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1701. Another Sims 2 Preview

Written on Friday 6 February 2004 at 13:13 by ChEeTaH - 5 comments.

Gigex has posted a preview of The Sims 2. It's not very interesting, and the facts aren't completely true as they say the game's been delayed until 2005 (while it will come out this year, 2004). It also doesn't come with any real news, but it's a nice read if you're bored for a little while. If you want to check it out, click here.

1702. More Sims Songs for Download

Written on Friday 6 February 2004 at 12:56 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Company Rednote Audio has posted several Sims songs from Bustin' Out. They made music for the game and you can now download the songs from their website. There is one DJ clip, with video, where you see some dancing Sims. The other 5 are all MP3 tracks. You'll need QuickTime to play the video or the tracks. The MP3s also play in your browser using the QuickTime plugin. You can find the tracks by going to Rednote, then choose "What We've Done" and there you'll see the Bustin' Out logos. Click them to play the media items.

1703. SimDay

Written on Thursday 5 February 2004 at 11:32 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

This week's SimDay is quite nice again. To start off with Bustin' Out news: Maxis has posted three new movies which tell about a Sims' worst week. Check out Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at this page. They're all about 2 Mb in low res, or 9 Mb when you want the high quality versions. QuickTime Required. When it comes to The Sims, Maxis has posted a link to a recent thread of the day in their BBS. If you want to know how The Sims changed other players' lifes, or if you want to share your own story, go here. Maxis has also launched a new contest again, the "Great Dates and Dates to Hate" contest. If you can post your story about the lousiest or best date ever - real or fictious - in a family album at the exchange of the official site. You have until 14 February, Valentine's day, to submit your entry. As usual it's open to "residents of the 50 United States (except Colorado) and the District of Columbia and Canada, excluding Quebec." If you want to know what you have to do exactly, follow click here. For The Sims 2 news this SimDay, read on (click "Read More" if necessary). Read More!

1704. Poll Results

Written on Thursday 5 February 2004 at 01:06 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Last week we've asked you how you felt about the delay of The Sims 2. As most people probably know, it's been pushed back to the second half of 2004. About 40% is "very angry". 25% prefers a good game rather than a buggy one, and another 16% rather plays a finished and nearly bugfree game. For the exact poll results, click here. This week we want to know how long you've been playing The Sims. Tell us by answering the question on the right or at this page. More results can be found in our poll archive.

1705. Sims 2 Delay: Maxis Speaks

Written on Monday 2 February 2004 at 22:45 by ChEeTaH - 8 comments.

Luc Barthelet, General Manager of Maxis, has sent out a statement to several fansites about the recently announced delay of The Sims 2. Here's what he has to say:

"As you are all aware, The Sims 2 ship date has been moved to the latter half of 2004. We have heard from an enormous amount of you and your communications have been zealous. We fully understand your disappointment and frustration. The fact that you are all so passionate is both inspiring and encouraging to the production team and means we must be on the right track with the game.

"I can’t overstate the fact that it is a huge undertaking to produce the next generation of the #1 PC game of all time. As our most valued fans of the franchise, you all understand better than everyone else what those expectations are. As we said on the website, the bar has been set extremely high.

"This decision was an incredibly difficult one but the best for us to make. We have learned through past experience, that a game is ready when it is ready. In the coming months, we will be polishing the game in order to fulfill our ultimate product vision. We know you are excited about what you have seen to date but, let me tell you, the best is yet to come.

[...] "Finally, I wanted to take this time to thank you for all of your support. We have all been in this together from the beginning. We value all of your contributions and know that, together, we will make The Sims 2, the best game of all time."

Luc Barthelet

Besides all that, he also told us that last Saturday's screens show what the fans wanted to see the most. That's all from Luc for now, more coming soon.

1706. New Sims 2 article

Written on Sunday 1 February 2004 at 15:12 by ChEeTaH - 4 comments.

The website HowStuffWorks has recently posted an article about The Sims 2, and what we can expect in it. There isn't much new information in it, but if you're a bit lost in what all the features of The Sims 2 are, then this article might help. It's a quick overview of the most important (new) features that The Sims 2 will have. Here's a little quote:

"By building in tons of these pre-wired connections and giving the player hundreds of chances to create new situations for the sims, the game developers created a world that seems to carry on as if it was alive. At the conceptual level, "The Sims" is an elaborate machine built to react in expected and unexpected ways every time you give it new input."

