The Sims 2 Announced

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Posted by simoniker on Monday May 5, 2003 @05:15AM from the really-big-computer-people dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Electronic Arts today announced that The Sims 2, the next generation of the #1 PC game of all time, is in development." Seems like the new 'unique selling point' for the sequel is "the.. addition of genetics, with the DNA of Sims passed down through generations", but there's a whole heap of other new bells and whistles. The game will be previewed properly at E3, and the franchise has now sold over 24 million units as a whole.

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Not playing it by Anonymous Coward · 2003-05-05 05:20 · Score: 4, Funny

Until it has a first person shooter mode, and that is the main way it is played, count me out.
Do we really WANT our sims to get old and die? by 2Flower · 2003-05-05 05:24 · Score: 3, Funny

I mean, wasn't half the fandom surrounding The Sims based on recreating celebs or X-Men and stuff? Do we really want to take the time and energy to make Sailor Moon in The Sims and then have her get old and fat and sit around complaining about taxes until she croaks, then we get her mutant pink haired offspring running around?

More seriously, it's a bit like the problem with the sim-kids in the first game. You have no control over them beyond their name, so if you're trying to assemble a house of people from your own imagination rather than from a host of random 'DNA' variables, you're out of luck.

But hey, what do I know? Clearly Maxis understands why The Sims are fun better than me. Look at how great TSO is! ...right.
Silence of the Lambs Construction Kit by Nathan+Ramella · 2003-05-05 05:53 · Score: 4, Funny

Really the worst thing I've ever heard of involved the Sims. Someone bragged about building a bathroom with a phone and a toilet, replacing the door with a wall when their Sim went to relieve himself, and the Sim would just try to phone for pizzas because he was so hungry.. But the pizza guy couldn't deliver.
Quite sad really.

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1. Re:Silence of the Lambs Construction Kit by Zeriel · 2003-05-05 06:46 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  My girlfriend used to make families entirely named after people she didn't like, with the express purpose of walling them in and starving them to death in effigy.
  
  ...maybe THAT'S why the Sims is so popular. Virtual hatred. =P
  
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Four words. by iamsure · 2003-05-05 05:53 · Score: 2, Funny

Inbred Country Hick sims.

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Re:New Add-Ons by RaboKrabekian · 2003-05-05 06:06 · Score: 4, Funny

Go outside. Play with your kid or your dog for fucks sake. Ride a bike. Read a book. Wow!

...quoth the regular Slashdot poster.

Ahem.

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TheSims 3... by suss · 2003-05-05 07:15 · Score: 3, Funny

I can't wait for TheSims 3, the version where people have to actually get off their fat asses and go outside to interact with living human beings...
Re:New Add-Ons by funkmastermike · 2003-05-05 07:17 · Score: 2, Funny

But a game where you get to be a mundane human doing mundane things?

hey trapping people in 1 square rooms and seeing them turn into an urn is NOT mundane.. at least not in real life.

wait a minute...
Re:The Sims are bit like playing with dolls by daeley · 2003-05-05 07:29 · Score: 2, Funny

'They're not dolls, they're action figures!'

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