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1971. GameSpy reviews Superstar

Written on Thursday 29 May 2003 at 01:44 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

After GameSpot posted one yesterday, it's now GameSpy which has posted a Superstar review:

"Many of the new objects are designed to help your rich and famous sim relax. You can use steam or mud baths, or hire a masseuse to ease muscles aching after a long day on the set. You can now shop for high fashions, scuba dive, or watch satellite TV which has four more channels than basic television. Most of the new objects are available both at home and at Studio Town. You can meet any need while you're in Studio Town, except for energy, which is a bit of a disappointment as the needs bars seem to fall faster while there than at home. As with all expansions, you can build or modify your own Studio Town any way you'd like, so if you want your sim to stay on the job as long as possible, you'll want to setup the most perfect working conditions."

They also complain about the technical issues of the game (bad scrolling, long loading times). According to GameSpy Superstar is probably the best expansion yet. To read what they think in detail, click here. If you want to keep up-to-date with the latest news every day, bookmark our review index.

1972. Another interview with Will Wright

Written on Wednesday 28 May 2003 at 00:45 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Besides GameSpy, Boomtown has also taken the time to sit down with Will Wright, designer of The Sims, for about an hour. Besides talking about The Sims 2, gaming, other games, and a few other things, he talks about the origin of The Sims:

"The Sims came about from two sources. Firstly there was Sim Ant, which I was pleased with because of the behavioural models of the ants. I wondered whether it was possible to assign similar behaviours to a human being in a video game. Also at the time I was reading a lot of architectural books that ended up sparking the idea of customising your house."

It's all quite nice to read, but you won't find too much new stuff in it. You can read everything about it right here.

1973. First Superstar Review

Written on Wednesday 28 May 2003 at 00:40 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

It's taken a while, probably because of the E3, for the first review of Superstar to show up. Although GameSpot probably isn't the very first, they have the first published review that I found. Here's a bit they say about the game's stability, which has yet again gotten worse:

"It almost seems pointless by now to mention that The Sims: Superstar, like all the other expansion packs, doesn't bother to address the annoying problems that have plagued The Sims ever since 2000. The game's scrolling camera is as sluggish as ever, the pathfinding is still unreliable. And as usual, your sims will still occasionally "forget" the instructions you give them. This can be especially frustrating when another celebrity sim tries to speak to you to increase your fame while you're in the middle of something else. In these instances, the celebrities will seemingly "forget" to speak with you the instant your sim becomes available. And unfortunately, Superstar shipped with a few bizarre crash problems. At least some of them can be fixed by adjusting your AGP graphics settings or running the game in a window, though hopefully Maxis will release a patch for the expansion."

Besides the technical issues, they find it a good expansion pack that's worthwhile. It adds a lot of nice new gameplay. The 8 out of 10 the game got is definately not bad. You can read the whole review here. This review also means the opening of a new review index, which you can find right here.

1974. Colorful CritterHouse

Written on Tuesday 27 May 2003 at 00:23 by Sumit - 0 comments.

A bit of magic for animal lovers. Today I introduce a colorific critterhouse which really knows what colors todays animals do love. Who cares if their colorblind, makes us happy ole sims know whose boss!

1975. Sims 2 Preview in the Temple

Written on Tuesday 27 May 2003 at 00:08 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

On April Fools' day, the Gamers Temple posted a fake preview of The Sims 2 (read this). Now, they've posted a real preview. They checked out the game at the E3, and now we can read what they have to say about it. There's some nice new info in it. The first new bit is the (bad) news Sims and homes from The Sims 1.0 can't be imported to The Sims 2. They also say a lot about the DNA. Apparantly Maxis showed making a lot of children from 2 Sims at the E3. All these children were unique and grew up to become unique adults, but they were obviously the offspring of their parents. Another little bit of news is that "you'll now be able to capture AVI files of your sims for inclusion in your album". So no longer you'll be limited to stills, but you can record a whole day of your family... or even several days. A bit like the creature in Black & White (for those who are familiar with that game), a Sims' looks can change. If your Sim works out a lot, you'll see they get broad shoulders and a trim waist line. This paragraph is also interesting:

"While The Sims 2 will bring many changes, more than likely one of them won't be the ability to follow your sims to work. Maxis toyed with the idea, but could not come up with a way to make all of the career tracks as interesting to play. As for community areas like Downtown, the jury is still out. Community areas will be a part of The Sims 2 at some point, but the question is whether they will be included in the game or as part of an expansion (yes, they're already thinking about expansions)."

That's about all the interesting things that we didn't know yet. To read everything, click here.

1976. The Sims 2 Best simulation game at E3

Written on Saturday 24 May 2003 at 23:58 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The Sims 2 has won its first award. The website IGN PC has given The Sims 2 the award for Best Simulation Game shown at the E3 a week ago. This is what they say about it:

"This is the game you'll want to know about if you're at all interested in titles where the domination and control and development of other people is the main premise. It's the same Sims you know and love with a new look, a load of new features and even more depth."

