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How Metascores Are Calculated
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Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed games. |
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]
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more... 100
Maxim Online
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.
 90
GamePro
There’s just one problem with The Sims Online: It’s almost not a game. The slow-paced activities rely so heavily on social interaction that in some ways it feels like a glorified chat room.
90
Game Informer
The Sims Online has retained the je ne sais quoi that makes its brethren so fun to play. [Mar 2003, p.89]
90
GMR Magazine
A game that no review can adqeuately describe, since the possible experiences are virtually limitless. Is it a game or a playground? Play it and decide for yourself.[Feb 2003, p.66]
80
Computer Games Magazine
It's a game about nothing... It's a world entirely in the hands of its players, so the possibilities for creativity and expansion are virtually endless. [Apr 2003, p.74]
80
Armchair Empire
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.)
80
G4 TV
Makes for surreal fun with a strangely addictive quality, and, if anything, it has seemingly endless potential. Like the stand-alone versions of the game, The Sims Online is what you make of it.
75
GameNow
Cooperation is key. It's easier and faster to do everything with the help of other Sims. [Mar 2003, p.55]
73
GameZone
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.
72
IGN
While there are similar problems with the original "The Sims," the element of time and quantified social interactions provided a real sense of challenge and conflict that's completely missing here.
70
TotalGames.net
A major problem (though one that is sadly unavoidable) is the way in which activities can’t be fast-forwarded... The result is that a great deal of time is spent watching a Sim doing something utterly trivial and dull.
69
Gamers' Temple
The greatest chat room ever, or the most boring online game in quite a while?
68
PC Gamer
Extremely social chatters will enjoy it, but everyone else will be thumb-twiddling. [Mar 2003, p.96]
67
Gaming Age
Can be as mundane as real life... You’ll have to invest virtual sweat and tears to make it a worthwhile experience.
67
GameSpot
Though the game's developer plans to make many additions to the game, for now, The Sims Online lacks many of the options that made the original game so intriguing, and it doesn't really replace them.
63
PC Gameworld
Will entertain for a while, but will become old fast. People interested in a chat room environment will find some fun here, but others, especially fans of the previous games, may feel cheated.
60
All Game Guide
Sartre once noted, "Hell is other people." The Sims Online is strictly for those who would disagree.
60
GameSpy
It's fun as a chat room, but has a lot of growing to do as a game.
60
Computer Gaming World
You'll be praying for at least a competent if not sparking conversationalist... For now, the game is pretty boring. [Apr 2003, p.104]
60
Adrenaline Vault
Even when it works, The Sims Online has little to offer beyond serving as a graphical instant messenger with an economy.
60
Yahoo! Games
Unlike the offline game, The Sims Online lacks the mad energy and pleasant frustration of managing a complex system of happiness, goals and limited time.
59
FiringSquad
The chat interface is a poorly organized mess. Guiding your sim through necessary activities requires too much real time hand-holding and should have been better automated.
42
Game Revolution
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.
Kasey G. gave it a10: Andrea gave it a9: Brad D. gave it a 5: PIPI sushii gave it a 10: Sungirl gave it a 0: Lori T. gave it a 2: Han D. gave it a 6: |
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