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Samaria McCaster

Don’t buy this! It’s a waste of money

Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2020

Platform For Display: PC/MacEdition: Limited EditionVerified Purchase

Couldn’t use the game because the redeem code was already used

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Aaron

Game Code Used- Could Not Play

Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2019

Platform For Display: PC/MacEdition: Limited Edition

I bought this game for my daughter. When I attempted to install the game, the game code had already been used. This rendered the game useless and she could not play it.

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MujerdLuz

Mola

Reviewed in Spain on October 14, 2014

Platform For Display: PC/MacEdition: Limited EditionVerified Purchase

Pero el juego esta en ingles jeje aunq parecia q funcionaba perfectamente solo que esta totalmente en ingles =P bye

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K-London

Best game yet, incredible potential

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 12, 2014

Platform For Display: PC/MacEdition: Limited EditionVerified Purchase

I've read a lot of glowing reviews about this game, and even more bad ones. But the thing you have to remember about The Sims 4 is, it's a base game. Every single base game of The Sims franchise initially seems a little limiting.

The sims in this game have been revolutionised into emotional beings which provides enough entertainment as it is. I still chuckle when I see a sim in the park with his little knees crossed because he has to pee! They get happy, sad, angry, tense, even flirty and as a result all of their social interactions and behaviour is influenced by this. The animations to go with these emotions are really great, it's obvious the Sims team have put a great amount of their time into making and perfecting the actual sims.

The neighbourhoods are small with loading screens (very short, seconds in length, any longer and you may be affected by a particular bug) when you visit other lots. Many people are considering this a massive step down compared to the open world in The Sims 3. However, the closed lots supposedly allow for a lot more flexibility in the future and for the sake of a few seconds, this doesn't bother me. As I said, the neighbourhoods (2) are quite small with 4 community lots including a museum, bar, nightclub, gym etc. and when you visit them they are really bustling and full of life. The Sims team have already created speculation saying that it is possible for them in the future to expand neighbourhoods, however they haven't said they 'will' and whether they actually choose to do this will be interesting to see.

The neighbourhoods are also beautiful: cars, trams and trains (all non interactive as of yet) roam the world making it a super busy environment.

A lot of people are being put off by the amount of bugs that are occurring. It is only natural when a game is opened up at first that a massive amount of bugs will be found, it's happened with every game. If this is something that puts you off then you might want to consider waiting for a couple of months until patches are released (EA have been quick to release patches as soon as they've fixed something so far).

For longtime fans of the Sims franchise, I'd say it's like a hybrid of The Sims and The Sims 2, which were in my opinion the best games. With a few expansion packs and patches, this game will be ace. I'm already addicted!

As a final note I did purchase the game from Amazon directly, pre-ordered for release day delivery. However I believe it is the last time I will do this. They dispatched the game through their infamous Amazon Logistics delivery company, and I didn't receive my game until nearly 6pm. I took a day of holiday off work to wait in for this game and play it, but was incredibly disappointed when the game arrived so late. But alas, i'm reviewing the game not Amazon so the stars did not suffer on their account.

Fantastic game with some incredible potential.

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olga r.

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Reviewed in Spain on June 8, 2016

Platform For Display: PC/MacEdition: Limited EditionVerified Purchase

Compré este producto que venía catalogado como nuevo, pero al abrirlo, encuentro que no lleva embalaje de plástico. Eso ya me hace dudar, pero al instalarlo e introducir el código que pide para ello ME DICE QUE YA HA SIDO USADO, con lo cual NO ME SIRVE PARA NADA.

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Pools are on the way! :))

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 25, 2014

Platform For Display: PC/MacEdition: Limited EditionVerified Purchase

I love the Sims. No major glitches so far. The only main one was one of my children in the household got stuck in the area under the stairs and couldn't get out....however, that's easily fixed by deleting some wall.

There's a bit to do in The Sims. My only concern are moods are so easily changed. For example, your Sim is feeling inspired so you try to do some writing on a computer, but on the way they may pass some playful décor for instance, and their mood has changed already. Not a deal breaker but just something I have noticed.
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Obviously NO POOLS and NO TODDLERS. Again, not a deal breaker. Did think that they EA would probably add into an expensive expansion pack later on but they have but they have already got patches coming out. Octobers is quite good already :)

OCTOBER: Ghosts and Star Wars costumes (including Yoda for kids!!!) and new eye colours.

NOVEMBER: POOLS WILL BE INTRODUCED!! So fear not!!!!

DECEMBER: New career paths and rewards (Definitely needed as there is a limited choice of jobs, especially after playing Sims 3!)
(http://www.thesims.com/en_GB/news/ts4-announce-Oct14) <- more info!

