Much better gameplay than Sims 3

First let me say that I have so far let me scare got from the many negative reviews and the game really did not want to buy. But there are at Origin an action called "Game Time", which allows Sims 4 as a full version (!) To play two days for free. These I used and was so impressed that I bought after 5 hours, the full version.

Sims 4 actually makes it all better, what has always bothered me to Sims 3:

I particularly like the multitasking. The Sims can now run by a two-tier system tray (active actions and waiting list) automatically up to three (compatible) activities simultaneously. For example it is possible to eat at the same time, watch TV and to be entertained. Eat, watch TV and make phone calls or watch TV and read a book at the same time possible. They talk even while dancing and swimming. Even when gardening, mix cooking, cocktails or while painting social interactions are possible. This makes the gameplay much more realistic, more fluid, less complicated and less time eating than it was 3 in the case Sims. Was I was always stressed out Sims 3 enormous because only an action was possible at the time and took these disproportionate amount of time to complete, so that all too often the day is over before my Sims could do what they should or would. That's when Sims 4 different now and that's a good thing.

The neighborhoods are beautifully decorated and the individual areas where the Sim can be active without loading screen, are big enough that you do not have the feeling of being locked up. Provided, of course, you're not Baufreak and needs 50 plots to place his own house designs. Very nice, I also think that my Sims can now travel to the various cities / neighborhoods. With the basic game, there are only two, the third was but just resupplied as paid expansion pack. This suggests that there is a huge world for our Sims are in the foreseeable future, which is indeed divided into small areas and different neighborhoods and short loading screens has (half an hour to minute), but not as representing a disaster, as the peregrinations in Sims 3 - World Adventures.

Contrary to various assertions, the world would be less active, I find it extremely animated. While in Sims 3 hardly even a neighbor came to the sidewalk past the house, because they were all traveling in taxis or cars, my Sim can now stand in the front yard and attract a passing pedestrians to meet people. I'm missing all the cars at all, but they were usefully replaced by Sims with whom I can interact immediately. That there is no longer a huge open world, does not bother me. Sims 3 (with extensions) was yes without regulating and cleanup end mods not playable, constantly stuttering, still images of several minutes and crashes. Then I take but a love instanced game world with short loading screen when you change the areas, but with more fluid and flawless presentation. Even friends and acquaintances now come independently several times to visit over, depending on the degree of relation with increasing frequency (the lovers appeared sometimes several times a day at the front door on), which I find very beautiful, especially the in Sims 3 rather not happened up to the debut visit the beginning of a game.

The fact that relationships are not maintained, cool relatively quickly and the Sims disappear from the list, I think better than in Sims 3. This makes it easier to keep the desired relationships in mind and to take care of it. What should I with hundreds of Sims in the relationship bar that only are there because my Sim has annodunnemal played guitar in the park or somewhere you went on the road and said hello? I was always stressed and radiates a feeling of chaos and confusion. Sims 4: Who will keep known and Make friends Sims in the list, lets his Sim simply often call or send an SMS. Then the sorted out in a reasonable time by itself.

Of course, you get only a basic game with the basic facilities. Who in Sims 3 had many or even all of the extensions in addition to a number of items from the shop, which will occur naturally abundant barren. But that's only a matter of time (to appropriate extensions and articles published are) and money (this) to acquire, as Sims 3 also.

The building menu is nice tidy and comes up with a number of improvements that make the building very comfortable and easy. In addition, Sims has 4 straight in Contractor up some what Sims 3 had until the very end or not, especially for the design of roofs and terraces. For example it is possible to build walls in three different heights or round counters and podiums. However, what actually missing as a design element, is the possibility of staining. Here I hope to an extension that will subsequently supply a corresponding tool, with which the player can alter the patterns and colors of clothing, wallpaper, floors and furniture. When one is a great esthete and likes to tinker, can annoy quite substantially over the absence of this facility. You can see the limitations of the possibilities but accept as a challenge and make the most of the presence.

What I am also delighted that the previously tested skills and the improvements in these. So plants can now be crossed, so you can cover the entire range of flowers, herbs, fruits and vegetables with a bed and four plants, which can no longer be gardening degenerated into a full day activity. The carpenter Bank allows Sims even make furniture that are not then ugly monochrome blocks, but look the same and function as in the construction menu to buying furniture.

Supplement 01.31.15: The parties have experienced an inspiring me improve. While in Sims 3 (base game) a party was merely a way to reasonably straightforward to invite several friends back home, but otherwise contributed no increased value to the gaming experience, there is now a small menu, in which on the one hand the duration of the party is displayed and the possibility is offered early leaving, on the other hand a variety of tasks for the success of party lists at the same time encourage the players to leave the host Sims carry out targeted actions with the guests. Be it that the Sims are flirting or dancing together to take drinks or food to be or perform a certain number of calls to each other. The more tasks are carried out, the greater the success of the party. And when it reaches the three sections of success there are even useful items as a reward. So the grandiose wedding parties of my Sims has the budget introduced a coffee maker, a microwave, a kitchen roll, a pretty vase and a flower stand.

One can not complain that there are few community plots, five different, to be exact. But the Sims 3 base game has not much more to offer there. After all, the community plots are always good for animated with other Sims and you can always take other known Sims there without you call and invite to too cumbersome and time-consuming, a drop-down menu in the travel screen makes it possible. Common trips were me they are in Sims 3 always a horror, in Sims 4 a real pleasure.

The Sims itself I find a whole lot more sympathetic and more alive than in Sims 3. Now it is really fun to simply let time run uncontrolled and to watch what they're doing so. Lovers no longer alienate now ratzfatz, if you do not constantly care that they maintain their relationship, but also care about each other and no player control have fond. As I said, not living together partner very often come to visit, and in families interact Sims much together and are not little egomaniac more like Sims 3, which only do their own thing and lonely about it, if the players do not control.

Before I am writing a long novel, is anyone who Sims fan, but is alarmed by the many negative reviews, the "Game Time" recommended in Origin. Create Easy Origin account, if one does not yet exist, Download Sims 4 with the game-time action and install and watch myself and try it! 48 hours will be more than enough time to get an overall impression of the game and be able to make a reasonable, based on their own experiences decision.