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Barbie Secret Agents

Games; Activities; Spy Squad Academy. Join the Spy Squad with Barbie, Renee and Teresa and earn your license to spy. Complete your missions by collecting gems and cracking codes to keep your heath meter up. But watch out for enemy robots, laser traps and oil slicks! Help secret agent Barbie catch a jewel thief; Decode puzzles and solve mysteries as you interact with many colorful characters Summary Short summary describing this game.

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Secret Agent Barbie is an Action-Adventure game for PC. Action GirlBarbie is called on by her good friend Theresa, who is a fashion designer planning her big show. A thief has stolen Theresa’s valuable designs, so Barbie, in pursuit of justice, travels the world searching for clues in hope of capturing the thief.

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Along the way, Barbie’s friends and teammates supply her with the gadgets, training and strategies needed to complete each mission.

This game provides examples of:

• Asian Store-Owner: Mrs. Tanaka. Apart from dye, what she's selling isn't made clear. Probably a downplayed trope, because her store is in Japan, where almost everyone is, well, Asian.
• Art Major Physics: Because putting on a translucent/transparent suit would really make you absolutely invisible from top to bottom.
• Backtracking: Though often areas you've visited will have changed, or some areas will be blocked off.
• But Thou Must!: The thief will always be suspiciously faster than you, and you must always let the thief get away.
• Camp Straight: Mr. Johnson is hinted to be one of these.
• Cool Plane: Barbie and her team have their own very large and very pink private jet, which acts as their primary mode of transportation, as well as their secret headquarters.

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• Culture Equals Costume: Averted in Brazil and France, but played straight just about everywhere else.
• Easing into the Adventure: Unless you skip it, the start of the game is Barbie doing some Virtual Training before receiving the call from Theresa.
• Equipment Reset Button: Barbie's inventory is changed each level so that she always has what she needs.
• Gadget Watches: Barbie uses a watch to communicate with her friends back at base while she’s on a mission. When it’s not being used in this way, it functions as a minimap/GPS device. Also see Super Wrist-Gadget below.
• Gateless Ghetto: The Egypt and Japan levels come to mind.
• The Ghost: Emille Vesante
• Goggles Do Something Unusual: One of Barbie’s gadgets is her Pink Vision Goggles, which help her to see coded messages within her environment.

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• The Guards Must Be Crazy: The security guards in all of the levels are easily distracted by Barbie's Robot Dog, fail to respond to loud alarms, and apparently fail to see Barbie even if she's about two feet away from them and stealthily rolling across the floor.They are very polite to Barbie if they do happen to spot her though.
• Improbable Weapon User: To call them weapons is a stretch, but Barbie's arsenal of gadgets consists of: a lipstick, a swingshot that's a wristband, a bottle of perfume, a robot puppy, a camera, some glasses and a compact of foundation that causes a huge cloud of smoke. Yeah.
• Instant 180-Degree Turn: The Guards.
• Instant Costume Change: Barbie performs these when changing among Stealth, Action and Adventure modes, sometimes in broad daylight, in a public area, while surrounded by a crowd. This is never mentioned or explained.
• Jet Pack: You can get one by typing JET whilst in action mode. It's a bit of a Scrappy Mechanic, though, as it's essentially just one long continuous jump when you hold down the space bar.
• Jump Physics: Action Mode, full stop.
• Invisibility Cloak: The thief stole Theresa’s designs in order to create a ‘Translucent Suit’, which is said to provide the wearer with near invisibility when worn.
• Laser Hallway: Frequently encountered by Barbie.
• Level Goal: Technically
• Limited Sound Effects: A lot of the guards sound the same.
• Modern Egypt: One of Barbie's many destinations. Others include:
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Some of the guards have an uncanny resemblance to a pixelated Ben Stiller.
• No Peripheral Vision: The guards seem to have this. In fact, you can see their exact field of vision on the minimap. You could be standing right next to one of the guards, but as long as you’re not in that vision field, you won’t get noticed.
• Now, Where Was I Going Again?: A particularly cruel example. You can save mid-mission and quit, but upon reloading your save, you have to start from the beginning of the mission again.
• Robot Dog: One of Barbie’s gadgets is a robot dog that looks suspiciously like a Poochie (the robotic toy dog from the Turn of the Millennium). It’s used to distract guards and reach small spaces where Barbie can’t fit.
• Run, Don't Walk: You can only run in Action Mode, you can only walk in Adventure Mode but you can only run once in Stealth Mode, otherwise you're reduced to sneaking.
• Saving the World: Or at least the economy
• Scripted Event: It's perfectly possible (with the aid of a cheat) to catch up to Camille when she's stolen the puzzle box, but you have to let her escape.
• Stealth-Based Game: At least a third of the time, Barbie is in ‘Stealth Mode’.
  • Stealth-Based Mission: There are lots of these.
• Stealth Expert: It’s hard to believe that Barbie can go by unnoticed in the highly colourful ‘Stealth Mode’ outfit that she wears, especially when she’s ‘stealthing’ in sparsely populated areas. This is, therefore, the only explanation.
• Stock Video Game Puzzle:
  • Enter Solution Here (the most common one)
• Stock Foreign Name: Tanaka is a relatively common Japanese surname.
• Stupidity Is the Only Option: In one mission, Barbie has to set up a trap for the main villain by using the MacGuffin she just got. Cue facepalming when the villain arrives, steals the MacGuffin and forces a futile chase after them.
• Supervillain Lair: The lair of the villain, the last mission of the game.
• Super Wrist-Gadget: The UI shows a bracelet along the bottom of the screen; each ‘link’ in the chain contains the icon for one of Barbie’s many gadgets. Since she doesn’t carry a bag or have anywhere else to store these items, it’s implied that she actuallykeeps them inside her bracelet.
• Tracking Device: Yet another of Barbie’s gadgets, this tracking device comes in the form of tracking perfume. Yeah…
• Video Game Settings:
  • Recurring Location
  • The Maze: Subverted in that you have a map and can see over the hedges.
• You Can't Thwart Stage One: Or two, three or four.

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Secret Agent Barbie is a far cry from GoldenEye or any of James Bond's other adventures, but for a fairly slick 3D escapade based on the classic girls' doll, it actually makes for an entertaining time. It's a licensed game much like Shrek 2 or Toy Story 2 but with Barbie instead and for the target audience it should provide some solid fun. You play the role of Barbie, who is currently in her role as fashion spy. Her mission, should she choose to accept it, is to travel the world, infiltrating fashion shows and the like to discover the truth behind rumors that someone is creating an invisibility suit. There are five locations around the world to visit, including Paris, New York and Rio, and there's a mission in each one which will help bring you closer to the solution. The game plays out a little like a junior version of Tomb Raider or Metal Gear Solid, with Barbie able to sneak around, leap on platforms and use special gadgets like a remote control puppy and pink vision glasses to help her out. It wouldn't be a Barbie game without lots of costumes to change into, but fortunately this one has you covered. As far as the audience for this goes, this is a jolly little romp. It's got enough innocuous action to keep young fans entertained, with some slick visuals and all the elements which make Barbie so popular. The game is perhaps a little on the short side, with only five main missions, but with the dressing up aspect and the good challenge level, this should last a fair amount of time. A good choice for younger gamers.