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111. Chat Transcripts

Written on Friday 16 January 2004 at 08:59 by ChEeTaH - 9 comments.

The chat from the official site is over for about 8 hours now, and Maxis has already posted the transcript of it. There were many questions and answers as usual, for instance about the recently announced N-Gage version of Bustin' Out:

"SimsBustinOutRoks: N GAGE: Will it be like GBA version?"
"Yes, it will have the same gameplay only with new objects and more mini-games via a cell phone you will have in-game. You will also be able to use the BlueTooth technology to hook up to other players for trading."
"Guest: what was the funnest thing to make in Bustin Out?"
"MaxisScotchmo: The social interactions we're really humorous to make. We shot footage of our animators acting them out for reference. Remember this when watching "pull finger"!"

Of course that are only 2 of all the questions, and there's a lot more to read. Click here to read it all.

112. Bustin' Out on N-Gage

Written on Monday 12 January 2004 at 22:04 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Now Bustin' Out has been released on Consoles and GBA, it's time to look forward again. With mobile phones becoming a new platform for gaming more and more, EA makes the logical step to bring The Sims to your phone. The Nokia N-Gage to be precise. This has been announced in a press release by Nokia. Players will be able to share objects using BlueTooth Wireless technology, and it will come with an "Exclusive N-Gage Arena". Besides that the game will have exclusive objects and mini-games. For more information, click here for Nokia's press release, or here for more information about N-Gage.

113. SimDay [Update]

Written on Thursday 8 January 2004 at 16:12 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

This SimDay isn't a very big one, but it's something. It comes with some 'new' screenshots, which have been seen at other sites before. If you still want to see them at the official Sims 2 site, click here. Besides that there's some new info about GameSpot's Designer Diary. If you'd like to know more about that, click here. Finally, there's been a community update again, and for the second time in history The Sims Zone is mentioned in it. It's about the updated Neighborhood Handler and Add-on Handler. Those have been updated last month, adding Makin' Magic compatibility and new features.

[Update 21:40] The official Sims 2 website has also posted an updated Sims 2 fansite kit with a lot of new material again. You can download that from this page. The Console section at the Sims 1 website has also been updated with new walkthroughs for Bustin' Out on the Consoles and the GBA. You can use these if you're stuck in the Bustin' Out mode of the game. That really is all this SimDay.

114. New Bustin' Out Reviews

Written on Tuesday 6 January 2004 at 19:13 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

In the past week, several gaming sites have posted a review of The Sims Bustin' Out, either on the GBA, the consoles, or both. Here are links to the new GBA reviews:

GameSpy (Score: 4/5)

Gaming Age (Score: B)

WorthPlaying (Score: 7.5/10)
And of course there are also new reviews for the PS2, GameCube and X-Box versions of the game:

GameNikki (PS2, Score: 8/10)

GameNikki (GameCube, Score: 8/10)

Game Revolution (PS2, GameCube, X-Box, Score: B)

GameZilla (X-Box, Score: 3.3/5)

GameZone (PS2, Score: 8.2/10)

Gaming Age (X-Box, Score: C+)

Microsoft X-Box World (X-Box, Score: 7/10)

For more reviews of these games from other sites, including a quote and score, check out our review indexes. Click here for the GBA reviews, or right here for the reviews of the PS2, GameCube and X-Box versions. More review indexes can be found in the Extras section.

 

115. Merry Christmas

Written on Wednesday 24 December 2003 at 02:35 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

On behalf of everybody from The Sims Zone, I want to wish everybody a merry (and white) Christmas. Don't forget about your Sims, but don't spend too much time with them either :-) If you're going to get any presents, let's hope it's Makin' Magic, Bustin' Out or anything else Sims-related. Our 'present' to you are several new extras. The first one is a complete career index of ALL the careers in The Sims 1 and its expansions. You can now get more info about every career in high detail, including job descriptions, requirements, working times, and mood change per hour. And of course the salary... You can get in by clicking here. Some of the careers have been in the index for quite a while, but the last ones weren't added until a few days ago. Besides that, we've finally added a few review indexes, which contain links to many reviews we've found on the internet of the recently released games. Click the names below to go to the index for each game:

• Makin' Magic
• Bustin' Out (GBA)
• Bustin' Out (Consoles)

I want to thank GameRankings, ToTheGame and SimsZone.de for providing the many links to all the reviews. You can always access these review indexes, as well as the career index, through our Extras section.

