Shipwrecked without homesickness

With the design of the character, appearance, clothing, etc. the game starts. The entire presentation is rather mediocre. No intro, only a photo-camera slideshow. The menus are designed clean, but sometimes a little confusing and the loading times a bit exhausting. The load times are quite long, moreover, in the game. Also saving takes time, probably because of the slightly more than 800KB required for the game. Throughout the brakes the games flow. Fortunately, you can use the card in the options menu for longer trips. The control of the hero is sometimes a bit strange and now and then he gets stuck somewhere and you can also get somewhere stuck annoying.

From Feeling ago the first game hours are the best. (I've only driven a Char - personally I prefer, though harder.) It has been nothing but toilet paper (grin) you wear a sleeping mat and his clothes straight in the body.

Quick helping a tutorial (which you do not have to play) to survive. Find food - said no problem at all on the island is and gather wood to make fire. The fire warms, allows the preparation of food and also makes it even more fun, and comfort can satisfy it. The needs are sequentially activated so that you can concentrate on what is important at the beginning.

Is built with plans that are executed via the menu or stand at a workbench available. This can be a little confusing at the beginning, as you now do not know exactly how / where you can build what / need. The plans are gradually, usually extended when reaching certain goals. Targets obtained from books that are sequentially activated and also provide guidance on what to do to get ahead. Where, for example, all targets can not be met without further ado to hunt a boar ... (Spoiler: To have to run after him and always introduce him / block the way to chase the).

Clothes can (must) also be prepared by the hikes to use this from. In the beginning it looks but rather by Tarzan from: o) but it's still nice.

The realism is otherwise in the game not as high as I had hoped. So our hero as can pack almost anything in your inventory he will / has, also for. Furniture. A radio transmitter runs permanently without power source and receives music (to which you can dance); far out to swim is not possible, are likely to be only 10-20 meters ....; our hero climbs trees ..... fish stocks dwindle not if you catch fish .... and otherwise the game is much too easy. It has to survive no problem at all on the island. If you want to starve because you have to give a lot of effort.

Positive in this sense, the beard, the clothes go to the broken and the materials used are always traceable. Except at the starting point (was at least for me so) there can be on the island storm with lots of rain.

The shipwreck feeling disappears at the latest when a dish is on a hardwood table, revolve around the flying and music playing in the background. This reminds me then but too much of the normal "Sims. In fact, you can build with hardwood pretty realistic furniture and so always sims more typical basically objects (Flamingo * lol *). But until then, it takes some time already. And you have these things Yes ... you can not build permanently survive in its bamboo frame and sleep on the floor)

Overall, does it make fun and you have a lot to explore and collect. Chimpanzees provide social contacts (if it does not the homemade Sandmann ....), you can create a couple of beds and all the fruits / raw materials that have been found to grow, you can keep chickens (egg production) and can be a lot of building (eg bamboo frame to Bungalow), objects (light source, rattle ...) and tools to build ... there are innumerable fruits, plants, raw materials (clay, glass, brass, various woods and many more) all is fun and variety. But whether it is sufficient in the long run in order to have fun with the game I can not say. Surely I will play through the game more than once, only to see the behavior of several castaways themselves. You could say 40%, it is a Schiffbruchssimlulation to 60% but Sims typical. You build basically the normal world of the Sims to. Whether the so everyone likes I doubt times. But it is ultimately to each of us how he designed his life on the island and who does not want hardwood furniture does not have to build; o)

For the full price I would not buy it again, but for 20-30 it would be okay. We have certainly the best Sims for PS2. Funny, varied and extensive it is always and who like to have a SIM "is, it will enjoy and can have fun right who wants to be saved if he can lead the perfect life on the island;.? O) Lost Greetings! In this sense, a lot of fun !!!