The Sims

The Sims... a simulation game about life. It's quite something. 3 sims games with more expansions for each than I care to count. It's not for everybody (some may find it boring, pointless, and I've even heard it called pathetic), but I happen to like it. It's where my computer gaming truly began (I've always been a bit more of a console gamer). In the Sims you can create sims, make them do what you want, and even kill them. The things they can do have grown as the newer games have come out and how pretty it looks has grown drastically. Your sims can do mundane tasks such as brush their teeth, clear dirty dishes, throw the trash, and do laundry. The sims creators hadn't initially wanted to put that in there but the fans asked for it so they gave in. Keeping the fans happy is actually a surprising thing for EA to do ( I kid, :P ). I won't go in depth about any of the EA stuff (at least here).

I enjoy the sims games... I always have. There were quite a lot of problems with the earlier games. Although they were fun at the time the graphics are nothing compared to today's standards, there are also less customization for your sims (even being able to choose your shoes for your sims in the newer games was a new thing that was quite exciting), and the options that your sim could do was limited. Despite all that I couldn't get enough of it. I loved (and still love) to play the games for hours. My friends and I would ll talk about what our families had been doing and oh the stories we would tell.

The games got smarter as they moved along, and more expensive. The original games of "The Sims," "The Sims 2," and "The Sims 3" are full games and can just be played on their own without the expansions. Why would you want to only play those when you could buy an expansion that would give you pets, or let you be able to own your own business, or allow you to take other sims on a date. Not only do the expansions give you new items, but major expansions can give you new abilities, options, and sometimes even new places. If you like the game then those things are exciting. I don't even want to think about how much money I spent and how much my parents spent on these games for me. The Sims 3 can now usually be purchased with the newest expansion so if the newest expansion is what caught your fancy then you can get it in one nice set. They make it easy to spend your money. The basic Sims 3 game can be bought on Amazon.com for a little less than $30 and with over 10 expansions........ it adds up really quick.

If you like being able to control little people and/or escape to a world where things go exactly as you want, then this game is really for you. The newest Sims game is really pretty, is fun to play, is easy to control, and has lots of options to do. It has a lot even without the expansions which is the best part. It takes a lot more to run on computers than the older ones and if you do get the expansions you will need about 50GB hard drive space on your computer (or more). If it doesn't make you bored then the only thing you might truly have to worry about is spending too much time playing it. If you play it or are going to, I hope you enjoy it!