Get your stuff on.

An expansion pack that expands the definition

As someone whose only experience with The Sims before playing this game was watching my dad play Sim City fifteen years ago, I’d have to say it’s not that bad. At first I was reluctant to play it because I found the premise, for lack of a better word, stupid. Why would I try to control the life of some pretend character when I can barely control my own? As the game went on, however, I found it to be pretty entertaining. There’s an odd kind of power one feels when controlling all aspects of someone’s life, even if said someone is a cartoon on your computer screen. The Sims: Castaway Stories, made by Aspyr, has two scenarios. The first scenario I played was Shipwrecked and Single. In this version, you are on a singles cruise when your ship sinks and you are washed up on a beach. The game is in story mode and gives you goals and objectives, which you must accomplish before you can move forward in the game. Sounds good so far, right? Well, unless you are really terrible at figuring things out, this game is way too easy. Having never played any version of “The...