PC Game Review: The Sims Life Stories

The best selling Sims series continues with a solid stand alone game that follow The Sims 2 series format while having its own rich narrative and options. This laptop friendly PC game lets players choose the in-depth storyline of Riley Harlow, or free play, which allows customizable characters in the Four Corners community.

The smaller screen size (you can play in window mode) allows convenient visibility for other running programs (e.g. email, etc.) and the keyboard shortcuts are nice. In The Sims 2, you could always hit Windows button to switch, but this new window is sized to fit IM bars on the side so you won’t miss a beat in your real social life. The game also has an auto save feature, which automatically pauses whenever the laptop lid closes.

Players can quickly become multitask masters in this series launcher. Like the other Sims 2 games, players must achieve Sims aspirations to advance in the game, otherwise the pace of the story will take too long, defeating the overall purpose of this newly simplified series. The story resembles the PSP version of Sims 2 as well.

Check the family journal to check your progress and you also might want to investigate the supporting characters, like Fiona, in the free play mode before starting Riley’s story, which is challenging at times to finish story arcs. For example, as you sit for dinner, your date will follow you, but finishing the dinner itself is another challenge.

Players will eventually discover how to shape shortcuts on their own like turning on lights while doing other activities and quickly “Xing” out activities as soon as Sims get achieve creativity points. Got a nasty environment and a few extra bucks, hire a maid to clean up as you leave to a community lot.

Game developers miss opportunities for different skill building books when visiting different areas, but on the flip side, who gets out of the house to go read? They do succeed with money making opportunities like barista and a personal trainer who helps novice exercises from falling off their treadmill for a couple of bucks.

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  • 1 - Tina

    May 07, 2007 at 5:44 pm

    Moram da vam kazem da ovde nema slobodnog igranja Sims life stories.I zbog toga mislim da vam je stranica UZAS!!!PozZ i nadam se poboljsanju!!!

  • 2 - olamide

    Aug 19, 2007 at 8:19 am

    can i play the game for free onlinr and where

  • 3 - Hello

    Aug 23, 2007 at 9:20 pm

    Sims 2 works online. This one has downloads at sims.yahoo.com, but no online play that I know of. It's a stand alone game.

  • 4 - rachel

    Apr 27, 2008 at 6:08 pm

    this game is so fun i can't stop playing it

  • 5 - annei

    Jun 17, 2008 at 10:41 am

    This game is an awesome game you can have babies on it that look real!You can make people sneak out with their dates,Their are 2 peoples stories Riley and Vince.The sims get pregnant and when you have 3 people to get 5 you have to get pregnant and press ctrl shift and c the same time and type in forcetwins,you create your own house by putting down a lot and you click residential ,then your sims can move into it.To get more money type in motherlode.On here you can have newborns,toddlers,children,teens,adults and elders.You can have birthday parties.

  • 6 - ALEXIS

    Aug 01, 2008 at 6:09 pm

    DO THE SIMS LIFE STORIES COME ON PSP

  • 7 - Tall Writer

    Aug 01, 2008 at 7:56 pm

    No PSP version, just PC and Mac for now. :-)

  • 8 - ttt

    Jul 29, 2010 at 7:26 am

    they should make a sims life storie like the pc on ps2 and ps3 on 2 player and on ps3 up to 4players cause everybody got laptops or pc's i love the games

  • 9 - top

    Oct 21, 2011 at 8:27 pm

    directx problem..... can't play the game. how to solve it?

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