The Sims 4 is an upcoming life simulation game. It will be the fourth installment in The Sims series. Electronic Arts announced the game on May 6, 2013, and it is scheduled to be released for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2014. A Mac release has been confirmed, but a date has not yet been announced, and there are currently no plans for a console release. The game has the same concept as its predecessor, The Sims 3. Players control their Sims in various activities and form relationships. The game, like the rest of the series, does not have a defined final goal; gameplay is nonlinear. The Create a Sim and Build Mode tools have been redesigned to allow more versatility when creating game content. Emotional state plays a larger role in gameplay than in previous games in the series, with effects on social interaction, user interface, and personality.
Reviews
There have been a lot of graphical improvements, well, the game still looks cartoonish. but the characters themselves look better and it's easier to make unique sims.
the rest of this game is complete trash, pointless. The amount of features that have been stripped out of the game is mind boggling.
Literally, the second my house caught on fire and I found out that there aren't even firefighters in the game, I just shut the game down and uninstalled it.
Steaming pile of ****. Another franchise bites the dust. All hail EA
Not the best game in The Sims franchise
Despite being in the mad hands of EA & a cash milking game, it is good & I love Sims.
Sims from this installment of the series look really good, quite unlike the fuglies of TS3.
Besides, Kastrenzo (who rated the game 1/10) is kinda right, the game is heavily stripped of features, but the devs, nonetheless, managed to add content patches (YES, patches that add new content) over the years, something rarely done for AAA games, so it's forgivable.
Untested, dumbed-down and limited expansion packs and DLC (compared to TS3 x-packs) are much less excusable. None of the "expansion packs" feels like a big content pack. Yet again, Maxis managed to fix some of the more annoying bugs from the un-QA-ed x-packs that made them nearly unplayable or plain broken... yet... still no money for attesters to properly test the latest dlc packs, Mr Elephant in the Room aka EA, eh? "Best to save money that was to be spent on testers, let the devs sort bugs out" is the latest EA motto.
Overall, a good game, becoming better and better somehow thanks to Maxis, but really bad downsized DLC and extremely bad corporate policies, the latter, quite obviously, thanks to EA.
Awesome!!!