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Could keep me busy for days.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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.

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.

Great edition to sims games

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have enjoyed this game because it was unlike other sims games. It has brought me hours of fun trying to master the different skills on the island.

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!

A Good Sims Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I really liked how this Sims changed up the normal format and had you create almost all items used in the game, even your house. It wasn't without its glitches though. When I would go to build a new shelter, sometimes it would not let me build a section of wall. It did this usually when I would get tired while building the shelter. In the middle of building the wall my Sim would freak and want to go to bed. After that, I could never finish that section of wall. Also, the chimps don't wait nearly long enough when they bring you what they have collected for you. Half the time when I was in the middle of something and canceled my action to go to the chimp, it would take to long for my Sim to actually stop and go to the chimp. The chimp would leave with my stuff. Other than that, I really enjoyed the game and I recommend it to anyone who is a fan of the console Sims games.

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.

Question about rating

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My 8 year old was given this game for Christmas. It has a T rating. Crude humor and mild violence don't worry me but "Suggestive themes" does. He has his heart set on playing it but without me playing through the whole thing it is hard for me to tell what the reason for the T rating is. Can anyone who has played this let me know what they think about an 8 year old playing this game?

castaway sims 2

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Bought this for my daughter. She seems to be having fun with it, altho watching it, the graphics could be better. I was just wondering why it is only for game stations and not computer. but, that is ok with me too as it frees up the computer!

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.

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