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| Sims | 
 enlarge | From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $14.95
Buy New: $3.90
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (59 reviews)
Sales Rank: 4313
Platform: Gamecube
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 14625
Model: 14633146257
UPC: 014633146257
EAN: 0014633146257
ASIN: B000088KHE
Release Date: March 25, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Start out with just one Sim, living in a shack. Help him advance through life's important moments and make a better life for himself | | • | Meet and interact with neighbors, flirt with attractive members of the opposite sex, and move into bigger houses | | • | Explore a fully interactive 3D world as you try to get love and money | | • | Meet and interact with a wide variety of new characters found only on the GameCube version of the game | | • | Play with a friend as you play Two-player Sims -- each person controls their own Character in split-screen mode |
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Product Description
The Sims is one of the world's most popular PC games, and now it's coming to your GameCube! Customize your Sim's appearance to a new level of detail
Amazon.com Review
The Sims has much in common with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater: There's a great emphasis trial and error, it encourages personalized solutions to problems, and overall success comes down to both balance and timing. Also, like the Tony Hawk games, The Sims is a very addictive game. Players micromanage the lives of a family of virtual people and influence the outcome of their lives, be it success or something akin to a nervous breakdown. The bestselling PC version of the game has, in recent years, been upgraded with elements like parties, pets, and vacations, but this iteration is closer to the basic formula. You start the game living with Mom in a one-story suburban house. You are immediately presented with certain life tasks, such as fixing the TV and making lunch, which are aligned with the skills you'll need for the game's main challenge--keeping your sims in balance on eight conflicting categories. For example, eating will have an impact on your sim's hunger rating, but it will also impact his bladder rating. You'll have to make sure that he keeps himself and the house clean, that he sleeps to restore his energy, and that he also has time to keep himself entertained. The free will option lets your sims coast a bit, and you can also save time by stacking tasks together. Time passes at the rate of about one minute per second in the game, but you can fast-forward sim time when you need to, such as when they're sleeping. The controls are justifiably complex, but adjusting to them is not difficult. You see your sims from an overhead perspective that you can both rotate and zoom. You direct their actions by moving a line cursor to where you want them to go or to what object or person with which you want them to interact. The game is surprisingly funny. Neglect your sims and they'll shout and wave their arms to get your attention. Allow one's energy to get too low and he or she will likely collapse and sleep right where they were standing. When that happens, Mom is likely to serve them dinner on the floor. Gamers may find that it takes a while to get the hang of The Sims' style and control scheme. Stick with it and you may find real time fast-forwarding by. --Porter B. Hall --The text of this review refers to the PlayStation2 version of the game. Pros: - Interesting, open-ended gameplay
- Lots of quirky humor
- Two-player split-screen option
Cons: - Can be frustrating for those unfamiliar with strategy games
- Controls take some getting used to
- Long save times
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| Customer Reviews: Read 54 more reviews...
 After 4 years it's still the best! January 28, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have went out annd bought every Sims on console, from The Sims 1 to The Sims 2: Pets, and guess which one was never beat? The Sims 1, of course. Why did EA just decide to do everything their own way?
The Graphics are actually pretty good but I have seen better. They still have that over-head bird's eye view, not exactly a first person's perspective of view. Nevertheless, it is still good enough. You still can see a lot of jaggies that were left over from the Ps2 version. The objects aren't that bright.
There seriously was a lack of objects in this game. Only 4 doors and 5 windows. And close to 50 miscallenous objects. Really should have put more work into the objects and build mode objects. Oh well, who can blame them? They had to do a lot of work making a completely new game.
The Skins are actually nice. Way more skins than in the PC version. And some that I would love to see in the PC version. They were a lot more creative with the skins in this game than they were in the PC version. That makes sense, since we can't just download skins off the internet. The Wii might be able to do that! Sorry, I just had to say that.