Overall i think its definitely got a lot of potential! Runs smooth on my laptop that started to struggle with Sims 3. When first loaded I didn't think it would work as everyone blurred and horrible looking but just tweaked the settings and it was fine from then on.

If you love Sims you'll love this anyway!

Benminx

A game that's fun for some time, but falls victim to its own limitations

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 19, 2014

Platform For Display: PC/MacEdition: Limited EditionVerified Purchase

When I saw a friend play the original Sims, it struck me as boring, and I haven't bothered with it for some time. When Sims 4 came out, seeing the involvement of the awesome 'Spore's creators Maxis, I decided to give it a try to see if I was being unfair.
The game is compelling, as it lets you create individuals or a small family, and then run their lives for them. The character creation is terrific, and although I found the pasty-faced art direction made everyone look a little samey and American I managed to make amusing renditions of myself, and famous people, as well as several original characters. You can vary almost all physical characteristics (except height) by dragging at the relevant part or selecting from images showing the kind of eye shape, hair style, or clothes you'd like. Some selections aren't as huge as I expected, and it's clear a lot is being held back for the inevitable 10 or 20 Expansion packs. The house designing is enormous fun too, allowing you to build almost any style your budget will allow, then stretch it to be the right size, change the look of the materials, and decorate it in your chosen style. However that's where one of my bugbears comes in: - your characters spend so much time at school or working their way up from menial careers that improving their skills or talents enough to make any money has to be crammed in between a relentless cycle of peeing, washing, eating, socialising to get their mood levels back from red to green, then sleeping to get their tiredness back from red into the green, then peeing because they've been asleep, the feeding them because they've been asleep...then you start improving their skills and in the middle of it they walk out and go to work.
If you can't improve their skills enough, you end seeing exactly the same 'career challenge decision' prompts again and again, which seems lazy for a game costing this much. Even more peculiarly, the game let me make my characters Evil and mischievous, and then repeatedly told me I had to get them more friends, and penalised me for not throwing big successful parties for them, or finding them a love life. This is hard when your character's default behaviour (Even in-between action prompts from you) is to deliberately annoy o argue with the people they're talking to. As a result I ended up fighting against the game's design because at it's heart it just wants everyone to be friends, so it gives you lifetime goals of being a villain, and then asks you to get on better with everyone while you work your way towards it (!) My hero character ended up having to ditch his criminal career (despite having all the right traits) because he was rubbish at it, and ended up being a painter. The one interesting curveball the AI pulled on me was making him gay - something I hadn't been given an option to choose or not. As a result, several of his interactions with other characters took on a more surprising and less pre-planned element.
The character interactions are slightly flawed: I found making friends revolved around 'Compliment', 'Flatter' 'Take and interest', repeat in an endless cycle.
At the moment there is little for your character to do in terms of actual freedom, so much does the game dictate where you can go, what you need to do now, and what you've then got scheduled, and the 'Sim-speak' and music quickly got very repetitive.
Within 3 weeks, I had lost all interest in playing it for the pretence of character evolution, and was just playing it for the fascinating possibilities of house building.
In other words, I got fed up playing a wee-timing simulator, and now it's ended up being a glorified version of the TV show Grand Designs. Somehow I doubt that's what Maxis and EA were aiming for.

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Dan

Fun & enjoyable, but feels like it's missing something...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 6, 2014

Platform For Display: PC/MacEdition: Limited EditionVerified Purchase

I've been playing for around 10 hours now and have mixed feelings about this game, I think it deserves 3.5 stars instead of 4 if there was that option.

Firstly, I do love the new art style. At first I hated it because I was so used to the semi-realism of TS3, but it actually looks much cleaner and the sims themselves look great. The new animations are so much better than its predecessors, the characters move fluidly and more enthusiastically, they way they interact with each other is a lot more lively and hilarious at times! I have to say, the game runs very smoothly on my laptop which is a nice contrast to the stuttering and glitchiness of Sims 3. CAS and build mode are also greatly improved.

The new emotions do add to gameplay quite nicely and I enjoy the different social interactions that come with each mood, however I've found that the sims moods change very easily so they're constantly fluctuating between happy, inspired, flirty etc. throughout the day and it can make it difficult to keep up with. I.e. earlier I told my sim to do a tense interaction, but then their mood changed and the interaction was automatically cancelled... only to have their mood change back to tense a few seconds later. It could do with some tweaking, but overall I do like the new emotions.

