The Sims is still as vibrant and colourful as it has always been, and scalable to run on anything but your calculator to boot, and the quirky, nonsensical banter and cheerful ambient music is still as cute but pointless as ever. Give it time to circulate and new content will come pouring in, but what’s there is by far the best in the series, and I can say that because the advent of seamless city exploration, fully integrated character traits and less dumbfounded AI in The Sims3 would make it difficult to return to its predecessors. “Let’s make you a Sims fan today.” I was told. They win this round.

Boomtown awards the game with a score of 8