BBC Balamory
Posted by | Posted in Childrens | Posted on 21-07-2010
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Amazon.co.uk Review
What’s the story in Balamory? Invite your kids to join Miss Hooly, Pocket & Sweet, PC Plum, Archie, Spencer and Edie Mcredie in virtual Balamory and they will learn as they play. Based on the popular BBC TV children’s programme, the BBC Balamory CD-ROM opens with the colourful introductory song viewers know so well. Children are then presented with a variety of games to test basic pre-school and early years skills. For younger children (3-4 years) the favourite wi… More >>
My three year old daughter found this CD Rom very easy to use. She found it very interesting and it had plenty of activities to keep her interest going. There was several activities that she could not do by herself but she had fun trying. This will give her future enjoyment as she learns to do more. I would highly recommend this CD Rom.
Rating: 5 / 5
Everything about this television based programme is well thought out and geared towards young children’s minds and the CD continues in that vein. No wonder well known television “celebrities” are falling over themselves to get a cameo part on the programme.
The CD is easy to understand and you can leave you child to get on with it in the knowledge that they are not being brainwashed or subjected to material you would not approve of.
There are 5 games and activities on the disc and the characters will be familiar to most children.
The disc encourages children to learn new skills and hand co-ordination and best of all it gives them lots of fun and pleasure at the same time.
Rating: 4 / 5
Very popular with our four year old, this CD is fun and the games are easy to get the hang of quickly, whilst having a good amount of skill development in there too as you get better at them and go up the levels.
There are five interactive games with various of the favourite characters, some harder than others, as well as video clips to watch and enjoy and a paint pack to colour on screen pictures.
This is good value and you can leave your young’un to play happily without needing to stop every five seconds to help them understand what to do. Thoroughly enjoyable – I commend it to you and your children. They will get hours of pleasure out of it and learn something too!
Rating: 5 / 5
This is very primitive software. It’s something you’d expect from the early 90s – not from 2007. Firstly, even though it gets installed on the hard-drive it will not run entirely from there – you have to put the CD back in each time you want to use it. This is rather annoying because not only do you need to dig out the original CD each time you also have to trust your three year old not to bust the CD drive. This is an almost certainty given the fact that for each BBC/GSP game they will have to open the CD tray and then load and unload a new disk.
The opening video sequence is also poor. It is very low resolution (again à la 1990s) and the sound quality leaves much to be desired.
The game itself is rather average to say the least. I can’t believe I have wasted so much money on something that seems to have been written by a bunch of students stuck in the last decade. I’m ashamed to present this to my three year old daughter.
Rating: 2 / 5