Metacritic Games

Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue (Xbox)

Gallop the trails with Barbie as you search for and rescue wild horses missing from the stables! Get ready for your adventure by choosing your horse, riding tack and an outfit for Barbie. Then, ride through ten beautiful areas, jumping over fallen trees, crossing rickety bridges and more! You can even help Barbie dismount her horse and explore trails on foot. Finally, chase the horses, lasso them and return them to safety! [Vivendi Universal]

Vivendi Universal
Action, Adventure
Players: 2
E (Everyone)
Developer: Blitz Games
Released November 4, 2003

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

52 / 100

Critic Reviews

76 Team Xbox
It is true that there are some gameplay redundancies and a healthy amount of character interaction issues, but will a kid point to mommy and say “look at all of the clipping issues!”, or “look at all of the horseys!”?
70 Gamestyle
The game features enough levels and unlockable extras to keep the player engrossed for a long time; so Barbie and horse fans alike - male and female, young and old - will all get something out of this.
60 Xbox Nation Magazine
Riding feels "real"... In short, Barbie's first foray onto Xbox is not a stinker. [Dec/Jan 2004, p.100]
55 1UP
I couldn't bring myself to dislike this game, and even had more fun with it than certain other Xbox games of the recent past. And if I liked it, even a little bit, who knows if it won't be an even bigger hit with the people it was meant for?
40 IGN
If you want to buy a game for a young girl and she's nuts for Barbie, and I mean absolutely nuts, then this might be a way to keep her quiet for a few hours.
40 XGP Gaming
Okay, I know what many of you are sitting there reading this wondering. Why would an adult male play a game like this? Well I did it for you!