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Slow and Boring

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've played the PC version of Sims, but I don't like that I have to choose everything for my Sims, so when you get missions here, I though that would be much better.

I think the story of the game goes that you crash your car in a town, so now you gotta run a hotel there. (?) Anyway, what you do is try to gather money to build new rooms and interact with the people in town. There aren't a lot of characters there, maybe 10 or so, and the interactions are limited. Basically what you do is match your interaction icon with the characters' animation. So if the guy is angry and points hit finger at you, you should "beg". And if he puts his hand up, you should yell at him. It's utterly boring, and you have to time the animations exactly. And it's not like they hurry up doing things so you can respond to them, I've had many characters stand 5-10 seconds doing nothing, so I had to keep the volume quite high so I would hear when they did something. Some animations are also hard to tell apart, like some woman with black hair has almost identical animations where you should either yell or beg her to stop, and if you pick the wrong one your sanity meter goes down.

Everybody in town, including you, has a sanity meter. When it reaches zero... you go insane. Not your character though it seems, and sometimes you just need to interact with some objects to fill it up. However, you need sanity quite high to deal with crazy people.

What I don't like about this game is that it has a clock that works with the clock in real life. So a minute in the game is a real-life minute. It's just awful having to wait 8 HOURS to get the ultra-slow Tristan to build you a room. I don't usually have a lot of time playing, and when I do play - I want to PLAY! Now I have to turn off the game and come back later... the reason I buy a game is to play it to pass time and have FUN! While you wait for the time to go by, you can't do a lot of things, you can't get new guests into rooms because you need to build them. You can't make money easily, picking up an object at some point and sell it or hope your paintings gets sold. It takes FOREVER. You basically run around and around until you get some kind of mission, that usually includes something lame like vacuuming the floors or finding a stolen telephone. The only thing I thought was kinda cute was the Sailor who kept locking himself in the freezer room calling me for help.

There are a lot of glitches and annoyances in this game, for example, you get a mission to exterminate rats. I went all over the whole hotel vacuuming them up (I don't know why you need to vacuum rats, but whatever...) and then there were no rats left, but I still didn't get "Mission Complete", so there had to be some left. I looked EVERYWHERE and I only had like 15 minutes to complete the mission. Then when I've walked around the whole house for the 17th time, then SUDDENLY out of nowhere comes rats where I've searched 8 times before. How are you supposed to do this mission if not all the rats are present until time is over?? This also happened when I was supposed to save the Sailorman from Aliens, I got rid of the Aliens, but he was nowhere to be seen and I failed the mission.
Other bugs include characters who are being captured by aliens still coming to the hotel to buy your paintings, not that I mind, but they aren't supposed to.

Also I wonder why you have your own room when you can just walk into a guest room and use their shower and toilet? I mean, the Sailorman practically wathed the girl I was playing "doing her business" and none of them seemed to care. That fancy suit guy also took a shower in front of her without being bothered. You can also walk into their room and eat from their refrigerator, I sold my own stuff and used the money to build more stuff in the hotel. The same goes for the romantic interactions, no matter how many guys I kiss, none of the other guys gets jealous, and you can't seem to fall in love with any of them either.

The pace of the game is just snore-slow, since you have to wait such a long time for things to happen, there's really not much to do. They could really have done a lot with the game, especially the stylus which you mostly use to pick options. Instead of having Tristan build your rooms, I wish you could build them yourself. Like hammer, putting up wallpaper, sewing curtains, building furniture... and more things to make money, like maybe singing into the microphone to get tips from guests?

Because of the real-time clock, you are forced to wait forever for the guests to leave the hotel, they need to stay DAYS, and that means REAL DAYS. So if I play the game on Tuesday, some guests won't leave on Thursday. Why would I want to play a game where I have to wait REAL DAYS to advance? Imagine playing Mario and he wouldn't be able to resque the princess until Friday, because a thwomp had fallen asleep on a bridge, and there's nothing you can do about it.
And if you cheat and change the time on the DS, Aliens take over town and your character can't move. Everybody hates her and she just walks so slow she takes minutes to get to another room. What were they thinking?

I don't have time to play games whenever I want to, sometimes I can't play for 12-24 hours, and that dosen't work with this game, because most missions are timed. And if the aliens take over town just because I don't have time playing, why bother?

DS The Sims 2: Waay better than the Urbz!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

DS the sims 2, is extremely fun, if you are a sim fan buy this game! It's not like the computer/xbox etc. games, its different but still a sims game. The story line is your car breaks down and your stranded in Strangetown, and the hotel manager leaves, so its up to you to become the manager and manage the hotel. You deal with alien invasions, goons, robots. You also have to keep the place clean, vacuum clean up 'Ick' spills. Find your friends lost cell's and furniture etc. I got this game yesterday and so far its very fun! The only problem i'm having is Recharging the metal detecter, supposadly you r suppossed to recharge it at the Hotel Reactor, but I cant find it, i think its the "Hotel Furnace" but im not sure. So if anyone has an answer please please reply to this review or u can email me @ ice_breakers202@yahoo.com thanx.
Overall this game has 4/5 stars, considering its real time and takes 8 hours to build a room... but thats realisticish. :D. If you looking for a sims like the computer game on the DS this is pretty close, but you arent in a house, but you still have to take a shower/use the toilet/sleep/eat/drink. you can also workout on the treadmill and use the tanning thingy and it really gives u a tan!! This game is so cool and im only on the mission where you have to build the Vault. The only thing that im really frustrated with is the darn metal detecter, i really wanna use it, but no luck recharging it. So far this game ROCKS if your lookin for a adventurous new sims game, this is the game for all you new and old simmers! This game rox!