For kids there was a pathetic amount of objects and skins for them. I guess it's because nobody really cares about them since they really don't do much in the game. They seriously should have given the kids way more interactions, but it is fun seeing them play tag and run all over the place... really cute. There aren't many interactions for kids. The kids are extremely limited in this game. They just stand around the place crying over some people who didn't talk to them.
The careers... ehhhhhhhhhh... not really great since there are ONLY three jobs which was a disappointment. What about climbing career tree? That was a challenge a lot of people liked in the game. It was hard enough getting promotions since sims seem to find a way to make us really angry by just finding something really small that we could easily walk over and stomping there and shouting some gibberish. The only careers are, The Entertainment Path- Be a Waitress at the beginning, The Daredevil Path, be a Bungee Jump Instructor at the start, The Military Path- Be a Recruit at the beginning.
And for some reason, I just don't like the capitalized letters for the name. I know that's silly but when there's this menu saying "Your funds are high, LEELA's moods are not, why don't you get some objects for LEELA to get her happy?" it just doesn't match. I know it's silly and extremely insignificant but for some reason it bothers me. But oh well, at least there are names!
I would have had given it a 3 but.. May 17, 2006
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
You all probably think I have already reviewed the sims for gamecube.. But I haven't.. Most of my reviews were by my sisters.
First of all. The sims bustin out is a hug improvement to this game.. But there is NO play the sims mode in the sims bustin out.. REALLY stupid. There is only free play. I bought this game so I could actually play the SIMS that started it all.
And second of all. I think they really should abandon that pathetic free play thing. People like making their own neighborhoods. Not just play a neighborhood that was already premade.
This game is really good because you can have babies, pass on your genes, design your own characters (there aren't many optio ns for the face customization though) and they have a lot of cool clothes that they didnt put in the sims bustin out.
I have to say. The neighborhood mode is better than the get a life mode. Because get a life mode is fairly boring. You don't actually see your sims move to a new house.. The T.V. will just go black after you completed every single goal in that house and then you will see your sim standing on the sidewalk of their new house and then their new roommate will say something.
And also, I have to say.. The day dream sequences really didn't make any sense whatsoever. You will be in a mansion and then your sim will say something like "What the .... am I doing here?" and then either Roxy or Randy will pop up from a puff of smoke and then Randy or Roxy will make out with you even if you don't let her you guys will automically fall in love and then Randy or Roxy will want you to play with them in the hot tub that they have at the corner of the room.
Well that is all as far as I can remember.
 So Great, so FUN, and so creative, Maxis, how could you have had changed that title? March 22, 2006
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love this game so much, I am really tired of Maxis's stupid "new projects", They shouldn't change the aging process, having babies, and neighborhood options, I wish that they made the sims 2 ALMOST exactly like this,
In the sims 2 you live with yuor "roommates" which has no knack to it, this one, you live with your mom, which makes more sense,
Next time, Maxis, take a hint and don't change what the people love, idiots!
Cool Game February 21, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is game is so fun! It's kinda boring at the start because you have to live with your mom but after you beat that level, the next house is pretty fun and it also unlocks play the sims mode. Get a life mode is fun (that's where you start out with your mom) and it has two player games and stuff. The play the sims mode is way better because you get to have a whole neighborhood and get make houses and families. Here are some codes for this game!:
get to the cheat code menu- press L and R buttons at the same time from here you just type the codes
all objects are free- FREEALL
unlock all two player games,locked items and skins- MIDAS
unlock first person view- FISH EYE
unlock play the sims mode at all times- SIMS
all thoses codes work too! this was a really great game you should buy it!
ok... October 30, 2005
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
well i have had this game for a while and it is reallt fun but it goes by fast i played the whole game in 1 day it took bout 6 or 7 hrs. the last level its hard to throw the best party you have ever thrown. it takes a while to save. mine hase frozen up... i dont know, there isnt a scratch on my game but it dosnt work well sometimes. overall its an "ok" game
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