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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $16.29
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New (18) Used (6) from $16.29
Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 894
Platform: Playstation2
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 15735
Model: 15735
UPC: 014633157352
EAN: 0014633157352
ASIN: B000QAVV6Q
Release Date: October 22, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Its an ok game May 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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. April 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 March 17, 2008
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. February 16, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
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 January 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
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