http://www.amazon-survival.com

Once I clicked the ad, which took me to the Amazon Survival login page, I can honestly say that the color scheme is well done. A dark, deep green is used as opposed to black, with the white/light grey text, combining for a smooth appearance with a quality that is readable and more.

On the Register page, I like how they have it set up. There are different options from normal text based games, and the different options are in different colors, to make sure that you don’t choose the wrong one. With human verification right there already, this game seems to be a little more secure than most.

Once logged in, something to note is that the stat bars are on the left, and some images that you may not recognize until you need them are on the left. One is a mail image, the other a notepad, which is used for events. I’ll wait until I get each of those to tell if they actually do anything, possibly highlight or something. The stat bars are different colors, which make for easy distinguishment between each of your stats, (Power, Motivation and Bottle).

The layout from this page is easy to read, and not cluttered, even WITH a sponsors section in the right-hand menu, and you can add links to the right menu for customized and somewhat faster navigation. (That is much appreciated)

I go into the “Jungle” which is actually called jungle.php, to find that it is the mccode explore page, just better laid out. After a second I notice that the top of the main area, just below the header has a few special links of it’s own. Power Gym, Crystal Gym, Crimes, Animal Farm (I chose to be an animal farmer, as opposed to the other choice of drug farmer), Job, Zoo (Another animal farmer only thing I suspect), college and mine. If that’s not easy and custom navigation, I don’t know what is.

When I first saw the “Train Station” link right in the middle of the jungle, I was a bit suspicious, however it does make sense when the first place that you can go is the Army Base. I suspect that any good army base near a jungle will have a train going in and out for the purpose of getting locals to join up.

There are a lot of things in this game that I don’t even recognize from other ones, so I’ll start by trying the “Scuba” link, which brings me to a Scuba Diving page… owned by none other than “Scuba Steve” himself! Is this? Oh, it is! This is a form of the streets mod, just much better done, using oxygen which runs out faster than steps, and a dropdown rather than a button. You can either dive, or … well nothing really. However the content in the diving is good, including finding nothing… well a bit of shark poop.

Upon investigating my “Pack” I find that In Scuba Diving, what I thought was just idle text, was actually true. I actually HAVE shark poop AND sea weed. I find this to be more of a frill, but definitely amusing. Good show on that one!

Exploring the Jungle, probably another version of streets, costs 8 power, which means you can explore as often as you have power, nice touch! Let’s give it a go… After a few times, a bit of money, and a witch doctor giving me free power, I fell into a hole! Nicely done, no cheating that system. On to the next thing…

Oh wait, I can’t do anything else… I’m in the Hospital for 30 MINUTES! I fell into a hole, wow… I could really do with some meds if this is the type of times I’m going to be getting.

Well, I guess I can do some things, as a few links are accessible regardless of hospital time. One of which is to buy Monkeys… which are slaves, interesting… nice touch… I think I will buy one when I get $1000, and another $500 to feed it. I can also seemingly get into the jungle page again, a change needs to be done here.

I can buy animals from the animal yard, which are quickly recognized as the Car Racing Mod, though nicely done. F
FINALLY, a page that I cannot access whilst in the hospital! Mining!

After some more digging around, I’m going to make a few comments, and then my final verdict.

To the owners:
Great job, just a few suggestions… you may seek to make more pages inaccessible during hospital/jail time. Maybe give the users some meds to start out, considering one of the biggest things at the start is exploring/scuba diving, this could cause some issues with retaining users… if they cannot play, they wont.

Otherwise, nice site!

Verdict:

In the end, I find this game to be a great game, if you can get your hands on some meds quickly enough, you’ll find that you will enjoy this game as much as, or possibly moreso than other games of the same base code.

CE GameReviewer - Vorlen