![]() ![]() When Sims 4 came out, I initially decided not to play it as I was still happy with Sims 2. We Sims 4 was announced, fans took to the forums to discuss what new features it could bring that could make it better than the previous games! The true answers however, were very disappointing. Skills became a little more niche, with instruments now having to be studied separately, such as violin or piano skills. But the game did come with plenty of new concepts and things for your Sim to take part in, particularly with the expansions World Ambitions and Into the Future. While I never got into the game personally, I know other Sims fans who enjoyed the experience and decided to expand their world, buying the expansion packs and completing the series.Įven with the new game format, many of the expansion packs were similar to ones in previous games, such as Pets and University Life. You no longer had to sit through loading transitions when you wished to go from one place to another the whole world had already loaded! You just put your sim in their car or on their bike, before sending them off to wherever you wanted them to go. Rather than in Sims 2 when a family only progressed when you played them, the world around your family now progressed and aged, meaning you only had to focus on your family. Plus, the game gave us werewolves! Feakin’ werewolves!Īfter Sims 2, the third game had to bring us something new something that would continue to impress us. Your pets aged just as your sims did, going from kittens/puppies, to adults and then elders. The Pets expansion pack for example, came with more than just cats and dogs for your sims. At this stage EA still had something new to offer us even the expansion packs that were a follow up of the last game contained original features. Honestly, when I first installed it, it was thrilling! Later came the edition of University Life that allowed your Sims to go off to college to party and get a kick start to their career. You could edit your Sims’ faces in a way that you never could in the first game. After the blurry pixel people of the first game, came 3D, well animated Sims, with more detailed movements and personal appearances. Sims 2 was the biggest leap between games. ![]() While I was impressed at first, I realised why this concept hasn’t been included before: it’s really boring! Following my Sim around, making them complete menial tasks and impress their co-workers, felt like the dreary every day work routine I’d tried so hard to avoid in my life! Besides, if you desperately want to work with your Sim, then buy Sims 2 and play open to business, which was much more interesting and offered more motivation to do well. A concept that wore thin after about the third work day. I have all four games, but stopped buying expansion packs for Sims 4 after Off to Work, what with the idea that you can follow your sims to work being the only original concept for the game to have. The trouble is that if you own The Sims then odds are you own at least one of the pet’s expansion packs and if you have Sims 3 then you already have the open map format! Rumours include the promise of pets being included in the base game and a return to the Sims 3 open man format. In fact, the more I read about Sims 5 rumours, the less impressed I become. Perhaps EA have finally learnt that even Sims fans expect something a little more every now and again, and frankly I don’t see what a fifth installment could possibly offer us. As a result, sales of expansion packs are dwindling, with many of the patches just putting in the features we already had in previous games. Sims fans have been, generally, underwhelmed by Sims 4, as the game felt like a step backwards. However, according to rumours the sequel may be axed due to the failure of the fourth iteration. On release of The Sims 4, a fifth installment of the game looked like an inevitability. ![]() EA have yet to tell us very much about The Sims 5, only that they initially intended it to be released around 2019, but now we should expect it around 2020.
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