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The Sims Superstar is certainly one of the best expansions for The Sims. To be the sixth expansion for the game and still offer something completely different is a remarkable achievement. It's great being able to see your Sim at work at long last. All the new items and features that have been added will certainly please longstanding fans of The Sims and will help keep their interest until the hugely anticipated The Sims 2 is released early next year.
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The Sims franchise celebrated its seventh anniversary in February. The game skyrocketed to the top of the charts when it began shipping to stores in February 2000 and quickly become a universal gaming and cultural phenomenon. The SimsPC based product and expansion packs were the best selling PC games of 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003. Translated into 22 different languages, The Sims has inspired seven top selling expansion packs. They include: The Sims Livin' Large, The Sims House Party, The Sims Hot Date, The Sims Vacation, The Sims Unleashed, The Sims Superstar and The Sims Makin' Magic. The Sims2 [S]hipped in September 2004 with sales already topping 20M units worldwide, it was the best selling PC game of 2004.
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The Sims Deluxe combines into one premium edition the most popular PC game of all time The Sims as well as the top-selling Sims expansion pack, The Sims Livin' It Up, and a host of all new exclusive features and content. With the Sims Creator you can recreate any Sim you can imagine with this powerful new tool that allows even novice users to customise every detail of how their Sims look. Choose their clothing or create your own. Select from a variety of details like ties, jewellery and tattoos. Players can even put their own face in The Sims with this easy-to-use tool. There are ... over 25 exclusive objects, which allow you to furnish your Sims' homes with two completely new design sets with over 25 objects exclusive to The Sims Deluxe.
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The Sims is famous for its use of the higher frequency gibberish voices issued to each sim. When conversing, instead of exchanging real words, a conversation about trees would sound like “Haa don jaree, donkra totay.” This adds a neat comical aspect to the game, but is an interesting tactic that Maxis used to enable their sims to talk about anything. Instead of recording every word in the English language, they were able to generate various verbal emissions that resembled gibberish. The game ... features an uplifting soundtrack, that whenever played is something like music that one would hear on The Brady Bunch. The uplifting soundtrack is key to the success of this game because when people get frustrated with the game, they will rely on the happy music to keep them going, not the deep gothic music. The sound, although nothing really new from the original game, was very well done and does a fine job of keeping the bar up for this series of games.
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There are some limitations to the first game of The Sims, most notably that children in the first series never grow up to become adults, though babies do eventually become children. Also, adult Sims never age (or die of old age), and there is no concept of weekends. For example, adults and children are expected to go to work and attend school respectively, every day. In particular, adults receive a warning if they miss one day of work, but they are fired if they miss work for two consecutive days. Children can study at home to keep their school grades up.
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Superstar, along with every other addon pack for The Sims, has the same fundamental features found in the entire series. Upon buying your first house or lot the game begins similarly to every other Sims title. For new comers, a handy indepth tutorial can be activated taking you through every single process in a simple, real time manner, although buyers of Superstar will probably already be familiar with the basics of the game.
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