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The Drudgery of Life Played Out on Playstation 2

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 21
Date: February 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Playing the virtual "life" can be interesting to some gamers, but The Sims at times might seem too insipid and lifeless to a first time player (like myself). The Sims brings out the timeless, but often forgotten, question of video gaming, "Why do we play computer games?" This game, however, brings this question to a new level. Against all logic of gaming, your "virtual character" goes on with his virtual joyless life doing everyday activities, such as watching TV, eating, boozing, cleaning after himself, etcetera. Ordinary things responsible citizens do everyday (maybe except for the boozing part). Do we really need to do all these activities twice, in real life as well as in our video games?
Gaming is imagination. The taking on of a persona almost impossible to attain in real life (ex. Super Commando, NHL Player)is key in video gaming. The rewards of venting stress or anger through video game violence, touchdown dances, and empire conquering are impossible to attain in the The SIMS. This game, however, makes the gamer live through (or remind them) a life dominated by schedules, social dispositions, and economical inadequities. What do players get by working everyday for a week in this game, a new virtual futon. This reward system is all to familiar to all. In short, this game is not FUN!!!
I have many more suggestions and complaints about this game, but the brevity of this review prevents me from mentioning them. In short, here are some of it:
-your virtual character can't get a shot gun to greet the robbers when they enter your home
-there should be a "nightlife" option, where your character doesn't eat nor sleep and in a constant party state.
-no drug dealers, no gang members, no bootleggers to antagonize... the "building up of relationships takes time" should be non-existent.
-there is no city to go to in this game. There should be clubs, dangerous alleys, and empty warehouses where your virtual character can get into trouble with the POLICE or the hoodlums.
I never seen a game this boring. This game brings out the BANALITY of life. Playing old Pac-Man games is more enjoyable than this. At least you are a round, dot-eating monster instead of a boring lifeless suburbanite.

HORRIBLE

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: January 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have ALL of the expansion packs for The Sims on PC. I LOVE that game.. and thats why I wanted SO much to get The Sims for ps2. When my brother brought it home, I ran upstairs, all excited to play my new game that I had paid SO much $$ for.. and what a waste it was. Lets talk about the graphics. Well first of all.. you can't even SEE them! Everythings fuzzy and you can't zoom in far enough to even see what your doing! The Get a Life mode.. well it about put me to sleep! The Mother was always telling me to do this and do that. I mean, come on! I just want to have alot of money and build a house and have a family! The game is so confusing. It took me a LONG TIME to get use to the controller. When I went to build my house, it took me forever to put up 1 wall. Theres not much of a variety of things either.. besides you can't even see what your buying! The picture is like ... this tiny! For now, I'm sticking to my PC version.

Huge disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: January 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'm sorry, but this game can not compete with the PC version(s). The 3-D graphics lose a lot of their coolness by being so dark and indistinct. I agree with the reviewer who said that you couldn't zoom in close enough to get a good look at the graphics. The unique features (Get-a-Life mode, two-player mode, etc.) don't compensate for the un-user friendly Buy and Build functions. Being a devoted Sims fan, I expected more. Either rent it first or buy it used. It's not worth the [$].

A not-so-fun time

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The PS2 version of the Sims is sorely lacking in the refinement and playability that made the PC version such fun. The inability to download limitless skins and items certainly works against Sims for PS2, but the killer is the game control. On the upside, they added a "goals" section, so at least you can feel like your hours of play are toward some end. Overall, though, this is a small and hollow shell of the game the PC version is. If you're die-hard on getting it, I highly recommend a dry run from the Blockbuster. That should cure you.

The PC version is better

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I owned the PC version before trying the PS2 game. The only reason we tried it (thankfully it was a rental) was because I wanted to try to play it with my husband. We were both really disappointed and only played for an hour. Once you are used to the PC version is hard to play this one. First, it looks really dark and I really didn't like the graphics. It was hard to see what your sims wanted on the little clouds that come up above their heads (my TV is not that small, it's more than twice the size of my computer screen). It was really frustrating to get used to the controls, especially when it was time to build (building is my favorite part of the whole game). In terms of the two player game it was not what we expected. I would stick to the original version of the game. It's an alternative if you don't have a computer at home.

Boring!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: August 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I think the PC version of this game was much better. The PS2 version is a little slow and a kinda boring.

