Fun but could be more education and could support dual play
My boys (5 and 7) are really enjoying Jumpstart World. They've been thrilled with the new dragon training feature. I don't mind them playing but there are two things I think could really be better. First, I don't think it's as educational as it could be. Training a dragon is fun but there's really nothing to it in terms of math or reading. It's not even close to the educational quality provided by a site like Dreambox Math. Second, they can't play together. While not at all educational, something I enjoy about the Lego series or Scooby Doo Wii is that they can play together. With Jumpstart they just take turns with my older son most often getting more time to play. I think it's good but for the money I think it could be more.
Nothing else quite matches the amount of content and quality.
This review is so far just for the downloadable content (not the full on online world). This is only for the downloadable games (which are free with membership) or can be purchased as two packs at retail. My three year old quickly beat the pre-school (My First Adventure) and is now doing the Kindegarten where he is having a good time and can handle about 1/2 of the material. My 6 year old is on the First grade (Trouble in Troubletown or something) and this is a good tool for him. I'm amazed at what he can do. A word of warning regarding this product. Some of the learning games can get very repetitive and in order to collect the gems you have to do them sometimes up to 6 times in a row to get the gem. This is frustrating to my 6 year old. There are other complaints about this product I have, but really, how many PC products out there even get close to level of presentation, updates, fun, edutainment, exploration, artwork? None. It's definately worth a couple months membership if you have kids who like computer games.
We've used a lot of the jump start products so we were very excited to find jumpstart online. My 5 year old son LOVES this game and loves running around the world doing the various activities, buying things to ride on, jumping from free fall mountain, etc. However, I am just not that impressed with the educational value of this game. I read several reviews before showing him the game that talked about how educational it is and how it could even be your child's homework. Huh? Almost all of the games I have seen are mostly platform run and jumping type of games and the few educational games that I've seen were not very good.
For fun factor, I'd give this game an A, but as far as educational is concerned, I give it a C-.
My boys love it and play it as often as I'll let them. I rated it for 4+ just because of control issues for being able to play by yourself, but if your kids are more apt at computers than mine were than they'll be able to play younger than mine.
My kids favorite game right now is the calendar game to put together.
My kids love this game. They play for hours. The best part is they get a good balance of education and fun. The Lands are very educational, lots of learning games. To earn the coins my kids have become masters at the learning games because those games give extra points! Teach your kids this and you will have math/reading/science in quantity!
Very safe and educational. However, on the blog. Jumpstart does create polls on Polldaddy. And could send your kids right to a non G-rated site. So tell your kids to stay away from the blog.
it is really fun but it might be a little complicated for kids 6 years old. in fact it is so fun my mom won't let me rate it 5 stars. there is a little sex even though common sense doses't say there is. in where you change your clothes, i found skinny jeans.
There's definitely some ads, but I think it's pretty cool. It's very safe for kids, and it's cool how you can connect to Facebook. I think they should add more stuff for older kids, though.
I started playing on this site today. It is safe but what I don't like is... At the movie theater there are posters parodying movies that are more adultish (ex. Scarface is parodied as well as jurrasic park)and it might be hard for 8 & under
I think JumpStart is a fun educational game used used to refresh kids memmoey and to have a lot of fun!!!!My brothers and sisters love it imean they are on the site evrry minuit af evrry day!!The resolts r just amazing!!
there is not one thing too worry about and not too much people around too hack and be mean well i don't think they can be mean anyway im 8 years old i still love it
I'm 9 years old and I LOVE this game! Every holiday theres a new attraction to ride on, you can even raise, train, and ride your own mythical creature! The math is a little too easy for me, but I still enjoy the game.
Jumpstart can be educational, and both my sisters love the magic place, but you can barely do anything unless you're a member. You can only buy certain clothes, furniture, and other things, plus you can't have pets or "mythies." Safety isn't an issue as they don't release any personal information, and you have a list of things you can say. But sometimes it's hard to do things because of the graphics, and the talking animals are a bit annoying. Still, it can be educational.