The Sims 4
The Sims 4 is the highly anticipated life simulation game that lets you play with life like never before. Control smarter Sims with unique appearances, personalities, behaviors, and emotions. Experience new levels of creativity when you sculpt Sims with the powerful Create A Sim and design beautiful homes with tactile, room-based Build Mode. Use The Gallery to browse, share, and download new content without ever leaving your game. Control the mind, body, and heart of your Sims and explore your new gameplay possibilities in vibrant neighborhoods that bring your stories to life.
Game Features
- Smarter Sims – Create and control smarter Sims with unique appearances, personalities, and emotions in The Sims 4.
One of the most groundbreaking aspects of The Sims 4 is its intense character customisation options
- Powerful, Creative Tools – Create A Sim and Build Mode are more powerful, intuitive, and fun than ever before. You have the control to sculpt Sims with tactile precision. Effortlessly construct the home of your dreams with the all new, room-based Build Mode.
- Vibrant Neighborhoods – Experience new gameplay opportunities brought to life within vibrant and dynamic neighborhoods. Choose among beautiful and diverse lots for your Sims to build their homes and explore activities. Expand your social circle and interact with other Sims in the neighborhood and hang out in community parks and venues.
- Rich Rewards – Earn new objects, outfits, and traits by completing events, discovering collectables, and unlocking achievements.
- Share Your Creations – The Gallery allows you to browse, share, and download new content without ever leaving your game. Get inspired by rich content created by The Sims community and add new experiences to your game.
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. However, the Origin client is required in order to install the game.
- 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.
- Many developers, designers, animators and other staff members who worked on previous Sims titles are working on The Sims 4.
- Rachel Franklin confirmed that there will be all-new voiceover content for The Sims 4 and no recycled voices from previous games.
- Sims can be right or left handed. It is currently unknown what effect this will have on gameplay.
- Piano, Violin, Guitar, Hacking, Cooking, Gardening, Writing, and WooHoo will become skills. It is unknown what other skills, if any, will appear in the game. It is presumed that Painting is a skill as well, due to released pictures, but it is not confirmed.
- Traits that been confirmed: Genius, Bookworm, Musical Genius, Dreamer, Gossip Queen, Party Animal, Ambitious, Perfectionist, Clumsy, Hot-Headed, Loves Outdoors, Outgoing, Creative, Active, Romantic, Bro, Insane, Glutton, Hopeless Romantic, and Materialistic. Every Sim can have 3 traits and one bonus trait. The bonus traits that are known are Fast Learner, Gregarious, and Sociopath.
- Lifetime wishes confirmed and renamed to Aspirations. Confirmed aspirations: Friend to the World, Renaissance Sim. With every aspiration there will be a bonus trait.
- It was confirmed that there will be a rocket ship, a microscope set, and a cupcake factory.
- It was confirmed by Maxis that The Sims 4 will be using a new game engine that bears little to no resemblance to the engine used in The Sims 3.
- The soundtrack for The Sims 4 is composed by English film composer Ilan Eshkeri.