Having a partner - and the game is refreshingly liberal when it comes to who can fall in love with who - means you've got two Sims to look after once they've moved in. Perhaps your Sim is a lesbian and wants to adopt. Or you can just get a girl knocked up after a few drinks and a couple of cheeky one liners. Everything from working out to reading a book to fixing a leaking toilet is somehow tied to a skill in this manner, and so thanks to the simple RPG systems in play it constantly feels like you're achieving something, however slight, when performing otherwise menial tasks.Īs your Sim progresses through life, friendships that they've made can potentially lead to romances, leading to marriage and then children. Practically everything your Sim does is tied to a progress bar in one skill or another, and so while in real life you might prefer to have an extra twenty minutes in bed than get up to scrape together some scrambled eggs and toast on a morning, doing so here will contribute towards levelling up your cooking skill which will allow you to cook more elaborate dishes in the future.
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The daily grind of life is the main gameplay loop here, made a little more compelling than perhaps it sounds by a series of clearly defined goals and a fairly steady stream of rewards.
Your Sim gets up, gets out of bed, drags a comb across their head, spends eight hours in the office, comes home, has their dinner, watches an episode of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares and then goes back to bed, ready to repeat the entire process tomorrow. Once you're gainfully employed a routine begins to form. If you want to live a life of luxury then you're going to need coin, and fortunately, finding a job in The Sims 4 is way easier than in real life, in that you pretty much just decide what you want to do and then do it. Until then, you better get used to washing your own dishes, fixing your own broken appliances, and cooking your own macaroni and cheese. Given your modest finances there's not much choice, but once you're a captain of industry and making big bucks you can throw money around like confetti, purchasing or designing lavish homes with every conceivable amenity. Once your Sim is ready, you're given a small amount of money in order to buy yourself a home in one of the towns available to you.
If you want your tubby, bearded Sim to wear high heels and pink lipstick and walk like a runway model then you be fabulous. In a nice touch, when you're creating your Sim you can assign feminine traits to masculine characters and vice versa, as well as mixing and matching clothing and cosmetic options. You can start the game with your Sim at any stage of their life, from toddler to elder, and you assign them a bunch of personality traits - neat, artistic, evil, whatever - that will dictate what makes them tick. You begin The Sims 4 by creating a Sim - an avatar of a person, perhaps based on yourself only thinner, more popular, and with cooler hair - using a fairly robust character creation suite.
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Republished on Wednesday 29th January 2020: We're bringing this review back from the archives following the announcement of February's PlayStation Plus lineup.
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