NeoPets

"What would I do if the website crashed forever?"

I really don't know what I would do if this site crashed and I could no longer play it. Man, I am really wasting my time doing this, I should be on Neopets, but I wanted the world to know I that love this site. If you haven't opened an account at neopets.com, you really should and I'll tell you why.

Here, there are so many fun things you can do. You can meet new people through the message boards, battle people with virtual pets, play some great and mostly original games to make money, open a shop to sell people items to help them, send people messages through a Hotmail-like mail system thing called Neomail, and so many more things.

You start off creating some Neopets (up to 4 of them) and train them to become the best fighters anyone could ever see or you can play with them, feed them, paint them to look like faeries, (I know fairy is spelled different but thats the way its spelled at Neopets) someones sketches, checkerboards, and you can do so many other things, I can't name them all.

Of course there's something in it for those artists out there. There is a campfire where the Neopets Staff starts a story and you submit the next paragraph and if they post it you get a nice trophy you can show off to other people. You can also submit your drawn masterpieces to them and people can look at them and you can get famouse.:)

Besides the occasional action game there are skill games too. There is a game called Cheat! (my favorite) where you can play cards of the same value and whoever puts down all of their cards first wins. You can cheat on this game, which is the reason its called Cheat! You can lie and say you are putting down cards you dont even have and accuse others of cheating themselves. There are also puzzles like Poogle Solitare which is a game of solitare that requires lots of patience and lots of brains. Why dont you go play them yourself before the site is disabled?

Yes I did mention the fact that you can battle other people. Dont get me wrong, this is no Pokemon battle. You can use hundreds of items to hurt your oponentlike Frost Cannons and different Battlecards. Even though you cannot equip all of your items you can however equip 7 items! Isnt that a lot? You can challenge your best friend or you can challenge a complete stranger. My favorite part of the site is that you can do searches on other people or their pets and if you find someone you would like to meet you can just send them an instant message wherever they live! How cool is that?

Before, I thought that Neopets was just a way to spend time, prowling around a world called Neopia. But then I realized that I would much rather spend time on Neopets than time on my video game consoles. I bet your asking 'well, what is the money used for?'. You can use the money to buy from other peoples shop and do them a favor, you can use it to buy food for your pets, toys, pets for your pets, and much, much more!

Well, I guess that about wraps it up! I really cannot believe anyone would rate this site a score other than a ten. Gotta go!

Reviewer's Score: 10/10, Originally Posted: 08/15/01, Updated 08/15/01