Reviews for: Fever Frenzy

gracey's Review - August 31, 2007 - View all my reviews (7)

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Not another Diner Dash, for sure - but is it any good?

Although being considered a very experienced player of these type of games (Diner Dash is my favourite by far), this is my first review.

But I will get to the point: Is Fever Frenzy any good?

+ (Positive points)

1. At last, this is a different game! No more reastaurants, cafeterias, hair salons, or anything else. This time, you have to deal with patients, and this is a whole new experience!

2. This game is funny! The patients have all types of diseases, like "cow disease" and "mother goose pump disease" and you actually see them transforming from cows, horses, geese, and everything else, into people, right in front of you. When they are human and healthy again, you feel a huge sense of accomplishment.

3. There are many different levels, and many challenges to face. This game is not like "Sally's sallon", which is too easy and gets you bored right from the start. No, this time you have to match the colour of the beds, chase monkeys away from the patients, entertain them with music, toys and soft drinks, arrange their relative's visits and fix their broken bamboo beds.

(Negative points)

1. This game is TOO HARD! Given my experience in these games, i finished it in about 8 hours. Nevertheless, for the first time, I didn't manage to get an expert score! You would expect that this would feel challenging, but guess again: After replaying the levels again and again, I hardly ever get to have an expert score! I tried many different ways of doing things, but almost none of them worked! The thing gets worse in the jungle level, where everything is twistingly hard! In my opinion, we are not talking about a fun and challenging game, but a game that is "unfair" to the player.

2. It is unacceptable that you have to finish the game and then you can replay it, to achieve an expert score!

3. This game has huge loading times.

So, this is a new and brilliant idea. But how about being more realistic and less sadistic with the player?

This review has an average score of 4.5 - Based on 17 ratings
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motherofteresa's Review - August 26, 2007 - View all my reviews (7)

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This is NOT another Diner Dash

Well maybe...but on steroids.
Diner Dash is a FABULOUS game. It is challenging, but not overly so. Its fun and captivating.
Fever Frenzy is the same...but better.
The story is simple enough. You play a doctor, and you have to cure patients. How easy is that? You take the patient from the waiting room all the way to wellness nirvana with color bonus's and drink happiness.

The animation is clear, clean and cute. The developer had a good time making all the facial expressions and having the "disease" match the name. Mad Cow disease faces and scarecrow hay fever illustrations are extremely creative, as are the sound effects..too funny.
The game play is awesome and extremely challenging. In Diner Dash, you can complete each table with 5 or 6 clicks depending on what level you're on (seat, take order, bring food, take check, clean table). Fever Frenzy has at least double. Seriously. Well lets see...
1. Admit
2. Assign bed
3. Diagnose
4. Take prescription to pharmacy
5. Pick up prescription
6. Administer prescription
7. Discharge
8. Replace bed linens
9. Put linens in hamper

Ok... so maybe 9 steps. But that is also assuming the patient doesn't have 2 or more "outbreaks". Those that do require you to repeat steps 3, 4, and 5 again. Oh and did I mention when a "virus" invades the hospital you have to spray it? Add at least 3 more clicks...mulitply by 6 patients and thats a lot of clicks. Did I mention you are on a time limit? And thats as far as I've gotten so far. I'm anxious, yet terrified of whats coming next.

There are bonus to earn and upgrades to buy (move faster, diagnose faster, etc) but so far they are too expensive for me anyway. I completed the first couple of levels with ease, but find myself struggling with the 6 bed scenario. I have a good time playing the Diner Dash Trilogy and had little hope that this would be nothing more than the same game, different background.

I was totally wrong.

And for that I am glad.

This review has an average score of 3.7 - Based on 23 ratings
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sforsuper's Review - August 29, 2007 - View all my reviews (19)

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Good but not Great!

Well when i first saw the game i thought, cool, a diner dash game made into medicine. Then when i first play it was quite alright, the sounds bit annoying though..
Then when I get to a higher level it gets a little tougher and boring because you're just repeating steps..
The upgrades could have got more though..
The graphics are OK..
Loading time a bit slow compared to other games..
But you should try this game, it's fun to see new diseases appear when you slowly go into a higher level..
And it's quite challenging at parts..

This review has an average score of 3.7 - Based on 3 ratings
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khzheng's Review - August 26, 2007 - View all my reviews (48)

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been a doctor had never been so great

Been a full time doctor had never been so easy
The huge responsible of holding many patient life at your hand
But what wrong of trying out a game doctor with 2 character to play from?
No life and responsible that are too expensive to lose.
Thank for this,i had realize one of my great childhood dreams to become an irresponsible doctors.
Simply drag an interesting looking patient to checkup
then brought them to the sick bed and treat them when needed
Cleaning beds or doing a job in one row create combo for more penny.

The drink machine gave my patient some happiness,that what i like about it.
Upgrading the medicines and the skills to reach my final dreams was great and fun.

I understood that life isn't a game BUT life cannot go without this game.

This review has an average score of 3.6 - Based on 17 ratings
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romans11's Review - August 27, 2007 - View all my reviews (5)

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Frenzied but fun

As a big fan of the genre and a pre-med student, this game piqued my interest. I was not disappointed. With all the hair salons and restaurants out there, it was great to see something different. Definitely involved enough to keep you challenged, and funny enough to make you wonder what's coming next. Well worth checking out.

This review has an average score of 3.3 - Based on 4 ratings
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