Last year's MySims surprised some franchise fans with its uber-cute visual overhaul of the famous Sims characters and its Animal Crossing-like focus on resource gathering and town-building. The game also did quite well for EA: the DS version ended up being the #1 third party game sold in Europe in 2007 and the #3 third party title in the US, behind only the ubiquitous, Disney-powered Hannah Montana and High School Musical.
So what to do for the follow-up? Not a straight sequel, the developers decided. No, EA's Sims Studio saw the expanded potential its new, console-friendly franchise had and is crafting a much deeper, and potentially more entertaining, successor that ditches some of MySims's more tedious elements in favor of a story-focused adventure.
PBG plays MySims Kingdom for some unexplained reason. Is it really as awful as it looks? Well...yes.
Green Pixels: Plunking down $50 for a brand-new game can be a gamble -- it's a lot of money to pay for something that you could end up hating. However, most games don't stay full-price for long, which is why we scoured the inventories of four major retailers (Amazon, GameStop, Target, Walmart) to find a slew of great titles that are now priced at just $20. For the cost of one freshly released game, you can buy two older titles and still have $10 left to spend on snacks. (And we all know the importance of snacks.)
RealGamer writes: "MySims Kingdom for the DS is very similar in principle to its Wii brethren, just scaled down. Instead of a host of different islands to explore and customise you have a single town that has undergone a massive upheaval due to someone stealing all the decorations?"
