NeoPets

"Virtual Pets, well it's not all about the pets."

Introduction:
NeoPets, it's an online-site turn-based liked game. More likely to be a site full of games and communications, than a site raising your pet, but part of the site to mainly only for the pets.

Gameplay:
Well, you'll just click around and explore the site. You get to have a bank and all those stuff. And the best thing is that it has about over 50 games! From puzzle to action games, it has a large selection of games. At the end they all end of, well most of them, end up letting you have NeoPoints, or ''money'' as I call them.

Sounds:
There isn't much ''music'' or ''sounds'' in NeoPets, except for the ones in the games, other than that there isn't much.

Kids Play Only?:
Well, of course not it can be for adults too! But remember it's more of a children's site, so no sexual stuff in the site! Or you'll have to suffer the punishment of getting your account banned or ''frozen''.

Security:
Well, their security has improve over the year, as I know it. When you first start out, lets say a year and a half ago, you'll probably get hacked. Then since the NeoPets team have received a lot of complaints, they started working. Now their IP and ISP overview technology has improved. Now they will only give you a few chances of login in your account, if you try five times without getting the right password, well you'll have to wait for the next day to come, or until the Neopian day is over, or as some of us know by PST (Pacific Standard Time).

Communications:
Yes, you can communicate with other Neopian players. Of course of the U.S. laws you'll have to be at least 13 to communicate with other, or you can get your parents to sign a permission slip. You can message each other by ''Neo-mailing'' or like a site-restricted only e-mail service. You can also go to their message board.

Replayability:
I know a lot of people that has only been playing only for about 7 months and then quit, but for loyal players they stay for about like 19 months.

Features:
They pretty much update daily, unless it's the weekend or a big holiday, where they are off on the holiday too. It has about at least three updates a daily.

Graphics:
It's pretty good! Some arts are 3D too! They probably used Photoshop 6.0, but I'm not going into that right now. It's like anime like, too!

Final Rating:
Gameplay: 9.5/10 - It always have new games so I can't give it a 10.
Sounds: 1/10 - Not much sounds.
Security: 7/10 - Not the best but it works.
Communications: 7/10 - It's not very quick.
Replayability: 10/10 - I play it every day!(my user: fiton)
Feature: 9/10 - They update a lot!
Graphics: 10/10 - Just one word GREAT!

Reviewer's Score: 8/10, Originally Posted: 04/13/02, Updated 10/12/02