This game has no point

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: September 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is for people with no real lives. All you do is simulate some guy's life. You have to sleep, eat, and perform menial tasks, and hardly ever does something interesting happen. The mom at the beginning is annoying, and it only gets worse from there. The only reason I can see for playing this game is if you're so addicted to the video game console that you can't tear yourself away to life a dull and boring life outside of a video game.

the Blue Disc of Death

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: May 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I ordered this game, when I tried to play it, it would not work in my PS2. Make sure your PS2 can read blue discs, some of the earlier PS2's can not read these cheap blue discs due to the fact that it is lighter than the normal standard PS2 dvd gold disc.
Also some of the fixes to get this game to work in your PS2 does not work. I opened my playstation, moved the gears adding weight to the disc by putting tape on it. This just did not work.
Alot of people are having problems with this and just make sure you PS2 can read these discs before going through the frustrations I went through. Shame on this company for printing this game on crappy discs and shame on PS2 for not fixing the problem correctly with the playstation 2 not being able to read blue discs.

The Shims

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: August 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

My family and I call she-males shims. This game is the defenition of the word shims.

The object of the game is to build a character with suburbian clothes, put them in a suburbian town, and make them live suburbian lives until you get them to retire. VERY BORING GAME WITH VERY ANNOYING MUSIC! My 9 year old brother blasts the T.V., so everyone in the house has to hear the somewhat new-age music. The way the sims live their lives and the way they handle their relationships is slightly odd and very optimistic. The genders don't even matter. The men will kiss if they are good friends! Eventually, the game asks you if you want a baby. If you do, a baby will magically appear out of nowhere! And trust me, that is the complete opposite of how a baby is REALLY born! :-)

Game on a 1 to 10 scale:

SOUND 'n MUSIC: 2 stars. They made an effort, but not a good one. The music will make you want to mute the T.V. and the sound is very annoying. 80% of the game, you hear your sim comlain about how they need to pee so badly.

GAMEPLAY: 3 stars. Peeing in this game seems to be a federal case of its own. They need to take a piss every 30 minutes of sim time. The timing is off too. It takes a sim about an hour and a half to walk down a hall or take a $#it! When the babies turn into kids, GEEEEEEEE! They are as ugly as an old womans @$$, with makeup all over their faces and wearing their underwear only. Its strange...

GRAPHICS: 4 stars. They're OK, but the angles look like folded paper! Nothing in your sim life isn't perfectly aligned.

SIMS: 1 star - 1,000,000. All they do is stand in one place for three hours and stare at the wall and then speak gibberish to you and you have no idea what their thought bubble reads half the time. But if you give them free will, they'll waste their lives admiring a plastic flamingo in their yard instead of getting more skill or raising your stats. They don't even go to work when it's time!

REALISTIC: 2 stars. A lot of the things they do in this game are sorta real, but either they walk too perfectly or they don't do things like us. I choose both. Their movements and walking sequences are too former. And their behavior is crazy. If you buy a Heart Shaped vibrating bed, you can make it vibrate by paying a small amount of money, then the lovers (gender doesn't matter) get in...naked! They censor it though, WHAT KIND OF GAME CENSORS WHAT YOU SEE! JUST LET THE GAME BE M RATED AND TAKE OUT THE CENSOR BAR, NO ONE CARES! Anyway, an option may appear if you click on the bed and if your sims are in a good mood. It reads "Play in bed." We can all guess was happens then, right? ;-) You suddenly see the bed sheets moving around, but that's it. Oh yeah, and you hear a couple of sounds, but that's all.

OVERALL: 1 star. It's only worth renting for a buck at Albertson's on a Monday night, but nothing much more. Luckily, I was only given this game. My aunt was trying to figure out how to change the language, when they were only speaking gibberish, so she let me have it to try and figure it out.

Maxis, this is very unrealistic and a toatally fake game. We LIVE in a material world, and I'm just a material girl-I mean- boy. :-)

This Game is STUPID!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 119
Date: November 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Im friends wit a EA Ceo and i pre tested the game and it was so stupid just to enter ur house it takes like 5 minutes do not get this game it is just a big waste of mulah (money)belive me i have all the sims expansion packs and this one is sllower than 1 on the slowest computer/ MAC. This game is for pooples you cant do anything u could in any of the expansions. so just dont get this game!!!
I no i put this game as a 1 star but it is not it would not let me put 0 stars.

A awsome video gamer,
wouldnt u like to no

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