For as long as I've been playing The Sims (which is more than
ten years now), their tiny lives have been defined by what they need at any
particular moment: money, new TV, lunch, a shower, a pee (always with the peeing).
The Sims 2 and 3 made the little computer people more relatable, adding in
aspirations and expressions and stronger personality traits, but their limited
emotions were still dependent on their needs and how fulfilled they were. In The Sims 4, their needs will be dependent on their emotions.
This leaked
version is the full game of The Sims 4. Unlike the beta version, this one is
the final version.
For the first
time Sims have persistent emotional states. Rather than just being happy or
sad, fulfilled or unfulfilled, they can be depressed, angry, flirty, vulnerable
- and when they're in these states, it affects what they can do and how. Angry
Sims will work out harder, depressed Sims won't feel like doing much. They look
like they feel, too - hunched shoulders, clenched fists, quivering lips.
Instead of being about fulfilling their need (or not), the game becomes about
manipulating their emotional states to run their lives, rather than
manipulating their circumstances by, say, buying them stuff or walling them
into a room with no toilet.
Alongside this
evolution in the way the Sims behave comes a huge change to the Sims' creative
tools. There has always been a significant proportion of Sims fans who spend
more time building than living, and the creative tools have become so powerful
and flexible over the years that they've also become rather complicated, too.
Sims 4 simplifies all of that, from Sim creation to house building. Instead of
abstract sliders you now push and pull everything from walls to cheekbones to
fiddle with their height or prominence.
There
was a beta version before, but now, you can have the leaked full game of The
Sims 4.
For some people
time-consuming fiddling was part of the fun, of course, and though The Sims 4
adds in the option to do things more quickly, to get the kind of unique results
that you could in The Sims 3 will still take more time. You can still paint
walls individually and buy every individual piece of furniture in your Sim
house. It gives you as much control as you want, whilst making it easier to
automate things if you don't want to spent the time.
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