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2121. The Sims PS2: Released and 3 reviews

Written on Thursday 16 January 2003 at 01:05 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The Sims on PlayStation 2 has been released yesterday (officially), and already 3 reviews have popped up. All three reviews describe the game's features, like the story-based game mode, and the two-player mode. GamePro says the sound is stunning, and that you'll think you understand that Simlish talk after 30 minutes of playing. With a 5 out of 5, they find it a great game. GameSpot however, notes that the sounds are taken straight from the PC version of the game, as well as SimGolf. They also note that the game might be a bit too familiar if you played it on the PC already. Perhaps it's better to wait for The Sims 2 there - rumours go that that'll be released in March already, although that sounds awfully early. With a 7.9 it's a "good" game, and recommended to PS2 owners. The comments from IGN about the sound are positive too: "These little creatures speak the most inane, jumbled messed up gobbledygook you have ever heard. It's darn right wrong, and sadly, strangely, it's charming too". They're also quite positive about the graphics and the controlling interface. However, they say The Sims is not a game you'd buy for the graphics. All reviews also added some new screenshots to their databases, which you can find through their reviews.

We've created another review index for this game, and you can find it right here. The Sims will be released in Europe in February, which means you'll still have to wait a while if you live there. Until then, have fun reading those reviews.

2122. Lots of die-hard The Sims fans

Written on Thursday 16 January 2003 at 01:00 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

There are a lot of die-hard fans of The Sims. We can conclude that from our previous poll. The question was how long your sessions of playing The Sims take. Absolutely nobody said they play just a few minutes before stopping again. Only 8 people (5.63%) voted they play between 30 and 60 minutes per session. Quite a lot of fans play between 1 and 2 hours in a go: 40 votes, which is 28.17% of the 143 votes. By far the most, with 48 votes (33.80%) comes the time between 2 and 4 hours. A bit less again is a play time of 4 to 6 hours, with 18 votes (12.68%). And the final result is quite a surprise: nearly 20% (28 votes) plays the game for more than 6 hours without turning it off.

The new poll is about your download behaviour: do you download a lot, or don't you download files for The Sims at all. As always you can let us know by voting on the right, or by going to our latest poll page. For all our older polls, visit the archive.

2123. TSO Review... again

Written on Thursday 16 January 2003 at 00:31 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The gaming site GamePro has reviewed The Sims Online. It's just a small review, with no real interesting quotes. It's mostly a description of the game, with the sidenote that "it's almost not a game". Read it for yourself, over here or in our review index.

2124. IGN Update: Nominees and TSO review

Written on Tuesday 14 January 2003 at 23:18 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

IGN PChas had a few updates recently, with several nice things. First of all, Vacation and Unleashed are nominated for the best expansion pack of 2002, according to their readers. Also, The Sims Online is nominated for best persistent world game - games that simulate real-life - of 2002. You can e-mail IGN to submit your vote if you want any other game than the nominated ones to win. Otherwise just participate in their poll to tell what game you like the most. Also, IGN put up a list of the 50 most wanted (and to-be-released) titles of 2003 (on all platforms), made using their free feature: the wish-list. SimCity 4 is in this list at number 30. Other Maxis games are not in this list, as there are no others announced already that are yet to be released... And The Sims on PS2 just didn't make it. The nominees for the awards awards for the best games on PS2 aren't available yet. Finally, there's a TSO review.... Read More!

2125. Gaming Nexus reviews TSO

Written on Monday 13 January 2003 at 22:46 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Another TSO review has been written, this time at Gaming Nexus. Although the game gets a final score of 8.3, the reviewer is not too happy about TSO at some points. For instance the graphics:

"Im a little disturbed by the graphics as the majority of the visuals appear to be recycled from previous Sims titles. A graphical update is long overdue and with the upcoming release of the Sims PS2 I think were all aware of what the Maxis graphics designers are capable of. Edges are sharp, textures are blurry and the entire game as a whole looks completely dated. The animations in particular are pretty lackadaisical."

