Game Type: Virtual Pets, Questing, Arcade, Dress-up and Blogging
Platforms: PC/MAC/Linux (Web browser and flash based)
Game Story: 5/10
Game Play: 9/10
Game Graphics: 7/10
Sounds/Music: 3/10
3D Graphics: N/A
Game Rating: E-10, some parental guidance suggested.
Game Flags: Alcohol, Fantasy Violence and Horror.
Overall Gaming Satisfaction: 10/10
Site Details:
The Marapets website is a web based game owned by a young English college student named Ian; released on August 15th, 2004. The artwork and graphics on the site are done by a member called Laimay. Marapets is a virtual pet site, with members totaling a bit over two million.
Based on the concept of "virtual pet gaming" and websites like Neopets, Marapets has its own non-animated virtual world map called Marada, virtual pets, shops and four different in-game currencies: Marapoints, Dukka Coins, Baspinar Points and Restock Points. The site also has its own flash games with marapets in them.
Marapets currently has 17 different worlds with many activities in them. It offers a wide range of entertaining and addictive activities such as quests, missions and temples. While fairies were not part of the world of Marada previously, they got introduced in August 2008.
Although built as a pet site originally, there are hundreds of unique activities users can engage on, not offered in other pet sites. The Temples and Goals are two of them, they are html based fun activities to do, and the first site to introduce "dolls" to portray the real life users of the site.
Cartoon Fantasy and Horror Depiction:
Marapets fairies are unlike the fairies that most people are familiar with. Apart from the body building fairy Gigantic Fairy which encourages players to exercise and be in shape, the fairies are mainly evil, gruesome, aggressive, and/or lazy. Some fairies love torturing marapets, like the Decapitating Fairy, who cuts the heads off marapets, and the Light Fairy who lives in the Sundial in the Lost City Of Simeria; who will kill your pet to turn it into a mummy. The Trash Fairy is an outcast, she is a lazy alcohol-drinker who lost her job due to her drinking, then comes the fugitive of Maradan justice, the Dukka Fairy who is a smuggler and a thief.
Yearly Activities:
Halloween, Easter, Christmas and Saint Valentines have a heavy influence in the activities on the site. Every year the Marapets Administration Team (MAT) release holiday relevant activities like: Undying Festival, Easter Egg Hunt, Advent Calendar, Pumpkin Hunt, Valentine Hearts Hunting, etc.
Community:
Marapets has a large community that takes part in Maramail and the Marapets forums. There are over 300 avatars to collect to show off in the forums. The Marapets forums are suitable for ages 13 and above, and users are prevented from access to the forums if they are not 13 or older.
The '''Adult Forum''' is another part of the community in Marapets, users must buy access with real life money as it is part of the ''Account Upgrades'' enhancements.
Account Upgrades:
These are an optional feature of the Marapets website. With them, you're given the chance to buy items to dress your doll, costume or enhance your pets, and improve your account. Account Upgrades are paid for in real life money. Some of the account upgrade benefits are items you can sell in your shop or trades for marapoints.
Marapets in the News:
A recent news report "Forbes:New Paths To Online Revenue" show that Americans purchased $127 million of miscellaneous goods, services and merchandise online in 2007, one of them being Marapets Upgrades; although the amount spent in Marapets alone is not mentioned.
Platforms: PC/MAC/Linux (Web browser and flash based)
Game Story: 5/10
Game Play: 9/10
Game Graphics: 7/10
Sounds/Music: 3/10
3D Graphics: N/A
Game Rating: E-10, some parental guidance suggested.
Game Flags: Alcohol, Fantasy Violence and Horror.
Overall Gaming Satisfaction: 10/10
Site Details:
The Marapets website is a web based game owned by a young English college student named Ian; released on August 15th, 2004. The artwork and graphics on the site are done by a member called Laimay. Marapets is a virtual pet site, with members totaling a bit over two million.
Based on the concept of "virtual pet gaming" and websites like Neopets, Marapets has its own non-animated virtual world map called Marada, virtual pets, shops and four different in-game currencies: Marapoints, Dukka Coins, Baspinar Points and Restock Points. The site also has its own flash games with marapets in them.
Marapets currently has 17 different worlds with many activities in them. It offers a wide range of entertaining and addictive activities such as quests, missions and temples. While fairies were not part of the world of Marada previously, they got introduced in August 2008.
Although built as a pet site originally, there are hundreds of unique activities users can engage on, not offered in other pet sites. The Temples and Goals are two of them, they are html based fun activities to do, and the first site to introduce "dolls" to portray the real life users of the site.
Cartoon Fantasy and Horror Depiction:
Marapets fairies are unlike the fairies that most people are familiar with. Apart from the body building fairy Gigantic Fairy which encourages players to exercise and be in shape, the fairies are mainly evil, gruesome, aggressive, and/or lazy. Some fairies love torturing marapets, like the Decapitating Fairy, who cuts the heads off marapets, and the Light Fairy who lives in the Sundial in the Lost City Of Simeria; who will kill your pet to turn it into a mummy. The Trash Fairy is an outcast, she is a lazy alcohol-drinker who lost her job due to her drinking, then comes the fugitive of Maradan justice, the Dukka Fairy who is a smuggler and a thief.
Yearly Activities:
Halloween, Easter, Christmas and Saint Valentines have a heavy influence in the activities on the site. Every year the Marapets Administration Team (MAT) release holiday relevant activities like: Undying Festival, Easter Egg Hunt, Advent Calendar, Pumpkin Hunt, Valentine Hearts Hunting, etc.
Community:
Marapets has a large community that takes part in Maramail and the Marapets forums. There are over 300 avatars to collect to show off in the forums. The Marapets forums are suitable for ages 13 and above, and users are prevented from access to the forums if they are not 13 or older.
The '''Adult Forum''' is another part of the community in Marapets, users must buy access with real life money as it is part of the ''Account Upgrades'' enhancements.
Account Upgrades:
These are an optional feature of the Marapets website. With them, you're given the chance to buy items to dress your doll, costume or enhance your pets, and improve your account. Account Upgrades are paid for in real life money. Some of the account upgrade benefits are items you can sell in your shop or trades for marapoints.
Marapets in the News:
A recent news report "Forbes:New Paths To Online Revenue" show that Americans purchased $127 million of miscellaneous goods, services and merchandise online in 2007, one of them being Marapets Upgrades; although the amount spent in Marapets alone is not mentioned.
