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#1 Old 21st Nov 2013 at 9:11 PM
Default I Really Miss The Urbz: Sims In The City
I wasn't sure what topic this would fit under, so I'm putting it here. My apologies.

People like to joke and make fun of that game, but it's my most favorite Sims console game ever. I had it for PS2. I loved playing it. I enjoyed just about everything about it. I loved it being focused on tasks rather than spending hours building a house or a sim. All the sims in each group, and the locations themselves were pretty cool. I didn't really care for the Black-Eyed Peas cameo in it. I really wish there was a PC port for it. I would love to be able to enjoy it again.

What are you opinions on the game? Did you like it? Did you not? Why?
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Scholar
#2 Old 5th Dec 2013 at 12:13 AM
I rented the game way back in the old days of video stores. Never got to finish it though before I gave it back. Years later I found it in a second-hand store in some trendy city neighbourhood. Immediately bought it and finally finished it. One thing I would love to try and do is rebuild the city in CAW. It wouldn't be too difficult. Diamond Heights can use a skyscraper shell, Neon East can be done with all the building tools from World Adventures, we have the bridge for the dockside neighbourhood and with basements we can make a proper Central Station. Plus subways. We have a map to go off which isn't too tricky follow and you can see the skyline from certain areas to fill in the rest of what we don't visit.

Also, I'm pretty sure that game warped my young mind so that I could never hate the Black Eyed Peas. Will.i.am gave me money and helped me move, whatevs.
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#3 Old 14th Feb 2014 at 10:46 PM
Quote: Originally posted by pirate_wolf_12
I rented the game way back in the old days of video stores. Never got to finish it though before I gave it back. Years later I found it in a second-hand store in some trendy city neighbourhood. Immediately bought it and finally finished it. One thing I would love to try and do is rebuild the city in CAW. It wouldn't be too difficult. Diamond Heights can use a skyscraper shell, Neon East can be done with all the building tools from World Adventures, we have the bridge for the dockside neighbourhood and with basements we can make a proper Central Station. Plus subways. We have a map to go off which isn't too tricky follow and you can see the skyline from certain areas to fill in the rest of what we don't visit.

Also, I'm pretty sure that game warped my young mind so that I could never hate the Black Eyed Peas. Will.i.am gave me money and helped me move, whatevs.


A recreation of the world would be awesome. I just wish I could play it on my PC. i don't know if there are like emulators for that sort of thing.
Mad Poster
#4 Old 14th Feb 2014 at 11:58 PM
I still have it and the game system. It was not an easy game to get into, but it did have some interesting features. It would be cool if they built it for the computer. There are a lot of old games that would be fun for the computer.

Addicted to The Sims since 2000.
Lab Assistant
#5 Old 17th Feb 2014 at 3:18 PM
I thought it was pretty decent.

Really, someone needs to try and build the Urbz neighborhood in TS2/TS3. It'd be fun to play around in. My major problem with The Urbz was the build/buy mode (there really wasn't one. You just had to buy like 8 objects from a store at a time and plop them down everywhere). Socializing was a tad easy (Good = green, eh = yellow, bad = red) but there were some fun options and at least the districts were different in style and fun to look at.
Test Subject
#6 Old 20th Feb 2014 at 5:54 PM
Quote: Originally posted by marieruth
A recreation of the world would be awesome. I just wish I could play it on my PC. i don't know if there are like emulators for that sort of thing.


