Will Wright On The Return Of The Sims

Posted by simoniker on Monday December 22, 2003 @03:23PM from the diamond-suspended-over-head dept.

Thanks to GameSpot for their interview with Maxis/EA's Will Wright regarding The Sims 2, the March 2004-due sequel to the multi-million selling people-prodding simulation. Wright talks about the difficulties in creating a follow-up ("Especially with a successful [game] like The Sims, you have to balance your fear of not dropping the ball with the danger of being overly conservative"), and discusses some of the evolutions due to debut in the sequel, primary among them "camera freedom... something that we've resisted for a long time and feels like probably the biggest stretch... but... some huge benefits", as well as "the idea that The Sims smoothly age and have different concerns and motivations and needs at different age ranges. It becomes more of an epic, almost Michener-like multigenerational thing...the story that you're playing through."

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now OLD prostitutes by ghettoreb · 2003-12-22 16:27 · Score: 0, Troll
great, so will The Sims Online 2 feature:
- Old AIDS infected prostitutes
- Abuse of the elderly [abusive nurses, anyone?]
- Camera control will allow the alleged strip-clubs to introduce a whole number of new 'services'
- irresponsible teenagers [next thing you know we'll have 16 years old raising kids in the game!]
I see a 'certain someone' becoming even more upset about this version of Sims than the current one!