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Sorry Survivor Fan

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Let me say I LOVE the Survivor TV show. So Infogrames or whatever the heck they call themselves released this game, I eagerly bought it. Too bad I didn't realize the game was fun for about five minutes. The computer is inconsistent, pathetic, dumb, and downright boring to talk to. The "challenges" are easy, boring, and quite bland. Even the screenshots are misleading. You see a screen with everyone sitting around the campfire. I never ONCE saw that in the game, and I got to after the merge. What B.S! The advertisements are misleading- STAY AWAY FROM THIS GAME! Sorry Infogrames, you blew it.

One game...No Survivors

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

My wife is the "Survivor" freak and I got this game thinking it would get her involved with me and gamming (and the price was right at the time). Well she played it for like 20 minutes and the game never came up in conversation again. What a bad idea. In hind sight, the game publisher should have paid me to play the game and think I would have thrown it back at them.

AI is hard to get right in any game, but this game set a new standard in REALLY STUPID AI. While in camp mode, your supposed to walk around, conduct tasks, talk to tribe members and influence their decisions while making alliances. It never mattered what you did in camp, it made absolutly no difference in the rest of the game.

The challenges were just too stupid and repetative to list. You could make it to the end of this game in one sitting because winning immunity was that easy.

The graphics were terrible. The sound was terrible. Overall, just a terrible game. You will not surive this if you buy it.

I'll Survive... but this won't!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Secretly, I knew that they could never fully reproduce the intensity of the CBS tv series, but I had to be sure... I really wanted to like this game--having played it now, several times, I fail to see how that's possible.

The game is seperated into periods: a 'survival' period; a reward challenge period; another 'survival' period; and lastly, Tribal Council.

The Survival period is where the 'Interactive game' element comes into question. In a very poorly rendered Desert area, with trees that are so very flat, you'd think this was cell-shaded (we should be so lucky). At the opening you must 'scramble to find a role in the camp' proclaims the manual--I beg to differ. You must click one job you want to watch your 3-Dimensional blob they try to pass for a player do for you--the scramble is ridiculous--the computer selects jobs for the other players at a snail's pace, so you hardly need worry... not like having a job is that important to the gameplay anyway.

You now get to sit back for 3 minutes and watch your character wander around, catching invisible fish, and putting invisible twigs on the fire (during the blazing heat of the day, no less!), and you have no interaction whatsoever. Oh, sure, you CAN click on another player to talk to them, but you get canned responces that prove extremely useless in the grand scheme of things--here is a snippet of my conversation with Tina Wesson, winnder of Survivor: Outback:

Cody: What do you think of our alliance?
Tina: Our alliance is strong.
Cody: Who are you voting for at Tribal Council?
Tina: I'm not going to tell you.

As you can see, there is absolutely no AI to these characters at all, and even if you do have an 'alliance', don't be too shocked when you suddenly get voted out of the tribe, or if your 'alliance' all suddenly votes completely different from what you agreed--and trust me, this isn't a reality 'backstabbing' element either--it's just lazy programming.

Then there are challenges. reward challenges, first of all, are useless, because having a blanket or chocolate has no effect on your player whatsoever. The immunity challenges are repetitive and boring, all durative of the same 4 challenge types... it's a shame, too, because this is the only actual 'interactive' element to this game. And most just involved upping or lowering a stamina bar and watching your character move themself around.

It's a shame Infogrames was in such a rush to release this game, because they could have done so much better.

The tribe has spoken--this game stinks.

Was never able to play game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was never able to play the game. It would not load onto my computer. So it was a waste.

Not worth your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

For those of us with sanity.... this is the worst game ever. The horrible graphics- and when I mean horrible, I mean really, really, really, really, horrible, I mean, Playstation's Xenogears had better graphics then this does. Horrible interaction- mouse clicks and a space bar. You don't even get to type in what you wanna say... 100% boring...
As an avid player of Everquest (which is more surviver-like then this), this is the MOST BORING AND WORST game I ever played in my life.
To the person who gave it five stars... Are you even sane?? Was that sarcasim? Cause if it wasn't, I pray for your sanity...

Could have been better

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I am a big Survivor fan so when I saw this game on sale at a store I bought it right away. I was disapponited by the bad graphics, repettetive challenges, and the AI that does things at random. They will say "I think Colby is on Edge," and then I will ask "Do you want to vote Colby off?" and they will say "Colby seems fine to me." The only other bad part about this game is that you can only play in the Austrailian Outback, but you can still play as the people from the first Survivor. Overall I recommend this game to Survivor fans, but no one else.

Worst Game Ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is the worst. The only thing that is remotely fun about this game is some of the challenges. Other than that, I don't believe that interacting with computer characters using fabricated conversations was any fun. =(

ARE WE HAVING FUN YET?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The back of the box the game came in was really interesting and I couldn't wait to play the game. The fun ended there. This game is PURE TORTURE. I love Survivor but the only challenge of this game is downloading the game into your computer then trying to stay awake during the intensely tedious award and immunity challenges. It was clearly obvious this game had no prior product consumer testing - it was quickly rushed into the retail market for Holiday sales and is an unfair tribute to us die hard fans. Recall the item, revamp it, then send it back to us.

Too many problems

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought this for my kids, and they were happy, but when I go to install it, it won't work, you have to go online just to see if you can fix it, and there they have about 17 patch's that you have to download to make it work, then realize later that it wont work with my ATI video card!!! It also won't wook for vodoo cards. Don't bother with this game!!! It's not worth the problems.

Patience required

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Being a major Survivor fan, i was a bit disappointed. But since I am a major Survivor fan, I was able to cope with the slowness of the game. Patience is not included in the game - you need to supply the patience. The transitions between games are very slow and some challenges take almost an hour. Still, you get the feel of the TV show vaguely and it still deserves 3 stars.

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