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Great game, bad bad bad implementation

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: February 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

From a gameplay standpoint I love this game, it's nearly perfect. I've played The Sims2 on PC and found that to get a bit tiresome after a while, with the PSP version its really refreshing to have a great story, mini-games, and sub-plots. I found it much more enjoyable especially for a casual gamer, or one who can only dedicate a half hour here and there towards the game. In that respect it was exactly what I was looking for.

On the implementation side, seriously, Maxis, did you try and play the game on the hardware, or did you just use your emulators? Trying to play this game on the PSP is an exercise in frustration the likes of which you've not seen before. The game is constantly thrashing the disk loading this or that, so that it pauses every time you try and do nearly anything, it is almost unplayable. The fantastic storyline, and mini-adventures kept me going through out these glitches, but only just barely.

The sad thing is that were this a PC game, you know there'd be a patch on the way, but this being the PSP, this games technology is likely to suck forever.

Recommendation: Don't buy unless you're willing to put up with serious, serious aggravation.

Unplayable

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: March 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love the sims. Always had, ever since the first sims came out on PC. Naturally, I was excited to get this version, and take the sims with me anywhere! Boy, was I wrong. This is nothing like the old sims we all know and love.

First off, I never ran into anything 'simmy' about it. Like someone else said, it's basically a 1st person rpg. No house building, etc.

Secondly, the loading times are the worst I've ever seen on any system ever. The disc is constantly thrashing in the PSP, and it seems like nothing pre-loads. Even going up to talk to a person makes it hang for a good 2-3 seconds. Then you go into a house, another 2-3 seconds. Then, you open a door, 2-3 second hang. It goes on and on. The game could have been mediocre, but the implimentation was horrible. Trust me, I can wait for something to load, I'm not just annoyed becuase it's an occasional thing. It's all the time and it's rediculous. It shouldn't have even been allowed to be on the psp. Ebay, here I come!

Disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love the Sims and I love playing them. But, all of those versions was for my PC. I really thought I wouldn't have a problem...especially if it's being released for the PSP. This low-grade (but great graphics) game really didn't go anywhere interesting...which was funny because it was almost as if the Sims creators just slopped this on and sold it "as is". Not to mention every major move or choice I made was a pause in the game with the off-black blank screen that said "loading" in the top corner. Not even the original Sims didn't do that...and I was playing with my old computer at the time.

The PSP is a great system that does not come cheap. You would think with all of the positive hype with the Sims collection over the years and the PSP that *someone* would actually take their time and preventing this!
I hope they come out with the better version with the Sims in the future if they want to be successful with the PSP crowds. Other than that, I'm staying away until it's changed.

boring

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

i think that ea games did a horible job on the sims 2 and sims 2 pets.
If you did want to get the sims i would recomend the sims 2 for computer
ut dont let the sims trick you you have to buy the normal sims 2 and install it then you can use the expansion packs any ways do not get the sims for psp

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!

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.

This is 2008 technology??

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Unless you have a LOT of time on your hands for waiting, and enjoy looking at hourglasses, say, every minute, don't bother. Very disappointed in this product. As was mentioned in another review, this system is not cheap. Shame on the creators for slapping this together. What is even more frustrating is it COULD have been a good game.

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.

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 fun, very slow.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Now, don't get me wrong. This is coming from a HUGE Sims fan. I think the gameplay in this game is very much fun, and the graphics are very good. I CAN'T stand the loading times. I think they should have gotten some of the bugs out before selling it. Oh, well, still an OK game. ;).

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