The world is electrical with remasters of The Sims 1 and The Sims 2, accurately. Each video games, whereas outdated and for certain exhibiting their age in some locations, are absolute classics {that a} gaming powerhouse was constructed upon.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 carry again a real gem from the collection’ historical past? It is time, ultimately, to carry again The Urbz.
The Urbz, for these unaware, was a peculiar but impactful entry into The Sims collection that hoped to make the entire ordeal a bit extra cool. A bit extra trendy. Moderately 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 primary precedence was to realize recognition with varied cool teams on this metropolis with a view to grow to be a VIP. 2004 was one of the best of instances, so I hear, and as such EA was in a position to pull off some actual magic. There is a cause it positioned effectively in our very personal Sims rating record.
It was additionally one of many strangest Sims video games ever made, for my part. It was wacky, even by Sims requirements. You’ll be able to dumpster dive in The Urbz, method earlier than The Sims 3 and The Sims 4 introduced it again. Individuals had been dressed up in all method of out-there outfits, seemingly down along with your lifetime of buffing glass and digging via trash to avoid wasting 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. Really, 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 components of city to discover, new Urbz to speak to and tickle every now and then, 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 colleges 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 aspect 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 fascinated about making music. You suppose they might be down with coming again for a Simlish remix of a music or two? The reality is for a lot of people, Black Eyed Peas are type of linked by the hip to The Urbz, and cement the sport on this early 2000’s period that folks have an actual love for.
Sure that is an opinion rooted firmly in nostalgia. I’ve gone again and appeared on the fashions, and yeah it is tremendous dated. The very fact you may tickle folks out of nowhere and persons are seemingly cool with that’s maybe an indication of the instances. However rattling it, there’s gold in these hills. It’s going to price cash to dig it up, sure. That gold could also be area of interest on the finish of the day, certain. However c’mon, folks love The Sims, and I really feel on this retro-fanatical world we dwell in, a superb portion of that love should trickle all the way down to The Urbz.
