User Reviews (1 - 11 of 34)

Show these reviews first:

Highest Rated
Lowest Rated Newest
Oldest Most Helpful
Least Helpful

If you liked Bustin Out for GBA, You'll LOVE the Urbz

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 20
Date: December 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The Sims are back, with a new and edgy attitude and environment. No more farm for you, you wake up with a thankless job in the big city and it's your goal to make it big. You can choose from four "groups": Arties, Nerdies, Richies or Streeties, but you can be friends with all of the groups and complete all the group missions too.
What's best about this game are the fun characters, original settings, and approachable missions. There are few new elements such as woodcarving and baking too. The "jobs" are really fun minipuzzles, and the Xixxles (perks such as lower hunger or more money for jobs) make the game more interesting, without having to use codes/cheating.
This game is obviously restricted in that it's a GAMEBOY, not a gamecube or a computer, so the limitless possibilities of the Sims are not going to be here, but if you are goal oriented, like puzzles, and enjoyed Bustin Out, you will love this game!

This is sure to be fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 26
Date: July 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have the sims bustin out and it is very fun. you get to controll other peoples lifes. I have been to the website (www.urbzsims.com) and it is fun. They update it with different things every Wednesday. I think you should check it out.

The urbz rock!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: December 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The urbz is alot of fun but I am stuck where you just are about to go to file 3. If you have any suggetions write something on this web page and I will write back. overall I like it and it doesn't show anything if you know what I mean.
I would recamend this game to anyone I know.
very entetaned by the urbz, game freak7

Urbz Sims in the City

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: October 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

My daughter and her friends love this game. We have the other Sims that is rated E also and that is a great game too. This is alot of fun and clean not R rated like the other Sims. I have not played it but, the kids love it! My daughter is 9 and her friend is 12.

The Sims are great!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: November 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

In response to the previous reviewer. The map to paradise island is on the casino boat on the third level and once you give it ot the guy in the university you will be able to take a baot to paradise island where you will find the dancing nutria (?) I hope this helps.

Urbz Rulz!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: November 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've played Sims Bustin' Out, Sims2 and The Urbz: Sims in the City, and Urbz is definitely my favorite. If you've played Bustin' Out and enjoyed it, you'll enjoy this game even more (there are actually references to Bustin' Out in this game; i.e. Uncle Heyseed calls you to let you know the chicken miss you). It is like Bustin' Out in that you complete missions to unlock jobs (don't you wish you could earn money for these kinds of jobs in real life) where you can earn Simoleons and open up new areas of the game by completing missions or achieving promotions in certain jobs. You also get to move to different houses or apartments like in Bustin' Out. Urbz, however, is bigger and better. There are more places to go including taking a paddleboat to islands or the swamps of the bayou. You also have more freedom in that you can live in a variety of places and in any part of town you want. You're not forced to move to a certain house like in Bustin' Out.

Another aspect of this game that makes it an improvement from Bustin' Out are rep groups. There are four rep groups (Nerdies, Steeties, Artsies, and Richies) with four members each. You start out in one of the rep groups based on an answer you give to a question at the beginning of the game, but you can change your rep group. You earn rep group points by building your popularity with rep group members, having negative popularity with the rep leader of the rival group, finding a trophy for the rep group and giving it to the leader, completing the rep group missions, moving to a certain part of town, etc. Once achieving levels 9 and 10 with a rep group, you receive gifts, and keys to their clubhouse. The best gift is the Sensory Deprivation Chamber given by Luthor, leader of the Richies. You get inside and it maxes all your personal needs levels, including sleep, without speeding up the time. The disappointments are the clubhouses. It's neat the see how they're decorated but nothing happens there. The other rep group members do not hang out there, so what's the point?

Once you are at level 9 or 10 with your rep, you beginning walking like your rep group. When I first saw my character walking like a Richie, I literally laughed out loud. The other rep group members react differently to you as well. Another addition to this game are Xizzle beads you can get from characters for gaining a certain level of popularity or can find. You can use them to buy certain things like the slowing of the decline of certain personal needs, Simoleons, popularity boosts, etc. I ended up with way more beads than there are things to buy. You have to hook the game up to another game to unlock more Xizzles as well as travelling to the moon.

The things you can buy are also really cool like a skydiving machine. Most of the jobs are very fun, too. The easiest is the basketball game, Hoopz. My favorite was Doctor Max Stat, which is kind of like word search only using body parts. The most difficult game, to me, was Comic Explosion. You have to tell jokes on a stage and avoid tomatoes being thrown at you constantly. It took me along time to achieve the highest promotion in that game. There is also an underlying storyline. You have to stop Daddy Bigbucks from buying the city and charging residents for using all the shops and facilities as if it were an amusement park. He gets his comeuppance, big time! At the end you can use a time machine to check out prehistoric times, the American Civil War, a video game from the early 1980s, and even Bustin' Out (although you can't really do anything in those places).

Cool, new, and fresh

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: June 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have the bustin out for gba. but when I got this game I saw bustin out couldn't be compared with this game. Its cool, new, and fresh. With new characters its more interesting. There's 1 major flaw and thats that you can't have kids! BUt this game is a good investment that you'll be playing on a looooooooong time.

Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: May 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I played this game after "Sim's Bustin' Out" which I also loved, because they are a lot alike. This one is just cooler, and has better graphics and a great plot. The original Sim's games have been updated in these to make goal oriented game play, so it's much more interesting. It's really fun, they've come up with a great little game here, one that I am sorry I have won, because I miss it. Now, the manufacturer's review (above) does not seem to correspond with the GBA version, as I don't remember anything about fireworks, or sushi bars, those jobs are not in this game, or perhaps this version, so that's a little misleading, but this game is nonetheless so much fun. I loved it. At first I found it hard in the game to make money, then after taking "classes" at the University I built up the creativity level, then made a ton of money painting and carving wood then selling the art at the local thrift store. If you like graphic adventures, this is a game for you. I think the creators could make so many more Sim's games like this and I'd play every one, if they stick to what's working here.

Ubz

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a really fun game. You get to do a lot of stuff talk to people get zizzles while compleating your needs. To survive mostly you need to talk to people and do your needs. Sometimes it can be anoying esp. if you need to get something done. It's better then Sims because you get to explore the city and get talking skills. If you want a game that takes a lot of time get ubz.

Don't leave without them!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 31
Date: September 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is going to be an awesome game!I have bustin'out for GBA,but thyis looks like it is going to be 100 times better than bustin'out!

Review Page: 1 2 3 4 Next 

Actions