Guest review: The Sims 2

Isaac Lu (meepokman) reviews The Sims 2

 

I like to make it clear that while I do reviews for momentary enjoyment, I decided to ditch the idea about 2 months ago due to FUCKING RETARDED shit from school. Don’t ask me why I am doing this now, because life has a strange way with twisting my arm.

But why The Sims 2 of all things, why not maybe Oblivion, or Assassin’s Creed, some game that you twats will actually read seriously and maybe leave comments for a change, well, ok, that reason is private.

Ok children, enough ragging, let’s go on to the sexy foul-mouthed gibbering.

The Sims 2 is a game which puts you as a sort of God in the life of some seemingly ordinary people, while in reality it makes you more like a slave (you know, just like in real life). It is the kind of game that only gets fun at some moments but boring and repetitive in most. Still, I don’t really know why I am complaining, after all the game developers made it so absorbing and addictive that any complaint about this game would be a slap in the balls to myself for playing it.

The animations are good and varied, the character stats and control are well designed, and you get to do lots of things you don’t get to do in real life, like for example killing off people you don’t like by building a fence around them. Ok, maybe you do get to do that but only if you are Fidel Castro or some other commie bastard.

Another plus point is that despite its good animations and graphics, it does not lag the system much like COD4 as I reviewed before. Ok, I may be out of line by saying that as my computer is a monster however you look at it, but even on my 3-year-old system, it was smooth.

Sims can go to town, buy pets, even have sex on the street if you play your cards right. I guess the main reason everyone will like this game is because it offers a deeper style of life as compared to our own boring and/or depressing ones (yes, I’m talking about YOU).

Now, no matter how good a game is, faults are ever present. The game is repetitive, for lack of a better word. Your Sims do the same fucking thing day after day, with only the odd party or baby thrown in to go the game more meaning, but they only last a short while. Still EA assuages it somewhat by throwing out expansions the way mad Arab leaders throw out Scuds at Israel. But now, even they are losing their appeal, and makes you want to rename “The Sims 2” into “Boring Life 2”. Still, I don’t know why I am complaining, I played it for 3 years straight after all, not including The Sims which I played upon release (2000) until its sequel came out.

Still, it seems that the series will be doomed with all the newer games life Grand Theft Auto coming out, that lets you do much the same thing, except with police chases and outright murder.

Overall though, I recommend this game. It is being sold cheap and will give you years of enjoyment, while only asking that you destroy your social life in return (not that you had much of one to begin with if you were really interested in the game). Of course, if purse strings are tight, I say save up for Crysis or Gears of War for the PC (see earlier reviews).

Fine with that, now the H.O.N.O.U.R. system. (http://grace-and-salt.blogspot.com/2007/12/oms-and-airborne.html at the bottom of the post)

H – Honesty

10/10 here, story (if any) was never meant to make sense and the developers just rolled with it. You can make your own monstrosity of a story anytime you want.

O – Originality

8/10. Done to death in MMORPGs and in The Sims, but yet remains fun… for about 3 years or so.

N – N-joyment

5/10 in this case. You don’t “enjoy” controlling your Sims, but the game turns you into a glutton for punishment, keeping you playing for hours.

O – Overhype

9/10, promised stuff delivered, no questions asked. Only issue is bugs and endless expansions which are pathetic attempts to keep it going.

U – User-friendliness

10/10, if you don’t know how to control the game, check yourself into some mental institution.

R – Revisitability

10/10. Hard to explain, play it yourself to understand. (Too lazy to explain)

Overall rating:

9.4/ 10 Fun and nice, not perfect.

Review by: Isaac Lu

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Idea for reviews: Isaac Lu and Lu Zheng Ping

Gracefully hosted by: Lu Zheng Ping

H.O.N.O.U.R. system by: Lu Zheng Ping

Not blogging anymore it seems: Lu Zheng Ping

Just to make it clear, I rarely do reviews anymore, unless more people tell me they want me to. isaacluzr@gmail.com

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