The Urbz: Sims in the City

You rule over a large city but of course your character plays dumb at first. The game is a full blast RPG, I sometimes wish that I could really be inside that game. But anyway, at least I control it. When you start the game, you are given a question and a set of choices below it. It's like a psychology test about your interests. I thought that it was made up for fun but then your character is built according to the facts you've chosen. You could either be a streetie, richie, artsie and nerdie. I don't have to explain those because it's obvious.

You could customize the looks of your character, mainly the hairstyle, skin color, clothes and shoes. In some games you can do the customization only once but here you could do it anytime you want as long as you could afford to buy a drawer. You could design the furnitures in your house anyway you wanted it to look like. I love the fact that your...

The newest foray into the Sim world is the new "hipper" version, The Urbz: Sims in the City. Instead of merely making your Sim happy, making friends and getting promotions, now you have a rep to maintain. Will a DS touch screen element help add to the addictive qualities, or is a handheld version of the simulator just not up to speed with the consoles?


Graphically, the game isn't all that impressive. It looks like your typical GBA stuff here. The facial expressions portrayed by the various people you can talk to are displayed well, but the majority of the game looks very lackluster. Buildings are rather dull and look quite similar. It's also often difficult to tell exactly what it is that your Sim is picking up off the ground or weather the person you're chasing down to talk to is really the one you're after.

The touch screen interface is a handy addition to the game. The symbols used to discern the various folders and options aren't very clear, but you soon are...

THE GOOD:
the game gives you control over your character and it is very challenging for a sims game, most of the others I beat in about 3 days, im still working on this one after a week!

THE BAD:
very little is bad about this game except you cant reveiw crucial points in the game so listen the first time

SUMMARY:
If you havent played this game give it a try or ill eat your soul.the game has amazing graphics, and amazing sound. the game is long and extensive with alot of depth, i really could not stop playing it and still cant stop! fi they are going to, they should start making a sequal to this now, I just cant wait until another one comes out or at least one just like it.I do have to say it is challengeing i cant find out what kind of chocolate to feed bayou boo, if anyone finds out respont to my thread on the URBZ forem

THE GOOD:
Takes full advantage of the touch screen so you do not have to pause every time you want to look at your reputation or your goals. You can look at your goals while you do them so it is much easier to remember what you need to do.

When in conversation backround changes along with their relationship points when you become better friends or fall in love with them. An exclamtion mark comes above a persons head when you either need to talk to them to get a goal or haven't met them making it easier to find people.

At the beginning you take a "personality quiz" deciding which group you are in between the Richies, Streeties, Artsies, or the nerdies and you get to get rep points with others in all groups making you become popular with different ones!

Choose between 2 houses in Mission 2, but more and even bigger houses get added in later missions.

Xizzle beads can be traded in for money or make some of your bars (like sleep, and hunger)...