The Sims 2: First Screensots

[FlameFlash]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
And the cd includes a sample 1x1 pixel transparent graphic for "demonstration purposes only".

Which wouldn't be surprising.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by vovan


Well, I don't agree with that. That is, indeed, the customer base for most games. But The Sims owed its huge success exactly to the fact that the customer base for it was different. The teenagers and the sexually deprived found it boring. It appealed to a wholly different audience. A much broader audience, might I add, which is exactly why it was the biggest-selling game ever. Which is also why I've been trying to say that it is a mistake for them to revert back to the "regular" gamers and risk loosing their big fan-base.

Are they like throwing in weapons, spells, monsters etc? As long as they arent i dont think theyre going after hardcore gamers.

[Skanky Burns]

No, thats planned for the expansion pack "Sims: Gang War".

[mrmitchell]

All the screenies seem to say:

-You can build doors and windows on diagonal walls
-Houses can be built on multilevel terraiin
-The graphics are nicer
-There's more steamy interaction now
-(maybe?)you can play the Sims through work (the uniformed soldiers in the restroom scene)
-(maybe?)they've put in cars (neighborhood)
-nice new neighborhoods design
-(maybe?)it hooks in somehow with SC4K
-Weddings, childbirth are now more complex than in original Sims
-NPCs like the police are involved more.

Who knows? Let's just hope Maxis doesn't turn this into another expansionfest.

[Adagio]

I just hope they do something against the problem they showed up in Hot Date, where you could go with the taxi downtown, spend a couple days there, then go home, while the clock at home haven't changed at all.
Would be more interesting IF I choses someone to go out for the night, that person wont be back home before night, while when I'm done downtown I go back in time to when this person left home, so I can screw up the other persons lifes (Of those who was home the whole night)

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by mrmitchell
All the screenies seem to say:

-You can build doors and windows on diagonal walls
-Houses can be built on multilevel terraiin
-The graphics are nicer
-There's more steamy interaction now
-(maybe?)you can play the Sims through work (the uniformed soldiers in the restroom scene)
-(maybe?)they've put in cars (neighborhood)
-nice new neighborhoods design
-(maybe?)it hooks in somehow with SC4K
-Weddings, childbirth are now more complex than in original Sims
-NPCs like the police are involved more.

Who knows? Let's just hope Maxis doesn't turn this into another expansionfest.

another thing:

-Teenagers

I remember hearing that the sims actually age now.

[Adagio]

Yep, they do... I have (or had.. not sure if I still got it) a small video where you see the aging of a family... very funny...

I think it's also avaliable on the official The Sims 2 site

[Nikolai]

One should really visit the official site. It has lots of information, features and such. BTW, mrmichell: one can not play the Sims through work, that has been stated several times before.

[mrmitchell]

Oh, well, you see, I'm not interested enough to actually go to their official website. Just enough to view these screenies threads.

[Adagio]

I just found this picture... not sure if it has been posted before... so here it goes:

[Adagio]

Here's better quality versions, of pictures posted short time ago...


Oh, and one question about this picture:



How come the 3 visible sims all got military uniform, while the one in the toilet stall (?) don't even have boots/socks on?
Looks pretty strange/funny I think




And here's a new picture:

[Nikolai]

Good observed, ADG! Maybe he has undergone some kind of "welcome-to-the-military" thing?

[Az]

I wonder what are these plants.

[Nikolai]

Haven't you heard that money grows on trees?

[General Ludd]

See? Sex and drugs. Deffinately going for the teen audience.