Grrrrrrrrrreat!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: January 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love this game so much!! It is hard to put down. You have many tasks to do but it keeps you busy. So buy it you'll like it.

A Very Satisfying Purchase!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I thought this would be a crappier version of the unrivaled original from the PC, but it's totally different and totally awesome! You are the owner of a run-down hotel, and you have the ultimate chance to restore it to greeatness! It's full of new challenges and surprises, and you have a whole bundle of things to work for! Complete the game's goals or even come up with your own! (i.e. "I want to make $100,000 Simoleons!" or "I want purchase all the possible rooms for my hotel!")

If you want a more-than-decent game, buy this!

"That animal was on the verge of ruining all my DEVIOUS PLANS...to watch television"---Optimum Alfred

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I started this game two weeks ago and just finished it (you can continue the game after finishing the missions by pushing "Select" during the credits). It is awesome! I had also finished Sims2 for Gameboy Advance (three times!) and, if you're not sure whether to get the DS version too, definitely get it! It is a completely different game. All the characters are there like Tristan Legend, Giuseppi Mezzoalto, Sancho Paco Panza, Frankie Fusilli, the mummy guy, Lord Mole and even Emperor Xizzle but, instead of acting in a reality show, you run a hotel.

As hotel manager, you check people in, they'll call you on your cell phone with complaints and requests, and you run around to cater to their every whim. These Sims have a lot of emotional problems. They need to be restrained, calmed down, and cheered up constantly! You also build attractions for your hotel. My favorite is the art gallery. You get to create actual paintings to put on display and sell. You can draw some pretty funny stuff if you know what I mean (nudge, nudge, say no more). You'll get calls on your cell phone from Sims who've bought your works. I've often run back to the art gallery to find out which painting was purchased. You can also save a favorite work of art and hang it in your room.

Another cool thing you can do is create music. In the lounge there is a keyboard with several songs already installed. You can use the keys, sound effects, and mixers to create your own song, record it and play it back! How cool is that! Other neat features in this game are the vacuum cleaner and metal detector. The vacuum is used on dust bunnies throughout the hotel which sometimes include valuable items you can grab for Simoleons. The metal detector is used in the desert to find spaceship parts, silver, copper, and gold bars, and other items you can cash in.

Sometimes you have to use a super soaker on aliens (led by Emperor Xizzle) who are invading the area. This takes patience as I've found the best strategy is to stalk them out and target one alien at a time before they can inform the others of your presence. It can be pretty challenging. The alien autopsy game is also a major challenge that I'm still trying to figure out. You also get to play a superhero, though I'm not sure about that rat suit!

The graphics are awesome! It's in 3D. The communication is better than the GBA version. You react to the body language of the Sims so it's not a guessing game to raise your social levels. One thing that could be better are the items you can buy. Sims games have never repeated the variety of things you could buy in "The Urbs: Sims in the City." Also, the skill levels, save for one, don't seem to have any effect on the game unless I missed something. Anyway, I won't give away too much stuff. The missions are easy to follow with just a little bit of thought. If you have Sims2 for GBA, here's a hint: insert the GBA cartridge in the system in addition to the DS. It will open up a game in the casino.

Not Fun At All

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is not very fun. It's okay, but what I hate the most is the new sanity meter. It dosnt show your needs seperatly, and when you have a need it goes down like crazy untill you fufill it but you don't know what you need untill it pops up over your head. The place is very small, not many places to go to, but a plus is the remixer where you can sample your voice into a song. There is not very much interactivity between people. You could make out with someone you just met, it's not realistic like the past sim games were. If you want a fun sims game, I'd suggest Sims Bustin Out for GBA or The Urbz for GBA or DS. This game was a waste of money.

A game made up of horrible game ideas!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: October 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I like the Sims on Pc and purchased this thinking it'd be somewhat similar (made the same mistake as many reviewers here). I also bought URBZ and liked that game a lot.

I think whether you'll like this game or not depends on what kind of games you usually like playing. I hated this game. And the games i like so far are urbz, puzzle quest, lost in blue 2. The ones i don't like are definitely sims 2 and trauma center. I couldn't get into brain age either. it was too easy and not challenging - so what's the point? I haven't played that many DS games yet but if your likes and dislikes somewhat match with mine, then don't buy this game.

There are other reviews out there that tell the details, there are cheats and walkthroughs etc. so i am not going to go into detail.

The only thing i will say about the game is, although it is mission based, the missions are too easy. The only challenge comes from it being real-time. A mission takes longer than a day - well because it's real time - not because it's hard :)

Anyway, although i hated the game, i finished it. Just because of my amusement of how bad the game was. It felt like while developing all the other games, there were good and bad ideas. They used the good ideas and left the bad ones out. Then, there was a big pile of bad ideas and they thought "hmm, let's make a game out of these so they don't go to waste". Seriously there were too many bad game ideas that..i was just amused.

I should say though, it is a must-have for any game developer to see "what not to do in a game"

I've got the answer to the mole problem

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: February 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

All you have to do is shoot him with your squirt gun.

The Sims 2

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: January 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is horrible you can't build or get good stuff!!!!! I would not recommend this game to anyone

~~~AWEOSOME~~~

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: December 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I love the Sims games so I should love this game!I already noticed that the Sims 2 for the GBA is different but so what?I only wanna play!The only thing i don't like is the graphics aren't as good as the gamecube,and computer graphics but i know the screen is much smaller.

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