There are emulators that allow you to play PS2 games on a PC. I have used one called PCSX2 before and it works great. It can be complicated to get running legally. You need a working PS2 to do it and a way to get the BIOS file from it to your PC. The emulator will not run without the proper BIOS. The emulator developers do not distribute any BIOS files as that would be illegal, but they will tell you how to transfer the file from a PS2 to a PC. I did it a few years ago because my PS2 was about to die. It gave me some extra usage out of games I wasn't ready to part with at the time. It would probably be much less of a hassle now to just buy a used PS2 from a local game shop. I doubt that they are all that expensive any more.
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#7 Old 21st Feb 2014 at 3:04 AM
Default The Urbz
I like that game, my Sim is a Diamond Heights. It has a good graphic and bloom but sometime the game lags when I play it.
Mad Poster
#8 Old 15th Apr 2014 at 6:55 PM
I loved the Urbs. I got it for ps2 as a kid and didn't really understand it. I can't remember why. But I have it for GBA and I go through stages where I play it. I think overall it was my favourite Sims game for GBA (and I think it was for DS too?). I completed it for the first time about a year ago, I've been close to completing it before but then my ex-boyfriend saved over it when he borrowed the game and I forgot about it for a while until I was packing for university and re-found it.

I tried remaking the characters in Sims 2, back when I first learned to recolour things (badly). It looked so bad! I made all the recolours in paint so they were just BRIGHT colours with no shading or anything.

~Your friendly neighborhood ginge
Instructor
#9 Old 29th May 2014 at 3:41 PM
I love the Urbz and I still play it.
Umm I never had the ps2 version I have the Gba one.
This was the first sims game I ever owned lol I got it for Christmas the same year the sp came out.
Black eye peas? Hmm the characters are a little different, the closet to Will I Am is that jazz guy Cannolball Coleman, I guess Fergie was Crystal, Um the other black guy, no clue... Um and that long hair guy could be Ewan Watahmee if he was actually buff. Lmao Darius couldn't be will, he's too fat and hip hoppy. But Darius is the one who helps your sim in the beginning... Or maybe Fergie is Kris Thistle??

Omgg, what is going on here now I've been forced to dig through my stuff looking frantically for the Ubrz game for fifteen mins only to find it in underneath my bed in a box.... Sigh.. Anywho

This game is so simple to me, I really miss it. Being a Gba game after your complete the challenges you just roam and make friends and try to get high in your popularity clubs. I've still haven't enter those clubhouses yet I don't know how!!!!
The needs are cool, I like the characters though and the mini games aka jobs.

I reeeeaalllyyy wish some uber talented creator could not only recreate the sims from Ubrz but also, make some of the items like the paintings, the Dance dance revolution style mats, omg the robot corner...well I guess that's like servos.. I like the style of the houses, the two ghetto brownstones, the Louisiana style house, and the penthouse is pretty cool. Ooh and the riverboat Casino was pretty cool

Ahh now that. I've rambled enough, I'm going to go play Urbz
:D

Peace, Harmony & Balance... Libra is Love..
Field Researcher
#10 Old 21st Jun 2014 at 12:50 AM
I had this for PS2 and DS, both totally different games. The DS game was kind of slow paced and I never finished it. The PS2 version I probably got most of the way through, and I think it had a two-player mode as well which was fun for sleepovers. The Sims 2 and Pets on PS2 were also pretty good at the time, since our computer could only run TS1 with no expansions. I wouldn't play any of those now, but I would support similar games being made for the new gen of consoles so that people can enjoy this style of play. The main problem I can think of with The Urbz is that due to trends changing the game dated quickly (at least in the eyes of a player focused on fashion) and so would any sequel made, which I guess might be a reason it hasn't happened. Personally I found the console games cute and appropriate as an older child whose concept of adulthood was mostly based on Friends anyway.
Test Subject
#11 Old 20th Jul 2014 at 7:34 AM Last edited by cameroncr95 : 21st Jul 2014 at 10:00 AM.
Sorry for the bump, but I REALLY love the urbz. It is my favorite The Sims Game. There was a charm that it had in comparison to the others. I still play it sometimes on my PS2 or xbox.


And as the previous said, yes, the DS/GBA version was different. The console version played as a traditional sim game but the handheld version played like an RPG.


Also as an FYI to an above post, Black Eyed Peas were not in the portable version at all, and there are no counterparts. The portable version is a completely different game. BEP only appears in the console version on Cosmo Street.
 
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