JPNor
Shared on Fri, 02/04/2011 - 09:34If I'm on your friends list, you've probably seen me playing an inordinate amount of the Toy Story 3 game the last couple weeks. To my delight, my son is following in my footsteps and loves video games. Also, just like his daddy, he plays them exhaustively up front and then tires of them after a short time.
The Toy Story 3 game is great - many of the levels are open-world environments that do not present much challenge to him. Despite the fact that he's actually really good with the Xbox controller, he is only 3 years old and doesn't fully understand the idea of missions in games; rather he enjoys exploring and interacting without being confined to a time limit or hazards that keep him from exploring and interacting. He also loves watching me play similar games - Wednesday night he really enjoyed watching Batman AA (yelling "We have to find Harley Quinn so we can kill her!").
I'm looking for recommendations for games where interaction and exploration are a big part of it. Granted, I just described Second Life but he's only 3 and besides, Second Life sucks goat dick. He also likes Mario but we've tried a couple Mario games (New Super Mario Brothers and an old kids SNES game rom I loaded onto my Linux Xbox), and neither of them were up his alley.
Anyone have young kids who are also just getting into games and can recommend anything? Xbox, PS3, or Wii.
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