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1101. Urbz DS Previews and Screens

Written on Saturday 21 August 2004 at 15:39 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Besides coming to the consoles and the GBA, the Urbz will also be one of the titles that will be released at the same time as Nintendo's new handheld, the DS. Two previews of the Urbz for the DS have been written and posted, one on Nintendojo and the other one on Cubed-3. Real news isn't mentioned, but there are two new screenshots to stare at. The conclusion between the sites differ slightly, as Cubed3 isn't extremely positive. They say the DS version uses the features of the new platform in a nice way, but it's all a bit gimmicky and not very different from the GBA version. Nintendojo is more excited to actually play the game. Read the previews from Nintendojo or Cubed3. Click the thumbnails below to see the larger versions of the screenshots.

1102. Lucy's Mail: Bloopers

Written on Saturday 21 August 2004 at 15:25 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

This week's mail from Lucy is full of bloopers. During the development of the Sims 2, there have been many bugs (which won't be in the final version). And besides the ones causing severe headaches and costing a lot of coffee and aspirins, there are the fun ones. The last group of course raises a few laughs, and thanks to Lucy you can now laugh along as well. Included are several screenshots, and a 3.7 Mb AVI movie (7 seconds) to show some bloopers which occured during the development. To download the movie, click here. For the screenshots, see inside (the read more part). Read More!

1103. Chat Transcript: Numbers and Figures

Written on Friday 20 August 2004 at 15:21 by ChEeTaH - 14 comments.

The chat last night was quite a success, despite Lucy not being there. In her place was the Tuning team. MaxisKevin, MaxisHunter, MaxisDestry and MaxisDoctorVu answered many questions. The transcripts have been posted, but if you're too lazy to read that here are some highlights:

• Sims don't have to be married to get a baby
• Sims will not leave the lot when giving birth to a baby
• Sims can't die from sickness or fire until they're Teens
• Although twins are still a possibility, triplets have been taken out
• Any NPC (including the burglar) can be married, but the NPC will be replaced by another one
• The lifetime of a Sim ranges from 70 to 90 days. This is split up as follows: Baby: 3 days; Toddler: 4 days; Children: 8 days; Teens: 15 days; Adults: 29 days; Elders: 11-31 days. The life of a Sim can be extended by using the Elexir of Life which makes the Sim approximately 7-8 days younger, but they won't go back to the previous life stage
• All young Sims have the Grow Up aspiration (which includes learning to walk, talk, etc), as soon as a Sim grows up to Teen you get to choose their Aspiration track (Fame, Family, Fortune, Knowledge, Romance)
• The wants and fears have the chance of being rotated on a daily basis
• You can lock a want (or fear) by right-clicking it, if you want to focus on it
• One aspiration reward is the SimVac object, which sucks skill points from other Sims
• To change the appearance of a Sim, simply use the mirror
• There will be 10 careers with 10 levels each
• In Private school Children/Teens can gain skills from chance cards
• Sims in Private school might have an advantage in their career
• Sims can start gaining skills points as soon as they're toddlers
• Skills do not decay
• The autonomy of Sims has been much improved making them smarter. To make them stupid again, you can just turn off autonomy. Sims can take care of their moods better now, but still not perfectly efficiently.
• Instead of being sent to Military school, children with bad grades at school will be taken away by the Social worker. They might appear in the game again though, if by chance they're adopted by another family in the neighborhood.
• You can build 5 floors without, or 4 floors with a foundation (and you can put a roof on top of that)
• Teens can walk away from home and be brought back by the cops, but they won't end up in jail whatsoever
• There will be 6 or 7 different gnome designs
• And about 16 cinematic cut scenes
• When chatting on the Sim-computer, you can see who else from the neighborhood is online and chat to them
• Maxis will try to hold more chats until the release of the game, as well as some after the release

Of course more questions have been answered, but you have to read the transcript for those.

