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2032. Announcement: The Add-on Handler

Written on Wednesday 16 April 2003 at 14:00 by ChEeTaH - 1 comment.

Recently I've began working on a new utility for The Sims: The (Sims) Add-on Handler (Abbreviated: TAOH). Like several other tools out there, this will be able to install your downloaded files to The Sims by simply dragging the downloaded files to the window of TAOH - which shows any image you like. But unlike others, this tool will be a lot better! If you want to select the files using a conventional "Open" dialog box, that's possible too. For instance, you won't have to hassle to install roofs manually anymore - this will detect if a file is a skin or roof, and install it as you wish. The same goes for objects and houses. As if that isn't enough, it will also check if Skins are in just 256-colours. Skins that are bitmaps with more than 256 colours (or a palette bigger than that) tend to crash The Sims. The program will simply give you a warning if a file seems to be invalid. But wait! There's more... Read More!

2033. Easter Preperations!

Written on Wednesday 16 April 2003 at 04:14 by Sumit - 0 comments.

Easter is on its way, dont leave your sims out in the dark!!! Here is a basket to keep your sims warm for the coming holiday. Let it be known that your sims do not live on easter baskets for Easter, more joy to come, the Easter Bunny is coming to town!

2034. Official site going down

Written on Wednesday 16 April 2003 at 02:58 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The official site will be going down for some server maintenance tonight. This is something Maxis tends to do regularly, and they'll be cleaning up a lot of mess on their servers then. They should be back soon though (16 April according to the note), and a SimDay will probably follow a day later. This goes for all Maxis sites, including SimCity and probably the nearly forgotten SimGolf (although it doesn't say anything there). If the TSO site will be taken down is unknown, as that's hosted by EA Games rather than by Maxis themselves. Because of this maintenance, SimCityDay has been delayed until next week.

2035. Another TS GameCube review

Written on Wednesday 16 April 2003 at 02:00 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

"As you tend to your sim’s specific needs - comfort, hunger, social, bladder, etc – you’ll be compelled to try new things and build skill points in different categories like mechanical, creativity, body, and stuff. And as you build up the skills of your sim it will become better at doing things, anything from making more nourishing meals to fixing broken appliances quicker (and with less chance of horrific electrical shock, too), as your sim excels at these things you will be rewarded with varying levels of remuneration. Most rewards come in the form of new household items to play with and use, but more substantial success will yield far better results like new modes of play, for example."

That's a bit from a new review of The Sims on the GameCube at WorthPlaying. Like many others, this site is also positive about the game and they show it with a score of 8.7 out of 10. For more of this review, including screenshots, click here. For even more reviews, check out our review index.

2036. Superstar not the last expansion?

Written on Tuesday 15 April 2003 at 00:40 by ChEeTaH - 1 comment.

As you might remember, in one of the reports about Superstar when it was nothing more than a vague rumour, we told you about an interview with Will Wright, the big man behind The Sims. He said there would be 7 expansion packs in total, but we didn't know if he included Deluxe with that or not. Now it seems there's indeed something else coming after Superstar - but we don't know anything at all yet! The only other evidence so far is someone from EA in the Netherlands. The so-called 'mayor' (the webmaster) of the Dutch official website said on the forums that Superstar wouldn't be the last expansion pack. He also said The Sims 2.0 would be coming sooner that we'd expect... Read More!

2037. TSO 14 day trial at FilePlanet

Written on Tuesday 15 April 2003 at 00:18 by ChEeTaH - 1 comment.

If you're a subscriber of FilePlanet you may have found out about this already. You can now download a 14-day trial version of The Sims Online without paying. It's only for subscribers though, so you'll have to get a login there for free there before you can download it. After downloading the 1.2 GB(!) file, you'll have to register a new account at EA.Com - even if you were a playtester before. You will be asked for some creditcard details for age verification, but that won't be billed. In fact, if you decide to buy the game after downloading the trial, you'll get a mail-in rebate of $10. Unfortunately it's unkown if this is US and Canada only, or if people in other parts of the world can get the rebate too. If you can't download the 1.2 GB, there's always the option to get it mailed to you on 2 cds - but that costs a bit again. If you want to read a bit more about this, or download this trial, click here. Thanks to Matt for this tip.

2038. Another review of The Sims (Gamecube, X-Box)

Written on Monday 14 April 2003 at 00:39 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The Sims has been reviewed once again. Slowly but surely more and more reviews are popping up on the net. There is now another review, at GameSpy. Like some other major gaming sites, this one has one review for both platforms, just in two slightly different editions. The introduction and the conclusions are different, but the rest is the same. Here's a snippet of it:

"All in all, getting a life isn't as fun as the normal, freeform experience -- The Sims' primary appeal is that you can play god, and doing any such thing here will break the script and end your game. However, the "Get a Life" mode does well to instruct new players on the basics, and it was wise to force players to complete a token chunk of this mode to unlock the main simulation. Unfortunately, though, the player can only unlock certain catalog items and gameplay scenarios through the "Get a Life" game. While the concept is sound, I felt like I had to slog through the mode to unlock those items, and this ultimately felt more like a chore to me than actual fun."

They're not too happy about the Get a Life mode really, but in general they're positive about the game. If you're interested in the GameCube version, go here. For the X-Box, you have to click here. For even more reviews, visit our review index.

2039. Oak Street Starter

Written on Saturday 12 April 2003 at 07:44 by Jendea - 0 comments.

Very large starter added for the sim family that wants room to grow. At $15,838, well...I guess they'd better also be career oriented. :)
You can check this home out Here

2040. SimDay: Again just one link

Written on Thursday 10 April 2003 at 23:44 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Maxis' style is getting quite boring now... Yet again, this week's SimDay is nothing more than one simple link. This time to a review of The Sims on the X-Box. However, better than sometimes, it's one we haven't actually spotted before yet, so here's a snippet:

"It is easy to see how Maxis went all out here trying to incorporate as much humor into The Sims as possible - even the furniture and equipment you can buy for your Sims has lead to chuckles. We did try one experiment worth mentioning: Allowing our Sim to do as he pleased for a couple of days then to come back and check on him. To our dismay he got into a couple major arguments with his roommate and now can't even go to the bathroom in peace! Goes to show you man is still smarter than machine - well XBox at least. How Graphic!"

The reviewers, GDXbox.com, gave the game the 'drool award' which basically means a 5 out of 5 score. The whole thing is here. For our review index, with many more reviews of this game, click here.

2041. Poll results and new poll: Paying for downloads?

Written on Thursday 10 April 2003 at 02:00 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

After last week's poll we found out that most of you use WinZip (or a similar program) to manually install downloads into The Sims: 67% (92 people) voted that. Far behind is the SimsFileMaid, which got 15 (11%) out of the 138 votes. Following that closely are those who don't have downloads or only use self-extracting (.exe) ones: 14 votes (10%) for that. A bit behind that is SimsZip, which received 12 votes (9%). SimsFileMaid and The Neighborhood Handler together got 5th, with just 4 votes (3%). The last vote (less than 1%) was for SimsZip in combination with The Neighborhood Handler. That leaves 0 votes for Sims Unzip. That's actually the first time an option in a poll received 0 votes in one week time (or longer).

Now we want to know if you're subscribed to any of the paysites out there. As you know, quite many sites are in bandwidth trouble, and some of them 'went pay ' because of that. We'd like to know if you subscribed to any of those or not. You can tell us by voting here or on the right.