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1741. Another TSPS2 review

Written on Wednesday 19 March 2003 at 00:09 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Although the game was released in January, reviews are still popping up of The Sims at the PS2. Although they are in much smaller numbers, we're still watching out for them and adding them to our review index. And one review was found again today, from Ferrago.co.uk:

"To compare this game with any other is not possible, it has definitely cornered the market as the ultimate of simulation games. Nothing comes near to it and with the addition of the two impressive new modes one can’t help thinking it is only furthering the distance from its rivals."

The game is marked with 85%. For the whole story, click here.

1742. GameSpot Superstar Q&A

Written on Tuesday 18 March 2003 at 23:10 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Gamespot has posted an interview with Jonathan Knight about the upcoming Superstar, along with 10 new screenshots. They talk about some of the new features in the game, like how Sims become Superstars, what the Studio Town is like, how some things work. Here's a quote about some objects that will be seen:

"There's a giant scuba tank that's the size of a large living room, for your swimming pleasure. And there's a skydiving simulator for a little backyard fun. We've also made a satellite dish for the home, which adds all-new channels to your TV. And there's tons of new art and sculpture, and even a new pool table, to help you make the ultimate crib."

Also, another expansion pack after this isn't ruled out, but also not mentioned directly:

"To be honest, it's not a challenge to keep the ideas coming--we never seem to run out of new ideas for The Sims. The challenge is zeroing in on what we think will be the most compelling, and having the discipline to say, 'Nope, this is what we're making this month, so let's just make sure it's as great as it can be, and save those other ideas for the next pack.'"

If there's going to be another expansion pack after this - and it is possible knowing how Maxis/EA milks out The Sims as far as it goes - that'll mean The Sims 2 will be at least a year away from now. Otherwise, we might just be able to see it before the end of the year, or early next year. We don't know, but we'll tell you as soon as we do. Anyway, to check out the interview, click here. For the 10 pictures, which include some sketches and concepts of art, check out this page.

1743. The Neighborhood Handler 4.01 Released

Written on Sunday 16 March 2003 at 00:54 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Due to the relaunch of this site, and still a lot of development going on behind the scenes at this site, The Neighborhood Handler's public release got delayed a bit, unfortunately. Members of the TNHH group could already download version 4.01 of the program, but now everybody can. If you don't have THE program to manage your neighborhoods with yet, or a version older than 3.7, you should download the full version. If you belong to the group that has version 3.7 or higher already, you'll have enough with the upgrade version. For a list of updates, not too big this time, check out the version history chapter in the manual. For more information about the program itself, visit its site. Have fun!

1744. Bug Fixes @ TSZ

Written on Saturday 15 March 2003 at 20:00 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The new utility we're using to keep this site updated (programmed in-house) unfortunately still had some unnoticed bugs at the time of relaunch. We've found the following bugs, and those have been fixed:

Member registration didn't work due to a type in the code. You can now register again.

If you didn't login from the front page and chose to remember your login, it wouldn't automatically log you back in when entering TSZ, unless you went to the page where you logged in. That now works properly. It was a problem with cookies setting the wrong path.

The poll now works a bit better - this was the same problem as the logins problem, where cookies wouldn't be saved properly.

The layout of interviews caused some errors in a few browsers, which made it look ugly or the numbers wouldn't count up. The numbers are now coded differently, solving these problems.

If you find other errors or bugs at this site, please e-mail me. I will then fix those bugs as soon as I can. Thank you.

 

1745. SimDay: Superstar, Console and Brazil

Written on Thursday 13 March 2003 at 19:27 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

This week's SimDay are basically just a few links. First of all, there's a link to a small preview of the new Superstar expansion pack at Gamers.com. We already mentioned that when we returned. The other thing is an interview about The Sims on the consoles with Michael Perry:

"Yes, bringing The Sims to the console was a bit scary, because looking at The Sims on the PC, with its high-resolution 2D graphics and mouse-based interface, it was very hard to imagine how we could ever make it look good and play well on the console. We also knew that console gamers are smart game players who would not appreciate simply getting a straight port of the PC game. We decided right away that we wanted to make The Sims on the console much more than just a port."

