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Fun game, but loading times are annoying.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 32 / 34
Date: December 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The Sims reminds me a lot of Bustin' Out for the GameBoy Advance, in that you have to figure out puzzles, play mini games, and make friends (and enemies). This time you're stuck in the Sims 2 suburb of Strangetown, and there's a lot of strangeness going on.

The graphics are very nice, and the game play itself is enjoyable, but I really feel like it's hampered by the frequent pauses to load data from the UMD. The loading screens between locations are not bad; but when you talk to someone, or play the mini-game chatting game, and each time the system has to access the UMD to load the voices and animations, it really makes the game feel choppy.

I really wanted to love the game, even knowing that it wasn't going to be free-form Sims as in the PC game. I do enjoy the gameplay, but overall I'd have to give it just three stars, due to the frustration of loading all the time.

Great game, but PSP hangs during play!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 42 / 45
Date: December 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I would love nothing more than to play this game, and I have really tried - about 6 hours total so far, but it's gotten to that point that it's almost too frustrating. The constant pauses to load data from the disk make this all but unplayable. The social games, which were a great idea, hang so badly that if you push a button while it's loading, it doesn't register and you LOSE the game! You literally can't make a move without 3-10 second hangs while the data loads, and sorry EA, you should have fixed that one. A game is only fun if it's not fighting with its platform.

What makes this sadder is how much FUN this game would have been. 5 stars all the way! The graphics are incredible, the story is fresh, and the game play inventive and addictive. Seriously, EA, what happened? Didn't you test this one out on the hardware?

Loading time takes up most of your playtime

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: December 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The storyline sounds fun. The game has great potential, but I probably won't finish it until a year from now. The load time sucks. You can actually hear the UMD churning away with every game move you make. Loading time frustrates you & you end up turning the game off. EA either didn't care or was in such a rush to get this game out that the consumers were forgotten. They know the SIMS games have an excellent rep, so we all would buy it. There's no excuse for this lapse in detail.

Too much time waiting to play and some crashing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you don't mind [pause...] waiting for the data [pause...] to download [pause...] while playing [pause...], then this is the game for you [pause...]. The game also crashes often. If you decide to play, make sure you SAVE A LOT. Overall, I like the idea of having my favorite game on the PSP but I think that it needs improvement.

Good Graphics. Poor Loading.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Well, what can I say..The graphics rocks but the loading and length of game play is really a disappointment. I have already played this game through. I probably would've finished it in about a few days but the wait is what made the game seem so long. There weren't much missions fullfill and for some strange reason this game will make your psp shut off. I've never had this problem w/ my other games for psp. If I were you, I wouldn't really waste my money on this game..It's not worth it. I'm planning to sell mine back to the store I bought it from or swap it w/ the ds version.

Very poor port to PSP

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: January 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is sure to wear out your PSP drive and your patience. Not only is it so painfully slow to load each and every interaction, the program will crash every 2 to 4 hours. What a wasted effort...good potential but a terribly flawed product. Any software or quality person involved in this release should be hanging their head - awful!

Grind, Grind, Grind, CRASH!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game had so much potential. Great story, great graphics. It would have been a fun, portable version of "The Sims 2" that was much more faithful to the original PC version than the versions for DS and GBA.

Unfortunately, the horrific load times and crash-proneness ruined that. Any time you do ANYTHING in this game, the game has to load from the disk. And load, and load. So you're sitting there listening to it grind and looking at a spinning hourglass.

The funny thing is that there's only really about 5-6 hours worth of game here, but it takes at least three times that because of all the loading.

Even worse is its tendency to crash. While I was playing, the game crashed several times, requiring me to restart my PSP and go back to a save file. Worst of all, it consistently crashed on the game's finale.

I'm glad I just rented this one. It's defintely not worth what they're charging for it.

Sims 2 peplez, wat tha hell happened 2 u guyz?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

when i got the game, i waz so excited that i started playing wid it at the cash register. Now, it takes a half-an-hour drive from there to my house and guess what? I got to the part when it asks you what colour you want your sims hair to be when i got home. Now Im asking you, urrrrrrrrrrrrrr. 4get it.

Fun game but...................

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It is a fun game with good gaols but loading times are to long to have the game be enjoyable...if i wanna press the select button it will have to load. it has to load for every little thing i do!!! this is sooo much better on gba sp but i sold that

Nothing like the Sims.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is nothing like the sims on other platforms, it is a 1st person role playing game, where you walk around doing dumb little tasks to stop yourself from getting a headache. It is similar to the game boy advance version, but the graphics are a lot better and game play is a lot worse. Simple conversations with people are now a chore, and any ground you make how ever little gets lost if you don't meet these silly goals you don't really care about it. So I'm going back to my PC to play it and the Game boy when I am traveling. Its a shame they didn't try to make a sims version like the PC version and forget the neighbourhood and concentrate on the house building.

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