The Ship

by 2K Games

Product Features

• Explore and investigate as you plan your attack -- uncover every inch of the beautifully crafted decking and highly polished interactive environments
• Use your wits to uncover the Ship's secrets, and use them to your advantage - Extra weapons, hidden rooms, passages and tunnels, environmental traps - they're all wiating to be used
• Life simulation elements, including food, sleep and social interaction

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000OGXJZI
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: April 2, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,192 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

The Ship traditional first and third person gameplay with a Sims-style day-to-day needs system. You're on board a Ship to play a deadly cat-and-mouse game. Each player is given the name of one of the other contestants on-board and must hunt them down and kill them with any weapon they can find. You must do this while avoiding capture by security, or being killed by the person hunting you. Depending on the game mode, the winner is either the last hunter alive or the one with the most money in his bank account.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars love it!, April 25, 2007

By 

J. Johnson (Herndon, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: The Ship (Video Game)

I bought this game for myself, but my son has taken it over (in the same way that my 15 y.o. daughter took over The Sims when I used to play it). He absolutely loves it. He said he would give it a "5" on all counts. He has no trouble meeting his Sims-like needs while moving around the ship and trying to kill his prey without someone else killing him. He has now moved to playing the game online with other players of The Ship, often winning. I, on the other hand, am still trying to learn how to maneuver my character and pull weapons to kill my prey without being seen by a witness. If seen, the police arrest you and throw you into the brig for a very short period of time. Even though I am not as adept at the game as my son, I still enjoy exploring the ship (one of several) to find weapons, buy clothes and food, etc. For only $20, I think it's a very entertaining game!

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Comparing it to Sims is an insult to Sims games., September 4, 2007

By 

Sam I Am (Buffalo, NY United States) - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: The Ship (Video Game)

I'm still just playing the single player version, which is supposed to get me ready for on-line play. I can understand that, it takes awhile to figure out where you're going, where to find things to meet your needs, etc.

There are 2 things I absolutely hate about this game. First, fulfilling your "needs" is ridiculous. You spend 90% of your time doing that. I wouldn't have minded 3 or 4 needs, and only if it didn't take so long to fill them. Why can't you sit in a chair (which fills the "rest" need)
AND read your book (fills entertainment need) - doing two at the same time? No, you have to sit or lay down, wait about 30 seconds, then pick up your book and read for 30 seconds. By then, it's time to eat again. Eat, and soon you'll need a bathroom break. Don't forget to wash hands.

If you have to go from one deck to another, by the time you get where you want to go, half your needs need to be refilled. Imagine how frustrated I was when, after completing a difficult kill, I turned into a pile of dust and died because I couldn't find a bag of chips or something to eat. Die, start over. This is boring.

The other thing I hate is that you can't save when you want. I'm not very far into the game yet, and my character is getting "assignments" from a bartender. Bartender tells him who to follow, kill and rob, and we split the money. I managed to do the first 4 (after several tries). On my fifth victim, I keep getting arrested as soon as I pull out a weapon. Then I realized the display is indicating someone is watching. It's clearly a glitch, because I'm absolutely positive there is no one around. I even gave up on killing my target, and wandered all over the ship, went to my cabin, etc. Witness indicator stillon. Have to start all over with victim #1. This stinks.

There is one thing I LIKE about the game. When you kill someone, regardless of the weapon, the sound effects are awesome. The victim is silent, but very cool "thwack" noises and such.

If I can clear my eyewitness glitch, I'll keep playing. Hopefully it will get better. But I'm starting to think I'll be completely bored by the time I'd normally be ready to try it on line. The game could have been better if instead of fulfilling needs, the developers came up with something less annoying to keep people moving about. We could have been searching harder for weapons, money, anything for bonus points or whatever. Overall, I wouldn't recommend this game.

5.0 out of 5 stars Set sail for mayhem, May 24, 2010

By 

Matthew Lee (Evansville, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: The Ship (Video Game)

The Ship is primarily an online game. It comes with a single player mode (if bought on Steam will be separate than multiplayer) and a tutorial to help you learn the basics. The single player has you go through a series of "missions" which help you in your overall goal of escaping the ship. The multiplayer has several modes, arcade and server play. The arcade is just you vs AI and as you may have guessed server play puts you against real players and possibly AI (depending on the hosts preferences)

The selection of ships in the multiplyer is vast and creative. There are a few luxurious liners as well as a paddle-boat, a Japanese ship and dock, and even an ice cutter. The maps are beautiful and the music is great.

Weapon selection is vast as well. Anything from a revolver to a pincushion can be used (the more creative you get the more money you could win at the end of the round)

Overall this game is real good. You have to take care of yourself while hunting your prey and if you can not get them but still survive the round that is good enough. Worth he money, although I would recommend buying the game through Steam as it will be easier to transfer between computers.