The Sims
System: Gamecube   Publisher: EA Games   Developer: Edge of Reality   Genre: Strategy   Release Date: 01/12/03

There is also a two player mode where you and a friend can go head to head in a competition. The first two player mode you have takes place in a museum where the two sims will try to scam people out of money, the one with the most money wins the one with the least gets caught by the cops. Are you a good scam artist?

This game is hilarious, especially when you allow the sims to do as they please. Beware of having an oven in your home when your sims have no cooking skills because they are liable to start a fire, but that in itself is funny to watch too. Sims will fight, they will even hit each other when they get really mad and that just adds to the charm of the game because it is when they get out of control that the game is the most entertaining. After awhile playing can get a little dull because they repeat the same actions over and over again; get up, pee, shower, go to work, come home, and sleep. Basically you are just waiting for them to come up with more money so that you can build. Even the building is a bit of a let down though because there is a limit to how much you can put on your lot. I was building a giant home, I had already added on all of the rooms I just needed to decorate them, but I couldn’t even buy a flower because my lot was too full. I had three rooms left that hadn’t even been decorated yet. Just remember go sparingly.

The graphics on this game are great, you can see details in the sims faces and see images on the television screen. The sound effects are also good, you can tell by the sound of the television whether it is on a horror film or cartoons. The graphics for this Sims game by far exceed the graphics in the first Sims on the PC, but the PC version is still a lot more fun. You can fill your lot as full as you want with whatever kind of junk that you want and it has expansion packs with a lot better items than this Sims game. Maxis’ The Sims just didn’t live up to the expectations that I had for it after playing the PC version of the Sims for over a year. However, on it’s own this is a pretty cool game with a lot of flavor. I especially enjoyed the two player mode and some of the mission modes even though I was never able to throw the raging party to finish up with the second house. This game is fun to keep around because of how addictive it can be, even to critics like myself.

Miranda Stites, HeroesOfGaming.com, 07/18/05