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Love the cuteness!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I simply LOVE this game! Unlike the regular Sims, in which you have to make sure they're fed or else they'll fall where they stand, you just have fun meeting the new people that come into town, and I love their reactions when you decorate things to their liking!

The characters are very cute, and I wish I could hug them (odd, I know, but I have a weakness for cute at times), and it's fun to build all the houses, furniture, and whatever they need. That's the main thing that's different from the Sims. Other than the fact that it might slow up after hours and hours of play (played for over 6 hrs. once), it's a great game.

Better Than the Regular Sims Games!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First off My Sims is not a Sims game. It's kind of like Animal Crossing, except a ton better. And yes, parents, it is apropriate for kids.

Gameplay- My Sims has totally different gameplay than the original Sims games, but is similar in different ways. You don't need to keep your Sims fed and happy, and you also don't need to worry about Simoleons (sim money). That makes the game easier. Most of the time you will be busy moving in Sims and completing tasks for them. The tasks are things like "build me a pizza oven for my restaurant", or "build me an arcade machine for my arcade". To complete these tasks you will need to build the item out of blocks in your workshop. There are bueprints to make building easier, but fitting in the blocks can be frrusturating. Once you complete all of a Sim's task he/she will give you a blueprint or an item to decorate your room with.
Every morning new Sims appear at the hotel. It is you job to build them a happy home. Building homes is fun and easy. There are many kinds of windows, doors, and decorations to make your houses cute, unique, and creative. The goal of My Sims is to build a five star town. In My Sims, what you make makes all the difference!

Graphics- In My Sims the graphics are colorful and cute, but nothing amazing.

Controls-The controls are easy to pick up and work very well.
A button-interact with objects and other Sims
B button-hold it down and shake the remote to shake essences off of trees.
C button-camera (which works very well by the way)
+ button-look in backpack (task book, inventory, etc.)
- button-save/exit/pause game

Negatives- In My Sims, you can't build trees and the layout, which really stinks. The places to build are laid out for you. The game would be so much better if you could build wherever you want. I also wish that you could create your neighbors. The game's loading times are pretty long, but aren't too bad. It's just that it needs to load way too much. Before you enter and exit a house, before you build, before you enter another area of town, before a neighbor gives you a task...some of us aren't that patient!!

Besides the negatives, My Sims is an excellent game that anyone any age can enjoy. Thanks for reading and happy gaming!!!

My daughter loves this game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: October 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My daughter, who loves to play Sims on her Gameboy, is in love with this game! It is a nice alternative to the regular Sims game of mine that she keeps bugging me to play. I feel the regular Sims is a bit too mature for her (she's 12). She would play it for hours and hours if I let her. I recommend this for any parent who is looking for a fun, interactive game for their kids to play.

Cute but wish they had added more

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: September 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This was a game I was really psyched to hear about. I purchased it the first day and have played it almost non-stop. Overall this is a cute little game that will give you hours of fun IF you aren't looking for an experience similar to the PC versions. Like most of the non-PC Sims games this one has a definite plot line and less free for all then the Sims or Sims 2 PC versions. You have goals to complete and new characters to meet. If you enjoy building and taking care of a little digital town this game is for you.

All my problems with this game are fairly minor and have little to do with the game play. I wish they had some sort of interactive dimension to the game. There should be some way for you to go and visit other My Sims towns to see what other people have built. It would be great if you could look at their designs, copy or trade with them, and really make a community out of a game that begs to have one built around it. The designers seem to have forgotten that they were working with a next-gen platform about halfway through the games design. While they did an excellent job of working in the Wii's unique characteristics with fishing and prospecting, they missed a whole avenue to make the Wii designed Sims' games as popular as their PC counterparts. Also, and this part I am unsure on, I do not believe that you can hook the Wii version to the DS version which is a bit sad. Did the designers run out of time? Or are these things low on the priority list until they see how the game sells? Questions I just don't have any answers to.

My Sims is a good game that begs to be tweaked. Hopefully this is not the last Wii based Sims game we see.

A bit of a yawner

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: September 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am a big fan of the Sims and Sims2 games. I was very excited about this title. But its a big of a let down. It is not at all what I expected. Pretty much its a building game. Nothing else. You walk around town, you are given tasks to build certain things, you then walk around, collecting materials to MAKE the items and "essences" to decorate them with to suit each client. You then give them the item and they ask you to make something else. There is almost no interaction other than these requests for stuff.
You cannot customize your character more than a few things, they are little different from the Miis except they are cuter.
One thing that is extremely disappointing about it is that it is the exact same game regardless who is playing. If my husband creates a Sim, he starts in the same place, same way, same town. I will never see his Sim, he will never see mine.
That being said, its a fun little game but I wish they had called it something else, there is really very little of what you think of as the Sims here.

Kinda fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is kinda fun, but the instructions are bad, and dont tell you how to get anywhere,or what to do. I give this game 3 stars, but barly. I would recomend this game to big-time gammers, but not first time, like me.

My Sims

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My 6 and 8 year old love this game. Their friends do too. Unfortunately the game is designed for only one player at a time. This has been the only downside we've experienced.

Simszzzzzzzzz

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: November 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this for my wife, expecting the same sort of game play as Sims and Sims 2 or perhaps SimCity. Boy were we disappointed.

Game play is simple to the point of pointlessness. Loading screens abound and get longer the longer you play. In build mode, the challenge is mainly how to get the controller to put the piece where you want it. At first, I thought there was a hardware problem, as the screens bogged and the cd drive began to make lots of noise.

As others have stated, multiplayer and some way to save and trade your designs could have made this a better product. Judging by the way it chugs and bogs down, we may be asking too much from this title already.

The worst aspect is that you are essentially a one-person factory for your town. It would not be so bad, if only all this building had a point. I have played it up to 3 1/2 stars, and I am done with it. My wife didn't even get past 2. She says it puts her to sleep.

Agree with Navy Wife... Rent First

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 15
Date: September 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I rented it and personally thought it was so bad that I turned it off and watched a movie instead. It starts out with the Mayor walking you around and having you build stuff. I personally thought that it was a little difficult (and I hate to say it, but stupid) to build things. My house and workshop looked weird- nothing how I would have liked to build them. Then the mayor told me to put a chair together and I had had enough, this is when I hit the power button. Maybe I didn't give it enough of a chance, but I don't really want to. Give me a new version of Sim City for Wii (I have downloaded the old one on my Wii for $5 and played it for hours and hours!)

A lot more fun than I thought

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: October 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of the most fun games for the wii, it keeps you busy finding all the different essences, and it is fun building all the different things for it, I think this would be great for kids and families, my wife loves playing this game A LOT even though she is not the biggest fan of video games.

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