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1761. Santa's Here!

Written on Wednesday 24 December 2003 at 23:27 by Sumit - 0 comments.

Hope y'all have a white christmas cause I sure don't with this 60 degree weather, but atleast I got some gifts for everyone. I usually don't make expansions exclusive objects, but these come from Livin' Large, Deluxe, or Double Deluxe. So if you have any one of those, you've got yourselves a mighty fine present. I also have made my very first stairway retexture so check that out too. Check it all out here!

1762. Merry Christmas

Written on Wednesday 24 December 2003 at 02:35 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

On behalf of everybody from The Sims Zone, I want to wish everybody a merry (and white) Christmas. Don't forget about your Sims, but don't spend too much time with them either :-) If you're going to get any presents, let's hope it's Makin' Magic, Bustin' Out or anything else Sims-related. Our 'present' to you are several new extras. The first one is a complete career index of ALL the careers in The Sims 1 and its expansions. You can now get more info about every career in high detail, including job descriptions, requirements, working times, and mood change per hour. And of course the salary... You can get in by clicking here. Some of the careers have been in the index for quite a while, but the last ones weren't added until a few days ago. Besides that, we've finally added a few review indexes, which contain links to many reviews we've found on the internet of the recently released games. Click the names below to go to the index for each game:

• Makin' Magic
• Bustin' Out (GBA)
• Bustin' Out (Consoles)

I want to thank GameRankings, ToTheGame and SimsZone.de for providing the many links to all the reviews. You can always access these review indexes, as well as the career index, through our Extras section.

1763. Sims 2 News

Written on Tuesday 23 December 2003 at 22:59 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

A lot of new screenshots of The Sims 2 have been posted today and yesterday. The first set of 5 comes from IGN. A couple of them show some hot action (nothing really explicit though), so be warned. They're all quite nice to see, and once again show the detail of the Sims. 4 others have been posted at TheSimsResource. You can also find the IGN ones there, but the 4 different ones all show some military action. Two show a guy being picked up for work by helicopter and truck, another shows a full bathroom, and the final one is some training going on. Click the site's links to see the shots for yourself. Finally, some articles. The first of the two is a preview at New Wave Gaming. It's probably not that interesting to most people, as it doesn't provide any new info. It also mentions mid-february as release date, but as none has ever been officially given, that shouldn't be considered official or even accurate. You can read the whole article yourself on this very page. More interesting is an interview with Lucy Bradshaw at Total Video Games. Here's a little quote from the article:

"Yes, this is a real leap from the original Sims in so many ways. Creating believable human characters in our Sims is a pretty huge undertaking. The better they look, the more fidelity players expect of their behaviour. By electing to give our Sims better looks, facial animations, and allowing the player to get closer to them, we needed to advance the AI significantly. And, yes, getting closer and having new animations has forced us to consider the boundaries that we want to maintain as well."

You can find that interview by clicking here. Enjoy all this new stuff!

1764. Sims 2 Interview and shots

Written on Monday 22 December 2003 at 23:22 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

GameSpot has updated again with some new screenshots, showing a marriage ceremony, Riverside, a party on a balcony and more. You can find those here. Another screenshot showing 4 differently decorated bedrooms has been poasted at TheSims2.com. To see that one, go to the screenshots page at the official The Sims 2 site. Even more interesting than all those screenshots, is a new interview with Will Wright that GameSpot's also posted. This interview also reveals a (perhaps the) feature that was still secret until now. It's that you can actually see the game from a Sim's point of view. Here's Will talking about that:

"Well, I think the camera freedom is something that we’ve resisted for a long time and feels like probably the biggest stretch. But it has some huge benefits. You can zoom in very close and feel totally immersed. You can even do like a walkthrough and be at that level, where you’re actually standing in the house, Sim point of view. You can see their faces because we’re bringing the camera in so much closer. Of course, you know, the kind of cost of that is that we have to provide a huge amount of detail on the characters and the objects now."

Click here for the whole interview, which also discusses other things of The Sims 2, and Will's vacation. Enjoy it!

1765. Chat Transcript

Written on Friday 19 December 2003 at 23:16 by ChEeTaH - 1 comment.

Last Thursday's chat with Tim LeTourneau turned out to be a success again, with 500 people in the chatroom. There were several interesting questions and answers in this chat. Here are a few of them:

"Hello, one can see dates a little everywhere: February 2, March 14, March 15... for different country, but one still does not know which is the true one"
"We do not have an exact release date yet. Don't believe anything you read - the game will be released when it's finished."

