- There's also new objects, all-new skins, new designs for walls and floors, and two new themes - Roman and Science Fiction.
- Give them a look, find them a job, keep them happy and get them a nice place to live -- if you do, you'll be rewarded with some of the comical game scenes around!.
- You can even create the perfect Sim for yourself using the amazing new Creator tool!.
- Start out with the original Sims -- a hilarious game where you actually have to control a person's life from start to finish! The used code for this video game can not be used to register the game online. The code can be used to install the game..
- Once you've done that try out the great expansion pack, Livin' Large. where you have to give your Sims the high life, and help them keep it.
Product Description
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The Sims: Deluxe Edition combines The Sims, the most popular PC
game of all time, and the top-selling Livin' Large expansion pack
in one box with a host of all-new exclusive features and content.
In this box you'll find:
* The Sims: Create an entire neighborhood of Sims and run or ruin
their lives with the full version of the bestselling PC game of
all time. Help your Sims pursue careers, make friends, and find
romance--or make a complete mess of things! Open-ended gameplay
gives you the freedom to set your own goals as you chart your
Sims' destiny.
* The Sims: Livin' Large: With over 125 additional items, five
additional career tracks with 50 additional jobs, and a cast of
wild characters like the Grim Reaper and the Genie, this
bestselling expansion pack puts your Sims into outrageous
situations and settings.
* The Sims Creator: Create any Sim you can imagine with this
powerful new tool that allows even novice users to customize
every detail of how their Sims look. Choose their clothing or
create your own. Select from a variety of details like ties,
jewelry, and tattoos. Players can even put their own face in The
Sims with this easy-to-use tool.
* 25+ Exclusive Objects: Furnish your Sims' homes with two
completely new design sets with over 25 objects exclusive to The
Sims: Deluxe Edition.
* 50+ New Clothing Choices: A selection of modern and extreme
fashion choices await your Sims.
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The Sims: Deluxe Edition combines The Sims, the most popular PC
game of all time, and the top-selling Livin' Large expansion pack
in one box with a host of all-new exclusive features and content.
In this box you'll find:
* The Sims: Create an entire neighborhood of Sims and run or ruin
their lives with the full version of the bestselling PC game of
all time. Help your Sims pursue careers, make friends, and find
romance--or make a complete mess of things! Open-ended gameplay
gives you the freedom to set your own goals as you chart your
Sims' destiny.
* The Sims: Livin' Large: With over 125 additional items, five
additional career tracks with 50 additional jobs, and a cast of
wild characters like the Grim Reaper and the Genie, this
bestselling expansion pack puts your Sims into outrageous
situations and settings.
* The Sims Creator: Create any Sim you can imagine with this
powerful new tool that allows even novice users to customize
every detail of how their Sims look. Choose their clothing or
create your own. Select from a variety of details like ties,
jewelry, and tattoos. Players can even put their own face in The
Sims with this easy-to-use tool.
* 25+ Exclusive Objects: Furnish your Sims' homes with two
completely new design sets with over 25 objects exclusive to The
Sims: Deluxe Edition.
* 50+ New Clothing Choices: A selection of modern and extreme
fashion choices await your Sims. The ultimate goal of life is to
achieve happiness, and the way to achieve happiness is to buy
stuff. So says The Sims, a game that lets you create, direct, and
manage the lives of SimCity's residents. The game begins with the
creation of your simulated people: pick a name and a gender,
decide on personality/astrological sign, and then choose a look
from a variety of heads, bodies, and skin tones. Name, gender,
and appearance don't affect gameplay much, but personality
determines how your Sim plays with others. A serious, neat Sim
might go crazy living with a sloppy party animal--or sites
might attract, and the two could end up falling in love.
After creation, the next step is to find a place to live. Again,
the player can choose from among the empty houses in the
neighborhood or decide to buy some land and design a dream house.
Building houses is a blast, and the easy-to-use house design
interface could almost be its own game: players design the floor
plan, put up walls, pick carpet, wallpaper, and siding, and fill
the house with furniture, decorations, fixtures, and appliances.
