A grand question arises . When their a computer breaks down, you don't have cable, can't remember the password to Netflix (Winch i can't use because of the computer) what do you do? Well you pull up that old GameCube you didn't know you had and you see what games you can play on that.
So the Urbz are a bunch of Sims that live in a city. I presume they live ''Sims city'' possibly one that you created in one of the city video game. Which means these people have a pretty miserable life, all things considered. Given that my City's infrastructure was poorly designed and the pollution levels are near catastrophic. But alas I think they're in some fictional New York.
So this magical town has the economy of 1925 New York and all the rich people with their fancy hats are out there running their factories, eating their caviar, smoking there fine cigars and enjoying life in their wonderful houses. Some of them most likely have some sort of cottage out in the woods where they can hunt and fish and talk about how good it is not to be a communist.
It's these people's children who are living the life of luxury without work. They hang around skateboarding parks, sushi bars, illegal Casino and train Stations. Some of them are in the modeling career. Now I presume these people are actually making their own money. They have a penthouse on the top floor of the tallest building in the fictional New York. It resembles the Chrysler Building (if it had 20 expansions on the side of it). Needless to say these people have a pretty cushy life.
Then your character pops up on the scene. With no money, no respect and no connection to this High Society. But luckily for you you're friends with a guy who happens to be friends with SimCitys most respectable man. I think his name is Darrell?*
He's the super hip super cool guy that everybody in SimCity loves. I don't understand why they love him, he's just some dorky middle-aged man who wears a sweatpants and a track top. He has one ridiculously over-sized gold chain. That's all this guy has. He goes to a party, he gives you mystical items and he doesn't do anything. He doesn't even talk to the other people.
It's my theory that he's the one who secretly paying for all these people's Hangouts.
For some weird reason he wants you to become the most popular person in town. Originally I thought the man just wanted to retire from a life of constant partying. Much like the slug from the Futurama show. But as time went on I started to suspect this man might be devious. He has a bunch of goons who all seem to work for him. Constantly harassed everybody else and they're all holding parts to a ''secret machine''. At the end of the game you will acquire all the parts of the ''secret machine'' and you unlock this Derek guys house.
And wouldn't you know it all the parts of the ''secret machine'' create a counterfeit printing press. Where your character can stand around and print copious amounts of money without a care in the world.
So it seems my original idea was right. This guy was funding the entire operation and is now possibly running away to evade FBI investigation. And for that matter the Secret Service would be after him too. Forging counterfeit money in the United States get those people on your Trail. I don't care if they call this SimCity we all know it's based off of New York.
So that's the main goal of the game is to set your character up as the goat for a massive counterfeit scheme probably landed you in jail for the rest of your life. But on the bright side you impressed a bunch of dead beet moron trust fund babies to a bunch of wealthy business tycoons.
Also the band The Black Eyed Peas are prominent in this game? I don't know who that is.
Some crappy pop band from the mid-2000s I guess. In fact that's the weird thing about this game it's all pop culture icons from about 15 years ago. None of it feels any different than the pop cultural of today. I think we become stagnant in our fashion tastes.
The gameplay itself is nothing to write home about. It's a story driven Sims game. So you don't really have that much impact on the greater environment. And it's a pretty lacking environment given the technological limitations of the GameCube. There's very few items you can buy, the clothing is minimal and it takes forever to do anything because of bad loading times. It's probably the worst Sims game of the second generation
The simplistic story and lack of any true creativity on your Sims part makes replay-ability incredibly minimal. I beat the game, had the mansion and had the ability to fill the house up with everything I could possibly imagine. But a part of me didn't want to turn the game back on.
There's also the problem of the button smashing mini game. A button prompt will show up on screen and you have to push certain buttons in a row to activate a certain mechanism to generate income.
This means you have to have some hand eye coordination to actually beat the Sims game. That's pushing it out of the Spear of casual gaming and into the realm of more action orientated gaming. Therefore I can't recommend it to any casual Sims fan. (Not that I would anyways.)
One thing I like about the Sims game is the Environment. Everything has a very interesting squished together claustrophobic Urban look. And it would be wonderful to see this as an expansion for a different Sims game. It would be cool to build a house or an apartment in this landscape in say the Sims 2 game for the PC.
You can decide which social clique you want your character to join. And the people at the Neon-East are easily the best. Not only do they have the easiest and best job but they also have the best location. Complete with a fire hydrant that you can use as a shower. Most the other locations suck. Their jobs suck, they have no showers and they're just not as colourful. They all seem to have a stuck up their butt and think they're the coolest thing in the world. That's why I like the neon people they're just a bunch of dancing idiots who wear bright pink.
