The Sims is a life simulation video game series, developed by EA Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. The games in The Sims series are largely sandbox games, in that they lack any defined goals . Game designer Will Wright was inspired to create a "virtual doll house" after losing his home...
The game was first published in 1989 as SimCity, and it has spawned several different editions sold worldwide. The residential zones, in green, provide housing for SIMS; the commercial zones, in blue, provide shops and offices; and the industrial zones, in yellow, provide factories, laboratories and...
It is also the first game to use the Sim language Simlish. SimCopter puts the player in the role of a helicopter pilot. The user mode lets the player fly around cities that they have created or any of the 30 cities supplied with the game. However, user cities sometimes need to be designed with SimCopter...
[game]The SIMS 2[/game] is a 2004 strategic life simulation video game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. Pleasantview is based 25 years after the town in the original [game]The SIMS[/game]. [game]The SIMS 2[/game] is offered on mobile platforms, with manufacturers such as Nokia offering...
The game was sold in retail stores in North America and Japan and could also be downloaded worldwide through the EA.com online store, though the game was English-only and had no official translations. A few examples of these features were the ability to create a family of up to four adult SIMS, with...
[game]The SIMS 2: Seasons[/game] is the fifth expansion pack for [game]The SIMS 2[/game]. The expansion pack introduced a new neighbourhood called Riverblossom Hills. [game]The SIMS 2[/game] Seasons expansion pack introduces two new game play concepts to [game]The SIMS 2[/game] series: weather and seasons....
[game]The SIMS 2[/game]: Open for Business is the third expansion pack for [game]The SIMS 2[/game], released on March 3, 2006, which allows SIMS to run a home or community lot based business. The main change to the core game introduced by Open for Business is a new neighborhood type — the Shopping...
The player has the option of starting the city in a segment of any of three area sizes, in real measurement the smallest has a length of 1 kilometer on a side, and the largest has a length of 4 kilometers on a side. A large city is 16 km²; for comparison the New York borough of Manhattan measures...
One of the game's main attractions was the ability to explore any city created in SimCity 2000 by car in a cinematic style. There are few mods available for this game, but the ones that are the easiest to find are skin packs, which give players more cars to choose from in the game.
The Spore Creature Creator is a software that allows players to create their own creatures with a standalone version of the Creature Editor from Spore; the software was one of the first aspects of the game to receive focused development, and underwent ten rewrites since the start of development. It was...
SimSafari is a construction and management simulation game released by Maxis on March 15, 1998. The game is divided into three different zones, the nature park, the tourist grounds and the African village.
The Sims: Livin' Large is the first expansion pack released for the computer simulation game, The Sims. The game features new NPCs, such as Servo, the Tragic Clown, and the Grim Reaper. For example, a genie appears from the magic lamp and a booth comes with a Servo..
[game]The SIMS: Hot Date[/game] is the third expansion pack released for the strategic life-simulation computer game [game]The SIMS[/game] developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. SIMS can now use their telephones to call a taxi that takes them to downtown SimCity, which is composed of lots...
