Survivor: The Interactive Game

by Wizard Works

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005ME4Z
• Item Weight: 5 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: November 14, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (95 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,634 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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For the first time ever, the hit TV series Survivor has come to your PC. Play as any of the actual 32 Pulau Tiga and Australian Outback cast members or create your own character. Now you can put your skills to the test and see if you have what it takes to become the ultimate survivor.

Determine your role in the tribe by choosing from 10 essential survivor skills, such as field craft, fishing, and cooking. Form alliances and develop relationships with fellow tribe members, or choose to vote off competitors at the tribal council.

Learn the ins and outs of self-preservation from the interactive Survivor bush guide while you compete in 24 reward and immunity challenges. Play through a full-, half-, or short-season game. And once you're up to the challenge, compete against friends via LAN or the Internet.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I wanted to like this game, I really did..., November 26, 2001

By 

Brian M Johnson (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Survivor: The Interactive Game (CD-ROM)

This game could have been great. Based upon one of the most popular television shows of all time, it could have been very challenging and fun.

Forming alliances with other tribe members all the way through, voting off those who deserved it, making a place for yourself in the tribe, this all would have been a blast and a way to feel like you were on the show. Unfortunately, the game fails on so many levels it's pathetic.

The survival period is a joke. You just ask the same bland questions over and over again and the answers are totally random. The AI is ridiculous. Someone could tell you that your alliance is strong, and then say they are going to vote you off. Or you could go around to everyone in camp that you have a strong alliance with and agree with them to vote a certain player off, and they vote for someone else or even you. I was in the final four and had the strongest possible alliance rating with two of the tribe members, and what happens at tribal council? I get voted off. There is just no logic to this game whatsoever.

Most of the challenges are horrible. The only halfway interesting challenges are the trivia ones. The worst thing about the challenges is there are about 5 or 6 of the same shoot a slingshot at targets while you move along very slowly. It gets really annoying and tedious.

But what they really dropped the ball on here is multiplayer. I live in a college townhouse with LAN and one of my housemates and I attempted to play multiplayer. You don't even play the same game at the same time. You can't talk to each other during the survival period, it's just the computer in the other person's role. You don't do the challenges at the same time, a computer takes over for the other character, meaning someone could win immunity on the other player's challenge and a different person wins on yours. The only thing you do at the same time is vote, which is in the form of a horrible chat room interface.

Don't waste your money on this game. Hopefully future installments will actually be playable and fun.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Outwit, outplay, outlast, outta my CD-ROM drive, December 4, 2001

By 

David Wilson "RedBearCA" (Orange County, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Survivor: The Interactive Game (CD-ROM)

I had some pretty normal expectations of the game, since I knew it was going to be impossible to capture everything that the show has in a game. However, I wasn't expecting to be so utterly underwhelmed with the game as I am.

First, the graphics, with the exception of the players themselves, are uniformly bad. The sky, land, water, etc. all have Moire patterns, which doesn't exactly make me get into the game. Second, the games are repetitious. In team challenges, you are either playing a shooting game (which I kind of like, since they're at least somewhat challenging), a "throw this" type game, which, if it involves aim, is VERY hard to get the hang of, or a "test your might" type of game, where you control how hard someone's pushing, and how much effort they're giving. Really not all that involving.

The trivia games are slightly better, but not by much. And the maze games are unforgivably dumb...the controls suck, since you can't hold down the keys to make your characters move. Instead, you have to keep tapping them.

The "survivial periods" where you find out how the other players are thinking are also dull, and, as has been mentioned before, seemingly random. There's no definite clue as to how a computer AI character will vote, or how they really feel about you, so it's hard to judge if you're in trouble or not.

About the only thing I DID like is the fact that you can have teams from either season compete against the other teams, or you can set up random teams (although that can get disjointed, as the first time I did it, I had 7 men and Alicia on my team).

I haven't played the LAN/Internet version yet, but given what I've seen, it's a scary thought.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy this game YET, November 20, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Survivor: The Interactive Game (CD-ROM)

I would seriously wait till a 'patch' comes out to fix this game. It's got it's good points, but many bad points.

The 1st thing you do 'each episode' is walk around your camp (you can't control it), gathering wood, cooking, etc. this is your opportunity to chat with the other survivors. the conversation is canned, and after a few episodes, it gets really boring.

some of the challenges are ok, but most of them are bad. my buggy version had me pushing a boulder up a hill only to lose strength and I had to wait for the other team to beat me, which took 45 minutes. the graphics are 3d, but on my Celeron 866 they look worse than Doom, and it's pretty clunky.

The sound is good. Tribal council is anticlimactic, and the voting never made much sense.

This game is ONLY for the big fan of the show (like me). Anyone else will think it really bites.