MySims | 
| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $26.79
You Save: $3.20 (11%)
New (14) Used (11) from $23.98
Rating:  55 reviews
Sales Rank: 343
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: artificial_life_simulation_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 15533
UPC: 014633155334
EAN: 0014633155334
ASIN: B000Q4SREG
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
|
| Features:
| • | Build and Customize an Entire Town-Your town is your own unique creation, from the flower shop to the mad scientist’s laboratory and beyond. | | • | Shape the Community-It’s your call who lives there and who moves out! Who will you befriend? Who will you ignore? | | • | Get to Know Your Town-Socialize with the locals and uncover all sorts of useful or surprising treasures hidden throughout the town. | | • | Create Your Own Sim-It’s a cinch to personalize your Sim’s appearance from head to toe with the Wii and DS controls. Unlock cool new clothing and accessories as you befriend the neighbors. | | • | Design Your Own Stuff-Decorate with your very own furniture and accessories, then customize your creations with things you can grow, harvest, or discover around town. |
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Explore a new world with MySims - it's your world to transform! Move to a town that has been struggling lately. With a little creativity and some help from the locals, you can make this place thrive. Improve the town to attract new characters, from Chef Gino Delicioso and DJ Candy Supergroove to arcade owner, Vic Vector and Cap'n Ginny, the town pirate. Discover what the residents want and need, so that you can help them enjoy life in your Sim's new town. Design a hot tub or jukebox from scratch, build homes and businesses from the roof to the front door. Uncover special decorations and patterns as you explore the growing town. From the furniture and objects to the buildings to the town as a whole - each of your creations is unique. In MySims, what you make makes all the difference!
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 50 more reviews...
 Definite buy for those who want a change of pace from the original Sim games December 2, 2008
MySims is created by EA Games, the same creator as The Sims. I love The Sims games but tire of repeating the same thing over and over again just to look after the Sim's interests. In my opinion this is a great game if you want a change of pace from the original Sims games. You get to build houses and furniture and so on in this game. The only downfall is you have to keep collecting and looking for essences. But I guess that is part of the game. The best part about it is that unlike the other Sims games, you don't have to look after it's bladder, strength and so on. You can keep on going. That is great because I don't like to wait so long for the Sim to sleep and repeating the process everytime.
I Love MySims! November 30, 2008
I'm a 29 year old female and I love playing MySims. I love it so much I bought the MySims game for DS (which is NOT just the same game on the hand held but different enough to warrant the buy) and the new Wii MySims Kingdom game. I have played The Sims game on the PC before and kind of enjoyed it but it only kept my interest for so long. I hated the fact that I always had to keep paying attention to the sims and taking care of their basic needs. Even if I made the sim have a lot of "neatness" he/she still threw trash on the floor and sometime forget to flush the toliet after using it or didn't wash his/her hands. I felt like I was taking care of a bunch of kids.
MySims is completely different. First off you only create one sim that you control directly like an avatar which made me feel more like I was actually IN the game versus just playing around with an elaborate dollhouse. The premise is that you just moved into a town that's run-down and the mayor asks for your help to make the town 5 stars again. You do this by building houses and furniture for other sims in their favorite "interests". There is 78 different sims you can move into your town or kick out if you want (Mayor Rosalyn, the hotel bellhop Buddy and the ghost Cassandra are always in town and can't be moved in or out which makes a total 81 sims to meet). Each of the sims has two interests they like and one they hate. When you build the houses for the sims you can use certain items (like windows, doors, flairs, etc) that have the same "interest" as the sim or when you paint the furniture you built you can use essences (apples you gather off of trees, stone you prospect out of the ground, fish you fished for) of the same "interest" to make the sim like it more.
The more furniture you build for the sims in their interests and the more you are nice to them, the more they like you. When you become the sim's "best friend" they will reward you with either a new blueprint or an item you can use to decorate your own house. You can always go back and remodel a house or kick one sim out and move another sim in or build different pieces of furniture to make your town exactly how you want it.
Controls:
Over all I found the controls very intuitive and not hard to use. However, when building or fishing for a while my wii remote hand would start to ache from using the B Button so much. Also, I would occasionally get frustrated building the more complicated furniture pieces but that was more the nature of the task was difficult not necessarily a flaw in the controls themselves.
Moving Around -- I found moving around town very easy. The joystick on the nunchuck is used to move your avatar around town. To harvest a tree you point at it with the wii remote, press and hold the B button to "grab" the tree and just wiggle the wii remote from side to side to "shake" the tree. When you are by something you can interact with like another sim, a tree or while prospecting you will have different interaction options displayed at the bottom of the screen. You just point at the option with the wii remote and press the A button to select (or you could cycle forward through the options with the B button or cycle backwards with the Z button and then A to select).
