In Review: The Sims Life Stories

By Lucy Reader

Despite what some may think this game is not an extension pack. The Sims life stories is, in fact, a brand new game, devised by the geniuses at EA games to drain hours of our lives.

I was admittedly quite excited when

I first got this game, frustrated with the perpetual line of extension packs that offer pretty much nothing to the Sims connoisseurs such as myself. So imagine my disappointment when – forty quid down – I realised it was, well, shit. The official website bigs it up no end: ‘play through Riley’s life story as she returns home to start a new life with new friends, new experiences, and unexpected surprises. A second story lets you sort out the love life of Vince, a love-struck high-tech whiz who’s been unlucky in love so far.’ Oh goodie, so it’s, err, basically exactly the same as the Sims 2. To add insult to injury it’s actually worse than the Sims 2 in the fact that it’s a lot more hard work – I don’t want to have to work hard to make 18 year old Vince, the ‘love-struck high-tech whiz’ have sex with Ida, his 80 year old neighbour. And I personally can’t seem to understand what makes this Vince a ‘high-tech whiz’ – he’s a computer generated character, all I want is to watch him have sex with old ladies, make him wet himself numerous times and eventually drive him crazy. Basically I don’t rate this game at all. Its only good point – and to be fair this is pretty cool – is that it doesn’t have to be run as a full screen game, you can be complaining to your mates on msn about how crap it is whilst playing it… genius.