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The Sims 2: Castaway | 
| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy Used: $9.75
You Save: $10.24 (51%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 689
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.8 x 0.6
MPN: 15731
Model: 15734
UPC: 014633157345
EAN: 0014633157345
ASIN: B000QAY000
Release Date: October 22, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Help your Sims build a life from scratch after washing ashore on a deserted tropical island | | • | Build shelters, craft unique items, and discover useful treasures and ancient mysteries hidden deep within a diverse jungle environment | | • | Explore a variety of new environments--beaches, caves, lagoons, jungle, plains, and volcanic mountains | | • | Build a life in comfort on the island or find a way to escape back to civilization | | • | Control everything with the stylus, play music with the microphone and unique mini games |
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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. Special DS Features - Control everything with the stylus, Play music with the microphone and unique mini games, sucah as bug hunting, spear fishing and painting
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| Customer Reviews: Read 20 more reviews...
A Sims Survivor Story--Good, But Could've Been Better August 25, 2008
I love Sims games and couldn't wait to try Castaway after finally upgrading to DS. Well, the plot is unique and it was fun to play, but I think it could have been better than it was. The following are Pros, Cons, and a few ways I think would improve the game.
Pros:
----The main pro is that it is a Sims game and they are always fun to me.
----I like the plot. Your Sim falls off a platform while waving to a ship and lands into a crate which is carried through turbulent weather to a deserted island. You must find food, make shelters, and find objects to craft useful (and sometimes not too useful) things or to trade with the few other Sims who also managed to find their way to the island.
----It is easy to navigate from one area of the island to another. Once you find a place, it is added to the map and all you have to do is click on the location and you're there. Your survival guide is also easy to use. You can find an item you need to craft and it will list what you need to find to craft it.
----The food you eat affects different levels of physical needs which is a new feature.
----The spear fishing and rod fishing is fun.
----I like how you can collect different things and use them to craft new things; however, there is also a con to that.
Cons:
----There are a lot of items you can find and others you can craft, but many of the items are useless. A birthday cake? A flamingo? A jack-o-lantern? You can't put these items just anywhere, either. You can only place them where there are rocks. Most of these decorative items look silly outside on an island.
----It is an impersonal game which seems to be the trend with Sims games lately (i.e. Pets2). The background graphics are very nice, but you don't get close-ups of the Sims. There are only 4 other Sims on the island, but they're so small it's difficult to detect much personality. The herb grower wears a hat, the doctor seems lazy, the chef is aggressive and the student is a little quirky. That's about it. I really could care less if they liked my Sim or not. Communication is just in graphics, no words. Sims no longer have personalities like they did in Bustin' Out and The Urbz--even your own Sim seems boring. Plus, the other Sims are stationary. You can never bump into one in an unexpected place. They are always in the same place, awake or sleeping.
----The different clothes you can wear, as with many of the items you find, seem frivolous on the island. You don't have much of a relationship with the other Sims. Who are you dressing up for?
----The frequent rainstorms get to be really annoying.
----You can't save the game at any spot like on other games. You have to go to sleep first before you're given the option to save.
----The game is too short! My Sim found his way off the island after only finding about 50% of the items. What is my Sim to do now? Hang around to find the other useless things? What's the point?
The game would be better to me if it were longer and more items were used in the missions of the game. Plus, the intro to the game showed a journal. I thought that entries to the journal would be added after certain milestones of the game were reached, but it was not seen again. Why not incorporate the journal idea more? Have items be more useful, for example, putting the torches up could attract more supply planes. Maybe playing the radio or phonograph could attract the other Sims on the island (or, better yet, a party ship) to come over and dance. I'd definitely like better relationships with the other Sims. Have them move about the island and give them more personality. Once leaving the island, have a place for your Sim to go. Maybe bring things back to the island or take some of the other Sims off the island with you. Oh well. I can't wait to find out where the world of Sims on the DS goes next.
Good Game! July 2, 2008
The graphics aren't the best but its fun...really really fun to me anyway. But at this moment I am stumped, it is for maybe 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th graders?? I enjoy it though.
 Okay at first... June 19, 2008
I was really excited about getting this game after reading the enthusiastic reviews about it. I was not disapointed at first. The game had an incredible story to go along with it, and you learned to survive. But it was very annoying how you had to constantly fill your needs at the same time. Also, almost all the foods had a downside to them. For example, the food could increase your stomach but decrease your hygiene.
I had expected much moer from this game, and it could be much better.
 FUN!! June 18, 2008
I AM A SIMS ADDICT AND I LOVE THIS GAME!!THIS IS A GREAT GAME TO BUY IF YOUR AN ADDICT LIKE I AM!!I RECOMMEND THIS GAME!!!
 Not so fun. April 14, 2008
I love puzzles and I love Sims so from what I gathered from other reviewers (on Amazon and elsewhere), I figured this would be something I'd enjoy--despite some of the reviews being bad.
At first it was kind of fun, but then it became tediously boring. I will confess that I'm usually really bad about beating games: I think I've actually beat four or five in my lifetime--and I spent months (Zelda LTTP and OoT). I finished this game in about a day and a half and felt totally unsatisfied. It was really, very boring.
Fortunately, I sold mine in the marketplace and have since purchased the Zelda game--which has been very entertaining.
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