• Publisher: EA Games
  • Release Date: Dec 18, 2002
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 23 Critics What's this?

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Mixed or average reviews- based on 19 Ratings

  • Summary: The Sims Online is a virtual world built from the imaginations of thousands of players like you -- an unpredictable, alternate reality where you are both spectator and participant. Build a network of friends to enhance your power, wealth, reputation and social standing. Explore neighborhoods, create crazy locations, or host wild events to entertain others. In this massive and never-ending online event you become a Sim, choose your role and find your destiny. [Electronic Arts] Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 23
  2. Negative: 1 out of 23
  1. Unlike the previous Sims games, all of these citizens are controlled by actual people. In other words, you might want to double-check the genders of those two cuties before you try to score the world’s first virtual hot-tub ménage à trois.
  2. While there is room for improvement, the great feature about The Sims Online is the ability to update and add content at the game sign-on menu. (Maxis’ intends to add new material to The Sims Online for at least 2 or 3 years.)
  3. If the idea of chat rooms appeals to you, if the idea of stepping outside yourself and trying on a different life and face (even a polar bear’s head) is something you would enjoy, this could well be the game for you.
  4. The Sims Online is burdened by an intense emphasis on drudgery and an amazing lack of emphasis on fun - unless it's a quick pit stop at a pool table or in front of a TV to juice up your Sim's Fun meter to prepare for more work. That's just a little bit too much like real life for my tastes.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 9
  2. Negative: 4 out of 9
  1. PIPIsushii
    10
    I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! But im not all that crazy that I have to pay $10 dollors a month. It might be better if you lowered the price to $5. Maybe other people would LOVE it too. Collapse
  2. KaseyG.
    10
    Love It
  3. Andrea
    9
    The sims online is pretty good i guess i've never really plaed it but i've played the other sims so the sims online must be great to because most of the other sims games rock. Expand
  4. HanD.
    6
    The game holds more value, if you download it and don't pay for it.

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