The Sims
I remember when it first came out, it seemed to be a weird concept, just creating people and running their lives. However The Sims soon became addicting, and only God knows why! But we all found pleasure in creating and watching a seductive character who worked locum doctors jobs, and spent their spare time gardening…
The Sims is a simulation of family life, in a third-person’s point of view. You simply create a family, choose their names, features, outfits and even control what type of person they are by varying their characterisitics, each person (or Sim) has a number points, which you can allocate to different characters like neat, outgoing, playful, active, and nice, pay careful attention to what you allocate as these reflect your sim’s behaviour later! Then move your new family onto one of the houses in the neighbourhood, you can also customise their lifestyle, their house and their taste of furniture. Now you control their lives, make the young Sim’s go to school and the older ones go to work and run their family life, control what they do, make them study when they are distracted, make them eat healthy food instead of calling out for pizza, and make your Sims read to gain extra points in cooking (or expect house fires when attempting to cook which could wipe out your Sim family), mechanics, logic, creativity, and charisma, or they’ll get lazy and sloppy. Invite other families over too, make it into a soap opera and add some drama and fights!
The Sims is actually a more addictive game than thought. Who said that creating and running peoples lives was boring in the first place?
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