The Sims: Bustin? Out
- October 31, 2003 12:39 PM PST
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The Sims return to the console scene! Will Bustin? make you feel good?
The Sims have been around the block a few times?and after seven PC expansion packs (and a sequel coming), an ?experimental? online foray, and a console incarnation (not counting this one), you?d think they?d be out of stuff to do. Au contraire! In The Sims: Bustin? Out, your digital life-drones get to explore the world like never before as they?ve been suddenly granted the freedom to hop on a scooter or into a car to visit all sorts of locations?including the gym, the Love Shack, a haunted house, a nightclub, a military base, and a friend?s trailer in the desert.Along with this independence comes a sort of ?quest? for your Sim as you use your newfound freedom and traditional Sim-ish powers of social consumerism to quash the plans of an evil rich dude named Malcolm Landgrabb, an unfortunate villain whose schemes are laid bare in his surname. The biggest problem in the PS2 alpha was the intrusive loading?traveling from place to place took an annoyingly long time, and split-second instances of disc access were frequent?but that?s something that could easily wind up eradicated by the time the game is released. Now all that?s left is for Maxis to craft a version of the Sims that lets you interact with your job. Some of us are really curious to see what it?s like to spend eight hours a day as a Mall Clown.
