{"id":18367,"date":"2018-10-24T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T00:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=18367"},"modified":"2018-10-21T14:05:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T14:05:02","slug":"fishing-sim-world-ps4-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/24\/fishing-sim-world-ps4-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishing Sim World (PS4, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There\u2019s a new fishing game in town focusing on realism.\u00a0 It\u2019s Fishing Sim World for PS4, Xbox One, and PC (reviewed on PS4 here).\u00a0 Create your angler\u2019s gender, facial features, hair, clothes, and more.\u00a0 Then go out to lakes from all over the world, from the US, France, Germany, and others.\u00a0 Use real life rods, reels, and bait, too.\u00a0 But is the game a keeper or will you want to throw it back?\u00a0 Read on to find out!<\/p>\n

After creating your character, the three main modes you can try are tutorials, free fishing, and tournaments.\u00a0 The tutorials are absolutely horrible, though.\u00a0 They only show you how to play, and don\u2019t let you try anything.\u00a0 And the explanations go by too quickly and the controls are way too complicated enough as it is.\u00a0 And even then they don\u2019t explain aspects of the game very well.\u00a0 If it weren\u2019t for my stepfather Jamie (who is also an avid fisherman) watching me play and giving me advice, I wouldn\u2019t know what kinds of bait and line to use.\u00a0 In a world where games don\u2019t come with printed instruction booklets anymore, good in-game tutorials are a must, and this one doesn\u2019t have that.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s best to start out just by playing, but even that\u2019s a guessing game.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to tell what you\u2019ve got equipped, and even then it\u2019s hard to know where the fish are, even though you have a radar and GPS.\u00a0 So I guess that\u2019s realistic.\u00a0 The graphics are also lifelike, but not very consistent in the animation.\u00a0 The wake on the boat only has a three frame animation, and when you reel in your line, it can go behind and under the boat for no reason.\u00a0 Really the most fun part of the game is driving your boat around.\u00a0 I think the makers of this game spent more time on getting real life sponsors and products than actually making a fun game itself.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for text and menus, but the controls may be too convoluted for less experienced gamers.\u00a0 It may be less complicated, and more fun, to take your kids out fishing in real life rather than playing this game.\u00a0 Fishing Sim World is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a new fishing game in town focusing on realism.\u00a0 It\u2019s Fishing Sim World for PS4, Xbox One, and PC (reviewed on PS4 here).\u00a0 Create your angler\u2019s gender, facial features, hair, clothes, and more.\u00a0 Then go out to lakes from all over the world, from the US, France, Germany, and others.\u00a0 Use real life rods, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18369,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18367\/revisions\/18369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}