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Sim City Inside The Sims - Russian Doll Effect?

Posted by simoniker on from the pong-inside-shen-mue-inside-sim-city-inside dept.

Ant writes "According to Wired News: 'It was bound to happen. First there was SimCity. Then there was The Sims. And then came a series of highly successful expansion packs like Hot Date, Livin' Large, House Party and others. Now comes a fan-made plug-in that allows Sims characters to effectively play SimCity inside The Sims. The Sims franchise has gone meta.'"

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  1. Dark Life in Second Life by Critter92 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In a similar way, some Second Life users decided that they wanted to be able to play a traditional RPG within Second Life. The result of their creation was Dark Life, captured in SL's New World Notes. The Dark Lifers have been quite successful and have drawn many players into their game, including many new users. In addition to the usual creature killing, magic spells, healing and leveling, they have also introduced some very interesting twists on traditional RPG gameplay.

  2. this has been done before in reverse by kommakazi · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Anyone else remember the games Streets of Sim City, where you could import your SimCity save files then drive/walk around in the city you made. This game was way ahead of it's time...think VIce City/GTA3 except it game out in 1997 so the graphics weren't quite up to par but the gameplay was quite similar. There was also SimCopter where you got to fly helipoter missions around in SimCities you built and imported.