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Title: Imagine Teacher
Price: $29.99
System(s): DS
Release Date: August 12, 2008
Publisher (Developer): Ubisoft (Magic Pockets)
ESRB Rating: Everyone
Pros: Interesting concept, nice blend of educational gaming and simulation, multiplayer option
Cons: Incredibly easy, auto save only, short main adventure, no real replay value.
Overall Score: Two thumbs sideways, 70/100, C-, ** out of 5

Occasionally, Ubisoft’s Imagine line of games for girls will result in a game that isn’t half bad. Imagine Chef and Imagine Figure Skater are two of these titles and Imagine Teacher easily joins their ranks. It’s a decent game and, if more effort had been put in, it could have become a solid title that helped redeem the Imagine line of games.

Instead, Ubisoft and Magic Pocket copped-out with Imagine Teacher. It created an admirable classroom simulation, with an inventive presentation, then decided to slack off when it came to the storyline and replay value. Instead of being a game to buy, Imagine Teacher is an adequate game to rent…

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Those Imagine DS games must be doing really well. Ubisoft has announced that it is working on two new games that will become part of that series, Imagine Modern Dancer and Imagine Baby Club. Both games should be finished and in stores, ready for little girl’s DS units, by Fall 2008.

Imagine Modern Dancer was developed by Lexis Numérique and allows girls to become, well, modern dancers. In the Adventure Mode, players can learn 38 dances set to R&B, pop or techno and compete against 12 other in-game dancers.

Click through to learn about Imagine Baby Club...

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