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Ubisoft Announces Catz

by Steven Rodriguez - March 2, 2006, 10:44 pm EST
Total comments: 14 Source: Press Release

Not content with just the Dogz, Ubi gives cat lovers an option on the GBA.

UBISOFT TO PUBLISH CATZ® VIDEO GAME EXCLUSIVELY FOR GAME BOY® ADVANCE

Game Boy Advance Owners Will Get Their Paws on the First Kitten Simulation Game in March 2006

SAN FRANCISCO –MARCH 2, 2006– Today Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest video game publishers, announced that it will unleash Catz®, the first kitten simulation game to be available exclusively for Nintendo’s Game Boy® Advance. As part of its licensing agreement with MTO Co., Ubisoft will distribute Catz worldwide in March 2006, with the exception of Japan. Catz carries an ESRB rating of “E" for Everyone and a MSRP of $29.99.

Catz is a pet simulation game that lets owners name, train and play with adorable kittens. Players adopt a customized kitten from one of thirteen different breeds. Gamers will earn their kitten’s love and loyalty by remembering to feed, groom or play with it. Toys and accessories can be purchased for the kitten from the in-game store. Kittens can communicate with their owners through a variety realistic sounds effects including purring and different types of meows.

“Ubisoft is pleased to bring the first kitten simulation game to the millions of Game Boy Advance owners around the world," said Tony Kee, vice president of marketing at Ubisoft. “Now there is a virtual option for cat lovers! We are confident players will enjoy caring for and watching their kittens grow."

Key Features:

• Adopt and raise a kitten of your own – earn points for excellent care.

• Thirteen breeds to choose from including Persian, Himalayan, Abyssinian, and the exotic Ocicat.

• Feed, groom, play with, cuddle, or shop for your cat. The way you raise your cat affects its personality.

• Listen carefully as your cat communicates with you through a variety of realistic sound effects, including purring and different types of meows.

• Use your allowance to buy toys and accessories for your cat at the at the store

• Visiting mode: By linking two Game Boy Advance systems, players can tour around the block to visit friends.

For more information and updates about Catz, please visit www.ubi.com.

Talkback

KDR_11kMarch 03, 2006

Catz is a pet simulation game that lets owners name, train and play with adorable kittens.

Or at least try to get the cat's attention while it continues eating the carpet without giving a damn about the user. With link cables you can share the joy of having a cat with other people, namely the cat will go from one system to another begging for food and at the end of the day everyone will swear that it is HIS cat.

Read Terry Pratchett's The Unadulterated Cat

Amazon's sponsored links gave me this while looking for the book:
Kittens
Huge selection of Kittens. Low prices, cheap shipping, secure.
www.MonsterMarketplace.com

UncleBobRichard Cook, Guest ContributorMarch 03, 2006

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Amazon's sponsored links gave me this while looking for the book:
Kittens
Huge selection of Kittens. Low prices, cheap shipping, secure.
www.MonsterMarketplace.com


That's... odd.

*edit* I couldn't really find any kittens, but I did find this....
The Cat-a-pult

KDR_11kMarch 03, 2006

In the french castle of William the Conqueror they said that attackers during a siege used their catapults to launch burning cats into the besieged city or castle, those that survived the impact would crawl into a niche to lick their wounds and because they were burning, that niche (often wood or hay) usually caught fire as a result.

UncleBobRichard Cook, Guest ContributorMarch 03, 2006

How would you get the cat to stay still long enough to launch? I'd think a burning cat would run around a bit...

*edit* From Wiki "There have even been recorded instances of beehives catapulted over castle walls."
Now that's just mean!

Smash_BrotherMarch 03, 2006

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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
In the french castle of William the Conqueror they said that attackers during a siege used their catapults to launch burning cats into the besieged city or castle, those that survived the impact would crawl into a niche to lick their wounds and because they were burning, that niche (often wood or hay) usually caught fire as a result.


Sounds inaccurate and inspired by cat-haters.