There's a bit more. You can check out at this page. All the other PC awards are there too. Runners-up for best simulation game were Century of Flight, Train Simulator 2 and Lock-On.

1977. Members: Please read!!

Written on Saturday 24 May 2003 at 22:45 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Yesterday (Friday 23 May), something pretty bad happened. An error in our database went unnoticed until then. When making a back-up of the database on my own computer, I accidentally clicked the wrong button, which caused all our member's details to be deleted. Unfortunately this error in the database has been in all the back-ups I made since we changed our layout in March. That means everybody who registered after 15 March 2003, is not registered anymore. Also, everybody who changed their profile after that date, will have to change their details again because those changes are lost too. Although I'm able to re-register everybody maually with the initial details, I'm not going to do that as that would cost me a very long time (over 1000 members registered since then), and I'd have to disable registration for new members until all that data was put back. Also, that could cause some other problems, as many people registered but never activated their accounts. I've decided to recover some accounts, to keep other parts of The Sims Zone working. These are the accounts that were actually used (note you don't need to be logged in to be able to download files). That means that people who registered with their (Sims) site's details in the profile, those who posted comments, and those who posted a site update, are still able to log in using their initial password that was sent to them after registering. If you belong to those people, you'll soon receive an e-mail from me explaining the situation, and what to do. If you registered after 15 March 2003, and your account has not been restored, then you must re-register at this page. I sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused by this and I take my responsibility for this. I know it's partially my fault too, but I hope you understand that I (of course) never intended to cause these problems. Thank you for your understanding.

So, if you registered after 15 March 2003, and your account has NOT been restored: Click here to register again. You can use the same username as before if you want.
If you registered after 15 March 2003, and your account has been restored: Please follow the instructions in the e-mail you'll get from me soon. The e-mail will be sent to the e-mail address you registered with.
If you changed your password or profile after 15 March 2003, but registered earlier: You need to make the same changes again. You might have to login using an old password. If you don't know what your password is, then you can get it back using the password recovery feature. You can change the password and profile on this page.

Again, I apologise for these problems. I hope you don't mind re-registering if necessary. If you have any questions about what you have to do, or anything else about these problems, please contact me here.

1978. SimDay: a way old link this time...

Written on Thursday 22 May 2003 at 21:36 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Last week there was no SimDay, probably because of the E3. This week, however, there's a slightly interesting SimDay this week (but not too interesting, don't expect too much). First of all, you can download the Superstar TV commercial now from the official site. It's 8.15 Mb, and you can find it on this page between the other Superstar videos. Besides that, there's a link to a very small preview of Bustin' Out at Gamers.Com. It's just 2 paragraphs. It hasn't anything new in it, just go to this page if you want to read it. Furthermore there's a link to the interview with Will Wright at GameSpy, which I posted about a few days ago. You can go to the interview directly by clicking right here. And finally: the way old link. Although the official Dutch site already exists for over 6 months(!) (since November 2002 - it was announced in October), Maxis posted a link to it as a "new Sims website". For those who know Dutch and didn't know about this site yet: it's at thesims.eagames.nl. That link was definately posted quickly, Maxis!

1979. New poll

Written on Thursday 22 May 2003 at 02:00 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Last week there was a poll about the new features of The Sims 2. You voted a lot, and the best new feature turns out to be the aging of Sims with 42% of the votes. Second came the multi-story homes option (50 votes, 17%), third are the 3D graphics (49 votes, about 17% too). For the rest of the results, go here. This week's poll is about Superstar: we wonder how good you think it is... if you got it anyway. You can vote on the right, or on this page. For more polls, go into our poll archive.

1980. Will Wright Interviews: Talk about SimUniverse? [Updated]

Written on Wednesday 21 May 2003 at 01:06 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

GameSpy has posted an interesting interview with Will Wright. It's not to much about The Sims, but more about the man himself. Besides telling how much he worked with Sid Meier on SimGolf, The Sims on GBA and the collaboration with Nintendo's Miyamoto on that. But there's also a bit about a secret project:

GameSpy: "I don't suppose you want to talk about the secret project."

Will Wright: "Not yet. The problem is that when I work on a game it takes about four years. If I start talking about it now, people will have heard about it for three years when it comes out. They'll be sick of hearing about it. I need to be kind of careful. I think that the optimum is that your game goes to E3 once, not twice or three times. I wish I could do a game in two years."

Now if we go back into our news archive, our visitors who came here over a year ago might remember the name of SimUniverse. Although we haven't heard anything about that for a long time, it might still be true. Check out this newspost and this one for what we posted about SimUniverse last year. Oh, and to read the GameSpy interview: click here.

[Update 23:30] In the "Read more" bit (or below if you can see that already) you can read more about the audio interview posted a couple of days ago. Read More!