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In December 2002, Maxis shipped The Sims Online, which recreates The Sims as an MMOG, where actual human players can interact with each other. It features Chibi-like characters (similar to the Wii's Mii avatars). See Also: MySims MySims is a console game created by EA exclusively for the Wii and Nintendo DS. Unlike other The Sims titles for the PC, this game has a clear walkthrough as certain goals have to be achieved in order to advance. At present, three games have been released. One feature of this game, if played on a laptop, is the auto-pause function, which stops and starts the game according to when the laptop lid is closed.
The Sims Stories is a series of computer games from The Sims series, based on the original The Sims 2 engine, optimized for play on laptops, as it has lower system requirement than The Sims 2, but can still be played on desktops. It is also known to create greater customization for objects, houses and the sims themselves. This has been done to limit the amount of loading screens in the game. A new feature it is known to contain is an open neighborhood. The production of The Sims 3 started after the release of The Sims 2. The Sims 3 was announced by EA in November 2006. There have been several expansion packs and add-ons released for The Sims 2. The Sims 2 was not made backwards-compatible with any Sims 1 content. This game features clear "days of the week" with obvious weekends for children to stay home from school, as well as "vacation days" to take time off work, an "Aspiration Meter" that increases and decreases as a Sim fulfills specific desires and experiences its worst fears, and "Aspiration Rewards" which can be "bought" with "Aspiration Points" that are earned each time a want is successfully filled.īecause faces and neighborhoods are handled in very different ways, objects had to migrate from 2-D sprites to 3-D models, and some objects (particularly those contained in expansion packs) were not copied at all. Other additions to the original gameplay include Sims that grow from infancy to adulthood, then age slowly, and eventually die.
The sequel takes place in a full 3D environment, as opposed to the combination 2D/3D ("2.5-D" or Isometric) environment of the original game. Maxis released The Sims 2 on September 14, 2004.
In it players control people called sims as they get married, have children and get promoted through their careers. It was the most successful title developed by Maxis. The Sims is the first game in the series.