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1811. Unleashed (Mac) Released

Written on Wednesday 1 January 2003 at 11:40 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

A few days ago, just before the end of last year, Aspyr has released the Unleashed expansion pack for the Macintosh. For reviews of the game, please check out our review index. Our own review is still to come very soon, it's been delayed because Andy was busy with Sim Brother and a lot of other things since the game has been released. You will hear about that soon enough..The Macintosh system specifications are:

MacOS 9.2.2 or Mac OS X version 10.1 or later

G3 processor at 233 MHz or faster (450 MHz recommended)

192 MB of built-in RAM (additional 128M recommended if running OSX)

2 MB VRAM (8 MB recommended)

750 MB of additional hard drive space

Quicktime 4.1.2 or later

More information is available here at Aspyr.

 

1812. Happy new year!

Written on Tuesday 31 December 2002 at 01:00 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The Sims Zone wants to wish everybody a happy new year. Be careful with fireworks, and again, don't forget your Sims. We'll see you again in 2003, with more news, files, other unique things and much, much more. Make sure you come back here the next year though!

Note: Because of Christmas and New Year, the new donation files will be uploaded a bit later than planned. Expect those files soon though, just not 1 January. We apologise for that, but hope it won't stop you from donating. If you donate now, you will get both the files for January and December without any extra fee!

1813. Merry Christmas

Written on Wednesday 25 December 2002 at 00:08 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

From the whole team of The Sims Zone, I want to wish everybody a merry christmas. We hope you will have a nice time. Don't forget your Sims though, they want to celebrate it too. Sumit posted some objects this year, but why not check out some of last year's christmas files? Look at BettyJoe's Christmas packs. Updating at The Sims Zone will continue, although it will be a bit less than usual. Happy holidays!

1814. Be interviewed about The Sims

Written on Monday 23 December 2002 at 23:32 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

If you want to participate in an interview with Gamer.tv then you can be lucky. They'll be posting a feature about The Sims in the future, and they're looking for a female player from the New York (USA) area, preferrably with a family on her own. Don't contact us if you're interested, but please drop Lee Smith a line.

1815. IGN's first impressions of TSO

Written on Sunday 22 December 2002 at 23:20 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

IGN has been play-testing The Sims Online, and they have posted a preview of the game:

"Whatever the final result, the game has a wonderful concept, and when you read some of the ideas that Will Wright puts behind his game, it sounds all very interesting in an academic kind of way. Reams of data about friendship networks, geographic proximity, favorite activities, etc., are being collected here, and I'm sure it's all very interesting and exciting for him. And I wish him the best in his game-making, he is one of a handful of designers in this industry with both the clout and the vision to force through some genuinely new and interesting."

IGN will probably post a full review after their break, so some time after January 6th. This preview is also not in our review index, we're going to wait for the final review instead. You can read this first impressions article at this page.

1816. TSO Interview at TechTV

Written on Sunday 22 December 2002 at 23:02 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

TechTV has posted an interview with Will Wright about The Sims Online. It has some interesting questions:

"TechTV: Was there a goal during development to produce something that wouldn't be addicting?"

"Wright: I don't think you can really control that, because certain players will come into this and project so much into it and get very involved with it. You don't want to do anything to destroy that, where you'd basically have to make the game worse almost to prevent that from happening. I think what you want to do is make sure that the game doesn't force the other people to do that or else fall behind. I've been in several situations where I'm in a house with roommates and some of the roommates are playing several hours a day, maybe eight hours a day, others are playing three hours a day, and others are playing one hour per day or less. And it works out. The fact that this group of people can play together but yet be playing in totally different levels of involvement is pretty important."

The whole interview is at this page.

1817. Donation Files policy change & special offer

Written on Sunday 22 December 2002 at 22:53 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

We have slightly changed our donations policy. The special files will be donations-only for 3 months. That means the current downloads for December won't be available for free until March. However, when you donate you will usually get only the username and password of the files of that month. As that might mean you cannot get older files unless you wait a few months, we've come up with a solution: if you pay $5 (or the equivalent of that) or more, you get two usernames and passwords (the current month, and the month before that). For $10 we give you all the files of the current and the past 2 months. As we've only just started with donations, this method isn't active yet until next month... if we didn't have the special offer!

Our offer is valid during December and January. If you donate this or next month, then you will get the files for these 2 months for any amount of money. You don't have to pay $5 or more for these files. That means you get twice the amount of files for just one price! If you donate now, we will send you the username and password for the files of January once they've been added. Please donate, we need the money! Without your donations, we will not be able to continue with this site. We need at least 300 ($450) in 4 months time, so please help us! We really appreciate it, even if you donate just $1. You can donate at this page. Thank you.

1818. SimDay 2 This week...

Written on Sunday 22 December 2002 at 01:50 by ChEeTaH - 2 comments.

The official site has been updated again yesterday, with some nice things. First of all, there are the press releases of the going-gold of The Sims for PS2 and SimCity 4. Besides that, there are two new objects from The Sims Online which can be downloaded to The Sims (Offline). One is a new Intel computer, the other is the McDonalds 'food kiosk'. The advertising from these companies has now also hit The Sims 1.0... Unfortunately it are English-only versions, the international versions of these objects will be coming in January. You can download them both (296 Kb for the computer, 1.60 Mb for the food kiosk) from Get Cool Stuff. Maxis has now gone on their break, so this should've been their last update until 9 January...

1819. Win TSO

Written on Sunday 22 December 2002 at 01:32 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

More news about The Sims Online: you can get this game for practically nothing, which would save you $50 (the monthly fee will still have to be paid) - including a one month game time which is included in the game by default. The site giving it away is GameZone, at this page. All you have to do is fill out a simple form, and the contest is open world-wide! The contest closes 23 December at midnight EST, so you have to hurry to enter. Note that you may only send one entry per day too.

1820. TSO Review 2

Written on Sunday 22 December 2002 at 01:25 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

I've found another review of The Sims Online at Games Domain:

"Even now that the game's in US stores, many pre-release bugs remain, such as the occasional inability to enter your own house, the inability to look around the neighbourhood, disappearing items, and increasing lag that slows the game to a crawl. For that matter, the game designers were still making major gameplay tweaks related to skills, jobs and money on the release date as they struggle to fix an imbalanced game. While we're confident they will eventually work out these issues, the game could look very different in three months than it does today. It will likely be nothing more than ICQ with 3D avatars instead of what most people would call a game."

I guess there are still quite some patches to come for this game when I read this. The whole, rather criticising, review can be read by following this link.