

It was this experience that inspired him to think of a game that simulates life, linking his ideas with the SimCity series he had developed. A player can control a maximum of eight Sims at a time the Sim currently being controlled can be identified by the PlumbBob over its head.Īfter suffering a fire that burned away all his possessions, Will Wright was forced to find a new home and rebuild his life. Sims can only interact with the objects in their house. Players will need to build a well-designed house and put in different objects to fulfill the Sim's needs. The architecture and the artificial intelligence system have both been praised by players. They will also need to find a job, be promoted, or even marry other Sims so that one can have a successful family life. Players must fulfill their need to sleep, eat, and so forth, just like real human beings. The player will need to make his or her Sim successful in many ways. The game does, however, have plenty of clear secondary objectives, such as career and relationship success, although there are no set rewards for this. Strictly speaking, there is no primary objective to The Sims it is open-ended and players are free to decide for themselves what constitutes success or failure.

The Sims (retroactively referred to as The Sims 1 or TS1 to differentiate it from the series as a whole) is a single-player interactive life simulation game, developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. Monitor and Video Card capable of displaying 800圆00.4x Speed CD-Rom, 4x Speed Speed CD-R/RW, DVD-Rom or DVD R/RW/RAM.Windows 95 or 98 (also forwards compatible with newer OSes) ( Windows 2000 notes).Windows, Linux, Mac OS, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube The People Simulator from the Creator of SimCity
