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If you liked Bustin Out for GBA, You'll LOVE the Urbz

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 20
Date: December 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The Sims are back, with a new and edgy attitude and environment. No more farm for you, you wake up with a thankless job in the big city and it's your goal to make it big. You can choose from four "groups": Arties, Nerdies, Richies or Streeties, but you can be friends with all of the groups and complete all the group missions too.
What's best about this game are the fun characters, original settings, and approachable missions. There are few new elements such as woodcarving and baking too. The "jobs" are really fun minipuzzles, and the Xixxles (perks such as lower hunger or more money for jobs) make the game more interesting, without having to use codes/cheating.
This game is obviously restricted in that it's a GAMEBOY, not a gamecube or a computer, so the limitless possibilities of the Sims are not going to be here, but if you are goal oriented, like puzzles, and enjoyed Bustin Out, you will love this game!

Urbz Rulz!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: November 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've played Sims Bustin' Out, Sims2 and The Urbz: Sims in the City, and Urbz is definitely my favorite. If you've played Bustin' Out and enjoyed it, you'll enjoy this game even more (there are actually references to Bustin' Out in this game; i.e. Uncle Heyseed calls you to let you know the chicken miss you). It is like Bustin' Out in that you complete missions to unlock jobs (don't you wish you could earn money for these kinds of jobs in real life) where you can earn Simoleons and open up new areas of the game by completing missions or achieving promotions in certain jobs. You also get to move to different houses or apartments like in Bustin' Out. Urbz, however, is bigger and better. There are more places to go including taking a paddleboat to islands or the swamps of the bayou. You also have more freedom in that you can live in a variety of places and in any part of town you want. You're not forced to move to a certain house like in Bustin' Out.

Another aspect of this game that makes it an improvement from Bustin' Out are rep groups. There are four rep groups (Nerdies, Steeties, Artsies, and Richies) with four members each. You start out in one of the rep groups based on an answer you give to a question at the beginning of the game, but you can change your rep group. You earn rep group points by building your popularity with rep group members, having negative popularity with the rep leader of the rival group, finding a trophy for the rep group and giving it to the leader, completing the rep group missions, moving to a certain part of town, etc. Once achieving levels 9 and 10 with a rep group, you receive gifts, and keys to their clubhouse. The best gift is the Sensory Deprivation Chamber given by Luthor, leader of the Richies. You get inside and it maxes all your personal needs levels, including sleep, without speeding up the time. The disappointments are the clubhouses. It's neat the see how they're decorated but nothing happens there. The other rep group members do not hang out there, so what's the point?

Once you are at level 9 or 10 with your rep, you beginning walking like your rep group. When I first saw my character walking like a Richie, I literally laughed out loud. The other rep group members react differently to you as well. Another addition to this game are Xizzle beads you can get from characters for gaining a certain level of popularity or can find. You can use them to buy certain things like the slowing of the decline of certain personal needs, Simoleons, popularity boosts, etc. I ended up with way more beads than there are things to buy. You have to hook the game up to another game to unlock more Xizzles as well as travelling to the moon.

The things you can buy are also really cool like a skydiving machine. Most of the jobs are very fun, too. The easiest is the basketball game, Hoopz. My favorite was Doctor Max Stat, which is kind of like word search only using body parts. The most difficult game, to me, was Comic Explosion. You have to tell jokes on a stage and avoid tomatoes being thrown at you constantly. It took me along time to achieve the highest promotion in that game. There is also an underlying storyline. You have to stop Daddy Bigbucks from buying the city and charging residents for using all the shops and facilities as if it were an amusement park. He gets his comeuppance, big time! At the end you can use a time machine to check out prehistoric times, the American Civil War, a video game from the early 1980s, and even Bustin' Out (although you can't really do anything in those places).

Different City, Same Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: November 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing this game for a week and a few days now. It's just as addictive as Busting Out (GBA) was, but it's pretty much the same game, plus or minus a few minor things. Rep points are a strange thing, and I've found that they don't really contribute to gameplay. A few of the challenges are harder than they were in Busting Out, and I've also found that your Urb will continue to fulfill motives even after the bar is full.

It isn't a bad game, but I was expecting more.

