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Bustin' out? Or just a total bust.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: January 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

It kept me preoccupied for a few days. Tedium, but with a purpose - unlock all the cool stuff, and actions, etc. Move on to a fun interactive neighborhood. Not.
I endured the raunchiness (the Sims seems to be heading in the direction of the Springer show at this point). I went along with the Fox-style "politically correct" (pausing for bouts of near-nausea) and alternately contradictory goals, increasingly losing interest.
And I'm a stage from the last, having birthed a baby who grew to have a mullet, sporting a dirty shirt and shorts that look like womens' undies. I'd change that, but Maxis for reasons unknown has done away with the vanity concept. I consider momentarily buying a fireplace, burning the kid and going for a clean slate. Instead opt for turning the game off. I'm wondering why I waited so long. I won't be turning it back on.
Don't waste your money. Maxis is building itself a sinking ship, and I for one, am bailing.

Boring

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 21
Date: October 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The Sims Bustin Out is a really really boring game. It is the same thing as every other sims game but you are in different places. All you do is control someones life. Dont buy it. It is a waste of monney.

Equally dull and frustrating. Avoid it.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: June 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When I played The Urbz: Sims in the city, I was like :Wow. The graphics were fresh, cool soundtrack and excellent controls with an easy-to-handle motive system. I started to grow interested in the Sims and I bought this. I played it and I loved it... not. The graphics were perfect 3/10 material, the sound is... yuck. And the motive system? Always decreasing fastly, millions of motives to take care of at once and death comes to your Sim if they starve. Death does not come to the Urbz, they are wacko but not as wacko as Sims: B.O. That cursor moves awfully slow and the sims are #$%&#&%$#%& frustrating. They can be too tired to sleep, too hungry to eat, too bored to have fun etc. All I am saying is just a simple: DON'T BUY THIS CRAP!!!

Graphics: 3.5- Sloppy and tired, a pity.
Sound: 1.5- Clunky music and crap SFX.
Gameplay: 0.5- God awful.
Replay Value: negative 10- that daydream in the beginning is definetly the best part. Bleh.
Overall: 1.2- No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no.

Final Verdict: Buy AND die!

this is no different from the sims

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: October 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game isn't any better than the sims i own both games and the only thing thats differnt from the sims and the sims busten out is the story line and that you watch you drive your vehicle i men how gay is that?I mean i don't know why they called this game sims bustin out i mean i dont even know why they wasted there time makeing this one.I sugest if you want to start with sims wait and get the sims 2.

Extremely Disappointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: May 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a horrible game. I have played every other Sims game made, and this does not even come anywhere near to being as good as the rest. One of the worst aspects of this game is that you are very limited as to what you can do. There are no neighborhoods like in the other games. You cannot visit other places. Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would rate this game a negative ten.

This game stinks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: January 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I think it was a very good idea to have sims on the ps2 but not this sims. I am asamed at the makers, the sims are usually so fun, but on the ps2, its hard to control you never win, and your people either die or get depressed. I would totally not recomend this game, the only thing that happens is this guy who lives in a mansion comes around and steels all your stuff, so you have to try to move to the mansion to get it all back. I would not recomend this for kids 10 nand lower because there is some kissing and love content. Dudley who's house you got to first is a tralior disgised as a pig sty. It is quiet disgusting and I shut my game down as soon as I got there. The first house you live in is your mom's house and your mom looks like a wolf. Finally, in the mode where you can make your own house you run out of money, as soon as u build the walls... do not buy this game I would adviz you not to at least.

Simmed Out?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: April 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I don't know what it is about this game but I just can't get into it. I don't know if I would have liked it better had I not already got Sims2 when I bought this, if it's the difference between the PS2 and the PC controlling system, the plot, or what it is. I just can't get into the game.

I love Sims and Sims2, and even spent a good six or seven hours playings "The Urbz" on PS2 with a friend, but I can't do this. I bought it when I realized I would have to send my PC into the shop and wasn't sure I could do without my "Sims Fix" but this certainly did not satisfy, about the only thing I liked was going through character creation, that was a great deal of fun, but once the actual game play started...urgh. I stuck it out for almost an hour, and couldn't take any more. I keep meaning to go back and give it another try, because I can't believe there's a Sims game I wouldn't like, but I just can't bring myself to play again.

What is the point of this game?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 20
Date: December 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Bad graphics, bad sound, not in anyway fun. To hard. This game is stressful, just like real life and I don't want to sit down and waste my time at this. You can't keep yourself happy and do all the other things in the short amount of time you get. In the games time, it takes him an hour and a half to eat, half hour to go to the bathroom, he needs to sleep for at least nine hours and need to be happy, clean, likes the house, is relaxed, and is social staduis is good. In the later levels you have to on top of that help run a gym and help people and stuff

Memory cards!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 17
Date: December 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have 3 kids who all would like to play this game, but they can't without erasing the other's progress. Whenever you create another person to play with, it asks you if you would like to save, you click yes, and it asks you if you would like to overwrite the current player. Its stupid, and memory cards turned out costing much more than the game itself, so if you have more than 1 person wanting to play this game, you have three options. Buy massive amounts of memory cards; don't end up buying the game in the first place; or listening to arguing over who erased who's Sims.

The Sims Bustin' Out - A major disappointment

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Before you read the glowing reviews about new objects, social interactions and the ability to visit other locations, ask yourself what you expect from a Sims game. If you prefer mission based gameplay and nothing else, this is the game for you. If you prefer the open ended free play of the original console Sims and the PC games, save your money. In the Bustin' Out version of free play you are only given three open houses instead of the six in the original. You can forget about all the exciting places like Club Rubb and Pixel Acres you unlock in the mission based mode because you can't visit or call any of the Sims you met there. You're basically stuck in your free play house with only your neighbors from the other two free houses to invite over. This total lack of freedom ruined the replay value of this game for me despite the new items and locations. I only recommend this disaster to die hard Sims fans who must own every game and expansion.

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