"Will the baby sims still atomatically be in the little carages or will the Mother sim have to go to like some hospital to have her baby "delivered""
"Let's just say the pregnancy experience is a lot more like real life now. Of course a little shorter"

"Will you be able to interact with NPCs? (Maid, Gardner, etc.)"
"Even more than interact, let's just say you can get very close if you want to"

"Can a woman get pregnant by a man that does not live in the same household as her? I.e boyfriend and girlfriend not living together but she gets pregnant, if you get what i mean lol"
"This seems to be a popular topic, bet you can't wait to try this out."

"If you marry the maid, can you control her after she is part of your family? If not, then how does that work? Do they just go along uncontrolled?"
"Yep! She (or he) would be part of your family, just like any Sim born into the family or made in Create-A-Sim."

If you want to read a lot more about The Sims 2, click here to read the transcript.

1766. SimDay

Written on Thursday 18 December 2003 at 21:35 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

This week's SimDay isn't too big. There's the chat, which as announced before, will be about the Sims 2 and Tim LeTourneau will be attending it. As usual the time of the chat is 3pm PST (11pm in Britain, midnight in Europe). Click here to find a link to the chatroom when it's open. The next, and final, thing are some screenshots which we've posted here before. These are also of The Sims 2, showing several building options. If you haven't seen them yet, click here to get them after all. That's all already for this week.

1767. Bustin' Out Released

Written on Tuesday 16 December 2003 at 13:15 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Today, EA shipped The Sims Bustin' Out on three consoles: the PS2, GameCube and X-Box. The GBA edition has been out for 2 weeks already, and this version went gold last week. The game should be in stores soon, if it isn't already. EAGames.com has posted a few movies of Bustin' Out, a Sim's worst week, a "Sizzle" trailer and a clip with the creators doing their thing, all of which you can find right here. The last two of those have been spotted before, but you can now still see them in high or low resolution. QuickTime required. If you want to read the full press release about the shipping of the game, click here.

1768. Bustin' Out Last Diary

Written on Tuesday 16 December 2003 at 11:47 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The last designer's diary of Bustin' Out has been posted at GameSpot. We can read what Mike Perry (who also did the previous diaries) has to say about the console-specific features, i.e. the online mode on the PS2, the GameCube/GBA connectivity, and the HDTV support for the X-Box. Here's a little snippet about the last mentioned feature:

"HDTV is the way television was meant to be seen. All versions of The Sims Bustin' Out have really excellent all-new graphics and special effects, but only the Xbox has native 720p widescreen HDTV support. In HDTV mode, you can play The Sims Bustin' Out with smokin' graphics so detailed they are even better than DVD movies. The colorfully psychedelic dance floor of Clubb Rubb looks awesome in HDTV."

This part also comes with several new screenshots, as usual. Those can be found, which you can view here. You can read the article at this page. As the game will be released today (in the US anyway), this is the last designer's diary for Bustin' Out. For the previous issues, click the following links to our news posts about them: Part 3, Part 2, and Part 1.

1769. TNHH Public Release

Written on Sunday 14 December 2003 at 20:06 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

After a private release to the TNHH group last week, The Neighborhood Handler 4.11 has now been released to everybody. You can download this Makin' Magic compatible version from this site, in the Utilities section. You'll need to download the full version if you haven't installed The Add-on Handler 0.3.0b yet, otherwise you can get the upgrade version. The Website will be updated later tonight. For more information about this new version, I recommend reading last week's post. If you don't know what the Neighborhood Handler is or does, check out the website.

1770. Sims 2 Release Date?

Written on Sunday 14 December 2003 at 16:07 by ChEeTaH - 3 comments.

Many people have talked about the release date of The Sims 2. So far only "First Quarter" and "Early Spring" 2004 were mentioned. It turns out that it could be both. EA Germany has published 19 March 2004 as (European) release date. That would mean the game would probably be released at 16 March in the US. Note that this release date is still not definite, and might change later. Also, the official Sims 2 site still says early spring. The closer we get to the release date, the more definite it'll be. Perhaps Maxis will release a date in the chat next SimDay, which can only then be considered pretty definite (as Maxis doesn't seem to delay games once an exact date is given, as they've proven with previous expansion packs and other games). Credit goes to SimsZone for publishing this news.