The Sims Deluxe Edition
- PC CD ROM
- Simulation
- approach
- First Person
- Action / adventure
Product Description
The Sims: Deluxe Edition combines The Sims, the most well loved PC game of all time, and the top-selling Livin’ Large expansion pack in one box with a host of all-new exclusive features and make pleased.
In this box you’ll find:
- The Sims: Make an entire locality of Sims and run or ruin their lives with the full version of the bestselling PC game of all time. Help your Sims pursue careers, make friends, and find romance–or make a complete mess of things! Open-finished gameplay gives you the freedom to set your own goals as you chart your Sims’ fate.
- The Sims: Livin’ Large: With over 125 additional items, five additional career tracks with 50 additional jobs, and a cast of wild characters like the Grim Reaper and the Sprite, this bestselling expansion pack puts your Sims into outrageous situations and settings.
- The Sims Creator: Make any Sim you can presume with this powerful new tool that allows even novice users to customize every detail of how their Sims look. Choose their clothing or make your own. Brilliant from a variety of details like ties, jewelry, and tattoos. Players can even place their own face in The Sims with this simple-to-use tool.
- 25+ Exclusive Objects: Furnish your Sims’ homes with two completely new design sets with over 25 objects exclusive to The Sims: Deluxe Edition.
- 50+ New Clothing Choices: A selection of modern and extreme fashion choices await your Sims.
Amazon.com Review
The Sims: Deluxe Edition combines The Sims, the most well loved PC game of all time, and the top-selling Livin’ Large expansion pack in one box with a host of all-new exclusive features and make pleased.
In this box you’ll find:
- The Sims: Make an entire locality of Sims and run or ruin their lives with the full version of the bestselling PC game of all time. Help your Sims pursue careers, make friends, and find romance–or make a complete mess of things! Open-finished gameplay gives you the freedom to set your own goals as you chart your Sims’ fate.
- The Sims: Livin’ Large: With over 125 additional items, five additional career tracks with 50 additional jobs, and a cast of wild characters like the Grim Reaper and the Sprite, this bestselling expansion pack puts your Sims into outrageous situations and settings.
- The Sims Creator: Make any Sim you can presume with this powerful new tool that allows even novice users to customize every detail of how their Sims look. Choose their clothing or make your own. Brilliant from a variety of details like ties, jewelry, and tattoos. Players can even place their own face in The Sims with this simple-to-use tool.
- 25+ Exclusive Objects: Furnish your Sims’ homes with two completely new design sets with over 25 objects exclusive to The Sims: Deluxe Edition.
- 50+ New Clothing Choices: A selection of modern and extreme fashion choices await your Sims.
The ultimate goal of life is to realize happiness, and the way to realize happiness is to buy stuff. So says The Sims, a game that lets you make, direct, and manage the lives of SimCity’s residents.
The game starts with the creation of your simulated people: pick a name and a gender, choose on personality/astrological sign, and then choose a look from a variety of heads, bodies, and skin tones. Name, gender, and appearance don’t affect gameplay much, but personality determines how your Sim plays with others. A honest, clean Sim might go crazy living with a sloppy party animal–or opposites might attract, and the two could end up falling in like.
After creation, the next step is to find a place to live. Again, the player can choose from among the empty houses in the locality or choose to buy some land and design a dream house. Building houses is a blast, and the simple-to-use house design interface could nearly be its own game: players design the floor plot, place up parapet, pick carpet, wallpaper, and siding, and fill the house with furniture, decorations, furniture, and appliances. You’re limited only by your imagination–and your Sims’ pocketbook. But the choices you make in designing and decorating your Sims’ house are vital.
A excellent general rule is that the more expensive the object, the better its ability to satisfy Sim needs. Each small Sim person has needs (Hunger, Comfort, Hygiene, Bladder, Energy, Fun, Social, and Room) which can be satisfied by interaction with other Sims or bought objects: throw a party with the help of a rockin’ stereo system, and watch your Sims’ Social and Fun ratings increase. Have one of your Sims whip up some food from the refrigerator, and you’ll satisfy the Hunger needs of your guests. Or have your Sim engage another Sim in a game of chess: not only will their Fun and Social moods increase, both Sims will gain some points in their Logic skill rating–which might help on the job.
One gameplay goal is to increase your Sim so he or she can climb a career ladder, which nets him or her more cash, which allows the buy of higher quality stuff, which lets you increase your Sim even more. With proper care, your Sim can have a mate, kids, and a mansion with an indoor pool.
Mismanage your new, simulated family, and you’ll be faced with the worst of MTV’s The Real World: jealousies will ignite, fights will break out, jobs will be lost, and the house will fall apart. Bringing about such a calamity is nearly as much fun as guiding your Sims to material paradise, and takes considerably less time.
Triumph or tragedy, each significant event in a Sim’s life is captured in a snapshot and saved in a photo baby book for later viewing. Players can also take photos any time they wish. The photo baby book feature is cool by itself, but the best part is that you can upload the baby book to www.thesims.com and share your Sims’ sagas with the world. Entire families can also be uploaded and downloaded, as can houses. Want to re-make and manage your own version of Friends? Download the free face and body editor and make Sim clones of the Ross, Rachel, and the rest. Want to perfectly re-make the set? Snag the free wall and floor texture editor. Feeling a small asinine? Add Darth Vader to the family and see what happens. With The Sims, you can make no matter what–and whomever–you desire.