If the cat was still burning, it would not stop to lick its wounds, assuming it survived being flung over a wall at all.

Furthermore, if the cat didn't die from being lit on fire almost immediately, it would certainly be rendered immobile by the burning. If that didn't do it, the impact of being launched over a castle wall would kill the animal.

It's far more efficient to have archers fire arrows or launch globs of burning tar from catapults (which I know for a fact they DID do) then to have a bunch of cats being kept in a wagon with an army as they'd need to be fed to stay alive, would make noise keeping soldiers awake, etc.

Beehives are slightly more possible but the danger that some oaf would drop one while loading it would be too great to risk using them.

Like I said, burning tar is the way to go. It's like flinging a giant molotov cocktail because it goes EVERYWHERE on impact.

KDR_11kMarch 03, 2006

I don't think the cat itself was on fire. When Ghengis Khan used burning cats to set a town on fire he tied rags to their tails and ignited those. A catapulted cat would break its legs upon impact and be pretty immobile but still enough to crawl into a corner to die.

Archers have less range than a catapult. I suppose using animals only begins after the catapult crew runs out of ammo and looks for other things to throw. Often they launch corpses to cause disease in the city/castle but I suppose when they have a cat at hand they want to see a meowing projectile.

Infernal MonkeyMarch 04, 2006

Coming soon from the talented UbiSoft;

Bugz
Fizh
Horzez
Zpiderz

Smash_BrotherMarch 04, 2006

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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
I don't think the cat itself was on fire. When Ghengis Khan used burning cats to set a town on fire he tied rags to their tails and ignited those. A catapulted cat would break its legs upon impact and be pretty immobile but still enough to crawl into a corner to die.


I think the cat would die on impact, and I fail to see how an animal with 4 broken legs and a flaming tail would be any more likely to ensure that something is set on fire than a large glob of sticky flaming goo which covers everything it touches in an inextinguishable fire.

Corpses, yes. Heads of enemies, yes. These things disparage the enemy troops. I doubt, however, that cats would even have enough mass to clear the wall when flung. It sounds like too much effort for very little return, what with tying rags to cats tails, keeping the cats in the catapult before it's fired, hoping they clear the wall and hoping that the rag isn't extinguished from the velocity at which the cat would be flung.

When you flung a ball of burning tar, you GUARANTEED a fire because even if it never touched a flammable object, no one would be able to walk through where ever it landed until it either burned out or they dumped enough water on it.

I could see tying the rags to the cats tails and letting them run through a city, sure, but the whole point of that was that the cats would keep moving and drastically increased the chances of lighting fires as they went. Flinging them just doesn't seem as though it would have the same effect.

I think I'll write to the Mythbusters about this...

ShyGuyMarch 04, 2006

Corpses did more than disparage the enemy. Plague victims were thrown into besieged cities in the earliest form of germ warfare.

Flames_of_chaosLukasz Balicki, Staff AlumnusMarch 04, 2006

Remember kidz its only cool when people use z'z in place of s's. So these forumz aren't cool cause it they dont spell forums like "forumz"





made you look. And itz Ubizoft instead of Ubisoft

KDR_11kMarch 04, 2006

I think the cat would die on impact, and I fail to see how an animal with 4 broken legs and a flaming tail would be any more likely to ensure that something is set on fire than a large glob of sticky flaming goo which covers everything it touches in an inextinguishable fire.

Dunno what the French were thinking with that, maybe they were out of globs or they really launched cows and trojan rabbits at attackers.

DasmosMarch 05, 2006

They should have catapulted the cats higher. After they reach a terminal velocity cats relax more and are less prone to death and even bone breakages. Then they would be able to scatter off and set as much crap as they want on fire.

KnowsNothingMarch 05, 2006

Can't wait for Zlugz! it'd be more interesting than cats anyway oh ho ho

KDR_11kMarch 05, 2006

Turtlez would be the most interesting. Plus it doesn't need much in terms of AI, those pets are as stupid as bricks.

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