HOWEVER... there is just something missing in this game. That could be partly due to the fact it's a base game so it feels a bit bland compared to TS3 with all of its expansions, but it's also because there are actually fundamental features missing. Toddlers for instance are a major life stage for generational players like myself, so to have them excluded from TS4 really impacts gameplay and it doesn't feel right having babies (which aren't great either) age straight up into a child. I'm not overly bothered about swimming pools but it would be nice to have those back.

Surprisingly my major issue is with the world size and customisation. When I heard there would be no CASt I wasn't that bothered, I got on alright with presets in TS2 so I didn't think it would be a problem... but it really is. The new build tools are designed to be so streamlined and intuitive, but I actually spent twice as long building because it was so difficult to find decorations and furnishings with presets that matched. By the end of it I was so frustrated that it put me off building again, I understand that a full CASt tool isn't going to be possible but I definitely think EA need to add a basic colour wheel.

I don't mind the loading screens between lots, but the actual number of lots is ridiculous. Within a couple of hours my sim had been everywhere, and there's no edit world tool to place new empty lots to build on. I'm sure this will be expanded later on, but for now it feels very limited. They haven't made very good use out of the space they do have either, since for some reason EA decided to add 2 gyms and 2 museums, when really they only needed 1 of each between both worlds.

Overall, I have enjoyed the Sims 4 so far and I like it enough to stick with it. It's not without its major flaws, but I'm hopeful that these will improve over time with a few patches and expansion packs. If you played the Sims 2 and enjoyed it, I'd definitely recommend it.

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G.F.

It's early days!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 17, 2014

Platform For Display: PC/MacEdition: Limited EditionVerified Purchase

Having played all the various incarnations of The Sims, I can honestly say that this game is better and yet also worse than the others. There are aspects of this game which are an improvement, certainly the AI is upgraded. Multi-tasking is nice and it is also possible to stop your sims from doing more than one thing at a time if you want them to just get on with something. Though the thing with babies is I'd say worse in this rendition of the game, Sims 3 was better at this. Of course it is early days. EA will of course bring out expansion after expansion which may improve/fix some of the things that are a bit of a let down.
Basically if you enjoy playing one of the earlier versions of the Sims then I'd suggest keep playing that one. Sims 4 doesn't really offer much new and it most certainly feels limited after coming from a hugely expanded Sims 3. Which may result in you being disappointed. Probably the best bet is wait until after Christmas and buy the game cheaper once an expansion has been released.
Overall am I glad I bought this game. I would say yes. But if your looking for anything new and wonderful here, over say Sims 3, then I'd probably guess you may wish that you hadn't bought this game. I hope it's ok to say this here. I would suggest you buy the game from Origin EA as they have a refund policy. You can then try the game and get a refund on it if you don't like it. Of course you could also get a refund and buy it cheaper, like on Amazon! At least you will find out if you like the game without risking anything.

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Grace

My Gosh.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 21, 2016

Platform For Display: PC/MacEdition: Limited EditionVerified Purchase

As someone who has purchased The Sims since the very beginning and therefore have seen it improve over the years, the Sims 4 was an utter disappointment.

The Sims 4 is a complete down grade; Firstly the game is far too easy in relation to gaining skill points. Before, you had to make your sim earn their skills, you had to make them play chess diligently, master the skill, win competitions, work for hours gaining that one measly point. Not anymore, now it takes a matter of minutes to get one skill point and before you know it, you're half way to mastering the whole darn thing. Secondly, forget what you enjoyed about the neighbourhood in the Sims 3 because in TS4 its all GONE. No more open world, no more cycling to work, walking or jogging. No more swimming in the lakes, fishing, finding materials and bugs. NOPE. Now, you're welcomed to a fantastic view of a loading screen as you switch from place to place. Simply beautiful and very interactive.

Thirdly, thought your sim having emotions would be cool? Sadly not, the only emotion my sim had was anger, much like their player. Trying to keep emotions in check, trying to keep your sim happy was boring, tedious and irritating. Oh and instead of going from baby, to toddler, to child - you go from baby to a child ever so magically.

EA have totally turned back in time with this one. I've stuck with the Sims 3 and completely abandoned this. Really disappointing, you pay so much money for a game that's incomplete. Yes you can have expansion packs, but although TS4 is a base game, it doesn't even provide anything appealing, absolutely poor game play and a boring story-line progression, that it shouldn't even be constituted as a base game.

I feel like I should mention one thing positive about the game and that was the Design a Sim mode - lovely that you can alter the sim in so many ways and the graphics are wonderful. It's a beautiful lead up to a shockingly bad game.

So if you're going to buy this, knowing what is missing otherwise you'll find yourself disappointed. I've stuck with the Sims 3. Maybe you'll do the same.

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