Fishing -- By bodies of water there are usually docks with a fishing bucket and a fishing rod where you can select the option to fish. After you select that option your avatar will throw the bobber into the water. You can move the bobber around with the wii remote. When you see bubbles on the surface (indicating a fish), you move the bobber over the bubbles, hold down the B button to "grab" and then pull up with the wii remote to pull the fish out of the water. I do find that after a period of time, my wii remote hand starts to ache a little bit from holding the B button.
Prospecting -- In certain areas you can select the option to prospect for different essences. In the prospecting mode, your sim will be holding something that looks like a metal detector that gives off circles of light of different colors (and makes a beeping noise). This is like a hot/cold game, the circles will be blue when you are far away (cold) and gradually turn to red as you get closer (hot). After you found something, you will get the option at the bottom of the screen to dig which again you can select by pointing at it with the wii remote and pressing A to select (or just pressing A since it's already selected).
Construction -- Building houses and building furniture use basically the same controls. For simple items I found the controls relatively easy to use however once I started making more complicated items it got a little tricker but still okay considering how intricate some of the pieces of furniture can be. You point at a building piece with the wii remote and press A to select it. Then you point to where you want it and press A again to place. If you change your mind about placing a piece you are holding you can press the B button to delete the piece (note: it's just the piece you're holding that gets deleted, you can still selected it again if you want to). The D pad is used to rotate the building piece you are holding. The nunchuck joystick is used to rotate the house/piece of furniture you are building (left and right) and to zoom in and out (up and down). There are more controls than I've listed here that allow you to do things like able to place multiple of the same piece in a row, turn off the ghost image, turn on/off slide under mode, etc. This is a case where I would definitely recommend reading the instruction manual especially once you try to build more complicated pieces.
Cons:
Other people have mentioned the loading times. Every time you go into a house or into a new area (or back to an area) it needs to re-load so it does take a little bit of time. Overall, I didn't think the loading time was too bad but I knocked a star off more because of the slow down and stuttering AFTER it was done loading. I especially noticed this as I got farther in the game. I started waiting ANOTHER 20 secs after it was done loading just for it to catch up and finish reading the disk. Also, every time it changed from day to night or night to day it slowed down for a little bit. Occasionally when I was prospecting it was so stuttery I had a really hard time selecting the "dig" option (to fix that I would just go to another area and come back to make it load the area again).
By the way, the MySims DS game and the new MySims Kingdom Wii game do NOT have these same loading/slow down issues.
Conclusion:
Even with these issues, I love the game so much that I don't mind dealing with them just so I can play the game. On the bright side the loading times give me time to plan out what I'm going to do in the area before getting there :) I think I'm over 80 hours now and even though I got to 5 stars a while ago I still have things I want to do. I have met all 80 sims but I still haven't made best friends with them all. I've found all 84 essences (14 for each of the 6 interests) but I haven't gotten all 147 blueprints yet. It might be fun to have a whole spooky town or a cutesy town or .... The possibilities are, if not endless, then pretty darn close to it.
Bought for Daughter but got addicted! November 4, 2008
I got this for my 6 yr. old daughter but the building system was too complicated for her, so I started playing and got HOOKED! I don't know how many hours of my life were wasted away to this game.
-Highly customizable world and characters. Great if you are a customizing junkie. No one's world will look the same.
-Not like regular Sims games (which I can't stand). You don't sit around waiting for your Sim to do things, you have set goals to accomplish.
-The building system with the WII controller was very hard to get used to. Sometimes it would take me forever just to get the block to move into the right place. I hope they worked on the spacial issues with the sequel MySims Kingdom.
- Your arm will hurt from having to hold up the controller to point to the screen.
-The music is repetitive and may annoy you. Not any worse then the freecreditreport.com songs though.
-MY FIRST COPY HAD A BUG. And I had to start over again with a new disc I exchanged. I think it is rather rare, on the game forum only one other person had the same problem.
Positive family oriented game - no blow em up & kill em September 21, 2008
Santa brought this game for my then 9 year old son, who is a big fan of the fighting games - Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc. Santa thought he should try something different. He's gotten to a 4-star town with over 40 hours of play. He enjoys hanging out with the virtual friends like DJ Candy and Travis and dancing with them and playing music. And building furniture that he wants to give his residents, not just items they ask for.
We decided to check it out too, so my husband and I sat down to play. We're in our forties and the gaming revolution occurred after we were older than the target age of the industry - so we've missed the boat in that regard. However, we thoroughly enjoy this game. It is goal oriented (something we're trying to teach my son) and we find it fun. I've achieved 5-star status after about 22 hours and my hubby is right-now a 4-star - rapidly approaching 5-star - town.
The load times get longer the farther into the game you get and this is something EA really needs to work on. The load time issues is what brought this game down to an overall rating of 4 from us.
Good game but not great September 21, 2008
Though I like this game but its not too great in comparison to other Sims games.
|
|
|
