Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #467 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2007-10-26
• Platform: Nintendo Wii

Amazon.co.uk Review

With still not a peep out of The Sims 3 on PC, Electronic Arts are certainly keen to keep reinventing the franchise on consoles. This all new game is not for the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 and, as you might guess from the name, involves you being shipwrecked on a desert island. The concept is basically the same as Konami’s Stranded Kids/Lost in Blue series although you start off completely alone with each of the different sims you create washed up on a different part of the island. Obviously your first task is to find something to eat and drink and a place to sleep, with the initial parts of the game recalling the early episodes of Lost (except without the smoke monster).

Soon enough you’re fashioning fish harpooning spears out of bits of bamboo, planting edible plants, weaving your own clothes and making giant tree houses and huts that would shame the average holiday camp. Most importantly you can train your very own monkey butlers to perform your every menial task for you (up to a point). Soon enough your fellow strandees turn up and the game’s more traditional social elements come into play as it becomes less Lost and more Survivor. Once you’re living in some degree of comfort you can then venture out and explore the island and try and find a way back to civilisation (or stay where you are – the game leaves it up to you). In fact it’s probably the most interesting thing to happen to The Sims in years.

Customer Reviews

REALLY FUN
this game is really fun
random and exciting levels
really good graphics
A well planned game
from harvetsing coconuts to
becoming friends with
a chimp!
This is a game you cant miss
out on
A +
5 Star *****

Hoping that it will get more exciting if I keep playing??...
I love the traditonal sims & sims 2 games but was not that blown away with this. The slow loading times are annoying but tolerable, it's the actual game play which involves endless gathering of food and resources that I found dissapointing.

I have not had the game for long so will persevere with it and hope it will get more interesting and fun as it progresses!! The fact that it's the most recent game I've bought but yet I'm more likely to play something else instead just in my opinion indicates that it is an average rather than amazing game. I would say rent it or buy it pre-owned as it isn't worth the New RRP.

Sims 2?
Having been a huge fan of the PC Sims2 series, I rushed to buy this when I bought my Wii.
i found the controls needed a bit of getting used to though this could have been more because the Wii was new to me, rather than the game.
It's entertaining, and I like castaway, my only gripe is it feels more like a sims1 game than sims2. The controls to design your sim crew are much more basic than I was expecting, and the range of clothing extremely limited. Sims cannot reproduce and never grow old (though can die by starvation etc.)
I just can't see myself playing this for very long.