The Sims: Bustin? Out
- November 17, 2003 15:29 PM PST
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The town in The Sims: Bustin? Out on GBA feels quite a bit like another GameCube town...
The Sims has always been screaming for a portable port?it?s the kind of game you can pick up and play for a minute or ten hours, which is exactly the kind of flexibility handheld gamers are looking for. The preview version of The Sims: Bustin? Out seems to offer the same sort of game style, only not quite in the way you might be expecting.The Sims: Bustin? Out for GBA puts you in control of a single Sim instead of a group?no cursors, no switching characters, just direct guidance similar to a traditional role-playing game. You start off at your uncle?s farm, and through the course of the game, unlock more sections of the town to explore and meet new inhabitants. You befriend them (or piss them off) by engaging in wacky conversations. They even give you quests and send you on errand runs. In a way, it?s more like Animal Crossing than The Sims as you know it.
The GC-GBA link seems to work more like a cheat for the GameCube game than a real bonus for the GBA adventure. Once linked, you can download your GameCube Bustin? Out Sim into the GBA world and take him out on the town, building up his stats, earning money, and satisfying his motives while time essentially stops in the console universe. Plugging in your GBA also unlocks an arcade machine to purchase for your console Sims world. Purchase it for your house, and your Sims can play GBA mini-games to satisfy his or her Fun motive.
Sims for GBA promises to offer tons of gameplay in the same sort of innocently addictive way The Sims did when you first played. It might be worth checking out some little country livin? when it hits stores in early December.