116. Bustin' Out Released

Written on Tuesday 16 December 2003 at 13:15 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Today, EA shipped The Sims Bustin' Out on three consoles: the PS2, GameCube and X-Box. The GBA edition has been out for 2 weeks already, and this version went gold last week. The game should be in stores soon, if it isn't already. EAGames.com has posted a few movies of Bustin' Out, a Sim's worst week, a "Sizzle" trailer and a clip with the creators doing their thing, all of which you can find right here. The last two of those have been spotted before, but you can now still see them in high or low resolution. QuickTime required. If you want to read the full press release about the shipping of the game, click here.

117. Bustin' Out Last Diary

Written on Tuesday 16 December 2003 at 11:47 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The last designer's diary of Bustin' Out has been posted at GameSpot. We can read what Mike Perry (who also did the previous diaries) has to say about the console-specific features, i.e. the online mode on the PS2, the GameCube/GBA connectivity, and the HDTV support for the X-Box. Here's a little snippet about the last mentioned feature:

"HDTV is the way television was meant to be seen. All versions of The Sims Bustin' Out have really excellent all-new graphics and special effects, but only the Xbox has native 720p widescreen HDTV support. In HDTV mode, you can play The Sims Bustin' Out with smokin' graphics so detailed they are even better than DVD movies. The colorfully psychedelic dance floor of Clubb Rubb looks awesome in HDTV."

This part also comes with several new screenshots, as usual. Those can be found, which you can view here. You can read the article at this page. As the game will be released today (in the US anyway), this is the last designer's diary for Bustin' Out. For the previous issues, click the following links to our news posts about them: Part 3, Part 2, and Part 1.

118. Bustin' Out Newsflash

Written on Friday 12 December 2003 at 20:38 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Bustin' Out on GBA has been released in Europe today, and the release date for the consoles has been pushed back a week (only in Europe), to 19 December (which is next week). There have been several reviews of the GBA version already, which will soon lead to a review index of that game (just like Makin' Magic - sorry for the delay of that) at this site. You can find reviews of the GBA version at GameNikki (9/10), GamePro (4/5), IGN (8/10) and GameSpot (8.1/10). With the console versions going gold earlier this week, there are also some new screenshots and articles about that. You can find some new screens at WorthPlaying. IGN has posted an article about some of the characters you'll meet in the game right here. If you want to know more about the online functionality on the PS2 version, you might want to check out a new article at GameSpot (with a few screenshots) that covers that. Enjoy that right here. For the interested people: the release dates. The GBA version has been released in both the USA (2 December) and Europe (today). The console versions (PS2, GameCube and X-Box) will be released next week. 16 December in the US, and 19 December in Europe to be precise. All just in time for the holiday season.

119. Bustin' Out Gone Gold

Written on Sunday 7 December 2003 at 20:33 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The new console version of The Sims, Bustin' Out, has gone gold for PS2, GameCube and X-Box. The CDs are being pressed, and soon will ship to Europe (Release: 12 December), and the US (Release: 16 December). In Bustin' Out your Sims will be able to leave the house, and visit other areas on their scooter, car, or whatever they earned in the Get-A-Life mode. There will also be two-player support again, but on the PS2 version you can take it online. The GameCube version adds connectivity with the GBA version, which was released recently, and X-Box players get HDTV support which means better graphics. Of course there will be a free mode play, that we know from The Sims on the PC, as well. The rating is "T" (Teen). If you want to see a bunch of (new posted) screenshots, visit IGN or GameSpot. Expect the game in your local store soon!

120. SimDay

Written on Thursday 4 December 2003 at 22:34 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

This week's SimDay is pretty big. Besides the chat and the release of Bustin' Out on the GBA (with the press release now showing the right picture), there's the announcement of a chat at WorldSims next Saturday at 12pm (8pm in Britain, 9pm in Europe). It will be about The Sims 2 University, and I'll be attending as well. More from TS2U is another interview, this time with Chris from SimSational. You can read it right here. Just two more things left: one is the next part of the Designer Diary at GameSpot. This time, it's Lucy Bradshaw and Tim LeTourneau talking about the Neighborhood. There's some new info in it, for instance that for their relationship, it matters how close friends live. Here's another new bit:

"A really cool new feature is that after you've built a house, you can pick it up and move it to another lot. If you want to fix up your lonely bachelor with the cute girl (who's a few blocks away) more quickly, well, now you can just pick up his house and make them next-door neighbors."

The fifth part of this diary comes with several screenshots, including 4 of Riverside Neighborhood. You can now also see boats and a rainbow. As if that's not enough, there's a new trailer for GameSpot members (Free registration is required), which shows the fly-through option, through Riverside Neighborhood. You can read the diary here, see the screenshots here and download the trailer here. Finally, this SimDay comes with two new track pieces for the fun house that comes in Makin' Magic. Download both tracks (1.4 Mb in total) from Get Cool Stuff.