Features:
• Gameplay Experience: Create a character and play through over a dozen all-new unlockable levels. Choose from ten new careers including Gangster, Athlete, Mad Scientist, and Fashion Victim that will take you through multiple ways to play and win the game. Go back and forth through different careers and levels to unlock objects. Additionally, play two-player throughout the entire game with or against your friends
• Get Out of the House and Explore New Locations: Travel seamlessly around town in your new scooter or car to play, work, and socialize. Visit, explore, or live in console exclusive, never been seen, new locations such as Club Rubb, the hip dance venue, or venture to the Love Shack. Additional locations include Shiny Things Lab, Art Gallery, and Gymnausium
• Unlock 100 New Objects and Social Moves: Console exclusive objects include the Laser Light Show, DJ Booth, Climbing Wall, and High Dive. Unlock hidden, appearance-enhancing accessories, clothes, jewelry, and hairstyles. French Kiss, Towel Snap, and Moon Walk are just a few of the new social moves
• Meet New Characters: Watch out for the wacky group of characters featured in this next generation of conosole Sims such as Bing Bling, the party animal, and Goldie Toane, the workout queen, who also double as key sources to unlocking locations, objects, social interactions, and winning the game
• Create-a-Sim: Personality matters! Revamp your Sims with new hip clothes and give your Sims personality traits that impact and affect gameplay experience. An outgoing or playful Sim is destined to show of smooth moves on the dance floor and an active Sim will conquer the climbing wall like no other
• Next Generation Graphics, UI, and Audio: Doubling the overall look and feel of the game, enjoy sleek new graphics, seamless UI, shadows in real-time, new voices, sound effects, and all-new original music
• HDTV support lets you experience The Sims Bustin' Out in all its high resolution glory.

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The Sims is the only EA franchise that might be more important than the mega-popular Madden series of football simulations. With The Sims: Bustin' Out, console owners are getting a fully upgraded enhanced game designed to build on the popularity of the original The Sims that hit PS2, GameCube and Xbox earlier this year. In our most recent hours with the game, we learned that the focus this time is further optimizing the formerly PC-only experience for the console audience. Improved graphics and camera angles and more intuitive gameplay highlight our hands-on time with The Sims: Bustin Out.

Most of the features are more accessible this time around. Beginning with the Create-a-Sim feature, you can customize your sim's face with unique eyes, nose, mouths, facial hair, hairdos and other accessories with more options than you could want. The multiple shades of eye colors, for example, means you can find that perfect pair of purple peepers to represent your character. Building your sim also means you get to pick personality traits that will have a direct effect on how your character will behave when you get him or her going in the game. You can choose preset personalities by picking a specific zodiac signs and let the game adjust everything like shyness and athleticism on its own or you can tweak the specific attributes yourself. When you start getting into extremes, however you'll see the sim model that you're creating actually change his or her posture or stance to reflect what you're doing. Making your sim super outgoing and athletic will make him or her look like one of those super peppy cheerleader types that can't ever stop moving. Irritating yes, but it's your sim so you can't wonder where people like that come from.
Bustin' Out mode is the main campaign that asks you to progress through your life in hopes of landing a cushy life as a millionaire with a mansion and lots of expensive items. The streamlining of the Sims experience from PC is most evident in the game's "mission" structure so your average console player can get into and appreciate the subtleties that make the franchise so popular. For example you have seven career paths, and all it takes is 10 promotions in your field to win the game. Simple enough, but this means the challenge lies elsewhere. The sim you create will have certain predispositions thanks to the personality traits you selected that can hurt or hinder him or her in the different career paths available in the game. You can be on the movie star, mad scientist, gangster, jock, fashion victim, paramilitary or counter-culture career tracks. If you have a shy, introverted sim, you're going to be in for a challenge if you want them to be a movie star of some kind. You'll have no problem landing that first gig as a animal character in a fuzzy suit but after that you're in trouble. The same applies for other careers. An entry level jock can get my with minimal athletic ability but you'll need plenty of it after awhile. Adapting your playing style to your sim's strengths and weaknesses is the name of the game.

Where you could spend countless hours in the previous edition of The Sims just maintaining your character's health and career, you get to the point a lot quicker in Bustin Out. You have to move out of Mom's house to begin with but your goals and what it takes to accomplish them are presented clearly and you're always earning money for every positive thing you do. So rather than having you earn say $200 as one of your goals, there will simply be money attached to goals like "cook dinner" or "take a shower" so that by the time you complete your list of things to do you'll have some scratch in your pocket already.

Unlocking new places to visit and the use of vehicles will be the distinguishing characteristics of the new Sims game. As you achieve goals you'll unlock new places like a night club or a military headquarters known as "The Octagon" where you can interact with one of several new persistent characters in the game. New places mean new skills to learn like mixing drinks at the nightclub to boost your cooking skill. It also means meeting new people to round out your social life and expanding your network of resources. Increasing your skills is how you'll get promoted in your chosen career and eventually you can even earn the option to live in some of the new locations. For example, to get far in the paramilitary career track you will need to be setting up camp at The Octagon sooner or later. So like we see in many other EA games, Bustin Out is giving us the whole unlocking the right to upgrade, not necessarily the upgrade itself. You can travel to these places using vehicles you'll also unlock along the way. Scooters, limos with hot tubs and buggies are all in there for you to push. You don't control the vehicles. Instead, you hop in them like an automatic transit system that then unleashes an in-game cutscene showing you motoring to the new location you've selected.

PS2, GameCube and Xbox owners are each getting some unique features. The option for a 720p display will be available for the Xbox. PS2 owners will get an online option where they can host a "Sims Weekend" event where everything that you've unlocked in your game will be open for you and other players to enjoy online. Players come over to your town and trade items and other goodies. It's basically a cool interactive way to cheat and get items that you otherwise wouldn't have unlocked. Think Animal Crossing but without the bizarre looking critters and leaves. The connectivity between GameCube and GBA allows you to buy an arcade cabinet in the console game that your sim can walk up to and "play." When he or she does, the GBA game then becomes a minigame player that lets you run through up to eight mini games if you have the GBA version of Bustin Out and 4 if don't have the GBA cartridge. The money you earn in your minigame session will be transferred to your GameCube character's account. While you're playing your minigame on GBA, your GameCube sim is standing at the arcade doing his or her "videogaming" animation.
The Sims: Bustin' Out offers day-night cycles, some fancy new lighting and a camera system that's more up close and personal. All of the visual enhancements make the game look more like a typical third-person adventure title --even though it's not-- instead of a direct-from-PC port. The camera is of course controllable but it can move in a lot closer than in the previous game so you can really appreciate the plaid and paisley you'll surely be using on your sim's wardrobe. The lighting from the lamps you'll purchase and place around your home will radiate light and throw shadows in the proper directions and in real-time.

The Sims: Bustin Out is shaping up to be the console experience that the developers at Maxis wanted to make from the beginning. Instead the version that came out in March felt a lot like the PC game with a controller sticking out of it but still proved to be popular enough. Now that Bustin Out is on the way with a clearer focus, The Sims franchise could find itself quite comfortable on the PS2, Xbox and GameCube

Ok that all sounds really cool and i cant wait till its released, but the Xbox version seems to have the crapiest feature, or maybe its because i dont know what 720p display is ?

Can anyone please tell me what this does exactly ?

It dosnt matter what the GameCube and PS2 versions have im still getting it for the Xbox