Consumer Hands-On Evaluation

	Nothing is more powerful than hands-on experience by a consumer with a product when it is under evaluation. Based upon that fact we put a number of products we currently are slated to evaluate at the mercy of consumers in a hands-on evaluation where anything goes. The information to follow will explore the responses from the participants in our spontaneous hands-on consumer evaluation of the products available for their review.

In this evaluation event, it was so amusing when a little girl participating in our hands-on evaluation said, "Mommy, look at the little red stick men.  They're digging for me!" Her mom was a bit puzzled until she came over to the screen and saw the little red colored stick men busy with different tools, working on the dig site. Her mom replied to her daughter with "Oh my gosh, That's so cute!" On another vein of thought; as mentioned earlier in this summary, we never expected to see a father being petitioned by his son to let him have his turn playing with Roman Town again! This is the most perfect example of the appeal of the game, even for adults!

	Literally every parent gave the same response on their feedback forms about the popularity of the game.  They expressed how they were amazed to see so much information and have learned so much about archaeology.  As one parent expressed, "It was like going to an amusement park with so many things to see and do.  You want to get a yearly pass to keep coming back to enjoy more, both familiar and new things not yet experienced." As we were going over our feedback forms and all of the video tapes, we determined that Roman Town undoubtedly was a one of the favorites products the consumers were evaluating. Roman Town passed this segment of our evaluation without hindrance in any manner. Return to Top

A Sampling Of Our Evaluation Category Ratings

	The rating of a product is useless if you do not fully understand and comprehend how the ratings is reached or what the value of the rating represents. This need for clarity encouraged us to have this section titled "A Sampling Of Our Evaluation Category Ratings". To assist you in gaining a greater understanding of the evaluation category ratings we use, a small sampling of the individual category titles & rating scores from the complete product review itself for this product or service are featured here. The categories which have been selected to be featured in this evaluation report summary for public view, specify some of the primary points of how and why each specific rating score was reached.

	The Featured Category Ratings Sampling For This Evaluation Summary Are Listed Below:

	CONTENT QUALITY: Rating Level - [5] Roman Town pulls its weight in this category for CONTENT QUALITY. When you consider how it so effectively stimulated the attention of both the children and adults, it was clearly an excellent learning medium. Just as the very best PC video game products of the past which have made it into the ranks of products inducted here, Roman Town has a well balanced compilation of content to stimulate not just a child's mind, but their emotions as well. Roman Town provides a substantial contribution to critical and cognitive skill development which will encourage repetitive use, essential learning, and skill development. Roman Town stimulates critical skill development in a child in a rather subtle approach as they are being stimulated on multiple fronts simultaneously. The more a child experiences the game and applies what they are learning from the content on the screen, there is a constant level of further advancement in many of the most important areas of a child's developmental skills.  Roman Town pulls a perfect score of [5] in this category for CONTENT QUALITY.

	CRITICAL SKILL DEVELOPMENT: Rating Level - [5] Roman Town provides a substantial contribution to critical and cognitive skill development that sets it apart from many other products of similar nature. With the children multi-tasking by watching the illustrations and animations simultaneously, Roman Town contributes so much to a child's developmental skills that the word "substantial" doesn't even do it justice.  Roman Town is quite impressive in this evaluation category and pulls through with a perfects score of [5] in this category for CRITICAL SKILL DEVELOPMENT.

	EDUCATIONAL VALUE : Rating Level - [5] Roman Town really made a strong impression in this category for EDUCATIONAL VALUE. In all consumer hands-on evaluation as well as in-house and independent evaluation, Roman Town was seen as a source of creative stimulation which envelopes a child's experience on multiple levels. Roman Town establishes a clear-cut example of educational value with the different perspective of combining a vast wealth of information on Archaeology with use of a reciprocal teaching method. This engages the attention of the player fully with an absolute of stronger level of retention of what has been learned for future use in the game.  After discussion with our independent evaluators and in-house evaluators it was determined that Roman Town easily fulfills the standard educational demands that people are looking for in a educational PC game such as this. There are multiple perspectives with which to look at what is the definition of Roman Town's contribution to educational value. After reviewing all evaluation results and independent evaluator reports, Roman Town pulls a perfect score of [5] in this category for EDUCATIONAL VALUE.

	MARKETABILITY: Rating Level - [5] The marketability with Roman Town presented an interesting task to establish a fair and accurate final score. In the video tapes and what we witnessed personally in the hands-on evaluation segment, Roman Town proved its worth to us. The challenge that you have to face is that the corporate buyers are not always so detailed in their evaluations. Everything seems always to be in a rush. What this amounts to is that corporate buyers have more of a challenge determining which educational PC games are the best way to go. Well established branding of quality and effectiveness, as well as excellent marketing development is needed to take a product all the way to the top. Despite the challenge, after extended deliberation in our examining all reports, scores, and video tapes, Roman Town demonstrated it is the right elements to pull its weight in scoring in the category for MARKETABILITY. In our final tally of scores in the category for MARKETABILITY, Roman Town comes in with a well above perfect score of [5] in this evaluation category .

	RESPONSE LEVEL: Rating Level - [5] The response level for kids with Roman Town is pretty well what we all expected. There was no question in any manner that Roman Town captures the full attention of the children as intended and creates a clear and well defined response level of the highest level. The response level in all hands-on evaluations by children and family members were well beyond the norm and constant at all times. Children were literally engrossed in the imagery and interaction while putting it to task using the mouse to click, move, and respond simultaneously with their viewing the instructions or activity on the PC screen.. Roman Town pulls a perfect score of [5] in this category for RESPONSE LEVEL.

	OVERALL VISUAL APPEAL: Rating Level - [4] The visual appeal for Roman Town is far from lacking. The product packaging was quite captivating and the games content was such a perfect balance of labors and educational value. The colors and images draw the full attention of the target age group it is designed for while at the same time capturing the attention of the adults as well. Roman Town passed this category for VISUAL APPEAL with a perfect score of [5]. Return to Top Share This Information