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Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force
(2008, Video Games - Action/Adventure, Rated E, Play it on: Nintendo DS)
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Not age appropriate for kids under 5, age appropriate for kids over 6; suggested age 7. -
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Common Sense says
Fabulous portable game with secret agent theme.
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 7 and Up
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What Parents Need to Know
This review of Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force was written by Jinny Gudmundsen
Parents need to know that this is a game based on the world created in Club Penguin.com. Similar to the Web site, you create a penguin avatar to represent you as you waddle through this mission-based game. This DS game has a direct tie-in to the Web site because kids can transfer the coins they earn in the game to their account online via the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. You can also download the newest Club Penguin newsletters, vote in polls, and download additional missions as they become available. Plus, the game contains a secret code for use on the Club Penguin Web site which will unlock secret items online. The age appropriateness of 7 years reflects that there is a lot of reading required to play this game. However, if parents want to play with their young children, this game offers a way for a parent to be the Command Coach, highlighting areas to explore.
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More on Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force
What’s the Story?
The snow covered world of the mega popular Club Penguin Web site is now available for exploration on the Nintendo DS in CLUB PENGUIN: ELITE PENGUIN FORCE. Kids enter this world as a penguin, join a super secret, elite spy force called the Elite Penguin Force (EPF), and then go on 13 missions, solve 10 mysteries, and help other penguins in this world. As you become more skilled as a secret agent, you earn gadgets to use to help you complete the missions
Most of the gameplay utilizes the Nintendo DS stylus, but some of it also makes use of the microphone. Within the missions, kids will also experience minigames like snowboarding where to make your penguin do tricks, you trace patterns on the touch-sensitive screen. In addition to the mission-based play, the game also offers six minigames as a separate event.
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Is It Any Good?
This is a fabulous Nintendo DS game, regardless of whether you are an online Club Penguin fan. The secret agent theme, delivered with a quirky sense of humor, makes completing the missions intriguing and hilarious. You can speak with penguins you meet, and if you help them with their problems, they will reward you with cool wardrobe additions or coins. The spy gadgets earned in the game, including a decoder and a two-way communicator, make the gameplay varied and interesting. Plus there are special Spy Puffles, little pet-like bundles of fur, who can help you in tricky situations. Another nice feature is a special Command Coach mode where a parent or older sibling can join in with a younger player to help them complete missions. By using two DS units connected wirelessly, the parent can serve as coach by circling areas to explore on his or her DS, and those hints then show up on the child's DS. It is a very clever addition to family gaming.
For fans of the Web site, this DS world is very similar in look and feel to what you find on the Web site. Favorite online Club Penguin games such as Cart Surfer, Jet Pack Adventure, and Ice Fishing are here. The familiar locations are also the here, but this world offers new expanded areas. However, you don't have to be a fan of the Web site to enjoy this game -- it stands on its own.
ClosePublisher’s Details
Released on 11/25/2008, price $29.99, online enabled
ESRB rating: E (for (No Descriptors))
ESRB rating: E (for (No Descriptors))
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Most Recent Reviews
I rate this title on for age 7 and give it- My highlights are:
- Safety isn't an issue
- I rate this title on for age 6 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive consumerism
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
- Easy to play
Short
I finished the game in two days, which is very short. Also, when I finished, it kept saying I only finished 71%.
- I rate this title off for age 11 and give itMy concerns are:
- Inappropriate language
- Excessive consumerism
- Safety is an issue
Sorry, this is another review for the Club Penguin website. I already had a review posted for the website, only I had more to say after an experience at a local library. Please read. Club Penguin is not for tweens and teens, only for younger kids. So here is another review for the Club Penguin WEBSITE.
Club Penguin was fun at first, but soon enough, there were more tweens and teens and the website was full of bad influences. This is for the wevsite. Not the game. I wanted to add another review for the website. *True Story* A girl at the library was on Club Penguin. She was about 12 years old. We talked to eachother, because we went to the same school. We talked and talked, and on Club Penguin, she met a player, and they soon became friends. I sat at a computer next to her and checked my email, and chated with friends that were also on their email. I felt somewhat responsible for the girl in a way, due to the fact that I was older than her, so I looked at what was going on. Due to experiences, I knew the REAL side of Club Penguin, and knew that people were getting very sick. (When a boy player asked me if I wanted to go to his igloo, I said "ok" not knowing what I was in for. I sat down, and we talked for a while. Soon, he had his penguin sit next to mine, and turn towards me. Then, he typed in "are you going to take off your clothes or do you want me to?" I was about 12 at the time, and due to health classes at school, I knew what he meant. I deleted that player right away, and ended my membership. From then on, I stopped playing the game). As I looked towards the girl's screen, she was going to a boy penguin's igloo. I watched them sit down, and turn towards eachother. I turned towards the girl, and asked "What are you doing?" She fixed the screen immediately of course. She said "I'm just talking to this other player." I returned to my own screen and when she turned around, I looked at her screen. The penguins had no clothes on, and were saying some sick things. Some things typed in from the male player were "bounces", "pushes in further", "grabs", "bounces really fast", "bits", "looks at thing", and "pushes own thing into girl's thing". From the girl, it was, "bounces", "grabs, "mmmmmmmm", "oh yah!", "faster!", "puts girls in face", "wraps legs around waste", and "leans closer so that his thing goes in further". This is how I remember the conversation between the two, and how I remember the girl. I told her to stop, as I realized that they were trying really hard to have s*x/a physical relationship. That's all.
- I rate this title on for age 17 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate language
- Excessive consumerism
- Negative role models
- Safety is an issue
- My highlights are:
- Educational
- Good role models
- Safety isn't an issue
- Easy to play
PREtty sweet but lots of violence for an e rated game you can chop other penguins to tiny bits eat them spike juice at parties and put guts in pizza
- I rate this title on for age 9 and give it
Fun, short spinoff of Club Penguin, is pretty good
Short and fun, not much else to say
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| 100% | of parents say there are good role models |
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| 100% | of parents say kids find it easy to play |
| 100% | of parents say it's educational |
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