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The Sims

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The Sims is a cool game. You get to create people and control them. If you don't take good care of them they won' t listen to you. You have to build a house and furnish it, interact with other sims and stuff like that. (It's very addicting.)

I love this game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

A friend of mine owns this game and we play it all the time.I am addicted. You can use a money cheat and become a millionaire or start out with the 20 thou they give you. Theives come at night sometimes, and if you are a bad cook or have a bad stove you can start a fire.The furniture and flooring/wallpaper comes in Many variaties so you can have a classy or wild home. Everything is important eg. if you don't buy a good fridge, you won't get fed as much when you eat from it. If you have a [bad] computer, it will break more often. Sometimes the game is hard because sometimes your Sim is hard to take care of. If you make htem less active they will be tired a lot. If they are not playfull, they will not have fun. The game is so fun once you understand it. i love it! I

A Great Computer Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The Sims is a great computer game, but it does not suffice for all your computer-gaming needs. You'll need another game to switch off with it when it gets old. I have Age of Empires II to play when I get sick of it, and then when I'm sick of Age of Empires I switch back to The Sims!

Oh. Wow.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

There is one reason, and one reason only, why I wouldn't give this game as many stars as you could believe.

The reason is that I was introduced to this game a YEAR ago and I STILL haven't stopped being glued to my computer. I haven't even bought any of the expansion packs. The original is still intriguing me.

Buy and play this game if you want to have fun AND you don't want to have a life outside of Sims.

Fun for a while

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

It's great that this game is finally for macs and works well. I found this game a lot of fun. You can make your own family, choose the way they live, and make them fall in love. I've been playing this for a few months, and I'm already bored. That's why I ordered an expansion pack (unleashed) so that i have some new stuff to use. I recomend buying this game, but try not to play it so often that you get bored!

Too addictive!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is the best computer game ever! It's easy to play, fun to play, but takes up a ton of memory! Though this game is wonderful, don't buy it if you're not prepared to be sitting for hours infront of your computer! I find if I don't play this game enough that I can't get it off my mind! (Well, no matter how much I play it I can't get it off my mind!) I highly reccomend buying this game, but I cannot stress this more-it's addictive!!!!!!!

The ultimate time-waster

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Prepare to become addicted. There is something immensely satisfying in creating your own little world, replete with custom-tailored characters living in houses that you build especially for them. The most engaging part of the game is the innate humanness of the characters--their free will, the cadences of their Sim language, and the interaction of their personality characteristics with their career trajectories and personal relationships.

demo looks really cool

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I love this game, so does my little sister. Its so cool. What you do is basically run the lives of a family. You pick them and their house and you are away. Its really cool having these people do whatever you tell them to. You tell them to eat, watch television and everything. The graghics are also really good. The only down side is the fact that you lack a bit of freedom eg like you go out and visit people. Exept for that it is really cool

More time setting up than playing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: December 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

DISCLAIMER!! I got The Sims as a gift from my wish list so I have no one to blame but myself!!

I have played most of the Sim series with SimCity2000 reduceing my college GPA by at least .5 so I was looking forward to playing The Sims. I have an older Mac (7600 upgraded to a G3 266)but with upgrades I have been able to be reasonably current. Until now. Despite what the box says, The Sims is NOT playable on anything less than a 400mhz G3 with AT LEAST 128MB of RAM. I have 80MB of RAM (far more than the 64MB the box says is required) and with my "gaming" extension set I get 64MB of free ram at startup. No dice. I had to set Virtual Memory at 128MB just to get The Sims to boot. Some other recomendations - Dont try to play this on a 15" monitor. Just not enought screen realestate. Given that every iMac has a 15", that is not good. For older iMac owners with 4MB or less of VRAM, good luck! With an 8MB 2D card and a 4MB Voodoo card I did ok but scrolling was still jerky (maybe with a faster processor and more real RAM you could get by with less of a video card).

On the plus side the downloads available from the web site are top rate. Excellent support....

As for the game, I didnt pass my 15 minute test. After 15 minutes I was thinking about booting up Age of Empires for a good thrashing of the Greeks. With a small screen it is too hard to see everything unless you zoom out and then you mis the details. With time I know I will enjoy this game but there is a little too much "real time" - sitting waiting for something to happen.

I will hold final judgement for The Sims until I can install it on a machine that is faster and has a bigger screen. I dont mind finding a game that is too much for my machine to handle....

2 1/2 years later - I never did get to like the game but my daughter discoverd it sitting in a case and asked me to install it in my 17" iMac G4. She loves it and so does my wife. They both play constantly so I guess the problem is me not the game.

Still a resource hog. The game is VERY picky about the order that expansion packs are installed. Follow the directions sompletely and do a repair permissions before and after each expansion install. Aspyr barely provides supprt. On the positive side, 100% of the downloaded objects that are listed as PC only have worked on my Mac version.

Sim up a family and simmer down!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The Sims is for people who like to goof around, create and have fun! You can make people, choose the color of their skin, their age, their personality, male or female, clothing etc... It's a must have! You build or buy a house, and create their environments and furniture and lots of stuff. There's a cheat code to get you tons of money, but i can't tell you! Ha! Anyway, the sims has it's own type of addictive game playing, and everyone will love this! But i'm saying about 10 and up, although it depends how you can handle some...things. Even though the sims is rated T for teen, there's nothing wrong with it, and you'll love it!!!!!

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