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First Impressions: The Sims (PC)

Brief: How does it feel to finally have a life?

After school today I picked up my copy of The Sims from EB. I was extremely excited about this title for a long time, and now I finally had it installed on my hard drive. Before starting a game I made sure to install EB's Official character pack, adding character models resembling a few familiar game personalities. The detail in The Sims is just amazing. I actually had a female Sim get angry at my male Sim for leaving the lid up on the toilet.

The following are the events that led to the fall of the Evils:

1. Kane(from C&C fame)Evil and Notso Evil move into their new home, they are both single men who are roomates.
2. Both find jobs, Kane finds a job as a mascot. Notso finds a job as a Mailroom worker. Movin' on up!
3. Both are promoted at their jobs. They hold a party and invite the people nearby.
4. Kane walks in on the wife of one of the guests in the bathroom. She gets upset and leaves the room. Notso flirts with her and makes her husband upset. Both leave.
5. Kane apparently is jealous at the attention Notso is giving to the local women. Kane becomes depressed and quits going to his job. Two days later he receives a call telling him he is fired.
6. Relations between Notso and Kane breakdown. A fight breaks out in the early morning hours, making Notso late for work. Kane cries, Notso yells.
7. Burgler breaks into the House of the Evils, and steals pretty much everything. Both characters are depressed. Notso misses work. House is a wreck, everyone hates them.
8. Ryan Thompson uses his godlike authority to create a better, stronger, single male and places him 3 blocks from The Evils. Let's hope this goes better.

So you can pretty much see taking on two Sims right from the start is probably a bad idea. I wasn't able to catch most of the events in screenshots because they are so unpredictable. I assure you, this entire story is true. We will have a full review up real soon.

-- Ryan Thompson