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Weather became a key part of previous games and many players hoped to see these features introduced at a base game level. Forgot who fathered your tribe of Sims, eight generations ago? Better log onto GenesReunited to track your ancestors, because The Sims 4 certainly wonвЂ™t do it for you.

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Game mechanics which gave the feel of a real-life simulator like weather, seasons (both previously introduced in expansions) and the toddler life stage have also been omitted, giving players the unnatural age transition from babies in cribs to walking, talking, tantrum-throwing children in the blink of an eye. Even in the first days of The Sims 3, it felt a lot more complete and brimming with content. Perhaps itвЂ™s just the absence of numerous expansion packs that has the game feeling a bit empty. Players of previous titles will also notice a lack of general content and selection. YouвЂ™re stuck with 50 shades of greyish-blue and you better like it. Gone are the houndstooth toilets, tartan curtains and leopard print bed-sheets. The much-loved design features of the Sims 3, which allowed you to customise furniture any way you wanted, have been stripped away and weвЂ™re left with only a few choices of colour schemes hand-picked by EA, not our own imaginations.

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Players of previous titles in the series will almost instantly pick up on the more sterile and somewhat muted atmosphere, especially when building and decorating.

Long loading screens make a not-so-welcome comeback вЂ“ a step backwards instead of further developing the open-world aspect that made The Sims 3 feel so modern and powerful. Gone are the days of an open-world map where Sims could travel freely from their home into town centres, being instead replaced with a Sims 2 like style of travel. The Sims 4 is tailored to new players, not long-standing fans of the series. Which not to say The Sims 4 fails on every level it just appears to be seeking a newer and wider audience. This hope has been broken into a million pieces. My hope for The Sims 4 was that it would take me back to my fifteen-year-old Sims-obsessed self with a sense of nostalgia, while improving on the mechanics of a series that I have followed and loved for so long.

After playing for around fifteen hours, I wish I could take some of that precious time back and do something more useful with it: like sleeping, or playing The Sims 3.

#THE SIMS 4 MAC REVIEW PC#

Having previously played the PC version of The Sims 4, I wiped my mind of all prior impressions to take a fresh look at the Mac incarnation. IвЂ™m that guy who stayed up until 4am every school night making sure my Sims were getting promoted, walking their dogs, having kidsвЂ¦ and I blissfully forked out ВЈ25 every time a new expansion pack was released. This review is based on the Mac version, as well as time spent on PC.Д¬onfession: I love The Sims вЂ“ have done ever since they burst onto the scene as nothing but unrealistic polygons of humanity back in 2000. With the release on the Mac, we decided to rectify our error. Editors note: We didnвЂ™t review The Sims 4 when it was originally released for PC back in September 2014.

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