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The Sims 4 is the fourth installment of The Sims franchise. On Monday, May 6th 2013, Maxis confirmed that it will be released on Mac and PC in early 2014.[2] The original announcement reads:
The Sims franchise is fueled by the passion and creativity of its millions of fans around the world. Their continued devotion to the franchise ignites the fire of creativity of the team at The Sims Studio, driving them to continually improve and innovate on one of the world’s most successful simulation game that has sold more than 150 million copies worldwide.
The Sims 4 celebrates the heart and soul of the Sims themselves, giving players a deeper connection with the most expressive, surprising and charming Sims ever in this single-player offline experience. The Sims 4 encourages players to personalize their world with new and intuitive tools while offering them the ability to effortlessly share their creativity with friends and fans.
They say that the eyes are the window into the soul, let’s just say that these eyes are a window into our future. We can’t wait to show you more.
Description
The Sims 4 is the highly anticipated life simulation game that lets you play with life like never before. Create and control new Sims with mind, body, and heart. Build their unique worlds. Direct and explore the stories of your Sims and experience delightful and exciting results.
Create and control the most intelligent and relatable Sims ever with new, intuitive design tools. Customize your Sims’ appearances, personalities, aspirations, walk styles, and even their relationship to others.Select from diverse environments for your Sims to live in and build their home with fun, intuitive design tools that allow you to effortlessly create the homes of your dreams.
Play with life like never before in The Sims 4. The choices you make influence your Sims and everyone and everything around them. These moments create delightful and exciting results throughout gameplay.
How you play The Sims 4 is up to you. Help your Sims start a new career, find love, and start their family. Construct and design the homes of your dreams. Fulfill your Sims’ needs, explore their aspirations, and experience how they respond to life’s moments
The Sims 4 allows you to play with life like never before. The Sims live with rich physical and emotional characteristics and their worlds and stories are influenced by your choices and creativity. Welcome to The Sims 4![citation needed]
Features
- New Sims – Create and control more intelligent, more relatable, and emotionally rich Sims.
- Intelligence – Your Sims move and act more naturally than ever before, from multitasking to expressing their emotions by the way they walk. Choose the personalities of your Sims, select their aspirations, and explore the depth of their lifelong goals through your Sims’ thoughts, social skills, careers, and memories.
- Emotional Depth – For the first time, Sims feel and express emotions. Your Sims can experience a diverse range and depth of emotional states and are influenced through other Sims, actions, events, memories, or even by the clothing and objects you choose. Emotions offer you more choice by giving you the opportunity to create richer stories with even more possibilities.
- New Creative Tools – Create A Sim and Build are more powerful, intuitive, and fun than ever before. You have the freedom to sculpt Sims with tactile precision. Effortlessly construct the home of your dreams with the all new room-based Build Mode.
- Vibrant Neighborhoods – Chose among brilliant and diverse lots for your Sims to live in. Vivid visuals bring your Sim’s home to life.
- Rich Rewards – Earn new objects, outfits, and traits by completing events, discovering collectables, and unlocking achievements.
- Share Your Creations – Share your Sims’ households with your friends and the community. Download community creations for an all-new look.
Notes
- The Sims 4 will be playable in a single player offline mode and the core of the game is intended to be played offline, although it will have an online component to interact with friends. The game will not require a constant internet connection.[3][4]
- Create a Sim and the buy and build modes will have big improvements. It has also been confirmed that relationships and interactions between Sims are improved as well, and are more complex. [5]
- Many developers, designers, animators and other staff members who worked on previous Sims titles are working on The Sims 4. [5]
- Rachel Franklin confirmed that there will be all-new voiceover content for The Sims 4 and no recycled voices from previous games. [6]
After the July 23 live broadcast[7], in which The Sims 4 teasers were shared by The Sims Team[8], the official Sims Facebook page updated with more teasers and details on The Sims 4 game features and the big reveal at Gamescom.
So far, these features have been teased (this does not, however, prove that these features will actually be in the game; this is only speculation of what the images represent):
- New objects which do not appear on other games, examples are punching bags[9] and tiki-styled objects[10];
- Multitasking, such as drinking and talking at the same time[9];
- Advanced options when choosing clothes and outfits[11];
- Molding and sculpting the faces and bodies of Sims in Create a Sim[11];
- More body shaping options, such as hip sliders and perhaps height sliders[11];
- Different accessories 'work' with any outfit and hairstyle[12];
- Expressive Sims with different opinions that vary on personality[12];
- Advanced Party options and possibly more 'alive' parties[10];
- Open restaurants[8];
Gamescom Reveal
It was confirmed at the June 18 live broadcast[13] (and July 23 live broadcast[7], regarding August 22, 2013) that The Sims 4 will have a huge reveal, including a trailer[14]), at Gamescom on August 20, 2013 (14:00 UTC) and a further preview on August 22, 2013 at (15:00 UTC) containing a live gameplay demo. The preview will be shown at a different website, instead of streaming via TheSims channel on YouTube.
Meanwhile, SimsCamp is an event planned for late August, 2013 in Cologne, Germany. It is centered around 'The Sims 4' reveal at Gamescom. All well-known fansites and personalities (called the "YibSims", meaning best friends in Simlish) are invited to be part of the event. They will have the opportunity to ask questions and play the game for the first time.[5][15]
Gallery
![The Sims 4 Olympus Multi-player Mode Animation Suite[16]](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/sims/images/4/4d/The_Sims_4_-_Pre-Production_Presentation_%282010%29/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/185?cb=20130527173926 "The Sims 4 - Pre-Production Presentation (2010) (36 KB)")
The game's final graphics will look nothing like this.
<gallery widths="180"> BetaSims4 1.png|Mock-up Pre-Production loading screen.[17] File:Sims4Plumbob.gif|The Sims 4 Loading Screen (Olympus) BetaSims4 5.png BetaSims4 4.png BetaSims4 3.png BetaSims4 2.png Sims4Beta 6.png Sims4Beta 5.png EarlyScreen2TG6.jpg TS4BetaCharacterPortrait.jpg|An early portrait of a sim. CharacterFemale.jpg|An early render of a male sim.
CharacterMale.jpg|An early render of a female sim.
External Links
References
- ↑ The Sims 4 to come EARLY 2014 (Platinum Simmers)
- ↑ Maxis Unveils The Sims 4 (EA.com)
The Sims 4 in development for PC and Mac (EA.com) - ↑ The Sims 4 Official Q&A by SimGuruHydra (SimsVIP)
- ↑ Maxis Announces The Sims 4 (PC & MAC 2014) (SimsVIP)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 The Sims 4 Announced - FULL VIP Conference Call Audio! (TheSimSupply - YouTube)
- ↑ Rachel Franklin The Sims 4 Audio Tweet
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 July 23rd Live Broadcast (TheSims - YouTube)
- ↑ June 18th Live Broadcast (TheSims - YouTube)
- ↑ Confirmation of a Trailer and 'Much More' (@Charlie_Sin on Twitter)
- ↑ SimsCamp Event (SimsVIP)
- ↑ BeyondSims Video Posting
- ↑ Patrick Kelley, EA Employee Portfolio
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| Preceded by The Sims 3: Into the Future October 22, 2013 |
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