Company: EA
Life simulation
Platform: Xbox 360
1 Player
My Rating: ** 1/2 out of *****
Do note it will contain scenes mention in the VG from me.
What do you get when you try to control the sims to do whatever you want to live in the city like in real-life. Like making friends, enemies, romantic couple or even family and to live in a house of one sims dream or nightmare. That same goes when you make your sims to work in a career or steal stuff to get money to pay bills or items from buy/build catalog. As for customizing a sims does have options to making the appearance, voice, traits to be useful to build up skills or other things. You need to select lifetime wish which would be compatible towards your traits and to be good for the lifetime rewards. There is a challenge shop as well when you can purchase items that would be available to get when you complete a challenge which reward in points.
Karma system available in consoles which you can use to do good for the sims or bad to cause havoc. But you do need to complete wishes in order to refill the meter to go to max 100. Some of karma are locked until you complete the required task and same goes for career outfits. Since this game does not end until you grown tired and start over w/ a new sims as it has story progression to allow other sims to live their life in different way as if you control them. There is aging system which allows all sims to grow up or use a birthday cake. Of course the sims does get to die from starvation, drowning, ,electrocution, fire or old age. You will be able to play as a ghost until the 5th day which gives you a choice to use divine intervention karma or leave them to be gone forever. You do need to watch your sims stats & moodlets in order to tell if that sims needed attention.
But I will say that this game can be very addictive since you are pretty much an a house builder to create your own style for the sims to live. Do note that there is a fire meter telling you how much items are taking up space and if it fills up to red as it put a stop to buying more stuff. This game is pretty much a port of the PC but look very similar as the graphics does look very nice. Like when you see how the character interacts, the buildings & items really show proper handling just like in real life. The downside is the reflection on the vehicles windows didn’t show as it looks flat and you can’t see the sky nor the ceiling in the house. The music is not that bad as you will hear different type of music to choose from. But I would rather hear from the Xbox HD instead. The controls were pretty much get use to while controlling your sims as well choosing action from the selections.
The huge downside that people face is gitches like save game freezes which can be huge downer to lose all that time getting by past 30 weeks or more. There has been no patches as of yet and of course major slowdown lag as you progress each weeks especially loading freeze. The challenge shop is not much all that excitement when they would’ve add more items for each type of specific theme. This is a fun game and not too challenging to get all the achievements when you spend all that time playing throughout. I give this game a ** 1/2 out of ***** for their major flaws in the game.
