Ana

I am biased but this has to be the best game of all time. Even the graphics that everybody hates nowadays is still my favorite out of all the sims games. CAS and Build Mode are great but what really stands out here is GAMEPLAY. Memories, hobbies, relationships, little details and pop-up messages with such a great sense of humor, things that I now find funny but was afraid of as a child... Love it! And being able to create your own neighborhoods from scratch... Don't even get me started! There was no limit to how much you can expand even a single neighborhood! Forever the best game and my first and favorite Sims experience.

A very, VERY, watered-down version of what this franchise used to be. They keep adding to gameplay but there's still not much you can do that actually makes the game interesting. (Sims having no long-term memories that player can look up makes everything feel kind of pointless, especially for players who play one family for multiple generations) Build mode is very good, but the lack of swatches makes even the building boring after a few plays (Sims 2 style swatches were my favorite, where you could choose color of the wood and color of the textile separately) Not to mention it's very slow and often buggy (slow as in sims take A LOT of time to do things, or simply walk, but their motives also go down SO SLOWLY there's a sense of boredom instead of the rush too keep them balanced between staying alive and getting stuff done) It was bad at release but lately it's been getting a little better overall. That's really all I can say after all these years and so many packs.