Toying with the lives, successes, and emotional states of dozens of small Sims is undeniably fun. In the same way that SimCity players develop a condescending attitude toward real-world city planners, The Sims players will start to see life as a series of needs-satisfying challenges; the game gets in your head. But that’s OK: limitless gameplay, endless variety, imaginative Internet features, and the ability to play matchmaker/landlord/shrink/God makes The Sims a splendid way to increase your own Fun score. –Mike Fehlauer
Pros:
- Unique, addictive, fun gameplay
- Included photo baby book feature records triumphs and tragedies
- Free uploads and downloads enlarge the game and allow swapping with other players
- Sims are smart–it’s sometimes best to just let them act on their own
Cons:
- Addictive gameplay may cause loss of sleep, job
- Complex behavioral modeling program–requires honest computing potential
- No pets other than fish
Sex and aliens. That’s really all that was missing from the incredible original edition of The Sims, and the expansion Livin’ Large delivers these new treats to liven up your beloved Sims being.
New characters (including a gladiator and Xena-like warriors), and, more impressively, new decorations are the reasons to buy this game. The furnishings are mostly grouped by theme, with the medieval dungeon option the most authoritative of the bunch. (Small Cassandra Goth has been longing to read by torch light all by the side of.)
Our personal favorite is the futuristic theme, with an optional, but expensive, maid/gardener robot to take care of the fabulous modern furnishings. Visibly the Sims team has been doing its research over at Herman Miller, and you’ll have a bright red, flowing-foam sofa to show for it.
But it wouldn’t be The Sims if only excellent taste prevailed. Bring on the mai tais with a tiki-heavy islander theme. There’s also a startling pool of carpeting and objects best grouped under the design ideal we call “demented clown.”
The attention-getting rarities include: a lame fortune-telling ball (our advice mostly centered around hiring a maid), a voodoo doll for hexing roommates, and a sprite who delivers as much terrible as excellent (dead plants, anyone?). And, yes, there’s a vibrating bed to give your Sims the spice they’ve been missing.
While the expansion didn’t blow us away, it did grant more of the humor and novelty right Sims die-hards will appreciate. With even more attention to detail than the original offering, EA deserves Sims-like applause for this edition. –Jennifer Buckendorff
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This game confuses me. For a start, if your Sim isnt very nice, then the Sim has to be in a excellent mood to compliment someone. This is weird because nasty people would compliment other people to trick them into thinking they are nice. I have also noticed that a Sim who is as nice can be, has the ability to assault and attack people if it comes to it. I am a moderately nice person, and wouldnt attack somebody like that. It is unrealistic that the Sims weep because nobody cries because it makes you look irritating. But, in a situation like a wedding, the Sims do not weep, when they should. There is no rain or snow on the Sims, yet there is rain and snow in the United Kingdom. Therefore, the Sims is not entirely suitable for British citizens. Sims do not have age, and Sims do not die. Children should not play the Sims because they may grow up to have inaccurate views of the world. If you are not a highly intelligent person, you may be confused by this game. It is an art to be able to play this game well.
Rating: 4 / 5
What was Electronics arts thinking when they made this game you should know if I couldve given it a 0 star i would have, if you have this game what i am talking about. I am a real experienced sims player so trust me it is no funner then the sims vacation, house party, etc. This game was really horrible! If you already have the sims and livin large do not get this it is wasting your Cash$. I reccomend you getting Sims hot date that is their best game. But if u get this game when you get it and install it u r just slowing your computer down…
Rating: 1 / 5
Giving this one star is much more than it deserves!! We bought this game for Christmas for our 12 yr. ancient son…Call me ancient-fashioned but this certainly does not represent what we want our outcome to play. Ex: walk down the aisle more than 1 sim (polygamy)just try another marriage without divorce, go in with same sex sim, sleep with whomever (outcome/adult), like triangle etc. I encourage parents to monitor this type of junk being sold to our gullible children. Please read the instruction booklet,especially pages 31-35 and then choose if you want your outcome playing this type of trash…
Rating: 1 / 5
Everybody already bought the whole set and it ain’t a SimChest that has a 6-CD book. So why buy it? Save your cash and get The Sims Online which has more fun which also includes a multi-chat interface to thousands of dudes around the world.
Rating: 1 / 5
Well, after a splendid start, the game chose to crash on me, completely negating everything i did in the game which took a excellent 6 or 7 hours of non-stop playing. But that’s just the beginning. When i chose that it was futile to try to continue, i did what anyone else would and attempted to uninstall and reinstall the game. First i had to reboot my system 3 times in order to get it to reinstall, then when it did get finished, it wouldn’t start up. To add insult to injury, the “Hot Date” expansion pack did not want to install either. Folks, if y’all have a lot of time on your hands and want to do something fun, get the heck off the bandwagon and watch some paint dry. It may be dull, but paint is reliable enough to dry. I wouldn’t dissipate the cash for this game, but unfortunately i already have. It gets dull quick and only works when it wants to.
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Rating: 1 / 5