For the whole article, spread over several pages, click here.

1707. New at TSZ: Knowledge Section!

Written on Sunday 1 February 2004 at 01:00 by ChEeTaH - 2 comments.

You might've read about it already last week, when we said we were going to launch a new Knowledge feature at TSZ. After much hard work and testing, it's finally ready, and so we've just launched it. In this section, you can find all the help you need with the several Sims games. If you can't find your answer using the search options, simply post the question, and somebody else will answer it sooner or later. You don't have to keep coming back looking if there's an answer, as you will receive an e-mail automatically once a new answer has been posted to any of the questions you're subscribed to. The Knowledge database is there for everybody - you can always view questions and answers. If you want to post a question or answer, then make sure you are a registered member of The Sims Zone.

We've already filled up the space with some questions and answers, just so everybody can already find some help with the most frequently asked questions. Of course, you can always ask more - as many as you want. All the questions are posted in several categories, so you can quite easily find the answers to your questions. Even if you don't have a problem, you can always feel free to post both a question and answer, so you immediately help other people. We hope everybody will find this section helpful.

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1708. New Sims 2 Screens

Written on Saturday 31 January 2004 at 18:35 by ChEeTaH - 10 comments.

Even though the game's been delayed quite a bit, Maxis is still releasing new screenshots. Today we can show you another 4 brand new ones, which show what you will be able to do with the game once it's finished. There is a house and a huge mansion, some kind of lab experiment, and a business party. Simply click the thumbnails below to see the shots in their full size.

1709. News from chat

Written on Thursday 29 January 2004 at 20:59 by ChEeTaH - 9 comments.

The chat was at a convenient time for me today, and the Maxoids did give some more information about the delays of The Sims 2 and CaSIE. Here's what MaxisLucky said about CaSIE:

"We are planning on releasing CaSIE, but something to understand is that Sims created with CaSIE need to work with the game, and since the Sims portion of the game isn't done, we can't release CaSIE yet. We don't want to give you a tool that creates Sims that won't eventually work in the game. Once its is released we are so excited to see what you guys come up with."

It's not yet sure if the delay causes any changes to the system requirements. Other news is that once TS2 is released, there probably won't be any more Sims 1.x SimDay events, and until then there won't be very many Maxis objects for TS1 anymore, as they. Basically The Sims 1 is slowly dying, but of course The Sims 2 will take over and there will be a lot of new features there. Of course the Sims 2 website will be updated weekly with new info, screenshots, etc., even with the release date being so far away. Weekly chat times will from now on be alternated, so everybody can join some chats. As MaxisKitty said, it's because then more European people get a chance to join the chat. Currently the Maxis Website hosting will still take some time, as Maxis is "still jumping through some hoops to get it set up". Of course, TS1 fansites will be hosted as well. The transcript will be posted at The Sims Chat soon, and there you'll be able to read even more questions and answers.

[Update 20:45] TSC posted the transcript quicker than I expected. You can find it right here.

1710. SimDay

Written on Thursday 29 January 2004 at 10:35 by ChEeTaH - 2 comments.

This week's SimDay is more of the same really. That doesn't make it less nice though. First of all, there are 6 more MP3 files of Bustin' Out. These tunes, and the 12 from the past two weeks, can be downloaded from this page. Secondly, The Sims has been voted in the top 10 family games of 2003 at Daytrum:

"For those who like to meddle and micro-manage the lives of tiny, virtual people in a strategy game, there's Electronic Arts' The Sims. In the best version yet for the consoles, The Sims Bustin' Out lets players take their Sims out of the house and into new locations to play and work and interact with new characters. On the PC, The Sims Double Deluxe bundles the original The Sims game with the fun Livin' Large and House Party expansion packs to add more features, objects and places. And if you want to add some magic to your sim experience, there's the latest add-on, The Sims Makin' Magic, which gives sims magical powers."

You can read the whole article right here. Then there's The Sims 2 stuff: there are 3 screenshots, which have been posted here last weekend. You can now find them at the official site too. Finally there's a new interview with a webmaster again. This time it's my turn, so if you're one of the few who wants to know what games I play, what I think of The Sims 2 and EA and more, then enjoy the read. Remember to join the chat tonight at 11am (7pm in the UK, 8pm in Europe) tonight.