Overview - Part II

Your Sim interacts with other, computer controlled Sims and they each effect each others lives. You can make friends, enemie, spouses, anything. You do not actually control the other characters (unless they marry your character) but by subtley altering the environment you can throw them together.

The Sims will receive immense support from its web site. After it has been released new items will be available for download and added to the vast store already in the game. For example, new types of food will be available or games. All of this greatly enhances the game as a whole.

Your Sim will need money to buy things such as furnishings, pizza or a bigger house so he/she will need a career - or not if your intention is to create a suffering artist. There is just so much to describe about The Sims that it defies belief.

The Sims will change the way we approach games (it allows you to create a Sim version of yourself !) and is as revolutionary as Sim City was when that was first released.

Review III

Once you have your house and a good source of income plus all the other necessities, you should be right until the Stork comes along and, if you thought the Sims were bad, try the Baby Sims. That's the Sims life for you; when you think you have it all worked out between friends and work and the balance is perfect, life throws you a curve ball and bringing up an infant is a most harrowing experience.

First burglars, then getting sacked, then fires, depression and the bundle of joy (supposedly so). What's next? Chipmunks taking over the grain industry and adding a clever amount of anit-freeze? Sheesh... Now you have to work, look after the little thing and all the while you are running hot on coffee, adrenaline, and four hours sleep in the past 72. You've got a bad hygiene problem, an angry wife and a house which looks like a pig pen.

So life in the glasshouse isn't always as good as it looks, but it is still great for the power trip, with an enormous amount of control available. With endless hours of fun and even more hours of pain, I guess you can have it all in the digital world. This is an outlandish foray into uncharted waters. It provokes feelings and emotions never felt in a computer before and as a result is one of the most addictive games ever.