The Sims – the most popular computer game. The idea of its creation belongs to the game designer Will Wright, development – the Maxis companies, and the edition – Electronic Arts. The first part left in February, 2000. Today The Sims – the most sold game in the history.
The Sims Online and EA Land
At the beginning of the 2000th years the multi-user online game The Sims Online which basis was formed by the original game The Sims for personal computers was created. The Sims Online was popular within 2-3 years, but then users became much less. The Sims Online renamed into EA Land, and on August 1, 2008 the Electronic Arts company refused support of servers of a game.
The essence of the game The Sims Online consists in maintenance of life of the character created by the user and in development of his skills (cookery, physical education, logic, creativity, the equipment). The character "is pumped more over" (this), the pit is more and also interactions to it it is available. The player could send the Sim to the constant settlement to one of 12 online cities. Alphaville and Blazing Falls enjoyed special popularity. Experienced players decided to lodge characters in Dragon's Cove. In this city the cheerfulness quickly fell, in a game difficult attainable aims were set, and the cost of all objects was twice higher, than in other cities.
The reanimated version of the The Sims Online project received the name EA Land. Developers made some changes to a game. All cities were united in the megalopolis, there was an opportunity to redeem grounds (for this purpose the user needed to have the premium account). Now players could buy, sell and exchange content (hairstyles, clothes, home decoration) among themselves. The project failed because of sharp criticism of most of users in connection with restriction for free accounts and introductions of a monthly license fee in the amount of 9.95 dollars.
The Sims 2, The Sims 3, The Sims 4
In The Sims 2 with all its 17 additions of online functions was not, but developers decided to correct it in the following series of games. The Sims 3 appeared the system of memories about significant events in life of the character (the child's birth, a wedding, dismissal about works, increase in career) which could share on the social networks Twitter and Facebook integrated into a game. In an add-on of the Sims 3: Show business (March, 2012) new online function SimPort appeared. With its help it is possible to send the character to tours to the town to online friends. However admirers did not receive the full online version of a game.
Output of the next generation of a game is planned for fall of 2014. It is already known that The Sims 4 will not require permanent connection to the Internet, however in the presence of that some additional functions will be available to the player. However what functions are, so far it is unknown.
The Sims Social
The PlayFish and The Sims Studio companies were developed, and Electronic Arts released the new online game The Sims. This time it is available only on social network Facebook as the application. But it existed not for long. In June, 2013 the decision on closing of the project was made. The user began a game with creation of the character-sima, selecting for it a name, skin color, the main trait of character and clothes. Further Sim needed to be occupied to the house, to employ. It was possible to earn money (simoleona) also in other ways: look after plants, repair the equipment, perform game tasks. In interaction with friends it was possible to score social points (Social Points), and at attachment in a game of real money one more game currency of SimCash was recharged. In The Sims Social it was still required to monitor needs of the character (hunger, hygiene, entertainments, communication, a bladder, a dream). When performing certain actions 5 skills developed. The more is able and knows this, the it is more than bonuses and objects are available for it.
Thus, at the moment to play Sims it will not be received due to the lack of the respective platforms online. On the Internet there are several games similar to The Sims and having a similar gaming model (creation of the humanoid character, development of his skills, disguise and interaction with objects and players), however such projects have no relation to the original game The Sims.