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901. WorthPlaying features Urbz
Written on Tuesday 31 August 2004 at 01:47 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.
Games site WorthPlaying has posted a few things about the Urbz today. First of all, there are the 5 screenshots you can see below. But if you prefer moving pictures, there's also a grand trailer of 29 Mb. In 17 minutes you're taken through the game. See some Urb-creating giong on, as well as in-game material from 125th Street, Gasoline Row and Central Station. You also see several mini-games in action. One of the developers is your guide as voice-over. If you want to see the video, click here (it's called the "Walkthrough Trailer"). For the full size screenshots, click the thumbnails below.

Urbz (1) Urbz (2) Urbz (3) Urbz (4) Urbz (5)
 

902. Sims 2 Reviews and Screenshots update
Written on Monday 30 August 2004 at 01:13 by ChEeTaH - 4 comments.
Several reviews and screenshots of the Sims 2 have been posted again. First of all there's the German thesims.de, which has posted some more shots from the Games Convention, held in Germany a while back. You can find the shots in this newspost and this newspost. The British The Sims 2 Website has also been able to see the game. They've been to Bluewater, Kent, where EA was as part of the Sims 2 UK Tour. To read the impressions of The Sims 2 Website, visit their Sims 2 Preview page. There's also a new German review at Gamers.at. In 2 pages they discuss the game, and rank it as "Very Good". The third page contains some new screenshots, which makes it interesting for English readers too. Click here to read it, and follow the "Seite" links at the bottom for the other pages.

And finally, our affiliate SimsZone has posted 2 more parts of their huge review. One article, about the aspirations, wants and fears, was posted earlier this week. Today they've also added pregnancy and babies to the list. To see the screenshots, go to their review special. For the information from the review, in English, read on.
 
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903. UrbzDay Part 2
Written on Sunday 29 August 2004 at 18:02 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.
After telling you all about this week's urbzday, a few more things regardng the Black Eyed Peas have been posted on the official website. The press release is there, but there's also a new movie featuring the Black Eyed Peas. It comes in two modes, high (4.1 Mb) and low (1.1 Mb) resolution. QuickTime is required. Furthermore, the Black Eyed Peas members have been added to the Urbz crew section. The movie is in the Flix section, the character descriptions in the Crew section, all on the official urbz site.
 

904. Knowledge Upgrades
Written on Sunday 29 August 2004 at 04:29 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.
After the relaunch of the Files section, we have now upgraded the knowledge section. Besides some bug fixes, there are a couple of major upgrades:
  • The question lists are now spread over pages, giving you a better overview.
  • The search is now also located at the top of the pages.
  • The search itself has been much enhanced, and is far more powerful. It's now similar as the Files search since that's been upgraded. More details of the results are displayed now as well.
  • When a question is moved to a different section, that will now be shown as such in the old category for 14 days. After that it'll disappear from the old section.
  • Questions can be merged. This can only be done by TSZ staff, but merged questions will be marked as such, in a similar fashion as moved question. Questions merged into another one will be marked as merged for 2 weeks, after which they'll disappear. Old links will continue to work though, without problems.
  • Questions can be stickied. This too can only be done by TSZ staff members. Sticky questions will appear at the top of the lists in regular sections (not the special sections like "Latest Questions" etc), no matter how you sort the questions. You'll only see them on the first page though.
  • Finally, there are some minor changes and improvements in the layout and data presentation.
A few small things have been fixed throughout the site as well, mainly that if you login through a subdomain (e.g. knowledge.thesimszone.co.uk) the login will be used on all subdomains of the site. That means you should have less trouble with that.

Currently the knowledge database contains 1400 questions, and over 3800 answers. It's THE place to find an answer to any Sims related question you have. Of course members can post and answer questions. If you haven't seen it yet, make sure you head over to the knowledge section to check it out. If you have any bugs to report, please e-mail me.

