Retro Review: Getting As-SIM-ilated
GiN is looking waaaay back as a fun feature during these trying times. We will occasionally be taking a look at games from simpler days that were published many years ago. Up first, The Sims from February 2000, a title that many of us lost a lot of hours exploring.
Retro Game Friday: SimCity 2000
Michael is back with a truly classic game he played as a kid. It’s time to run for office with SimCity 2000!
Retro Game Friday: SimAnt
Michael takes us on a blast from the past this week, down into the world of the humble ant, and a game that conquered the world for Maxis long before SimCity became it’s own metropolis. Let’s re-meet the humble kingdom of the ants in SimAnt.
A Tale of Too Many Cities
Now that the much-publicized problems of the launch have died down, we take a few moments to actually study what the latest SimCity has to offer, street by street, and find a brilliant but flawed metropolis underneath.
Sim-ply Breathtaking
The Sims 2 takes the best selling game series of all time and actually improves it significantly without hurting anything in the process.
Take it to the Maxis!
Maxis and EA Games have released Sim City 4, the updated version of its hugely successful Sim City series. I will now go over the basics of Sim City game play just in case you’ve been in a cave the last decade or so. In Sim City 4 you are the mayor/city planner. The goal […]
The Sims Online is Addiction Squared
Adding online playability to the immensely popular Sims series is like throwing gasoline onto a bonfire. For fans of the game, it is an excuse to permanently enter the ranks of the addicted. Maxis has created an inviting and friendly online world, more so that I have ever experienced before. The world’s rules are completely […]
Getting Some Sim Lovin’
In the not too distant past, I was absolutely addicted to The Sims. In the past year, though, my desire for the game has waned as I have exhausted every conceivable option and action in the game. Then I received the Hot Date expansion pack, and once again I am hooked. This expansion pack is […]
The Sims is Sim-ply amazing
The Sims is a game for anyone who thinks that real life is boring. And that must be a pretty good number because The Sims is the best seller in the nation this week. Created by the same folks who made the popular SimCity series, The Sims drills down to the neighborhood level of a […]
SimCity 3000 builds on a familiar favorite
Listen up, this is the Mayor speaking! What you haven’t heard of me before? Why, I’ve been the mayor (read "dictator") of several successful towns, some with populations of almost two million people. My least whim can topple enterprises, my slightest fancy can cause a freeway to be built next to your house. This is […]