Advantages: Fun for a while, detailed, good graphics Disadvantages: Addictive, gets boring after a while!
The Sims is yet another brilliant game from Maxis, with Maxis having already produced the brilliant SimCity series. The Sims is so totally unlike any other game that it just had to be a true classic. You control peoples lives, you choose their occupation, you choose their furniture, you choose the wallpaper and bed to their home, you choose whether to make their life a living hell or to make it heaven. In some aspects I suppose you could compare the Sims to Big Brother except you control the characters. So if you’re a control freak you’re bound to love the Sims! Just don’t be too mean to you’re Sims!
The detail in the Sims is quite fantastic. You fully furnish your Sims home and can even build it, decide whether to add a second full or not. You also choose the carpets and wallpapers your Sims have. But all that ...
Disillusioned 21.07.2001
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Advantages: Addictive, entertaining, the sky's the limit! Disadvantages: Can freeze my computer, gets boring
In my Sim world, I'm (or rather, Layla) a model earning £400 a day, living in a huge mansion with a swimming pool, with three million quid in the bank, and I have a maid and gardener. I'm caught in a steamy love-triangle with my boyfriend, who I share a house with, and my irresponsible penniless neighbour. My baby has been whisked away by social services (her father drowned in my swimming pool and a son whom I hated anyway died in a house fire (my fault). Colourful life, eh?
The Sims is a simulation (hence Sims) game where you are God. You control your Sims completely and decide what they do with their lives. Of course, you can have a job as a mailroom clerk, and a husband/wife and a son and daughter, living in a sensible three bedroomed house, but how interesting is that? No, it's much more fun to be a whore with multiple boyfriends ...
jeszikca 24.02.2003
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Advantages: Fun, easy to play Disadvantages: Addictive
can't be bothered to read a huge book before I play a game.
The first 9 pages are taken up with installation instructions, system requirements and trouble-shooting. The trouble shooting bit is quite useful if you have a problem with the way the game runs although with newer PCs the game should run easily.
The next 2 pages contain information about strategy for playing the game. I feel that this bit isn't very useful. It does explain the basic principles; i.e. you only have so much time and you need to satisfy your Sim in that time, but above that I think it's a bit confusing and pointless.
The next 4 pages explain the tutorial, the help system, the hotkeys and a few other controls that have been missed out elsewhere.
The last 4 pages are dedicated to the customer services options. There is also a brief FAQ in this bit. I have ...
donnabroom 13.09.2007
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