1104. UrbzDay

Written on Thursday 19 August 2004 at 16:35 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

This thursday comes, as usual, with some new information of the Urbz, from the official website. The weekly blog is slightly different than other weeks, as it's not Scot Amos (Producer Console version) or Virigina McArthur (GBA Producer), but a certain Craig (Web Developer) who wrote it. He tells his story on how this week's blog was born - but don't take everything in it too seriously. Furthermore there is some GBA stuff, though it's not really new. There are 4 screenshots which have been published by WorthPlaying before, and the same is with the 2 new movies which were published as a set of 5 earlier as well. There are also some brand new "Punk" screenshots of the Console version, which you can see completely by clicking the thumbnails below. That's all for the Urbz this week.

1105. New Poll

Written on Thursday 19 August 2004 at 16:14 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Last week's poll was quite popular, with 748 votes. We asked you which default Sims 2 families you're most likely to play the most. By far the most people have said to create their own families: 49%. About 19% will play all of them, or is yet undecided. The most popular family is the Goth family, with 8%, followed by the Newbies (assuming they'll be in the game) at 5%. The Baxters and the Smiths got 4.5% and 4% each. For the exact results with all (known) families, visit the results page.

This week the poll is about the Urbz, specifically the console version: which character that has been announced in the "Crew" section at the official site do you like the most? Vote on the right, or on the latest poll page.

1106. SimsZone Sims 2 Review Update

Written on Wednesday 18 August 2004 at 23:55 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

It's been said here several times before: our German affiliate SimsZone got a preview version of the Sims 2, and they're posting a review about it. New articles are posted nearly every day, and yesterday and today were no exception. Yesterday it was all about the everyday life of the Sims in the sequel, while today it was all about friends and family. As usual there's a bunch of screenshots to see, but with today's articles there are also 2 more movies taken with the Sims 2. As before, they need the free VP6 codec to be played. You can see all articles from the review TOC, where yesterday's article is behind the "Der Alltag – Zeit und Bedürfnisse" link, and today's article is linked to using the "Freunde und Familie link - of course both in German. Read on for the highlights from both articles (in English). Read More!

1107. Sims 2 Ad

Written on Wednesday 18 August 2004 at 22:45 by ChEeTaH - 2 comments.

American magazine "Jane" has published an ad for the Sims 2. The images have been scanned from the magazine and you have to put the two below together to see the complete ad. It's in a style similar to one posted about 3 weeks ago (see older news). Thanks to the Dutch SP Zone for these images.

1108. New Sims 2 Screenshot and Video

Written on Wednesday 18 August 2004 at 15:26 by ChEeTaH - 1 comment.

Affiliate SimsExtremos has sent us a screenshot of The Sims 2 from EA Spain. It shows how you can mix genes to create a child of 2 Sims using the in-game Create A Sim/Family. You can click the thumbnail below to see the large version. Furthermore, another affiliate, SimsZone, has news about a video preview at 4Players.de. Although the full version is available to subscribers only, but everybody can see 1:36 minutes of it in streaming format. Go to this page to see it.

1109. The Sims Zone opens Shop

Written on Tuesday 17 August 2004 at 19:33 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

We have just launched a new shop, in association with both Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com. So whether you're in Europe or in the US, you can buy all your Sims games through The Sims Zone now. With that, you'll get your product in a cheap and reliable way thanks to Amazon, and you'll help The Sims Zone as well, so we can pay our bills. Currently the shop offers The Sims (PC) Games, The Sims (Mac) Games, The Sims (Console) Games, The Sims Strategy Guides and Other Sim Games. You can see a random product from our shop on the right hand side of every page, from which you can enter the shop. The shop is located at http://shop.thesimszone.co.uk, for questions about the shop, or product suggestions, feel free to e-mail us.

1110. Urbz Box Shots and GBA rating

Written on Tuesday 17 August 2004 at 16:39 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

We already showed you the Urbz box shot for the X-Box version a while ago, but now EA has published shots for the PS2, GameCube and GBA version as well. This makes it more likely that the graphics are official. Still, it shows a "Rating Pending" ESRB logo, which indicates that it's not completely the final box shots, except for the GBA version. The GBA version, which as known is almost finished already, will be rated "E for Everyone" in the US, and the box already has an "Official Nintendo Seal" graphic on it as well. The Nintendo Seal can also be found on the GameCube box though. Below are all the box shots that are currently available, including some shots taken from the left and right, as well as the front. Click the thumbnails for larger versions. There are no graphics for the Prima strategy guide yet, nor is there a shot for the X-Box version taken from the left.