From: Electronic Arts Average Rating: Binding: Video Game ESRB Age Rating: Teen Format: CD Label: Electronic Arts Model: 15735 Platform: PlayStation2 Release Date: October 22, 2007
Features:
Stay Alive! - Help your Sim meet basic needs to survive
Discover Diverse Islands - Explore a variety of new environments; beaches, caves, lagoons, jungle, plains and volcanic mountains
Craft Everything - Create a new life from scratch. Develop tools, build shelter, craft furniture, create clothing, and make art and entertainment
Gather and Collect - Gather fish, trap animals, raise plants, collect shells, scavenge and decode treasure maps
Flourish or Escape - Build a life comfort on the isalnd or find a way to escape back to civilization
Product Description: Help your Sims build a life from scratch after washing ashore on a deserted tropical island. Overcome the forces of nature to help them become the ultimate survivors and thrive in this undiscovered paradise while unearthing clues that will lead them back to civilization. Build shelters, craft unique items, and discover many useful treasures and ancient mysteries hidden deep within a diverse jungle environment filled with plants, fruits, and even wildlife. Your Sims change as they take on the challenges of island life and learn to survive in style. Create a new life for your Sims on an uncharted island in The Sim 2 Castaway.
This is not your child's videogame! This is by far the best videogame I have ever played. Your sim gets stranded on a deserted island and you must gather resources and skills to progress and keep yourself alive. The fun meter is off the scale! I like all the "work" you have to put into gathering resources, learning how to fish, surviving rainstorms, etc. Also, if you don't sleep or eat - you die! So there's a constant tension to stay on your toes.
Sims 2 Castaway has a tiny bit of a "Myst" quality to it, as well. You have to find all these clues to solve the puzzle - which I still haven't solved yet. I would like to see more of a merging of the "Myst" puzzle games with the "Sims" concept in the future.
Adult videogamers who aren't into blood, guts and gore, sports or Nascar, but still find a good video game intoxicating can sure use more games like this one!
Highly recommended!!!
Love it The Sims 2 Castaway is a fantastic game. It's really fun. The only issue I have with the game is that your main Sim's social bar goes down very quickly, and it's hard to get it back up again when you can only interact with monkeys. Other than that, it's definitely worth your time. The monkeys are hilarious, by the way.
Its an ok game Well i am a big SIMS 2 fan and since i already had the other games for ps2 well i decided to try the sims 2 cast away! What i loved about this game is that you can actually see your clothes getting dirty and old! see your hair getting longer and the menu to interact with other or decide what to do with, well is similar to the one in the pc game. You can talk to monkeys and name them once your relationship with them is strong and you can actually ask them to bring stuff for you... As the game goes on, you have to explore the islands in search of your crew ( if you have one maximum of 6) and as you climb or swim or build things you build up your skills. What i didnt like is that it takes forever to actually recognize all the fruits and plants on the island, that it takes a lot of material to build walls and everything else and if you want to destroy a wall or move it somewhere else you cant recuperate the material you used so it goes to waste. Sometimes you cant release all the passages in the game right away until you actually accomplish all the tasks in your book. There s a pretty big choice of furniture and all but i find that after a while, you just get bored of it or you re just tired of being lost on an island... i seriously prefer the sims 2 on ps2 than cast away. Dont get me wrong it is interesting for the fact that its an original game but you just get bored fast! Plus the graphics arent so great! It would of been even more interesting if you could of populate the island and make the island at the end a resort but i guess this is not a pc game and you have to save everything in a memory card so it needs a limit...
Could keep me busy for days. Hubby is the gamer in the house and I have seen a lot of games pass through our PS2, but this one is ALL MINE!! Originally, I bought it for him, but he wasn't into it because he couldn't win it in 3 or 4 sittings. He's the type of guy who will sit down and play it through and try to win it as fast as he can. This game is a lot more involved than that. You spend a lot of time collecting and gathering, which is quite relaxing. If I play this game late at night I find myself dozing off and it's not because it's boring... it's just a nice, slow-paced game. There are many goals you must accomplish which are established in books and journals that are found on the beaches. Your sim will find a lot of objects that will become useful.
To sum it up, you create your sim or group of sims (I think you can have up to six, but I only created two). You get thrown off your boat and stranded and you must find a way to survive on your own, find your crewmates, travel around the island, discover new islands (and treasures), and your goal is to eventually radio for help.
I have put MANY hours into it and I've made it to the third island, but still have a long way to go. I might suggest a strategy guide, although I have not used one. You can probably find a lot of valuable information via the internet. I would suggest renting this one to see if it's your cup of tea. I personally enjoy it a lot, but it's tricky. I haven't seen a reason why it couldn't be played by a kid (no bad content--correct me if I'm wrong) aside from the sims using the toilet, which is done behind a curtain and bathing, which is done in underwear with a blur over the private areas. You can get attacked by a pig, which startles you, but there is just a dust cloud, no blood... and if you don't take care of yourself you will die, but your other sims can bring you back to life with potion.
Great Game I love this game. I play it for hours. Some people are saying that the Sims computer games are better, but I honestly don't think so. This game allows you to create all different objects and items from trees and plants. It's really fun and you won't regret buying it.
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