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October 1, 2008

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Product Description
Good Grief! It's baseball season and Charlie Brown needs five more players for his baseball team! Join Charlie Brown in this sports adventure game designed to teach kids all about baseball, friendship and fun. Play as Charlie Brown and help him recruit and organize his team. Explore the neighborhood and visit the Peanuts gang with Snoopy at your side. Convince each player to join your team and practice with them. Play delightful mini-games and learn baseball basics: pitching, running bases, fielding, batting, and managing. Once you have successfully recruited all the players and completed the mini-games, you are ready to move on to the big game.

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars

Don't waste your money... March 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

We are MAC people and I saw this game originally at the Apple store. It was cheaper on Amazon, so I ordered it from here. The game can only be played by keeping the CD in the drive. It is slow and cumbersome. It is also confusing to find the different games that are listed on the box. I bought this for my 4-1/2 year old, and he can barely play it. I would not recommend it. Save your money. Online games at NickJr.com and PBSkids.org are more interesting and user friendly.

4 out of 5 stars

A hard ground-ball single October 27, 2007
14 out of 14 found this review helpful

This is the second "Peanuts" video game I've found. The first, "Where's the Blanket, Charlie Brown?", I purchased off the discount rack a couple of years ago, when my older nephew was still 5, and his 2 year-old brother hadn't yet become much of a gamer. Now they're 7 1/2 and 4 1/2, respectively, and both enjoy the new game enough to fight over who gets to play it.

Based on the mostly negative reviews to "Blanket", it seems as if the designers have consciously made "Big Game" a little easier to play. We were able to get deep into the game without resorting to the help file -- without which I could never have helped the boys finish the original. There's also an expanded cast of "Peanuts" characters, including the long-forgotten Shermy and Violet. My younger nephew, who knows the main cast by sight, was rather disturbed by Violet's appearance in the game, and didn't want to interact with her when she appeared. Also a little odd are the European accents provided for Linus and Schroeder.

Game play is a little simpler than "Blanket". Snoopy doesn't need to be fed periodically. You don't have to pick up and carry items, wondering what to do with them later(such as putting a magician's hat on Snoopy's head to activate a crystal ball -- who thought that was a good idea?). The mini-games within the adventure, as in "Blanket", vary from memory challenges (playing tunes on Schroeder's piano) to hand-eye coordination (baseball-related; hope your 6 year-old knows how to throw a hard slider). These mini-games also have three levels of difficulty, up a step from "Blanket"'s two levels.

The animation is very good and Schulz-ian, and game play remains layered with solid sight gags to supplement the action. There's better use of the extended "Peanuts" cast. This release, if it finds an audience, is a solid step up from "Where's the Blanket?" and managed to entertain both a pre-schooler and a 2nd grader. Recommended.