I suppose the ability to dress up rocks with pretty lights and makeshift ornaments is Sim-like, and even though the game doesn't specifically demand that you help people and accomplish objectives in a linear fashion, if you don't, you will just sit around doing nothing until you or your Sim dies of boredom. In an odd sense, the game is fairly linear since the standard Sims elements are absent (house, job, etc.), and progression can only really occur by helping people in order to get new items that can help you explore the island or decorate your shelter. You weren't the only one with less common sense than a dish cloth, as others have also accidentally washed up, so you start to build a society around helping people get food, building shelters and essentially keeping yourself happy. The concept is simple, mainly due to expositions being a trial to narrate because Sims sound like babbling mental patients when they talk, and most gamers aren't fluent in 'crazy.' Your Sim is knocked into a crate, put on a cargo vessel that encounters a storm and washes up on the shores of a mysterious tropical island. As a result, Castaway for the NDS may not be a good selection for Sims veterans. Thankfully, the title actually lands in new territory for the Sims, although it introduces the problem of altering the franchise's tried-and-true formula to bring some variation to the gameplay.

As the Superstar expansion pack coincided with the success of 'American Idol' and its UK equivalent, 'X Factor,' it was with dread that I imagined the latest stand-alone game, The Sims 2: Castaway, would be a 'Survivor' knock-off. The Sims have had what can charitably be described as 'interesting' lives: They've been pet owners, movie stars, millionaires, rock stars and been on more vacations than most Hollywood actors.

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