You're limited only by your imagination--and your Sims'
pocketbook. But the choices you make in designing and decorating
your Sims' house are vital.
A good general rule is that the more expensive the object, the
better its ability to satisfy Sim needs. Each little Sim person
has needs (Hunger, Comfort, Hygiene, Bladder, Energy, Fun,
Social, and Room) which can be satisfied by interaction with
other Sims or purchased objects: throw a party with the help of a
rockin' stereo system, and watch your Sims' Social and Fun
ratings improve. Have one of your Sims whip up some food from the
refrigerator, and you'll satisfy the Hunger needs of your guests.
Or have your Sim engage another Sim in a game of chess: not only
will their Fun and Social moods improve, both Sims will gain some
points in their Logic skill rating--which might help on the job.
One gameplay goal is to improve your Sim so he or she can climb
a career ladder, which nets him or her more money, which allows
the purchase of higher quality stuff, which lets you improve your
Sim even more. With proper care, your Sim can have a mate, kids,
and a mansion with an indoor pool.
Mismanage your new, simulated family, and you'll be faced with
the worst of MTV's The Real World: jealousies will ignite, fights
will break out, jobs will be lost, and the house will fall apart.
Bringing about such a calamity is almost as much fun as guiding
your Sims to material paradise, and takes considerably less time.
Triumph or tragedy, each significant event in a Sim's life is
captured in a snap and saved in a photo album for later
viewing. Players can also take photos any time they wish. The
photo album feature is cool by itself, but the best part is that
you can upload the album to www.thesims.com and share your Sims'
sa with the world. Entire families can also be uploaded and
downloaded, as can houses. Want to re-create and manage your own
version of Friends? Download the free face and body editor and
make Sim clones of the Ross, Rachel, and the rest. Want to
perfectly re-create the set? Snag the free wall and floor texture
editor. Feeling a little silly? Add Darth Vader to the family and
see what happens. With The Sims, you can create whatever--and
whomever--you desire.
Toying with the lives, successes, and emotional states of dozens
of little Sims is undeniably fun. In the same way that SimCity
players develop a condescending attitude toward real-world city
planners, The Sims players will begin to see life as a series of
needs-satisfying challenges; the game gets in your head. But
that's OK: limitless gameplay, endless variety, imaginative
Internet features, and the ability to play
matchmaker/landlord/counselor/God makes The Sims a great way to
increase your own Fun score. --Mike Fehlauer
Pros:
* Unique, addictive, fun gameplay
* Included photo album feature records triumphs and tragedies
* Free uploads and downloads expand the game and allow swapping
with other players
* Sims are smart--it's sometimes best to just let them act on
their own Cons:* Addictive gameplay may cause loss of , job
* Complex behavioral modeling program--requires serious computing
power
* No pets other than fish Sex and aliens. That's really all that
was missing from the amazing original edition of The Sims, and
the expansion Livin' Large delivers these new treats to liven up
your beloved Sims existence. New characters (including a
gladiator and Xena-like warriors), and, more impressively, new
decorations are the reasons to buy this game. The furnishings are
mostly grouped by theme, with the medieval dungeon option the
most authoritative of the bunch. (Little Cassandra Goth has been
longing to read by torch light all along.)
Our personal favorite is the futuristic theme, with an optional,
but expensive, maid/gardener robot to take care of the fabulous
modern furnishings. Clearly the Sims team has been doing its
research over at Herman Miller, and you'll have a bright red,
flowing-foam sofa to show for it.
But it wouldn't be The Sims if only good taste prevailed. Bring
on the mai tais with a tiki-heavy islander theme. There's also a
startling collection of carpeting and objects best grouped under
the design ideal we call "demented clown."
The attention-getting rarities include: a lame fortune-telling
ball (our advice mostly centered around hiring a maid), a voodoo
doll for hexing roommates, and a genie who delivers as much bad
as good (dead s, anyone?). And, yes, there's a vibrating bed
to give your Sims the spice they've been missing.
