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1941. Deluxe Article [Link fixed]

Written on Thursday 18 July 2002 at 20:32 by ChEeTaH - 2 comments.

PC.IGN.Com has posted another Sims-related article. As if they have been sleeping over at the Maxis studios last week (they already posted articles about Unleashed and SimCity 4), they have now posted more details of The Sims Deluxe. That package will contain The Sims and Livin' Large - the first expansion pack - as well as some other extras. This edition will have some exclusive walls, floors, skins and two new themes. However, the main extra is the "Create-A-Sim" utility. This utility sounds like the Create-A-Sim thing in The Sims on PlayStation 2: you can combine several parts of the body to make one new skin. While editing the head or body on the left, you can immediatly see the effect on the right. You can also paste logos and other textures on the Sim with it:

"In addition to adding textures, you can also add your own logos and art to the skins. Load any art you like into the game (ahem...as long as you're not violating any copyright laws) and you can scale it and place it on your Sim in real time. We saw a bit of this in action and it was really as simple as it could possibly be. Just drag the logo to the space you want it on the body. If it need to be larger or smaller, just click and drag till you get it just right. Since the logos fit on the skin, they can be used for logos on clothing as well as tattoos. Maybe you can even get some sort of sponsorship or product placement."

Whether this utility and the extra items will be available for free on the official site is yet unknown. You can read the full article on this page. (Link was fixed on 19 July 2002 at 18:55)

1942. Do your Sims wear clean clothes?

Written on Thursday 18 July 2002 at 02:15 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

A new poll has popped up again. This week's question: "How often do your Sims change into a new outfit?" Do you regularly change the clothes of your sims, or do they always walk in the same outfit all the time? Tell us on the right or right here.

Last week's poll went pretty well too: 188 people made their vote! We asked you what you download the most. 100 of you download Objects the most. Slightly odd, as the second and third most popular downloads are not objects but houses (the SimBrother House and the Contemporary Mansion - First place is Ryan's Oscar Statue). The skins got the second place in the poll though, with 56 votes. Third were the houses and families with just 12 votes. 10 people said they don't download those sort of things, and the fifth place is tied between Walls/floors and downtown and vacation areas. Roofs don't seem to be popular at all: 0 people download those the most (which does not mean they aren't downloaded... just not the most). The results can be viewed in the poll archive.

1943. New Unleashed Info

Written on Tuesday 16 July 2002 at 17:01 by ChEeTaH - 2 comments.

A full 2-paged article has appeared at PC.IGN.com about The Sims Unleashed. As stated earlier, the new expansion will mainly focus on pets, as well as community areas. The smaller addition is the gardening, which doesn't sound bad either. The Community areas contain areas where your whole family can go to at once - including the kids - with what will probably be a city bus in the final version. In those areas you'll find the neighbours of your sims walking around. There you have to decide: dog or cat? Read More!

1944. New PS2 info and shots

Written on Monday 15 July 2002 at 20:32 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The games site GamePro has posted an article with 15 screenshots of The Sims on PlayStation2. The article is 4 pages long and has - besides an interview with Will Wright - also some information about the game. For instance, we can read that the option to play without end - like on the PC - will still be available. However, there are more play modes too, like the two-player rumble. Games can be saved on memory cards so you can easily continue playing at a friend's place. Of course, there are also the completely 3D graphics. The PS2 version of The Sims will contain 20 exclusive objects, and the best objects of Livin' Large, House Party and Hot Date - recreated to get the best out of the PS2. The controls are also enhanced, so players can get the hang of it "in 30 seconds", says Michael Perry, the design director of the game. As if all that info isn't enough, there are also 15 new screenshots available. To read the article and see the screenshots, go to GamePro's feature.

1945. Exchange back open

Written on Monday 15 July 2002 at 20:23 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The Family Exchhange on the official site has reopened. You can now publish your families again, in the improved exchange. Searching has been improved and is now more accurate. Uploading should be faster and easier, and details are now displayed in pop-ups so "won't lose your place when browsing". The Sims and SimCity fans, as well as the fans of SimGolf which was released in Europe last week can now exchange their items again as before - but easier. At least, that are the words of Maxis. You can go to The Sims exchange here.

