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A New Twist on a Classic Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 33 / 37
Date: October 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I must admit this game is actually good. The onli problem I have is that it does not allow any others to join in, however you can create a crew of up to 6 people. The are various places to exlpore, new fashions to discover, and a journey to embark on. My favorite part is being able to make your clothes out of different tree leaves, vines, shells, and flowers. You can even create your own dye. Another fun part is going around "identifying" plants and trees. So far I have collected mangoes, blackberries, pineapples, starfruit, and a bunch of other items too. You can even get to build a sandbuddy to talk to to increase the stauts of your social bar, and if thats not good enuff why not talk to a monkey. But there is one thing that scares me, theres always this red parrot watching me while i sleep. lol CREEPY!

I highly reccommend this game. I evn got a migraine from playing it 3 days straight. Well I dont wanna give to much away, buy it and see for yourself, if you loved the classic Sims, you'll definatley enjoy this one.

Sims Fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 25 / 27
Date: November 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is the first Sims that I have bought for the Play Station 2. Our PC's can't hold anymore Sim expansions without over loading our computers. We are avid Sims players in our house and have loved the game since it first came out in the first format. We love Sims 2. The game play for the Play Station Platform is Fabulous. You can't go and create a new game for someone once you start though - you need separate memory cards. If someone comes a long and wants to play and create a new Sim, your old game will be erased - so make sure you get a card or two to go with it.

Game play is very cool. It's fun to explore the different areas of the island. You can build up your talents and inventory to be able to make rafts, shelters, and find new foods to cook over your fire. There are lots of things to unlock and lots of treasures to find. I love finding the message in a bottle.

If you create a crew, eventually you start to find your crew mates and that's cool too.

We got this for an early Christmas present to be able to play through the holidays and don't regret it! Super Fun - be prepared to loose a few hours with this enchanting game.

Castaway and no Tom Hanks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: November 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

this is an excellent sims game (and I am amazed I am saying this) most of the sims games have not enthused me with their gameplay
however we have a whole new game here and I have to say it's fun, it's a blast to play (although the repeated monkey hugging is a little....Odd) you can cusomize just about everything on your sim from glasses and watches to clothing, pants, shirt, and shoes. it is quite impressive but more impressive is how the game comes together and delivers a very fun experience.
Truly it's a blast when you Finally build your dwelling and have your fire going and truly anything can happen
(my 1st time in my sim caused a fire and after his bed burned up he went quite mad and would not listen it was hilarious!)
this is a game like simcity that I am sure many others will return to over and over.

Graphics: very good 4 stars

Sound: excellent 5 stars

gameplay: A Blast 5 stars!

Overall 5 stars because this is a brilliant game that anyone be they a fan or newcomer to the series can get into with a simple learning curve for non sims players entering for the first time. and more then enough for veterans of the series. truly a fun game.
Buy the Sims 2 Castaway here
The Sims 2: Castaway

**Playstation 2 review only.**

LOVE IT!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 27
Date: October 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I just got this game and it's fabulous! You can explore different places on the island, play and talk to chimpanzees and make your own crew! I love it and any Sims 2 lover should definitely buy it!

great game for girls

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: December 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

So many ps2 games are boy oriented. My daughter has found a games she loves! She also has the book that goes with it. I highly recommend getting the book. The main drawback, you can only save 1 player. Boy is my son bummed.

Absorbing fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: December 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game recently because I really love Sims games[[ASIN:B00QAVV6Q Sims 2 Castaway]], and I was not disapointed. I have spent many hours playing the game and I was totally absorbed in the fun of playing a Sims game the entire time that I was playing Sims 2 Castaway.

This game is a little different from the other Sims games on the consoles because of the premise of game is different than that of the other ones that have been previously released.

In this single player game you may have from 1-6 Sims that you are able to control. At the start where you are creating your Sims you are on a small boat. This is your crew and they will all become castaways on some deserted islands.

I would recomend that you have at least two Sims or your Sim will be really lonely and having up to six is better, since you will have more Sims to help get things done.

When the game begins you are alone on a deserted island and there are a series of goals to accomplish, to start with it is surviving on your own. This is because for a good part of the early game you have one Sim by herself. Later you will be reunited with the rest of your crew, but until then you need to survive.

The goals are not particularly difficult and they add interest and fun to the game since the goals are an integral part of the premise to the game.

I feel that the game has a lot of replay value and I certainly intend to play the game again after playing it twice so far.

Addicted to this game!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am a newcomer in the world of Sims. Many years ago I tried Sim City on my old PC and was not impressed with it and haven't tried a Sims game since, until now... I just purchased a new Playstation 3. Game selections are minimal for PS3 as of yet however if you get the newest one with the largest harddrive, you'll have one that will also allow you to play PS2 games. So I thought I would give this game a try. OH MY!