While the expansion didn't blow us away, it did provide more of
the humor and novelty true Sims die-hards will appreciate. With
even more attention to detail than the original offering, EA
deserves Sims-like applause for this edition. --Jennifer
Buckendorff
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Review
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Maxis' The Sims is about creating, managing, and controlling the
lives of tiny computerized people who dwell in miniature homes.
The game's excellent music and sound effects, detailed scenery,
cleverly animated characters, and equally clever writing go a
long way toward fulfilling this intriguing premise. Yet though
you can exercise a considerable a of control over your sims'
behavior and lifestyles, The Sims' actual gameplay is rather
limited in some respects - either by odd inconsistencies or by
actual restrictions placed on your actions. But to the game's
credit, the most objectionable thing about these occasional
limits is how starkly they contrast with the otherwise tremendous
freedom you have to lead your sims' lives. At a glance, The Sims
looks fairly good, if plain. The game itself takes place entirely
within a small suburb just outside SimCity, and the streets,
houses, and fixtures are all colorful and detailed - and all in a
style consistent with the SimCity games. At first, the fully
polygonal characters might look no better than the scenery. But
if you leave them alone for even a few minutes, your sims will do
all sorts of things; they'll dance to the radio's music, hunker
down in front of the TV, or strike up a conversation. And when
your sims start doing anything, they'll do so with expressive
animation that lends them a great deal of personality. When the
music is playing, sims dance the Charleston together; TV-watching
sims will lean forward and gaze intently at the screen or laugh
out loud; and conversing sims will gesticulate appropriately as
they chat, dish out insults, tell jokes, and more. Despite the
fact that the actual dialogue among the game's inhabitants is
made to sound like complete gibberish, The Sims sounds superb
overall. You can't make out exactly what they're saying, but you
can easily infer their intentions from the tone of their voices.
Sims will speak, then pause and clear their throats while they're
thinking of what to say next, yelp in pain when they cut
themselves preparing a meal, or tell naughty limericks as jokes.
Sims also interact with their surroundings, and everything from
coffee makers to toilets sounds realistic, clear, and in some
cases downright hilarious, like the slapstick noises of the TV
cartoons. The Sims' music is also excellent; even though much of
it consists of vapid easy-listening, those unassuming tunes
provide a perfect ironic contrast in the background against
whatever havoc your sims are wreaking on center stage. Your sims
can get into all sorts of trouble depending on what choices you
make in their design and actions. You can begin the game with a
pre-generated family of sims or create your own using a number of
different 3D models, more of which are constantly being made
available on Maxis' web site. Each sim has five personality
attributes (neat, outgoing, active, playful, and nice) which help
determine the sim's personality and how compatible he'll be with
other sims. Each sim also has six learnable skills (cooking,
mechanical, charisma, body, logic, and creativity), which not
only affect the way a sim interacts with his fellow sims but also
how well he can make use of the objects in his house and how well
he can perform his job. There are ten career paths available in
The Sims; each is best served with a sim trained in a particular
combination of the six skills. Once you find a job in the daily
paper or online via a computer, your sim will be picked up by a
carpool at a certain time each day. Getting a job is advisable,
since it's really the only way for your sims to bring in a steady
income to buy more stuff. One of the most important things to do
in The Sims is to buy things, whether appliances or furniture for
the inside of your house, or walls, windows, or even a second
story for the outside. For instance, a new mirror will let your
sims increase their charisma, and a new stove will help them cook
more satisfying meals. Each product you buy for your sims' home
has its own description; many of these are extremely funny, and
it's worth the effort to simply browse through them just to read
some of the better gags. There's a fair variety of products to
choose from, and Maxis intends to continually provide new
household goods for download. In addition, you'll eventually want
to expand the size of your house's exterior, since a bigger house
means more room for more sims and more stuff. You can do so
quickly and easily with one of The Sims' many user-friendly
interfaces, the build mode, which lets you customize, add, or
remove all sorts of new walls, floors, windows, doors and more
with some clicks and drags. --Andrew Seyoon Park
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