watch as Barbie or one of her friends performs it during an instant replay! Design original gymnastic routines for the balance beam, floor exercise, uneven bars and the vault! Plus, download special gymnastic moves from Barbie.com
Join Barbie and her friends at the gym to practice and complete gymnastic routines on the vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercises. You can create your own routine for each piece of apparatus by choosing various gymnastics moves. Once you successfully complete the routine, you can compete in the Local, Sectional, Regional and National levels to win the Gold Medal!
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
I have just finished playing Barbie Team Gymnastics and i was absolutely amazed at what the game contained! From the moment that i put the disc into my cd rom everything was explained to me from installation to how to begin practising my routines. I have never seen a Gymnastics game before so i was really pleased as i really didn't expect the game to have such a choice of options concerning the moves. I thought i would only be able to do easy moves but much to my surpise i was able to include skills that i have only ever seen on tv in the Olympics in my routines. It was so much fun creating routines and trying to get a high tariff. Everything about the game was fun and it was rewarding, as if you did well at a competition than you was given a new leotard that you could wear, new skills and you move into the next stage of competition. Watching my team go to a competition seemed so life like compared to my comeptition experiences and the game even got me to feel nervous for my gymnasts. It is great as it incorporates the Barbie characters in a fun way. Whilst practicing the floor routines the dance even goes with the music! I was very impressed and even when you have completed the game you can always go back and try again with different sequences of moves. I have to say that even as someone who is a teenager the game was still fun and i would reccommend it to anyone who loves Gymnastics or Barbie.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Barbie Team Gymnastics
4 out of 5 only because of a couple of days angst, due to grandaughter's initial disapointment at not being able to play this on our system and thinking I'd have to return game to seller.
Bought this for my 7 year old grandaughter wh is a fan of Barbie PC games and a gymnast. The system requirements were confusing i.e. Windows 95, 98, Me, Pentium II 200 MHz, and it didn't occur to me that the game wouldn't recognise XP, Pentium IV. Consequently whem we got into the body of the game we kept on getting a "CPU not supported" message. The game then aborted.
Did some research in the US Amazon forums and found a link for a free downloadable patch - BarbieTeamGymnasticsUpdate.exe - on GZ Downloads which fixed the problem.
All working now and having great fun!
4 out of 5 only because of a couple of days angst, due to grandaughter's initial disapointment at not being able to play this on our system and thinking I'd have to return game to seller.
Bought this for my 7 year old grandaughter wh is a fan of Barbie PC games and a gymnast. The system requirements were confusing i.e. Windows 95, 98, Me, Pentium II 200 MHz, and it didn't occur to me that the game wouldn't recognise XP, Pentium IV. Consequently whem we got into the body of the game we kept on getting a "CPU not supported" message. The game then aborted.
Did some research in the US Amazon forums and found a link for a free downloadable patch - BarbieTeamGymnasticsUpdate.exe - on GZ Downloads which fixed the problem.
All working now and having great fun!
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