I've had the game for less than a day and I have mixed feelings about it. The best way I can describe how it feels to me is putting TS3 & 4 side by side is like... 3 is an intricate dollhouse kit and 4 is a fisher price or little tykes dollhouse. The second dollhouse is bright and colorful and cute with so many adorable pieces and it's solid and durable and easy to set up. But it's geared more toward children and people without the know-how (or computer power?) to work with the more "mature", complex and intricate dollhouse. This is a very oversimplified and bare bones version of how I feel about it. When you read it, it probably wouldn't seem like I'm having fun with 4, but I actually am.
I haven't played long enough to give an analysis on all the details of the game. Overall, I like the objects in buy mode. Build mode is great! My sims are cute. The male's even hot! lol I expected sims to be more cartoony, but it all depends on the facial features they're given. I'm happy with the skin, much more so than when I got TS3 base game. The first few sim days I played seemed too short and hectic. Too much decay, not enough time to explore, takes so long to make friends or build skills! The limited range of travel without having to trigger the loading screen can feel stifling, but that's just going to take some getting used to after playing 3 for so long.
Overall, a fun game, cute sims with much more interesting and fun personalities and reactions than in 3, kids are awesome, amazing build mode, love the buy objects (and hope for more to become available soon!), looking forward to EP's to build on the base game. I'm disappointed that EA chose to go slightly backwards so that preschoolers and people with ten year old laptops can play :) I'm interested to see where the game goes from here. I don't regret the purchase at all and will continue playing and hoping for some exciting and challenging additions to the base game in the near future.
EA Staff (Retired)
