Where the Hell is My Ceiling Fan?!

If you have read my previous entry you would know that I am a pretty huge Sims fan. I've been really into Sim games since Sim Town. Today wile I was browsing Kutaku I came across the new E3 trailer for The Sims 3. Watching the new trailer made me wonder what features were actually going to be in the game.

I first found out about the Sims from the back of the Sim City 3000 CD case. It looked pretty interesting but never gave it to much thought. I saw it in the store and I begged my father to get it for me. When I first saw the little virtual people it was love at first sight. I wasn't a plumber or a pirate. I was playing with real people. I became obsessed.

I never saw the trailer for the original The Sims game before I purchased it. I decided to check it out since I was already on YouTube. The trailer is basically a glimpse of what the Sims will look like. All of it was pre-rendered and didn't even show any game play. I don't know how far in production they were in but I assume it was pretty early.

Since I was so obsessed it would only make sense that I would anticipate of the release of The Sims 2. I was a freshman in high school then. When I first saw the trailer it was like falling in love all over again. The graphical improvement were dazzling and all the new things the Sims could do were short of jaw dropping. I just couldn't wait until the release date. Then the release got pushed back TWICE. At that point in time I felt lied to. Some piece of me had been taken that I could never find again.

Once I finally got the game I noticed some things things were missing that I saw in the tailor. For starters, I noticed children couldn't slide down banisters, swing off ceiling fans, and babies couldn't breath fire! Frankly, I was a bit disappointed that there wasn't an option to rip off your shirt as well. Some of the hairstyles weren't included but I think that was for the best. Despite all this this didn't discourage me for purchasing almost all the expansion packs.

Now many years later The Sims 3 is coming out. To be honest I don't have that giddy feeling like I did when I heard about the game before it. There seems to be some graphical improvement but its not a jarring as with The Sims to The Sims 2. The uncanny valley really hits the models in this one. I appreciate being able to move from house to house without having to go into some strange time warp. Still, until I am given reason otherwise I remain unimpressed.