The Sims 2: Castaway
Castaway is the third console spin-off of the video game The Sims 2. The Sims Castaway Stories is a similar game created for personal computers. It is the final game in the series released for the PlayStation…
The Sims 2: Castaway is an adventure developed by The Sims Division, released 22 October 2007 on Wii and PlayStation 2.
What The Sims 2: Castaway is
The Sims 2: Castaway is an adventure game developed by The Sims Division and released in 2007. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Wii and PlayStation 2. It runs on The Sims 2 Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game begins on a boat after the player creates a crew of characters. The crew can consist of one to six Sims. After the crew's creation, a slide-show starts of some mobile phone pictures that are taken showing the trip and also showing the storm that wrecks the ship. The player's starting Sim wakes up on First Beach on Shipwreck Island. The Sim finds books detailing the goals the Sim must follow to survive on the islands and escape. Shortly after exploring Shipwreck Island, the Sim discovers a second island, Airplane Island, this one considerably larger and more interesting than the first, and builds a raft to reach the new location. After arriving on the island, the Sim is reunited…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Sims series
The Sims 2: Castaway is the 45th of 227 entries we hold in the The Sims series. The next entry was The Sims 2: Teen Style Stuff in 2007. Its critic score of 73 is almost exactly the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is The Sims 4: Parenthood at 90.
How it was received
The Sims 2: Castaway holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 44% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 9 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
A full completion run takes around 32.3 hrs.
What it launched against
The Sims 2: Castaway launched on 22 October 2007, within three weeks of Super Mario Galaxy, Portal, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and The Witcher. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Super Mario Galaxy, Portal, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, The Witcher.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Sims 2: Castaway yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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