The Sims Medieval

The Sims Medieval is an upcoming stand alone game in The Sims series. The Sims Medieval will be released on March 24. The game will run on The Sims 3 engine and will be a spin-off similar to the way in which The Sims Stories games were a spin-off of The Sims 2.

"The Sims Medieval offers a new way for players to experience The Sims which we hope fans will enjoy, and it features gameplay that fans of strategy and role-playing games will find appealing such as controlling an entire kingdom and quest-based gameplay mechanics."

Main storyline
The storyline of the game is to build a successful kingdom, by fulfilling the player's Sim's 'Kingdom Ambition', which the player chooses at the start of the game. A player can play their Sim as a knight, monarch, scribe, priest, aristocrat, physician, and many more jobs await. When the player accepts a quest (which are required to fulfill the kingdom ambition), they will choose which hero Sim they want to use. When the hero Sims do the quests they will level up, imbuing this game with an RPG-style feel.

Players' Sims have various jobs, and each job has its own duties that they have to fulfill daily. Otherwise they will be fired from the job. Sims can not only be fired but also humiliated by other Sims throwing tomatoes or eggs at them. Other than that a Sim will have to pay a fine, or even enter in the "Pit of Judgment" for execution.

In addition to completing quests and doing their job, hero Sims can also marry and raise a family. A Sim's spouse and children will be NPCs (much like in games such as Harvest Moon or Fable III). Aging is mostly the same as The Sims; babies will grow into children, but children will not grow any older. However, a child can grow up to an adult in order to take their father/mother's place if they die.

Sims
In The Sims Medieval there will be two different types of Sims: Village Sims and Hero Sims. The player will spend most of the time controlling Hero Sims.

Village Sims

 * Hangman
 * Knave
 * Harlequin
 * Children

Hero Sims

 * Physician
 * Bard / Bardin
 * Merchants
 * Cleric
 * Monarch
 * Priest (Peteran and Jacoban)
 * Knight
 * Blacksmith
 * Spy
 * Wizard / Sorceress

Features

 * Dueling
 * Kingdom Points, used to expand the kingdom (Probably similar to Simoleons)
 * Quests
 * Leveling Up
 * Kingdom Ambitions (Probably similar to Lifetime Wishes)

Trivia
Some people don't know this, but The Sims Medieval was going to be called The Sims: The Magic Era.

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Videos
Video:The Sims Medieval Trailer|The Official The Sims Medieval Trailer

Video:The Sims Medieval - EA Gamescom|The Sims Medieval demo

Video:Gamespot Interview with Rachel Bernstein (The Sims Medieval)|Gamespot Interview

Video:The Sims Townhall 2010: The Sims Medieval PART 1|The Sims Townhall Walkthrough