

It is very difficult to do this at first and you will frequently find the cursor launching off in all directions before you figure out the correct sensitivity. You can also press the Options button to flit between the menu sections or move the cursor if it is on the main screen. Most options and icons are around the edge of the screen and you move around a cursor to select these. Being a port from a PC game, it doesn’t appear that any thought has gone into the control system at all. This extends to the newly designed Create-A-Sim feature as well, if you can figure out the controls. And with traits and aspirations returning, then you can really fine tune your Sims to be individuals. Pretty much every notable action has a skill associated with it one that can be levelled up and progressed. Nowadays – whilst cheats are still present in the console versions – the game is a much more robust affair. I’m not ashamed to admit my characters were all lounging in the big mansion on the hill because I used as many cheats as I could physically type in.

Back then, the life simulator was a much simpler affair, but achievements and trophies didn’t exist, so cheats were present in most people’s games. And I don’t like it at all.ĭLC frustrations aside, The Sims is one of those games that every man and his dog knows about, having first been released back in 2000 on PC. I haven’t noticed such an obtrusive way of trying to get a gamer to buy DLC before. As you move between different locations, certain ones are also greyed out that are related to the DLC. These little reminders that DLC is available aren’t just limited to the main screen.
