When moving your Sim from one island region to another, the camera always resets to the default position. Overall, I found controls to be well-assigned and easy to use, although the camera control was lacking. Although not exceptional, the music and in-game sound effects work well to support the player's immersion into the story line. Unlike a lot of other titles, weather is used as more than just a visual effect in Castaway you will want to build a shelter to protect yourself and your possessions from deterioration. The often-busy visuals in Castaway are fairly decent and are reasonably easy on the eyes, although some of the smaller objects (coconuts, bananas, shells) will have you squinting a bit or waiting for the identification bubble to appear. Unfortunately, Castaway is only a single-player game, so don't expect to find any multiplayer or Wi-Fi options. You can even learn advanced skills, such as farming and playing music. In the process, you'll learn to construct tools, shelters, clothes and even furniture.
Although you will have numerous goals and tasks to accomplish, your main objective will be to find a way to be rescued. After addressing the more important aspects of survival - such as finding food, clothing and shelter - you will slowly start to improve your situation by trying to locate your missing friends.
As the story unfolds, your Sim and friends are out enjoying a day of sailing when they encounter an unexpected squall that ends with your Sim waking up alone on an unknown island.
THE SIMS 2 CASTAWAY PSP
Developers really need to pull their fingers out with Wii graphics – I appreciate that the console is somewhere in the middle between 360 and PS2 but simply porting across PS2 graphics because it’s “easy” is unacceptable and starting to get on my nerves.The Sims 2: Castaway is the latest title from the wildly popular Sims franchise to reach the PSP handheld. I haven’t seen other consoles running this game yet but I’d hazard that none of them have outstanding graphics. Everything is horribly bland, the textures lack any real detail and the Sims have no emotion whatsoever. In fact I’m pretty sure some Game & Watch titles boasted better graphics than this game. I have been balancing playing this game with Metroid Prime 3: Corruption and well – to say that Castaway looks like a bad Dreamcast game is possibly an understatement. Graphically Castaway is nothing short of appalling. On saying that however I know that this type of gameplay is NOT everyone’s cup of tea and therefore if you are aware that collect ‘em up’s drive you mad then steer well clear of this one. The more you explore, the more you earn, the more you earn the better you feel and the more you want to explore. What’s nice about Castaway is the way in which it feels rewarding.
It’s also important mentioning at this stage (before I forget) that accessing inventory’s and maps can take a horrendously long amount of loading time – which is disappointing considering I’d grown to somewhat forget about loading times as they pass unnoticed in most games. As I write down the control scheme it sounds kind of fluid and kind of good – but playing is totally different to describing and for some reason the movement of your Sim is a little stubborn and also selecting tasks for your Sim to do can be a little fiddly. Pointing the cursor at the screen revels all your Sims “happiness” levels (does he need the toilet? How hungry is he? Etc.) aswell as quick access to your inventory and maps. You move your Sim with the nunchuck and then execute tasks by either pressing the Z button – or using a cursor controlled by the remote and pressing the A button. The game plays differently to other Sim titles – opting for a kind of third person adventure control mechanism as opposed to the traditional “point and click”. For me this was a nice introduction into the game because I’ve always found it a bit overwhelming having to deal with a family of Sims all in one go so it’s nice to get a few hours play into the game before you are having to deal with a horde of characters. What’s interesting about Castaway is you start the game with only one character – it is one of your tasks to find the rest of your crew.
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