1946. SimDay: Unleashed announced

Written on Thursday 11 July 2002 at 04:24 by ChEeTaH - 5 comments.

The big news is here: The Sims Unleashed has officially been announced. Also, the first details of this new, and probably the last, expansion pack for The Sims are in the same press release. The rumours about the pets were right:

"For the first time ever, the Sims can visit a pet store and bring home a variety of creatures and accoutrements. Players will make a big splash with the addition of a lumbering Labrador or fickle feline to their Sim family. They can also buy a parrot, turtle, lizard or fish that are fun for the whole family but don't need to be house trained."

But, there's a whole lot more to look out for... Read More!

1947. What do you download the most?

Written on Thursday 11 July 2002 at 02:15 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Thursday means another poll at The Sims Zone. This week: what type of extras do you download the most? No need to explain it really I think, just vote on the right or on this page.

Quite many people voted on the last poll. And it's true: most of you use cheats all the time. 70 of all the 202 people (that's more than one third of the total!) has voted for "is there a way to play without them?". 42 people use cheats pretty often, and another 22 quite regularly. 31 people use just the money cheat, 9 cheat to move objects around, and 8 cheat - but not to get money. 3 votes were for "just to get rid of flies". There's still a bit of hope, although it's not big: only 8.42% of the players - 17 votes - do not use cheats at all. Detailed results can be found here.

1948. Unleashed is coming indeed

Written on Wednesday 10 July 2002 at 03:15 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

It was only hours ago when we were still in doubt whether Unleashed - the fifth expansion pack for The Sims - was indeed coming or not. Bil Simser has now posted an update. He has phoned up Will Wright, and things got clearer from that. First the good news: Unleashed will indeed be coming. The preview at EB-Games however was the April Fool's joke of Bil's "The Sims: Unlimited Adventures" and has now been removed from the page. No details of the expansion pack are known yet. Most things mentioned in the april fool's joke, like Edith coming with it, an SDK, a basement and third floor, etc. are untrue. Most likely, this fifth expansion pack is the last one before The Sims 2 too, but that hasn't been confirmed either. More rumours about Unleashed go that it'll have pets - the title suits that idea. Although that's most likely the new main feature of the expansion pack, it hasn't been confirmed officially yet and so it might be untrue.

1949. Unleashed rumours: true or false?

Written on Wednesday 10 July 2002 at 01:50 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The Sims Unleashed is probably the most vague project from Maxis at the moment. There are a lot of rumours that it'll be coming out later this year, but other sources think that nothing of the rumours is true. GamesDomain has said they got confirmation from EA in this article. However, the rumours about Unleashed were first seen in a joke by Bil Simser (BluePrint). He is saying on his site that none of it is true - but how sure is he? How can sites get confirmation that something is true, when it isn't? Maybe Maxis took over something from his joke, and is actually working on a new expansion pack called Unleashed... In any case, a customer preview at EB-Games (that has been removed now) was a fake, as it was a copy of Bil's original joke. At the moment, we cannot tell you whether The Sims Unleashed is really coming or not, nor can we give any other information about it as Maxis hasn't officially released one word about it yet. The definite confirmation will probably come in an announcement one or another SimDay, in the form of a press release. We'll keep you updated.

1950. Late SimDay Report: SimCity 4 article

Written on Tuesday 9 July 2002 at 03:22 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Due to the 4th of July holiday in the US, there wasn't a SimDay last thursday. However, it is there now, along with some other news. There is some news about SimCity 4: a few articles from the development team have been added, a bit like the articles posted recently at The Sims Online. For instance, there's one article about the buildings in SimCity 4:

"But the point really is, when you pan away from an area, whether it's to place a park, dispatch the mayor, or to have lunch, you can come back, say 30 years later, and still recognize the neighborhood. You might not like it much, but yeah, it's the same place."

All articles can be found here. Besides these articles, there's a news post on the official site that the exchange is being upgraded, and therefore is down until further notice. That's all for this week, hopefully another SimDay later this week, on thursday then.