MySims | 
| From: Electronic Arts
List Price: $39.99
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Rating:  52 reviews
Sales Rank: 665
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: artificial_life_simulation_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 15533
UPC: 014633155334
EAN: 0014633155334
ASIN: B000Q4SREG
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand new, factory sealed, never opened or used. US version NOT an IMPORT!!! APO, FPO, PO box shipping available! FAST order PROCESSING and SHIPPING!
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| Features:
| • | Build and Customize an Entire Town-Your town is your own unique creation, from the flower shop to the mad scientist’s laboratory and beyond. | | • | Shape the Community-It’s your call who lives there and who moves out! Who will you befriend? Who will you ignore? | | • | Get to Know Your Town-Socialize with the locals and uncover all sorts of useful or surprising treasures hidden throughout the town. | | • | Create Your Own Sim-It’s a cinch to personalize your Sim’s appearance from head to toe with the Wii and DS controls. Unlock cool new clothing and accessories as you befriend the neighbors. | | • | Design Your Own Stuff-Decorate with your very own furniture and accessories, then customize your creations with things you can grow, harvest, or discover around town. |
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Product Description
Explore a new world with MySims - it's your world to transform! Move to a town that has been struggling lately. With a little creativity and some help from the locals, you can make this place thrive. Improve the town to attract new characters, from Chef Gino Delicioso and DJ Candy Supergroove to arcade owner, Vic Vector and Cap'n Ginny, the town pirate. Discover what the residents want and need, so that you can help them enjoy life in your Sim's new town. Design a hot tub or jukebox from scratch, build homes and businesses from the roof to the front door. Uncover special decorations and patterns as you explore the growing town. From the furniture and objects to the buildings to the town as a whole - each of your creations is unique. In MySims, what you make makes all the difference!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 47 more reviews...
Fun variation on the Sims September 22, 2007
C. Offen (Ithaca, NY)
70 out of 75 found this review helpful
My Sims is not like a normal Sims game. Personally, I love the anime style, and relaxed game play. You work on tasks you want to do, instead of trying to make sure your Sim stays happy and alive in previous games. You design houses, furniature, and decorate, as well as collect "essences" that are used to do pretty much all of the above. You ask new Sims to move into your town. The music is pleasant, and the "voices" of the Sims is adorable. It would have been nice if this game was wifi compatable, but it is not. I also was a bit disappointed with the number and amount of loading times for a wii game. However, its overall a cute game, that has been keeping me entertained. If you like games such as Animal Crossing, where you basically chat with neighbors, collect things, and customize your pad, you'll probably enjoy it. :)
 Not a sims game October 17, 2007
Acacia C. Parks (Philadelphia, PA United States)
47 out of 73 found this review helpful
Take the worst parts of a Sims game (repetition, moving towards far-reaching goals that provide little reward once you reach them) and the worst parts of Animal Crossing (superficial characters and rote, boring "fetch me this item" errands to make them like you; your main character has no needs to balance or take care of, never sleeps, etc.), and you've got MySims. And I say that as someone who loves both Sims and Animal Crossing games. I played it almost all the way through (despite it not being very fun, it is kind of addictive), and was underwhelmed by the superficial social connections with other MySims (you can talk to them or do other social things with them, but as far as I can tell there is no benefit to making them like you), the pointlessness of bothering to make your house look nice or bothering to become close with other MySims (if you get super close, they give you furniture items, but there is no point to having the furniture items, so why bother?), the bizarreness of available house designs (I found it nearly impossible to make a house that did not look deformed), and so on. The game primarily consists of exploring to find widgets and waiting around until enough of each kind of widget spawns so that you can make the items that other characters want (although, as I have said already, there is little point in giving the characters what they want, as all you get is room for more characters to move in, so they can ask you for more things).
All in all, I was really disappointed with this game. I had heard rumors that there would be online capabilities (a feature that made Animal Crossing DS fun when it might have been tedious otherwise), that the game would take advantage of the Wii's internal clock to run in real-time, that you would be able to use your Mii as a character, and so on. None of the rumors were true. [...]
 Great fun, much better than other Sims games September 25, 2007
Gordon M. Wagner (Suburbia)
34 out of 39 found this review helpful
My Sims has a lot in common with Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon -- it takes a while to play and you're not blowing things up with laser guns, both of which I feel are GOOD things.
You arrive in town and meet the mayor and get a tour of the town, then you design and build your house using the Wii controller and nunchuk by rearranging blocks and clicking them into place. If you don't like designing and building things, you might not like this game.
Other Sims games I've played on the computer or other consoles have struck me as being kind of creepy and not so much fun. I like My Sims MUCH, MUCH better than the other Sims games. The graphics are good and the overall spirit is much lighter and kinder. There's a sense of humor throughout the game. I still like Animal Crossing better, but this is a VERY good game and I recommend it if you have a Wii!
MaMa zzz October 11, 2007
Nightshifter (Wisconsin)
16 out of 20 found this review helpful
We love this game! There is a lot to do, I don't get bored like I did with Animal crossing, Sims game for Wii moves along a lot faster.You can choose who you have move in to your town & they don't leave unless you kick them out. There isn't a lot of waiting like in AC because the days aren't real time. I recommend this game for families.
 Good concept, poor execution October 27, 2007
Robert Levandowski Jr. (Kingston, NY, USA)
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
MySims should be a fun game.
Unfortunately, it's a very poorly programmed game. It's the first Wii game I've played that is absolutely loaded with "Loading..." screens. Although MySims isn't as graphically rich as Zelda: Twilight Princess or Metroid Prime 3, it somehow manages to display "Please wait" at least ten times as often as either game. Entering a house? Please wait. Want to edit the wall pattern? Please wait. Go fishing? Please wait.
In the meantime, the Wii's optical drive can be heard chugging away, constantly seeking and loading data. I'd never been conscious of the Wii's drive until I played this game. At first, I thought that I had a mouse infestation from all the scrabbling. Then, I realized it was this game. I now fear for my Wii -- I worry that this game is leading my Wii's optical drive to an early death.
As you progress in the game, the loading screens aren't enough; the game begins slowing down and becoming non-responsive as you try to play it, especially when you're "prospecting."
The game's concept and graphics are streamlined, and don't seem like they should push the Wii's limits. In reality, this game makes the Wii feel underpowered. I wonder if the programmers expected it to be played on a console with a hard drive? The Wii is capable of playing a game like this -- MORE complex than this -- without these glitches. It speaks poorly of EA that the game has these glitches.
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