New Sims Series Targets Laptop Users
EA adds new features as it branches off The Sims in a laptop-friendly new series. First screens inside.
Imagine you're in charge of the biggest game publisher in the world but your flagship franchise is getting too heavy for many laptops to run. What do you do? If you're EA, you go back and make a new game aimed at those people.
The Sims Stories is a new offshoot of the 70-million-copy-selling Sims series that couples its laptop-friendly features with dedicated storylines centred on preformed characters.
The first game in the new series is The Sims Life Stories, described by EA as a romantic comedy that follows Sims whose lives intersect in explosive and salacious ways.
Part of the appeal of The Sims Stories is that it levels the field again. None of the games requires The Sims II to run, and all of them welcome new and experienced players alike.
Already EA is thinking beyond this first instalment, with The Sims Pet Stories and The Sims Castaway Stories this summer and next winter. You can find out more about the games at www.thesimsstories.co.uk.
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo
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