There are 3 interesting pages to read if you're looking forward to the GameCube or X-Box version of The Sims. The interview also comes with 10 screenshots, 5 for the GameCube and the other 5 for the X-Box. You can find it all here. The last bit is about a new official site. This time, in Brazilian. It's similar to several European sites in design etc. Go here to see the Brazilian site. That's all again for the first SimDay after our relaunch. More next week.

1746. Welcome Back! [News Update]

Written on Wednesday 12 March 2003 at 01:00 by ChEeTaH - 1 comment.

Welcome back to The Sims Zone! As you can see, we've totally changed... everything. There are search functions for the news, community news and the files. The files now also have two special categories: the 25 most popular, and the 25 newest files. Also, to protect us a bit more from getting tons of viruses each day, there is now an e-mail form, which you should use if you want to contact us. You can also send attachments (of up to 250Kb) using that form. We've been going through most of the content, and all links to pages that don't exist anymore should have been fixed. If you find a dead link in some old content, please e-mail me. Did I forget anything? Ah, yes, the design. We hope you like that too, it's taken us quite some time. The new system we're using is rather more reliable, and simply better. It allows us to make even more cool features in the future.

As we've been offline for over a week, you may have missed some news. A round-up of that news is inside... Read More!

1747. New Donation File

Written on Wednesday 12 March 2003 at 00:58 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Sumit's submitted another donation file for this month: it's a set of lamps matching the loveseat modset that's also in the donation section this month. Please donate and then you can download both these sets. You can preview them here. Have fun!

1748. The Sims (X-Box) previewed

Written on Thursday 27 February 2003 at 23:09 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

"With the new version of The Sims there is of course new criteria in which they have added to your gaming experience. One of them involves having complete control over camera angles and zooming in and out. With the analog stick you will be able to turn the camera to any angle that you desire. Or you could simply amuse yourself and try to make your head go crazy while you spin around in circles! Either option is up to you. Maxis and EA Games have also added the feature of changing your characters appearance at any point in the game, something that you could not do in the PC versions. Probably the biggest thrill in the Xbox version, which will probably draw a lot of PC lovers attention, will be the monkey butler (Major Domo) completely packed with the Tuxedo that every butler wishes he/she had."

That's part of the review of The Sims on the X-box console at Fronzenzero.com. They don't tell too much we didn't already know from the PS2 version. It's still a nice read though, so get on reading here.

1749. Another PS2 review

Written on Thursday 27 February 2003 at 23:02 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

We've spotted another review of The Sims at the PS2, and this time a rather long one too. They discuss quite some aspects of the game: the single and two player modes, the differences with the PC version, the graphics, and the annoying things:

"For example, players can issue of list of activities for the sims, but sometimes the characters get distracted or simply forget, what they are to do and stand in the middle of the room instead. Often, the sims will pause before following any kind of order, which is irritating if someone is knocking at the door or the telephone is ringing. "

The score Boomtown (the reviewing site) gives the game is a 7 out of 10. It's well worth reading if you're interested in the console version of The Sims, so go to this page and enjoy yourself. Check out our review index for more reviews of The Sims for PS2.

1750. New superstar poll

Written on Thursday 27 February 2003 at 01:00 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The past week many of you told us how old you are. The poll got an amazing 295 votes, which is more than the regular poll gets in just one week. The results are quite clear: most of our visitors are between 13 and 17 years old (114 votes, 39%). 18 to 25 year olds follow with 78 votes (26%), and after that come the 26 to 35 year olds (41 votes, 14%). The real young people of 12 years or younger make 9% of our visitors (28 votes), closely followed by people between 36 and 50 years of age (20 votes, 7%). The silly people, or those who don't want to reveal their age, are sixth with 11 votes (4%). They said they don't know how old they are. Finally there are the 51 to 65 year olds (2 votes, 0.68%) and those older than 65 (1 vote, 0.34%). These results are not too different from the results we got in our second poll, but it's not exactly the same. This week, and until the thursday after the relaunch of this site, we want to know if you'll be buying the upcoming Superstar expansion pack. Tell us, by voting on the right or by going to this page.