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Camping and Survival: Wilderniss.

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from: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=1340

Wilderness is a unique survival adventure that may well be the most realistic simulation of its kind ever made, even decades after its release. The game casts you as an archaelogist in search of the Croesus status, rumored to be inside the Lost City of Gold. From the scene of where your plane crashed, you must trek into the wilderness, find the statue, and return alive.

Although Wilderness may appear to be just another parser-based interactive fiction, the player will soon discover that the game's astounding level of realism and detail more than qualifies it as a simulation. The game was designed by a team of real-life doctors, and it shows: right from the start, the game asks for your height, age, and heart rate-- all of which affect hundreds of factors, from stamina, speed, and resistance to disease. Every decision involved in real-life camping is modeled in this game. For instance, you must WEAR WOOL SOCKS during cold weather to prevent frostbite; PACK and CARRY supplies (each of which has a weight, and you can overburden yourself); MAKE various survival tools from available raw material, such as HUT (possible if tree limbs are nearby), or even TRAP to catch wild game; BOIL WATER gathered from questionable sources (all food spoils at 65 degrees Fahrenheit); USE SPLINT to treat broken legs or arms; and navigate by the stars at night. The list of options is virtually endless, and there are many random elements (storms, diseases etc.) that you must contend with. The game boasts a 300-word vocabulary, none of which is superfluous. The parser is robust enough to understand long sentences and respond appropriately.

Wilderness features "Panagraphics," a 3D graphics generating system that guarantees a new, random map each time you play. Those who prefer adventure games to realistic simulations can play in "Research Mode," in which you are no longer affected by burdensome parameters such as hunger, thirst, or illness. Overall, Wilderness is a complex simulation that is guaranteed to teach you a few things about real-life survival adventure. It may seem "dry" to some, but for those who crave realism in their games, there's no better survival game on the market. Thumbs up!
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anybody got an opinion on it?(besides that it aint real ..duhh)

so anybody ever tried this?
I did a couple of months ago. I chose the plane crash scenario and it went sorta like this:

first i took from the plane what i could carry, then i ran upto a mountain
there i got frostbite
then i ran off the mountain,
a bear ate all my food,
i made a bow from a tree and killed something to eat
then i was getting dehydrated
found a lake
ran out of food again, and found no bait to fish
was starving
ran up the mountain again
got dehydrated again and still starving
got frostbite
died up there on that mountain with frostbite, dehydration and starvation!

guess i shud have stayed off the damn mountain!! lol

as you can read, it was actually a fun thing to do, and i think about giving it another try,

maybe another climate, give desert or jungle a try :)
 
looks cool but it must be pretty old, made in 1984, like oregon trail old. I wonder how accurate they made it?
 
yeah, its actually a "retro-game"

but i dont think there are lots of survival sims made like this, so its delving a bit to find the good ones

the good thing about those kinda games is that they are all free for download and try
 
They need to

a) remake it for the 360
b) add zombies
 
This game is bad ass, wish I knew about it as a kid. It keeps locking up on me though, maybe it's cuz I'm on OSX. I could see a remake with tons of bells and whistles being pretty fun.
 
Cru, you played it aswell?

i'm about to go for my next try
Both the plane crash and the archeological expedition take place in the Sierra 3
Nevada mountain range; your journey can beexperienced at ten levels of difficulty.
You can extend the boundaries Of your expeditions to five additional
geographic locations- Bolivia, British Columbia, Burma, Chile, and New Guinea
-by purchasing supplemental disks (See the order form enclosed in this
package.)
In this adventure simulation, each day is a challenge. You must cope with basic
needs- food, water, shelter; you must deal with fife-threatening situationsdangerous
wildlife, tropical diseases, the harshness of the elements.
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but the other climates u need extra disks for it seems :/
 
Ok, I can't figure out how to play this dang game. I choose 1) and then I go to a screen with a crashed plane and a place to type. What am I supposed to type? Everything I typed, it responded with "What?", except when I typed 'I win' it brought me to somekind of inventory, then, of course I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to do from there.

Is there a manual for this game?
 
Ok, I figured out that I can 'RUN', 'WALK', 'SLEEP', and 'WAIT' for a certain amount of hours.

I ran until I was so tired I couldn't raise my little finger lol, and it told me to check my status. Typed 'STATUS' Found out I was very thirsty, so-so hungry, and beat, so I sleept.

Then a rattlesnake entered my area. I ran for an hour, actually 28 minuts. I tried to type eat, and drink, but nothing happened. I discovered nuts and insects during my running and walking around, but didn't know what I was supposed to do with them.
 
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