The Magic School Bus Oceans for Nintendo DS

Players step into the driver’s seat of The Magic School Bus to unlock six levels of the ocean – each time transforming into a new marine vehicle. With seven games and nearly 200 ocean interactions, players engage in open exploration to navigate ocean areas and sea life. Players apply knowledge learned throughout the game to answer questions posted by everyone’s favorite teacher, Ms. Frizzle. As levels are unlocked, players can return to the bus to play additional games and to discover more than 100 facts and more than 100 sea animals. The game is being distributed by Cokem International.

Based on the best-selling Scholastic books written by Joanna Cole and illustrated by Bruce Degen, the series has over 58 million books in print worldwide. The Emmy award winning television show, sold in 39 countries, currently airs on Qubo in the United States in its 14th consecutive season. The Magic School Bus book app for iTunes debuted for the iPad™ earlier this year and was awarded 4 out of 4 stars by USA TODAY.com and an Editor’s Choice Award from The Children’s Technology Review. A live show entitled "The Magic School Bus Live: THE CLIMATE CHALLENGE" will launch later this year.

You’ll be able to pick up a copy of The Magic School Bus: Oceans this fall for $19.95, exclusively on the Nintendo DS. You can learn more about the game by heading on over to the Official Website.

Features

• Play open exploration games that allow you to navigate areas of the ocean and to select the sea life you wish to explore.
• Step into the driver’s seat of The Magic School Bus to unlock the six levels of the ocean—each time transforming into a new marine vehicle!
• Seven games with just under 200 ocean interactions that build an understanding of key science concepts.
• Apply knowledge learned throughout the game to answer fun questions posed by everyone’s favorite teacher—Ms. Frizzle!
• Discover over 100 facts and over 100 sea animals!
• Once ocean levels are unlocked, go back to the bus to travel between ocean levels, play more games, learn more science facts and discover new sea animals.

My Take on the Game
This was a fun, engaging and educational game. My kids have loved the Magic School Bus for some time so when I heard that it was going to be released for Nintendo DS, I knew that we had to jump on this. What I loved about the game was the number of games that were available. This game just keeps going and going. With over 200 games within it, I know that I have just touched the surface in the time that I have been playing it.

Beyond this though the graphics are fun and bring in the classic Magic School House artistic style that you know from the books! All-in-all this was a fun game and my daughters are now bugging me daily to play this game. Seeing how educational it is, I have no problem letting them!

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