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Bella Goth walks into the kitchen to cook for Mortimer and Cassandra.
Resplendent in her bright red iconic gown, she begins to make breakfast.
Except this morning, theres a problem.
Bella suddenly begins to shout frantically as a fire breaks out on the stove.
Frantic clicking follows as I desperately make a run at get Bella to extinguish the fire.
By now, the phone is also burning.
So is another counter.
Help is not coming.
Welcome to The Sims.
Bizarrely, the stove was completely fine.
Thats the thing with this game.
No matter what you think you know about it, youre wrong.
Give me another game where I can just hang out with Pokemon.
The Complete Package
Both games have not been properly playable for a while now.
Hacks and patches were required, and issues still persisted, including tiny resolutions and instability.
Fortunately, those days are now in the past.
Both games come with all the available DLC packed in, and the scope of each is massive.
In short, this is almost every piece of DLC released for both games.
No extra releases, no more to pay.
Youll get both early game experiences in their entirety.
The only DLC not included is the IKEA Home Stuff Pack, presumably for licensing reasons.
Nostalgia Levels High
The games themselves are a straight port in terms of content.
From the 00s technology to the unforgiving fires, every element of the originals I remember is here.
But newcomers will quickly notice that there are huge differences between the two games.
The Sims is far more basic than you may be expecting.
Even here, the options are significantly limited compared to The Sims 4.
Building is similar across both titles.
All furniture is under a separate tab.
Also, good luck with the walls and flooring.
Theres no nice categorisation here.
Servos And Genies And Zombies, Oh My!
Where both games shine is in the gameplay, which was the clear focus.
Just be prepared for a challenge.
The Sims in particular is brutal at times.
Needs decay fast, fires start frequently, and vacation days dont yet exist.
For the Americans, Alan Sugar hosted our version of The Apprentice, instead of… you know.
With DLC being included, theres a lot to explore in both games.
you’ve got the option to even get spectral cats.
No More Performance Issues
Running a game with all this DLC can often feel like a chore.
We already know the gameplay can keep us entertained for hours, but its useless if it crashes.
Luckily, stability and modernisation appears to have been the focus of this port.
No crashes, no lag, not even a stutter.
Then theres the resolution.
I knew The Sims would still be incredibly square.
The Sims 2 is even more noticeably upscaled.
When it started up, the first thing I saw was that I could play it in ultrawide.
Saying that, you may not even need them.
My PC is almost ten years old now and runs both games with everything enabled and no problems.
If youve ever wanted the original Sims experience, then this is the way to do it.
The ports are faithful and most importantly stable.That busy February?
It just got a whole lot busier.
Looking back on the PC launcher that nobody liked.
