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Review – Urbz: Sims in the City (Handheld)
Way, way back during the Nintendo DS’s post-launch software drought, I was hungry for games. My mother, as awesome as she is, caught a copy of the DS version of Urbz: Sims in the City marked down at Blockbuster Video and picked it up for me. I wasn’t really sure what I was getting into, as this was before I…
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Review – The Urbz: Sims in the City
I grew up in a small rural town, population somewhere below 2000 (the signage was never quite clear on the number). The pervasive boredom of growing up in an area with no consistent social scene is probably the greatest factor in my embracing of video games as a hobby. It also meant that I’d perpetually be envious of city living,…
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Review – The Sims Bustin’ Out (GBA)
The Sims on PC was a massive success, selling somewhere past the 10 million mark. That’s still pretty impressive today, but was incredible back in 2000. Electronic Art was eager to cash in on their new hit series, so by 2003, the tap had been turned on and the ports and spin-offs had begun to flow. There were two separate…
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Review – The Sims Bustin’ Out (Console)
The console port of the original The Sims was okay. It did what it had to do, which was translate the game to console, while also adding on some extra features, like a light story mode and multiplayer. It wasn’t bad, honestly, but it did leave some room to grow. So much room, in fact, that less than a year…
