| | |  | Strategy | Home » » » MySims | | | | | | | Description: | | Explore a whole new world with MySims—it’s your world to transform! Move to a town that has been struggling lately. With a little creativity and some help from the locals, you can make this place thrive. Improve the town to attract new characters, from the Italian Chef and Florist to the Kickboxing Instructor and DJ. Discover what the residents want and need so that you can help them enjoy life in their town. Design a hot tub or a jukebox from scratch, build homes and businesses from the roof to the front door. Uncover special decorations and patterns as you explore the growing town. From the furniture and objects to the buildings to the town as a whole, each of your creations is unique. In MySims, what you make … makes all the difference! Nintendo DS Feature: A Whole World to Explore—Move to a resort town and discover areas like the mountain, forest, port, entertainment district, and more. Unlock more of the world as new characters visit and move in. You can also create your own original patterns to make inspired clothing and furniture items. | | | Features: | |
• Build and Customize an Entire Town-Your town is your own unique creation, from the flower shop to the mad scientist’s laboratory and beyond.
• Shape the Community-It’s your call who lives there and who moves out! Who will you befriend? Who will you ignore?
• Get to Know Your Town-Socialize with the locals and uncover all sorts of useful or surprising treasures hidden throughout the town.
• Create Your Own Sim-It’s a cinch to personalize your Sim’s appearance from head to toe with the Wii and DS controls. Unlock cool new clothing and accessories as you befriend the neighbors.
• Design Your Own Stuff-Decorate with your very own furniture and accessories, then customize your creations with things you can grow, harvest, or discover around town.
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 7.5 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.5 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.75 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.38 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.2 pounds | | Release Date:
| September 18, 2007 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 88 reviews |
| | | Game Information: | | | Platform:
| Nintendo Wii | | Media:
| Video Game | | Item Quantity:
| 1 |
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Average Customer Review:
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98 of 102 found the following review helpful:
Fun variation on the SimsSep 22, 2007
By C. Offen
My Sims is not like a normal Sims game. Personally, I love the anime style, and relaxed game play. You work on tasks you want to do, instead of trying to make sure your Sim stays happy and alive in previous games. You design houses, furniature, and decorate, as well as collect "essences" that are used to do pretty much all of the above. You ask new Sims to move into your town. The music is pleasant, and the "voices" of the Sims is adorable. It would have been nice if this game was wifi compatable, but it is not. I also was a bit disappointed with the number and amount of loading times for a wii game. However, its overall a cute game, that has been keeping me entertained. If you like games such as Animal Crossing, where you basically chat with neighbors, collect things, and customize your pad, you'll probably enjoy it. :)
61 of 66 found the following review helpful:
 Great fun, much better than other Sims gamesSep 25, 2007
By Gordon M. Wagner
My Sims has a lot in common with Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon -- it takes a while to play and you're not blowing things up with laser guns, both of which I feel are GOOD things.
You arrive in town and meet the mayor and get a tour of the town, then you design and build your house using the Wii controller and nunchuk by rearranging blocks and clicking them into place. If you don't like designing and building things, you might not like this game.
Other Sims games I've played on the computer or other consoles have struck me as being kind of creepy and not so much fun. I like My Sims MUCH, MUCH better than the other Sims games. The graphics are good and the overall spirit is much lighter and kinder. There's a sense of humor throughout the game. I still like Animal Crossing better, but this is a VERY good game and I recommend it if you have a Wii!
21 of 21 found the following review helpful:
A fun little gameOct 30, 2007
By E. Ignacio
"Edge"
The game, while cute and fun, can get monotonous rather quickly, and is not as open ended as I'd like. When I bought it I thought you'd actually get to design the layout of the town, not just what the houses and furniture look like. The game can be relatively endless if you choose to chase every single blueprint and uber sim. Also the colors/patterns/shapes that are available make creating furniture fun. It's a great game for children or parents that have kids.
Pros:
-Easy to learn
-Fun to play
-Lots of people/tasks (I think 84 people)
-Hidden stuff/unlockables
Cons:
-Can be monotonous
-Not enough space (Only 29 spaces, of which 4 are already taken)
-Takes up huge blocks of memory on the Wii
Overall:
I enjoyed it, it's pretty good.