The review consists of a description of the game on the first 2 pages, where the installation in talked about a bit, and from the start of the game it goes to describing setting up a business. The complaining starts with how career-focused the game is, there is not enough in it to stimulate interactions with other Sims. Gaming Nexus concludes with saying the game seems to be incomplete yet, and that it's better to wait until most promised features have been put in the game. The whole review is 4 pages long and can be found at this page. For a list of other reviews, visit our review index.

2126. New Downtown Area and Windows

Written on Friday 10 January 2003 at 09:59 by Jendea - 0 comments.

For your sims cultural enhancement, I've added an Art Gallery for Lot 22. Also, I added the Downtown Windows Pack that I made for the gallery. The window pack includes four matching plateglass windows that I thought would be good for that "wall of glass" feel in downtown areas. Note: be careful about taking sims that are already bored to the art gallery - lol - it wasn't exactly designed for fast-paced entertainment. You may want to let them go dancing or to the pub afterward.

2127. New Wall Lights

Written on Friday 10 January 2003 at 00:40 by Sumit - 0 comments.

Sims cheer with joy as a new Wall Light Set has been added to their favorite store! Which one? Well The Sims Zone one of course! These beauties change the look of that hideous Aqua Blue Wall Light and now comes in soothing Yellow, Orange-Red, True Blue, and Purple. Because of this grand event their is a Golden Globe Wall Light as a bonus.

Check it all out here.

2128. Probably no expansions for Linux

Written on Thursday 9 January 2003 at 19:51 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

After finding out about the offer to get The Sims for Linux together with a TransGaming T-shirt, I contacted TransGaming asking info about possible expansion packs for Linux. The answer is, unfortunately, that that won't come. I got this from TransGaming:

"We are considering getting The Sims Expansion packs runnning with WineX but currently do not have the resources to put towards such a product. It was brought up in our voting section in previous polls and our subscribers have voted it very low."

In that poll, 819 people voted and the rating was -321 in total. That may sound confusing, but this page might clear things up a bit. The poll was held in November 2002, and is closed now. If there will ever be expansions on Linux, then they probably won't come before The Sims 2 is out. Also note that the regular expansion packs for Windows will not work on Linux, neither will The Sims Online.

2129. SimDay: One more TSO review

Written on Thursday 9 January 2003 at 19:33 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

This week's SimDay, the first after Maxis' holidays, brings only one new item, a review at TechTV.com. All the other items have been posted about before. That's why we're going to skip the news about the new official UK site, the massive amount of New Year's Eve parties, and the announcement of new TSO features that we'll see soon. Now the review:

"Also, if you do not already have one, you must register an account with EA.com. (AOL subscribers will have the option to use their current account information.) The only hurdle left to clear is choosing a payment option. You can charge the $9.95 monthly fee or buy pre-paid subscription cards. If you were to purchase the game now and have a fast Internet connection, you could make it through all of these steps in around 15 minutes and be ready to start the game."

TechTV rates it 4 of 5 stars, which is pretty good. There's a nice headline at the page too: "Watch tomorrow at 9:30 p.m. and Saturday 1/11 at 10 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Eastern." Check out TechTV at those times for, I guess, more about The Sims Online. Click here for the full review, or here for our review index.

2130. SuperStar Fake after all?

Written on Thursday 9 January 2003 at 02:09 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Despite earlier rumours which appeared to be true about The Sims Superstar, a new expansion pack for The Sims, it now seems to be false again. We first reported about it in December, telling a site in New Zealand had the product up as pre-order. However, the page now shows nothing related to The Sims or any possible add-on anymore. Also, Maxis has contacted our affiliate SimGateway to remove posts regarding SuperStar. Another Australian site is still showing it as pre-order, but that may be removed soon. That only leaves the question what 7th expansion pack Will Wright was talking about in a German magazine - unless that was meant ironically, like the Sums and the Sams. This makes it all quite unlikely again that The Sims Superstar will ever be seen again, but we never know. If this expansion pack isn't coming, then we might even get to see The Sims 2 in the shops by the second quarter of this year - they won't have to keep it (approximately) 6 months away from SuperStar then. However, as they will probably show it on the E3, it will be late May or else probably after the summer before The Sims 2 will actually be released. But then again, it could also become 2004... Maxis knows, we don't...