Dog's Life is an adventure developed by Frontier Developments, released 31 October 2003 on PlayStation 2.
What Dog's Life is
Dog's Life is an adventure game developed by Frontier Developments and released in 2003. It was published by Hip Games. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In Dog's Life you play Jake the puppy, as he explores the USA in an attempt to foil a fiendish plot. Miss Peaches doesn't like dogs, and sees them as a way of making money, by dog-napping Daisy the pedigree dog. The dog elements are closely integrated into the game - smells are indicated by lines of coloured smoke, emphasising a dog's acute sense of smell. Locating footprints is also done via this Smellovision mode. Tricks can be learnt, and used to win treats from humans. Jake must explore vast environments and interact with 15 breeds of dog. The aim is to get them onto his side, which is usually done by either having more bones than them, or winning a subgame against them. These are also…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Dog's Life holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 9 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Dog's Life launched on 31 October 2003, within three weeks of Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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