All things said it's still wildly better than Sims Medieval. No matter what bad thing I say about this game, at least I beat it and I enjoyed certain aspects of it unlike that stupid medieval one.
*He's name is Darius! That's a Roman Sounding name.
So this magical town has the economy of 1925 New York and all the rich people with their fancy hats are out there running their factories, eating their caviar, smoking there fine cigars and enjoying life in their wonderful houses. Some of them most likely have some sort of cottage out in the woods where they can hunt and fish and talk about how good it is not to be a communist.
It's these people's children who are living the life of luxury without work. They hang around skateboarding parks, sushi bars, illegal Casino and train Stations. Some of them are in the modeling career. Now I presume these people are actually making their own money. They have a penthouse on the top floor of the tallest building in the fictional New York. It resembles the Chrysler Building (if it had 20 expansions on the side of it). Needless to say these people have a pretty cushy life.
Then your character pops up on the scene. With no money, no respect and no connection to this High Society. But luckily for you you're friends with a guy who happens to be friends with SimCitys most respectable man. I think his name is Darrell?*
He's the super hip super cool guy that everybody in SimCity loves. I don't understand why they love him, he's just some dorky middle-aged man who wears a sweatpants and a track top. He has one ridiculously over-sized gold chain. That's all this guy has. He goes to a party, he gives you mystical items and he doesn't do anything. He doesn't even talk to the other people.
It's my theory that he's the one who secretly paying for all these people's Hangouts.
For some weird reason he wants you to become the most popular person in town. Originally I thought the man just wanted to retire from a life of constant partying. Much like the slug from the Futurama show. But as time went on I started to suspect this man might be devious. He has a bunch of goons who all seem to work for him. Constantly harassed everybody else and they're all holding parts to a ''secret machine''. At the end of the game you will acquire all the parts of the ''secret machine'' and you unlock this Derek guys house.
And wouldn't you know it all the parts of the ''secret machine'' create a counterfeit printing press. Where your character can stand around and print copious amounts of money without a care in the world.
So it seems my original idea was right. This guy was funding the entire operation and is now possibly running away to evade FBI investigation. And for that matter the Secret Service would be after him too. Forging counterfeit money in the United States get those people on your Trail. I don't care if they call this SimCity we all know it's based off of New York.
So that's the main goal of the game is to set your character up as the goat for a massive counterfeit scheme probably landed you in jail for the rest of your life. But on the bright side you impressed a bunch of dead beet moron trust fund babies to a bunch of wealthy business tycoons.
Also the band The Black Eyed Peas are prominent in this game? I don't know who that is.
Some crappy pop band from the mid-2000s I guess. In fact that's the weird thing about this game it's all pop culture icons from about 15 years ago. None of it feels any different than the pop cultural of today. I think we become stagnant in our fashion tastes.
The gameplay itself is nothing to write home about. It's a story driven Sims game. So you don't really have that much impact on the greater environment. And it's a pretty lacking environment given the technological limitations of the GameCube. There's very few items you can buy, the clothing is minimal and it takes forever to do anything because of bad loading times. It's probably the worst Sims game of the second generation
The simplistic story and lack of any true creativity on your Sims part makes replay-ability incredibly minimal. I beat the game, had the mansion and had the ability to fill the house up with everything I could possibly imagine. But a part of me didn't want to turn the game back on.
There's also the problem of the button smashing mini game. A button prompt will show up on screen and you have to push certain buttons in a row to activate a certain mechanism to generate income.
This means you have to have some hand eye coordination to actually beat the Sims game. That's pushing it out of the Spear of casual gaming and into the realm of more action orientated gaming. Therefore I can't recommend it to any casual Sims fan. (Not that I would anyways.)
One thing I like about the Sims game is the Environment. Everything has a very interesting squished together claustrophobic Urban look. And it would be wonderful to see this as an expansion for a different Sims game. It would be cool to build a house or an apartment in this landscape in say the Sims 2 game for the PC.
You can decide which social clique you want your character to join. And the people at the Neon-East are easily the best. Not only do they have the easiest and best job but they also have the best location. Complete with a fire hydrant that you can use as a shower. Most the other locations suck. Their jobs suck, they have no showers and they're just not as colourful. They all seem to have a stuck up their butt and think they're the coolest thing in the world. That's why I like the neon people they're just a bunch of dancing idiots who wear bright pink.
All things said it's still wildly better than Sims Medieval. No matter what bad thing I say about this game, at least I beat it and I enjoyed certain aspects of it unlike that stupid medieval one.
*He's name is Darius! That's a Roman Sounding name.
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