The world is electrical with remasters of The Sims 1 and The Sims 2, appropriately. Each video games, whereas previous and for positive exhibiting their age in some locations, are absolute classics {that a} gaming powerhouse was constructed upon. Who does not love The Sims? However, what I am asking is for just a little bit extra. Whereas EA is in a remaster-doing temper, why not deliver again a real gem from the sequence’ historical past? It is time, finally, to deliver again The Urbz.
The Urbz, for these unaware, was a peculiar but impactful entry into The Sims sequence that hoped to make the entire ordeal a bit extra cool. A bit extra trendy. Slightly than place you in a stunning indifferent home with a pool and a job, it positioned you within the metropolis. Urbzville was the place to be, and your important precedence was to achieve recognition with varied cool teams on this metropolis with the intention to turn into a VIP. 2004 was the perfect of occasions, so I hear, and as such EA was capable of pull off some actual magic. There is a motive it positioned nicely in our very personal Sims rating listing.
It was additionally one of many strangest Sims video games ever made, in my view. It was wacky, even by Sims requirements. You may dumpster dive in The Urbz, manner earlier than The Sims 3 and The Sims 4 introduced it again. Individuals have been dressed up in all method of out-there outfits, seemingly down together with your lifetime of buffing glass and digging by means of trash to save lots of up for a T-shirt you actually like. The Sims is a journey in incomes cash to enhance your life. The Urbz is a journey in doing odd jobs to enhance your standing with strangers at golf equipment. Actually, a extra grounded depiction of metropolis life than we had seen again then, and dare I say, have seen since.
As you progress, you unlock new elements of city to discover, new Urbz to speak to and tickle every so often, and new garments to purchase. The throughline in The Urbz is enjoyable – this sport is unashamedly enjoyable. Nothing hits like mashing buttons to enhance your psychological schools whereas your character is taking part in future Snake on a cyber chair getting mind blasted. That is a sentance you’d by no means write for an additional sport, that is the facility of The Urbz! The facility of The Urbz is to take the foundational mechanics of The Sims and simply go bananas with it.
As a facet be aware, what’s WILL.I.AM doing proper now? What is the entirety of the Black Eyes Peas doing? Making music, one assumes, or a minimum of enthusiastic about making music. You assume they might be down with coming again for a Simlish remix of a music or two? The reality is for a lot of of us, Black Eyed Peas are type of linked by the hip to The Urbz, and cement the sport on this early 2000’s period that individuals have an actual love for.
Sure that is an opinion rooted firmly in nostalgia. I’ve gone again and seemed on the fashions, and yeah it is tremendous dated. The very fact you possibly can tickle individuals out of nowhere and individuals are seemingly cool with that’s maybe an indication of the occasions. However rattling it, there’s gold in these hills. It should price cash to dig it up, sure. That gold could also be area of interest on the finish of the day, positive. However c’mon, individuals love The Sims, and I really feel on this retro-fanatical world we dwell in, a very good portion of that love should trickle all the way down to The Urbz.