This is the Best ONe yet!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: February 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I am so shocked that this game is so great! i was addicted, my parents couldn't even pry me away from it! I think that it was so much better!

Pro's:
More HOuses
More Pets
MOre Minigames
MORE GOOD GRAPHICS!

Cons:
Long GOals (i had to buy the cheat book to finish it)
Eats up time

I loved this game!!! great investment of hard earned money!!!!

Fun and addicting!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: July 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

At 28 years old, I felt I'm a little too old to become addicted to video games.

I was so wrong.

The Urbz is cool, and as addicting as hot fudge sundaes. I played this game for twelve hours straight one day. The characters are funny, the challenges cool, and what's more, after you "beat" the game, you can continue to play in free mode and accomplish all the rep goals. I recommend this as one of the best Sims games.

Fun, but Don't Expect the Sims

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: June 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a pretty fun game by itself, but if you compare it to the original Sims for PC this one is quite a bit different, and at it's heart is a Sim-popularity quest. Basically you've entered a new city where you don't know anybody and you work as a janitor. You then embark on 5 different missions (each one is subdivided into 5 goals, which are further subdivided into 5 small tasks) to save Miniopolis from an evil tyrant. Among your goals will be to give people gifts, make certain friends, convince people to do things, run errands, raise your overall popularity percentage, etc.
This game differs wildly from the PC Sims in several major ways:

A. You can have romantic relationships, but you cannot get married or have kids.
B. You don't have an actual job that the carpool picks you up for everyday, but instead you unlock minigames and play them for money. You can then be "promoted" in the minigames by raising your skill (body, charisma, logic, etc.) points.
C. You can buy a house and buy furniture, but only expect to spend about 1/4 of your time in it, and even then it will only be to eat, sleep, and take a shower.
D. All of your household appliances will break often, and you will also be robbed frequently if you do not buy a security system.

A lot of things about the game are much better than the original Sims, such as:

A. Much more interesting characters to befriend.
B. Many more types of pets to have, and you don't have to feed them! (You can play with them, pet them, take them for a walk, or just let them wander around your apartment.)
C. You can use a motorcycle or hover-board to navigate your way around Miniopolis.
D. Other things besides bills arrive in the mail, such as occasional checks and packages with items inside.
E. It is easier to earn skill points, as there is a Miniopolis University which has Logic, Cooking, and Mechanical classes for you to enroll in.

Once you beat the game, which doesn't take too long since this game isn't very hard to figure out, you are allowed to continue gameplay as usual except without any goals or missions to complete. You can befriend people to unlock secret areas and keep earning promotions and buying better houses and items.

The urbz rock!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: December 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The urbz is alot of fun but I am stuck where you just are about to go to file 3. If you have any suggetions write something on this web page and I will write back. overall I like it and it doesn't show anything if you know what I mean.
I would recamend this game to anyone I know.
very entetaned by the urbz, game freak7

Okay, this isn't the sims but still fun...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: December 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Let's start with FYI I may be 11 years old but am not stupid and you SHOULD read this review because it's useful and not dumb.
Okay let's crack down to business:
Pros:
lots of characters
apartments are pretty nice
its fun
you get paid quite alot if you have at least 4 body points

Cons:
No marriage, whoohoo, kids etc.
After you finish it you have no moral intrest in it anymore
For the dumb mind its hard

Yes, for dumb people it's hard...no offense......

I finished the game....I do sort of have the urge not to trade it in and still kind of live there>?

The PS2 version is no better and I can say worse. This game doesn't need a walkthrough but if your haing trouble then I would suggest because Glasstown is the best! THe PS2 versions having beens getting very bad lately...not the point.

Overall I suggest buying this game because you'll have a lot of fun.

Well, happy simming!

The Sims are great!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: November 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

In response to the previous reviewer. The map to paradise island is on the casino boat on the third level and once you give it ot the guy in the university you will be able to take a baot to paradise island where you will find the dancing nutria (?) I hope this helps.

Cool, new, and fresh

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: June 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have the bustin out for gba. but when I got this game I saw bustin out couldn't be compared with this game. Its cool, new, and fresh. With new characters its more interesting. There's 1 major flaw and thats that you can't have kids! BUt this game is a good investment that you'll be playing on a looooooooong time.

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