From the moment I put this game in my system, I was addicted. This game is wonderful from beginning to end. The best game I have ever played. From creating your Sims, (I created all six) to escaping from the island and there are actually several ways to escape the island. I have escaped twice already and went back to live on the island because I wanted to complete all the tasks, which I have now done and continue to live on the island because well heck.. I just love living on the island and I don't want this wonderful adventure to be over with. This game is jam packed with adventure, treasure hunting, building skills, and survival skills. And if you think you might go to bed..lo and behold.. you find yet another entrance to another place to travel and explore. I love it so much that I have ordered every Sims game that I can find. I would highly recommend this game but be prepared to lose a lot of real life time. A few thoughts that may be helpful.. I have read some reviews about the fact that you have to use several memory cards to save this game, if it's possible for you to upgrade to the newest PS3, you can save the game on the harddrive and no memory cards are needed and your gameplay is endless. Not sure but you may be able to save more than one game so others can start new games without you losing yours. My biggest disappointment with the game is the limit on things that you can build in one location and the fires, I have learned how to deal with the fires though, simply build an outhouse and get rid of the firepit, that cuts way down on the number of fires that get started.
I personally recommend this game for ages 13+.
Graphics - 4 stars
Sound - 5 stars
Gameplay - 5 stars
Hope you find this helpful.

Get Lost--in playing!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: January 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have never had so much fun playing a video game! You earn skills in new and unique ways and you learn to survive. I got lost in playing on the first day--I played for over an hour!! I also have the strategy guide to go with it, so I have a guide to help me when I get stuck! The graphics are amazing--I don't know where people get off saying that they are not good...This is one game that I am not sorry that I purchased!

Classic Sims Play =)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: November 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing this on my husband's PS3. I was disappointed to find that you couldn't procreate with your crew lol. How am I supposed to populate the island? I "succeeded" in escaping the island after only one very long day of gameplay, but I chose not to leave and stayed back to hopefully get 100% goal completion. I still haven't accomplished this =) It's a fun game, but I can't help think they could have left it a little more open to extend island life with children of the "survivors" =D You should definately get it if you enjoy the SIMS!

Like it. Too disapointed to love it.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Except for Crystal Island, the islands are beautiful. Enjoyed the island music. The only natives on the one for PlayStation 2 are the chimps. There is a white box or space beneath each crew members picture when you are viewing relationships in personal info, as if there is supose to be a bio, but the bio's are missing. We are not given the option of writing bios when creating or editing our crew members. So why that white space is here under our sims picture is a mystery. There is nothing to make note of a change in the relationship with crew members other than the blue and green face which indicates if they're friend or best friend. There is no heart or rings after a sim becomes engaged or married, it is the same as before the proposal was accepted. There are instruments to be made and played, but other crew members can't raise their fun levels by listening to the music or dancing. Can only dance to the radio after finding it. Social Interactions with other crew members are lacking, and disapointing. Many of the interactions that we are use to, and have always assumed would be in later sims games -like flirt- are missing. We are given a Wedding Beanie instead of a wedding wreath or crown. Doesn't look bad on a female sim, but on a male sim? A Beanie on a male sim? Could he look any geekier? The Fortified Campfire causes fires no matter how much space you have, how often you collect the ashes, even when there is nothing like -food- set near it. DO NOT use the Fortified Campfire, it can't be removed after you build it, and you're constantly putting out fires then sending your sims into the water to raise their hygiene. It's a glitch that should have been caught and fixed before the game was released. The S.O.S. rescue scene was disapointing, but maybe the Boat rescue scene is better -I'm playing a second time to find out.

I loved the clothing -though I would have liked more clothing options while creating my sims- and the music and chimps. My sims hugging chimps, cute!! All of the islands are beautiful, except for Crystal Island. The treasure is disapointing. I'm not going to spoil it for you by telling you what's in Beard's Beard's treasure chest, but if you're expecting gold and jewels, something very valuable like that (after all it's a pirates treasure chest), you WILL be disapointed.

This game is about survival and rescue, so I understand why the sims cannot have children while they are learning how to survive on a deserted island and trying to get rescued. BUT (Spoiler-sorry) after rescue your sim is given a choice of whether they wish to continue on the island. You've just won the game (you were rescued), you've chosen to live on the island, meaning you're a native of the island. If you think that now your sim will be able to have children, your wrong. You can't create teenagers, and your adult sims cannot have children even after they are rescued and choose to live their life on the island. Maybe it's different with the pc version. I hope so.

BUT I love that their clothing gets tattered so that the sims have to make new clothing which increases a very important skill. And their hair grows! Hopefully their hair growing will be in later sims games made after this, but I won't hold my breath.

I know after reading my review, it sounds like I hate this game. I don't. I've been waiting for this game to come out ever since I heard that they were making it. I had very high hopes for this game. Maybe my expectations for this game was too high, I don't know. I like this game, it's worth buying and playing, but I am much too disapointed to love it. It's different enough from the previous sims games to buy, play and keep, BUT not as good as Sims In The City and Sims Bustin' Out. Sims Pets is also better than this one.

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