You'll also catch fish with a s pear, fashion clothing out of tropical leaves, and build primitive shelters and even rafts to explore the surrounding islands. To that end, you'll guide your characters to collect driftwood and other building materials, along with various wild fruits and vegetables to eat (some poisonous, some not).
Rather than build a small group to live the life of a nuclear family in the same house, you create a crew of castaways who end up shipwrecked on a tropical island and must make a new home for themselves a la Swiss Family Robinson. You create a custom "sim" character with certain vocational skills and personal needs (such as hunger, fatigue, and social interaction), but this new game takes a creative approach to the use of these features. To be fair, Castaway has a lot of the same features as The Sims series. Offering a more open-ended design than in previous Sims games on consoles, Castaway grants players the freedom to either live on the island or to escape to the familiarity and comforts of modern civilization.Ĭastaway might just be one of the best iterations of The Sims 2 on consoles yet. Dangers include wild pigs, storms, starvation, and other surprises. While the bulk of play involves gathering resources needed for survival, including fruits, shells, plants, wood, chickens, and other items, characters are encouraged to learn more about the islands and their inhabitants by venturing out into the unknown. If not properly cared for, characters can lose weight, wear out clothes, grow scraggly beards, and more.
Tasks range from making fires and acquiring tools to building structures and finding lost treasure.Īlong the way characters will learn new skills and gradually change in appearance. Specific goals to complete are documented in books strewn across beaches, jungles, caves, mountains, and other areas. After awakening on a deserted beach, your character (or party) must attempt to survive and eventually explore three adjacent islands. Players can create one to six characters, customizing their appearance, personality type, occupation, and more before setting sail, getting caught in a storm, and becoming shipwrecked on an uncharted island. The Sims franchise embarks on an island-themed adventure with The Sims 2: Castaway.
0 kommentar(er)
