The new features available here include the ability to birth multiple pups when your dog breeds, more breeds to choose from, more minigames and new backgrounds to play on. After that, it's basically your job to look after this dog, taking it for walks, petting it, buying it new toys and so on. The basic concept sees the player adopting a pet dog, choosing from a number of breeds and then customizing them with a new name and suchlike. This one is quite similar to earlier installments but also introduces a number of new elements which help keep it feeling fresh. Hardcore gamers are obviously likely to sniff at this one, but if you've got youngsters and are interested in introducing them to real world animals as pets, it's actually a pretty good primer. There's a huge amount of pet simulators in this franchise, including Petz, Catz and Dogz, and there's no prizes for guessing what sort of animal this one concentrates on.
