Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #543 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2007-10-26
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Platform: Nintendo DS

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

The Sims 2: Castaway (Nintendo DS)
I've found this game very enjoyable. It was my first DS game and confirmed I'd made the right choice. I like all the little mini games - spear fishing, rod finishing, collecting bugs - and trying to find things, make things, grow things, etc. Its similar to the regular Sims format, although some differences, but it is nice to have an objective.

Very good, but will eventually being tiresome.
This is a good game, and provides many many hours of gameplay (I have played for 15 hours and have completed 75%), more than a lot of other games I have. It is fairly easy, but not so that you feel you are wasting your time. The challenge comes not in perfecting skills at fishing or bug catching, but being patient and waiting for what feels like hours until you have found that one rare item that will allow you to make that tool that will allow you to make this item to trade with this person, to allow you to continue with the game. It is an inventive game, and is set so you play it at your own pace, and there is no time restriction on any of it, although time does come into play, as there is day and night, where different things happen. Overall a very fun game, but you will eventually tire of it. However easy for children, and will provide many hours of fun.

Good......but a bit short
At first this game seems very good and quite challanging ,the graphics are impressive and the game flows quite well I would not recommend this for younger children as it is tricky in some places.However when the tasks are completed set by the other castaways there isn't much more to do so there is not much point of playing I would check out other ds games before buying as this game as it is very short.
So a ok game,but very short.