To be fair, Castaway has a lot of the same features as The Sims series. If you don't mind doing some hunting and gathering, Castaway offers a unique new Sims experience. The console versions of the game never quite captured the zany, unpredictable nature of the original PC versions, which had superior artificial intelligence, but The Sims 2: Castaway comes the closest to presenting a fresh and enjoyable new experience.
But the series' unusual formula-which let you control the lives of little computer people as they ate, slept, found work, and formed relationships with other little computer people-launched a lengthy series of games on both the PC and consoles. It might not have been clear back in 2000 that The Sims would become the best-selling, multiplatform phenomenon it is today.
