EyePet is hoping to be the game that brings the young audience to the Playstation 3. While the game does cater to the casual gamer, how does it fair to the more hardcore? And is the game worth your money? Videogamer thinks so, continue on to read the review.

Final Score=8/10

Sony's EyePet is more or less a direct descendent of all those Catz and Dogz games (or should that be gamez?) that surfaced in the mid nineties. Both series were massively popular with gamers who were either unable or unwilling to deal with the expense, responsibility or omnipresent faeces that accompanies real-world pet ownership. In essence, the player used their mouse to interact with a cartoon mutt or feline as they pranced around their computer screen. You fed the animal, groomed it, and teased it with toys. As an overall experience it was somewhat lacking in gameplay, but this had little impact on the kids who flocked to stores in their millions.

Now, some fifteen years later, SCE London Studios has returned to the formula, but this time using "augmented reality" - a term that may mean nothing to you if you're not one of the cool kids (kidz?). In a nutshell, you set up a web cam in front of your TV so that you're watching a live feed of your living room floor - but when you look at the screen, you'll suddenly find you've got a new visitor charging about the room: The EyePet. He's a furry little four-legged creature, a sort of monkey-cat hybrid with the playfulness of a puppy. It's almost as if a market research group isolated all the cutest aspects of normal pets and then used them to design the ultimate lovable furball.

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