19 of 22 found the following review helpful:
 Good concept, poor executionOct 27, 2007
By Robert Levandowski Jr.
MySims should be a fun game.
Unfortunately, it's a very poorly programmed game. It's the first Wii game I've played that is absolutely loaded with "Loading..." screens. Although MySims isn't as graphically rich as Zelda: Twilight Princess or Metroid Prime 3, it somehow manages to display "Please wait" at least ten times as often as either game. Entering a house? Please wait. Want to edit the wall pattern? Please wait. Go fishing? Please wait.
In the meantime, the Wii's optical drive can be heard chugging away, constantly seeking and loading data. I'd never been conscious of the Wii's drive until I played this game. At first, I thought that I had a mouse infestation from all the scrabbling. Then, I realized it was this game. I now fear for my Wii -- I worry that this game is leading my Wii's optical drive to an early death.
As you progress in the game, the loading screens aren't enough; the game begins slowing down and becoming non-responsive as you try to play it, especially when you're "prospecting."
The game's concept and graphics are streamlined, and don't seem like they should push the Wii's limits. In reality, this game makes the Wii feel underpowered. I wonder if the programmers expected it to be played on a console with a hard drive? The Wii is capable of playing a game like this -- MORE complex than this -- without these glitches. It speaks poorly of EA that the game has these glitches.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
A promising new franchiseDec 18, 2007
By Lauren Hutchison
"pixielate.com"
My Sims is a promising installment in the sim genre, and a serious contender with mainstays like Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon. It is not a game for your "Mii"s, or a cute-ified version of The Sims, but a concept to itself. Your customized avatar rebuilds a town of your naming by enticing new neighbors into town and building them customized houses and furniture to suit their tastes. There are "essences" scattered around the town - growing on trees, swimming in lakes, and so forth. You gather these and reuse them as objects or paints to give furniture a special appeal: cute, fun, spooky, geeky, studious, and tasty. As you complete furniture requests for your residents, your town grows in popularity and adjoining areas open up with new places to explore and different essences to gather.
I like having specific quests to complete for my neighbors, rather than just giving them things that you think they'll like. It gives the game more of a linear progression, so you feel like you're actually progressing through the game. You can give random gifts and redecorate their houses and your own, so you're truly omnipotent. Apart from collection, the game's all about home design.
With any new franchise, there are design issues. When you're building furniture, you're doing it piece by piece to a blueprint on a grid, with different sized blocks in different shapes. The blocks you need for each piece are highlighted and snap into place when they're close to their location on the grid. But because the furniture is 3-dimensional, it can be very difficult to place all of the tiny pieces properly, especially if you're going against the plan. It can be very time consuming to make an intricate piece of furniture exactly the way you want.
There are also some problems with the menus. When you have a few essences, you can access them easily, but as the game progresses and you get more essence types, you have to scroll through all of them to select the one you want. If the essences were organized by type (geeky, cute, etc.), this would drastically cut down on that frustration. The Sims games do this for their "collections", so I really wonder why they rejected this feature for My Sims. The furniture and building pieces have a similar scrolling setup. When building, you have to leave and re-enter your workshop for each piece of furniture. If you want to redesign a neighbor's furniture, you basically have to steal it from them and take it back to your workshop to edit it. It would be better if there were some way to edit furniture directly in the houses.
But many of the design mechanics are impressive. Some artist obviously spent long hours making sure all of the essences in each category were complimentary to each other, and there are four different paint types for each essence you collect - generally, two patterns and two solid colors that represent the item you picked up. The variety of essences, blocks, and other objects is truly astonishing. Each neighbor has their own subset of decorations, and you can unlock new designs by giving them gifts of furniture that match their tastes.
My Sims will be instantly addictive to anyone who's ever played a sim game and wanted to design the town down to a micro level. There's a wealth of content that pushes the game past a stale freeplay sandbox and into a joyous explore-and-collect expedition. I hope they release a My Sims 2. With a few more features and some improvements to the interface, this game will solidify its place as a franchise to be reckoned with.
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