 

905. Sims 2 System Requirements Minor Change
Written on Sunday 29 August 2004 at 02:18 by ChEeTaH - 3 comments.
There recently have been several changes in the system requirements of the Sims 2. There has been one more minor change, which affects owners of a Radeon 7000 graphics card. Because that card has been put back to require a 2.0 Ghz processor. The Radeon 7200 and Radeon 7500 are still listed as T&L cards, and will run with 'just' 800 Mhz. You can find the complete system requirements on the system specs page, or in our knowledge base.
 

906. Hot Date - How To Build Yours Part 3
Written on Saturday 28 August 2004 at 14:36 by Neil - 3 comments.
In what is probably going to be my last Sims 1 extra/editorial before The Sims 2 comes out, I present for your enjoyment, Part 3 of my Hot Date - How To Build Yours series. Please click here to read it and learn about decorating the outside of a downtown lot, blocking areas off and generally turning a bare area into a furnished area. Batteries not included. :)
 

907. Lucy's Mail: Music
Written on Saturday 28 August 2004 at 04:00 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.
This week mail from Lucy is all about the music in the Sims 2. It's mainly a follow-up to news that came in earlier this week, namely that Mark Mothersbaugh has composed the theme tune for the Sims 2. Lucy quickly takes us through Mark's portfolio, starting with Devo in the 70s and ending with the Sims 2. The music that will be played when viewing the credits has also been revealed, as Lucy made it available for download. The 937 Kb file can be download from this link. Listen to it, and you'll agree with Lucy that it's happy and bouncy. In a PS, Lucy also quickly tells about the Black Eyed Peas who will make their appearance in the Urbz. That too was told of before, with a press release yesterday. See the Read More part (or below) for the entire mail.
 
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908. August Sims 2 Scoop
Written on Saturday 28 August 2004 at 01:24 by ChEeTaH - 3 comments.
The monthly scoop has been sent out again. Besides there being links to the latest chat transcript and the dvd trailer, there is also a small piece about the Sims 2 going gold. More interesting however, is a little piece about the Monty's and the Capps, from Veronaville:
"There's plenty going on in The Sims 2 neighborhoods! Take Veronaville and its feuding families, for instance...

"The Monty's and the Capp's aren't on the best terms, so the Summerdreams have thrown a party to ease tensions between the two families. A party may not be the best place to settle an argument, however. Will Mercutio be able to control his unruly behavior and allow the party to continue, or will the whole evening become a disaster?"
Included with the email are also the 6 screenshots below. Click the thumbnails to see the large versions. Older scoop screenshots can be found on the Scoop Screenshots page.

Mercutio's in trouble Mercutio messed up Look at the Ladies Feeling Rich? Money, Money, Money... Hacking is bad!
 

909. Black Eyed Peas in Urbz Press Release
Written on Friday 27 August 2004 at 15:42 by ChEeTaH - 1 comment.
EA has issued a press release about the Black Eyed Peas making the music for the upcoming console game the Urbz. This was already revealed at 24 June, and some screenshots popped up last Urbzday, but it's now completely official. Although there isn't much news about this "extraordinary collaboration." As said before, nine tracks of the upcoming Black Eyed Peas album "Monkey Business" will be recorded in SimLish. According to the press release, the band went back in the studio to re-record those songs in another language, specifically for a game. The Urbz itself will feature exclusive versions of those tracks. If you're interested in more about this, read the press release.
 

910. SimDay: New Video
Written on Thursday 26 August 2004 at 16:35 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.
This week's SimDay comes with nothing but a video. Links to the Gamespy Feature and the news about the Sims gone gold have been posted earlier this week. The video is a preview of the Sims 2 DVD edition, of which a worldwide release still hasn't been confirmed by EA. Nevertheless there's the option to pre-order it in the US, and of course that means there has to be some PR for it. In 90 seconds some bits of the interviews with several Maxis icons are shown. Tim LeTourneau also explains how the blooper video was created. Apparantly they just tried to make Sims juggle with objects in the environment, and they happened to (ab)use a baby for it. The video also contains a few snippets of previously unseen in-game material. You can view and download it from the official videos page.