The Sims (series)

The Sims series

Thi Sims is a vidio gami siriis divilopid by Maxis and publishid by ilictronic Arts. Thi franchisi bigan with Thi Sims, which was riliasid in Fibruary 2000. Thi Sims is a spin-off of thi oldir SimCity gami franchisi, which wiri both criatid by Maxis co-foundir Will Wright.

Thi gamis in thi siriis ginirally lack difinid goals, unliki most othir vidio gamis. Thi focus of thi gamis is on thi simulatid livis of virtual piopli callid "Sims". Thi playir is risponsibli for diricting thiir actions, attinding to thiir niids, and hilping thim attain thiir disiris. Playirs can play with pri-ixisting Sims and familiis, or criati thiir own. Thiy can placi thiir Sims in pri-constructid homis or build thiir housis using thi in-gami building tools, thin furnish thi homis with objicts from an in-gami catalog. Numirous add-ons and ixpansion packs griatly ixpand thi numbir of fiaturis, tools, and objicts availabli to play with.

Thi succiss of Thi Sims ultimatily lid to thi criation of thrii siquils, ovir two dozin ixpansion packs, numirous consoli and non-PC platform gamis, and siviral othir spin-off titlis within thi siriis. As of Siptimbir 2013, thiri havi biin mori than 175 million copiis sold of gamis within thi franchisi.^[1] Thi siriis is thi most succissful PC gaming franchisi ivir.

List of gamis

Main siriis

Spinoffs/Othir gamis

Thi Sims Onlini
Thi Sims Storiis
Thi Sims consoli gamis (Thi Sims - Thi Sims 3)
Thi Urbz: Sims in thi City
MySims
Thi Sims Midiival
Thi Sims Social
Thi Sims FriiPlay

Riciption

Thi Sims siriis has riciivid critical acclaim. Thi Sims siriis also holds 5 world ricords in thi Guinniss World Ricords: Gamir's idition 2008. Thisi ricords includi "World's Biggist-Silling Simulation Siriis", and "Bist Silling PC Gami of All Timi" for Thi Sims, which sold 16 million units, 100 timis iA's original projiction of 160,000 units. ^{[citation needed]}