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By Jinny Gudmundsen
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Geography fact drills with spy-mission theme.
Parents Need to Know
Why Age 10+?
Any Positive Content?
Where to Play
Parent and Kid Reviews
What's It About?
MISSION POSSIBLE WORLD GEOGRAPHY uses a spy-mission theme to make the learning of geography facts more palatable. Kids infiltrate a research facility to rescue important data about global warming. Their mission's success is directly correlated to how well they can answer a series of geography questions. If they answer correctly, they watch a video of their spy character moving forward in the mission.
The questions take many formats, including simple multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, unscrambling words, and identifying places on a map. Kids can practice learning the facts in a tutorial mode before taking on the less-forgiving mission mode.
Is It Any Good?
Mission Possible is not sophisticated software. Its graphics are somewhat crude by today's standards, and it has slow transitions between scenes. It won't keep track of what you don't know in order to quiz you later -- its questions are simply random. It won't even save your mission if you leave in the middle.
But it will provide a more interactive way of drilling geography facts than simply studying maps or running through a series of flash cards.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about what they enjoy about learning geography. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you want to visit?
Game Details
- Platforms : Windows , Mac
- Pricing structure :
- Available online? : Not available online
- Publisher : EdVenture Software
- Release date : April 10, 2004
- Genre : Educational
- ESRB rating :
- Last updated : August 25, 2016
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