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891. HSN: Nightlife Video and Interview

Written on Friday 15 July 2005 at 04:44 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

There's more stuff from the EA Hot Summer Night. This time it's about Nightlife again. After some screenshots, gaming site GameSpot has posted a few more things about the expansion pack. First of all there's a gameplay video released by EA, which you can get off the media page or from GameSpy. It shows several things that have been shown on screenshots before, but now in motion. That includes dining and dancing, cars, the poker table, the bowling alley and the karaoke machine.

Other than that, GameSpot has interviewed Tim LeTourneau, Senior Producer of Nightlife. In the written interview, Tim explains the dating game, the new objects and interactions. News is that Sims might receive a love letter in their mailbox after a great night out. Dream Dates can result in a number of rewards, including promotion at work. The Outing Score is also mentioned. It's like the date meter, except for when you go out with a bigger group. The group needs to have fun.

During the six minute video interview Tim tells pretty much the same. The video also shows some of the in-game footage in the other video. You can stream it with a free GameSpot Basic account from the media page.

892. HSN: The Sims 2 Video

Written on Friday 15 July 2005 at 04:15 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

During the Hot Summer Night event EA has given a video of the Sims 2 to the attending press. It's been posted on several gaming sites already including GameSpot and GameSpy. On the latter one you can download the video in several versions without registration. The video goes through all versions of the game with in the background a remixed version of the Sims 2 tune. You can see the Console, GBA, DS, PSP and even the Phone editions. Several scenes of all these games are shown, all from within the game. See the video to find out for yourself.

893. Hot Summer Night Nightlife Screenshots

Written on Friday 15 July 2005 at 04:03 by ChEeTaH - 1 comment.

A Hot Summer Night can't be without some Nightlife, so of course EA has been showing The Sims 2 Nightlife on the event held on the 14th as well. This has resulted in several screenshots from the PC expansion pack. Again, like with the Sims 2 Screenshots, nine of these come directly from EA. The last five were posted by GameSpot. We'll keep you updated with more Hot Summer Night material, of which some can be expected very soon. For now click the thumbnails below for the screenshots.

894. SimDay: E-Cards and Characters

Written on Friday 15 July 2005 at 03:44 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The official site has been updated on Monday and Wednesday with two pieces of news. First of all, the Sims have entered the USA Network site. There, Nina Lothario has joined a list of characters, which you can see on her character page. You can vote for her giving her one to five stars. Other than that, the official site has added two new postcards. One is to say "I love you", whereas the other is a "Get Well Soon" card. Both in Sims-style of course. From those cards our affiliate SimsZone has extracted the two artworks with a Nightlife theme below (Click the thumbnails to enlarge).

895. Hot Summer Night TS2 Screenshots

Written on Friday 15 July 2005 at 03:34 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

EA is holding its Hot Summer Night event again. Press gets invited to the EA Headquarters to check out the latest games, and the progress made since the E3 back in May. Of course that also means there are a lot of screenshots to get. There are quite a few of the Sims 2 on all platforms (except PC and Mac, where the game is already released). Most of the ones below come directly from EA, except for the first Console shot, the first three PSP shots and the first six Mobile Phone shots - those come from the official German site - and the final three for the mobile phone, which come from WorthPlaying (but also from the Hot Summer Night event). If you click read more (or scroll down a bit), you'll see thumbnails of all these screenshots released the past two days, by clicking those thumbnails you'll see the full size screenshots. Read More!

896. New Cheat: TV Volume

Written on Friday 15 July 2005 at 02:26 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Fansite SnootySims has in the past discovered several cheats for the Sims 2, and recently they found another one. With it, you can set the volume of the TV. Press and hold Control and Shift, then press C and release all buttons to make the cheat bar pop up in the game. Then enter "floatProp tvVolume" (without quotes) followed by a number from 0 to 1 (with several digits). The value of 0.5 is the default volume for the tv, so for example you can enter "floatProp tvVolume 0.5" to reset the volume.

897. Sim Brother 4 - The Downloads

Written on Tuesday 12 July 2005 at 06:25 by Andy - 0 comments.

Downloads Ready From the house and the famous eight residents to the potty that they trained Erin and Emily on, it is all ready for you to download right now and share in the experience of Sim Brother 4 from here!! Check it out!

898. TS2U Patch After All

Written on Thursday 7 July 2005 at 13:48 by ChEeTaH - 1 comment.

Two weeks ago Tim started traveling through Europe, and he also went through Amsterdam. From that presentation we then reported Tim had said there were no plans for a patch for the Sims 2 University. This resulted in some heavy discussions (see, for example, this discussion on the BBS). MaxoidKane had already said there would be a reply from Tim about this issue when he got back, and now there is.

In the post, Tim elaborates on what we summarised. The Sims is a very open game, and the bugs that were reported seemed inconsistent and weren't always reproducible, and thus harder to trace back. Maxis hasn't been able to reproduce many problems very well, as many only occur for some players and not all of them. These problems were considered quirks, that Maxis thought didn't affect gameplay too much, and so didn't require a patch.

Through the discussions the team noticed that the fun of the game actually was affected by some of these quirks. The issues of not releasing a patch, and the fact that it's hard to test, were confused (also by us), and resulted in the statement that a patch would be too hard to test. Maxis is now working on finding reproducable and fixable problems, and these will be addressed in a stand-alone patch. Of course Nightlife will also fix known problems.

There is no list of fixes yet, nor a release date for the patch, but of course we'll keep you updated. Tim end with saying that the community is important to Maxis and that they'll continue to listen to them.

Read the entire post for the exact details.

899. Behind the Sims 2

Written on Wednesday 6 July 2005 at 00:23 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The Sims and the Sims 2 have always used the so-called Simantics scripting, which define the behaviour of objects and Sims. A somewhat old article, from the Game Developers Conference a few months ago, gives an introduction through Simantics and Edith, the program used to program the scripts. The scripting is explained, and a few pictures showing Edith are there as well. You can read the article at GameDev.

900. Nightlife Producer Tour

Written on Wednesday 6 July 2005 at 00:14 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

EA has released a new video in which Senior Producer Tim LeTourneau takes a quick tour through the new features of Nightlife, the second PC expansion pack. The video is similar to what people would've seen on the E3. He shows his own place, the Hub, and how Jesse scopes the room looking for hot dates. Tim explains that the date meter shows how well the date is going, and the time you have left. The better the date, the more time you'll get. The time meter still shows the "old" style, as shown during E3, and so the video seems to have been recorded before Tim's tour through Europe. During that tour a different date meter has been shown. Tim continues to show the Electro Dance Sphere, and he tells some socials appear much earlier during a date than they would in a normal relationship. After some slow dancing and lowering hands, Mrs. Crumplebottom appears ready for some slapping. Finally Tim takes Jesse and Mary-Ann (his date) to Jesse's very own car.

The video is about 50Mb big, and QuickTime is required. You can download it from this German page (follow the Download link), or view it directly on this British page (click "Find out more" to load it). Thanks to SimsZone for the link.