Legacy Interactive Releases Farm Vet PC Game

[Detomah]

Legacy Interactive today released the downloadable version of Farm Vet, a PC simulation game for animal lovers. Vivendi Games will publish a retail version of the game next month.
Whether the horse has dislocated its knee or the cow has choked on an apple, players who download Farm Vet can be sure they're getting the real deal. Farm Vet centers around a player character who faces real-life animal care situations in order to build experience and train to become the virtual farm's primary veterinarian by the end of the game. In order to create all of the animal health care situations players experience in the game, the team at Legacy Interactive tapped into a community of veterinarians through online channels.

Tapping Into Vets Nationwide
Veterinarians across the country were asked to submit real-life scenarios and challenges they had faced in their own practices and only the best and most interesting cases were selected. The resulting detailed vet simulations were written by real working vets from their own personal case files. In addition to treating their ailments, players must also provide their basic care including feeding, watering and walking and/or playing with the animals.

"Farm Vet is an informative, interactive case study program that I hope will ignite an interest in animal medicine. The diseases illustrated in this game are carefully researched examples of what are routinely encountered by farm animal veterinarians," said Nampa, Idaho-based veterinarian, Dr. Danielle Wehr. "Young animal lovers and anyone with an interest in medicine or science will love this game."

"We sifted through hundreds of scenarios, and a staggering amount of energy has gone into perfecting each detail of the cases," said Ryan Modjeski, the Farm Vet producer at Legacy Interactive.

Playing the Part of Farm Vet
In Farm Vet, the player character is a young teenager who has taken a job on a farm run by the local veterinarian. The player is challenged with building a thriving, healthy farm and treating enough animal cases to become a full-fledged vet, through the tutelage of the owner and the player's mentor. Players are free to explore and move around the real-time 3D farm environment as they heal sick animals, play fun farm-themed mini-games such as milking, horseback riding and egg collecting, as well as playing with and providing overall care for the animals. As the player gains confidence and has a few cases under their belt, the world expands to include more locations and new mini-games. If each level is completed successfully, the player receives promotions and eventually assumes full control of the farm.

Pricing and Availability
Farm Vet is available now for download at Legacy Interactive's online game channel at LegacyGames.com for $19.95, and is rated E-10+. Legacy plans to launch a boxed retail version in February 2008 through Vivendi Games.

About Legacy Interactive
Legacy Interactive is a developer and publisher of casual games. Entertaining customers since 1998, the company has built a reputation for developing intelligent, realistic and engaging games for a broad audience. Located in Los Angeles, Legacy is well known for its TV-branded games, such as Law & Order and The Apprentice, as well as for its popular simulation games Pet Pals: Animal Doctor, Emergency Room and Zoo Vet. Through Legacy's online casual game portal at Legacy Games - Free Downloads, Free Online Games, Free PC Games, customers can download and try more than 500 casual games plus read and write reviews and share playlists of their favorite games. Legacy has ongoing distribution, marketing and content strategic partnerships with a number of companies, including Vivendi Games, Universal Studios, Ubisoft, Mindscape, Majesco Entertainment, and Scholastic. Legacy Interactive can be found on the Web at Legacy Interactive.

[Cintaria]

My sister wants to be a vet. She's been told she can't go to uni to study to be a vet, so she's applying to be a veteranary nurse so she can get lots of experience and move up the ladder that way. I think she'll like this game

[Detomah]

Originally Posted by Cintaria

My sister wants to be a vet. She's been told she can't go to uni to study to be a vet, so she's applying to be a veteranary nurse so she can get lots of experience and move up the ladder that way. I think she'll like this game

From someone who knows far more about the field of veterinary than anyone outside that line of work should ever know, courtesy of Robyn being a work obsessed veterinary nurse for the last 12 years...

If your sister becomes a veterinary nurse first, she will never move up the ladder to become a vet, it's something that would be impossible to achieve as to become a vet you need a completely different set of qualifications and it's impossible to do without doing the uni courses. To become a veterinary nurse is a lot lot easier, but still takes a lot of work and study and these days still requires going to uni to do the diploma, but the ladder doesn't actually go very far up as a vet nurse and about as far up as your likely to get is to become head veterinary nurse, or maybe specialising as a surgical nurse. Most veterinary nurses don't last in the trade past an age of around 30-35 for some reason.

If she's got her heart set on being a vet, she will have to go to uni one way or another and if she really wants it, she will not settle for being a vet nurse.

I'm pretty sure Robyn would love this game too, but I can see her being overly critical of any inaccuracy she would find in the game or veterinary techniques, so with that I aint gonna tell her about it and hope she doesn't find this post...