Customer Reviews

Survivor: The Interactive Game

5 star:		(19)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(9)
2 star:		(19)
1 star:		(44)

 

 

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.

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.

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.

I was really excited to have this game come out! Being a big fan of the show, I eagerly anticipated the gaming experience of competing against tribes and within the tribe, and suffering through tribal councils. While this game delivers these things, I was less than impressed overall with this game.

It starts out really well with character creation. Choosing different traits of your character is essential to winning the game. I mistakenly shortsighted my strength for empthany, which was a mistake later on in the game. You can even put your own name into the show!

Then the game starts, and you go through Camp Time, a Reward Challenge, Immunity Challenge, and Tribal Council. One of the things you have to endure is painfully long uploads for each section. Maybe my PC is slow, but I actually took to reading a book between each event.

While the camp time was fun in chatting with people, the reward and immunity challenges were often difficult to manipulate. My team kept on losing them time after time, and after awhile, I was down to three members, and all of us very weak. Managing the fatigue and effort levels for the team members was painful and not fun at all. I did enjoy the graphics of Tribal Council, and the voting was fun, but it seemed not to connect to anything that I could tell.

I never made it to the merge because my PC crashed soon after, and I cannot now uninstall this game.

Overall, this has been a mixed gaming experience. I felt that the "Weakest Link" captures it's game much more effectively , but it's much easier to simlulate a close staged gameshow than a open air survival show. Maybe with a few tweaks, this game could be really what it needs to be.

I am a fan of the Survivor Series, but this game doesn't do it justice though it's not as bad as advertised. You have your choice of which tribe you want to be and which tribe you want to play against. You can either play as one of the Survivors from the TV show or you can make your own custom character. When the game starts, you see some pretty good shots that are from the TV show and you see the real characters when they go fo mail and stuff like that. But then the game gets a little tough too swallow. You have around 3 1/2 to 4 minutes to "talk" to the other characters. It's basically the same questions over and over. Then you have the reward challenge. Some of the challenges are Ok, but most are just stupid. After that, then you go back to "talking" again. Then you do the immunity challenge. If you lose, you vote someone off. There is no way to speed up any of these processes. You have to suffer through some very tedious and boring aspects of this game. The graphics of the characters and of the landscape around you aren't very good and the AI (artificial intelligence) in the game is horrible. I had 3 people in my tribe that I gave weak emotional energy to and talked bad about them and they still thought we had an alliance. A tribe member will say that you should watch yourself and you ask what have you heard and they say not much. That's it. And during the challenges, you can't even see what the other tribe scored or how close to winning they are in most of them. And the internet play, you might as well forget it. I thought it would be fun to play over the internet but because the game doesn't have anyone supporting it, it's nearly impossible find anyone playing it. Now, this game isn't a total waste as it was amusing for a short time and the price is respectable, but they should've put this game together alot better than they did. I'm dissapointed, but at least it amused me for a few hours.

I've waited till I played the game several times before writing my review. First, what I like about the game--
Some challenges are really good
The characters and graphics are lifelike and very good
I like the scenes from the show
Now the bad points--
1. There is no Pulau Tiga game, only the survivors from it. I thought there would be both the island and the outback.
2. Some challenges take all day. You have to control your characters stamina. So if you were Elisabeth or Colleen pushing a boulder you'd be lucky to even get close to winning compared to a stronger survivor.
3. The most dull part of the game is the survival period. I usually use the 3 minutes allotted to get a snack or take a bathroom break. Who wants to keep asking over and over the same questions they give you? You always get the same response.
4. They should have added a lot more challenges to the memory so you aren't always playing the same ones. A little variety goes a long way.
I'm a huge fan of the show so I had to get the game. I enjoy it, but when I'm playing it I just think of ways it could be better.
My advice is to read reviews or test the game before buying.

I am a huge fan of the show "Survivor and I couldn't wait to try the game. I was disapointed and frustrated with the effort involved with even getting this game to run on my PC. I even installed a new graphics card only to encounter more problems. After several hours of dedicated attempts to run the game I was finally successful, only to be dissapointed. The concept is good but I agree that the manufacturers rushed out an inferior product. After only playing a couple of games, I already feel like I have figured it out. The challenges feel drawn out and boring and the repetitious dialog is annoying.

I will say that the video footage is great and I enjoyed the graphic rendering of the actual characters. I gave this game 3 stars for the fact it is fun to see the television program in a game format, but it needs work. I would not recomend buying it until they work out some of the bugs.

This game is awful. I managed to get it (...) @ a department store. I installed it, un-installed it and then reinstalled it. I have a Pent. 4, 1.7 GHz, 256 Ram, 64Mb Video Card, the latest Direct X, etc.. You know what I'm saying. I think I managed to get the game squared away now. I went way down to like 640 X something screen resolution, 64 colors or something, and reduced my video accelerator to average setting. It's the worst game I've seen in years. I'm glad I got it working now, but it's barely worth it.

If you're a "Survivor" fan and are considering buying this game, pay close attention to the bad reviews posted here. They are all accurate. In the "survival" and "challenge" sections, I can't even get my cursor to work properly, which is somewhat frustrating since I bought the game with the intention of actually playing it. Plus, each section of the game takes at least a minute to download so most of the time you find yourself sitting there waiting to play. And even if you manage to create an "alliance" with some of the other characters, they are just as likely to vote you off anyway. The challenges themselves are less interesting than any run-of-the-mill arcade game from the 80's. All in all, this is the worst piece of dreck I ever purchased for my computer.

I should have read these reviews before buying it myself. Coulda saved myself 20 bucks. I totally agree with what the other reviewers have to say. It's tedious, the AI is repetitive and does not seem to have any effect on the voting, gameplay is horrible and with the exception of the trivia, the challenges were long and boring. You can tell this game was rushed out to capitalize on the remaining popularity of the show. Buy at your own risk....you've been warned, I tells ya!