The Sims: Unleashed Comments by Tom Bramwell

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What avenues of expansion are left to EA now? (apart from Errol's X-rated sims idea)

My money is on The Sims: Fanboy edition, where you get a console (only one though), and have to visciously defend it online. Alternatively, you can choose the path of multi-consoledom, and be forever enlightened and happy

The Sims: Celebrity edition. You start off with 5 houses, millions in the bank, models everywhere you walk, but they replace the "happiness" gauge with a "bitch" one. Your objective is to full it up... big time.

The Sims: Family Tree.

You take your Sims through the exciting eras in history, from their first arrival as travellers to the new world, through the wild west, the war of independence, the civil war and right through to the modern era. Sponsored by McDonald's - Feeding a nation on saturated fat.

Hmm Sam's idea almost has merit! A sort of Civilisation meets The Sims, perhaps with other regions/cultures like Romano-British to 21st Century Britain that could actually sell...

How about:

The Sims, Get Personal!

You are feeling pissed off at your neighbouring sims, but have no way of getting even, now you can, this expansion pack comes heaped with practical jokes, and decapitated horses heads for maximum payback!

I won a couple of copies of the Sims in the great EB online treasure hunt back in 99. I played one for about 30 minutes and decided it was utter tedium, so I took them all down to the games shop and swapped them + my other winnings for an NGPC and some other stuff.

They (EA) should make the Sims more realistic now. I mean how many times have you farted, when you've had family over, and made your Granny pass out? Me.. twice. A fart feature should be integrated into the next update.

Or even, on a more serious note, an electric plug system, i.e. you have to place and mantain plug points for appliances. If they're poorly treated an appliance could blow up and kill sims! Or a poorly trained Sim trying to fix one could get an electric shock, then die.

Another new feature could be some new interesting career paths, such as drug dealing. I mean, you could start cannabis dealing from home, then upgrade to crack cocaine, once you get more experiance and customers. But you'd have to buy the right equipment to start out, such as scales to weigh the weed, and maybe a chemistry set to make crack and ectasy. At the peak of this profession you would me flying the stuff and selling it to the street dealers. Cool.

edit: Wirst. Speling. Ever
edit 2+3: Worst. Ever, Gram-mer
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Erk, the review just disappeared infront of my eyes!

where have all the articles gone?

how about `shipwreck sim`..sling the lot on a desert island and let the lot rot....never played it...never interested and the number of sad acts who play these just makes my mind boggle......

How about Sims : Rebate where you get to take it back and buy something better?

The Sims: South Central

You guide your Sims around South Central LA dealing in crack,robbing liquor stores and busting caps in hoe's asses.Not to mention fighting with rival Sims and performing drive by shootings.

Dr Dre could do the sound effects.

EA take note

"Erk, the review just disappeared infront of my eyes!

where have all the articles gone?"

It's The Sims: When Rupert Breaks The Server.

I think The Sims: Disappearing up their own posterior is the future - as demonstrated in this one with farming, introducing tedious micromanagement to the career paths will be the way to go.

Office career: make coffee, pick up paper, answer phone, watch website behind boss' back, get stuck in doorway with fat Pete from accounts, burn office down in alarming microwave fire when you try to make a snack...

Aaaaannnnndd all the rest...

"Office career: make coffee, pick up paper, answer phone, watch website behind boss' back, get stuck in doorway with fat Pete from accounts, burn office down in alarming microwave fire when you try to make a snack..."

Did any one ever see office space...or read Milton, classic stuff.

The Sims : Reality TV

you get a TV crew following you about, the more stupid stuff you can get your sims to do, the more viewers you get and the more income you make.

The Sims: Loner edition.

You guide your sim through the tricky world of playing the sims and ordering pizza via your hard worked for welfare cheque. Occasionally going outside to remember what fresh air used to be like.

While I won't disagree that The Sims is pretty pointless, anyone naming themselves after a "wrestler" is hardly the best person to be saying things like "mass market=stupid dumbasses"....

Did any one ever see office space...or read Milton, classic stuff.

Good. Another chance to bring up that film. So... err... yeah... everyone go and see it. Great stuff!

Ohh, and Mr Sleep, I'll be needing that...

its is so stupid that people buy it

So what you're reallying saying is that the highly intellectual items out there, the brain-taxing, mind challenging games, are never bought, right?

heh

*cough* watch Office Space *ahem*

Sim Concentration Camp

You can already do that. Build a room around your Sim without any doors.

Yes... I am one of those sad people who bought the original thinking it would be fun. Twas for a few days, but then I decided it was rather depressing being more successful in a game than in life so I switched it off.

'anyone naming themselves after a "wrestler" '

Are you sure he's not named himself after his favourite geological/geographical feature

...or film.

Oh...hoho...ho...oh,

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Heheh.
Heh.

I don't think you'll get what you want here.

See the "restaurant tycoon" thread, I think someone posted it there.

Peej

No.

Nasty Errol! Of course we'll help!

Just send a mail to p_gannaban@hotmail.com and ask for the CD key, and you'll get helped.

I hear the code is embedded on the official EA homepage in case anyone should forget it. Just take, from the top of the page, every fifth character and number right off the first page (www.ea.com) and you SHOULD be home free.

Free, I say!

Did you even try the method I gave you FOR FREE?! I don't think so! Next time around I'm sending the invoice FIRST.

Ungrateful bastard!

e-mail me your credit card number, and I will tell you everything you need to know.

spankmewithyour@lemonfist.com

You need to contact my good friend Bill at bill@corporationofevil.com

He'll know what to do with you.

It's like some kind of Damien Hurst 'Car accident in a block of perspex' art exibit that drives past the 'recent comments' window once a month.

/recycles own gag

Head over to the www.netstumbler.com forums, they're pretty generous when it comes to handing out CD keys!

LOL @ Uncle Lou!

Is that what you and MH are up to??

Fuck off mr. henry peter.

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