MySims



MySims, previously known by the working title The Sims Wii, is a developed by and published by Electronic Arts as a spinoff to The Sims franchise. It is currently released for the Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, Microsoft Windows, and mobile phones.

The art style and gameplay is heavily inspired by Nintendo franchises such as Animal Crossing. This is the first game in the MySims series and is followed by MySims Kingdom, MySims Party, MySims Racing, and soon to be, MySims Agents.

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Sequels

 * Main articles: MySims Kingdom, MySims Party and MySims Racing along with MySims Agents.

Three sequels have currently been released for MySims, and one has been announced to come out soon. MySims Kingdom was released October 28, 2008 and MySims Party was released on the 9th of March 2009. MySims Racing was also released on June 12, 2009. Also, MySims Agents will come out September 30. The games in the MySims series, as of this time, are to only stay and be exclusive for the Wii and Nintendo DS, but it is unknown whether any games other than the original will have a PC version.

Reception
MySims has received fairly mixed, but generally decent reviews. It is known for having colorful graphics, and cheery and fun gameplay, but criticized for having too much focus on construction and collecting essences. IGN said that "The problem is that nearly all of the objectives revolve around the same two tasks: the collection of essences and the construction of houses, buildings and items. All of the Sim management and social interaction elements of the previous games – well, you're not going to find much of that in the streamlined Wii affair". Gamespot praised the Wii game for the construction being intuitive and flexible and for the presentation being cheery and clean. It was also criticized for having longer than usual load times. Its Nintendo DS counterpart is regarded as virtually an all new game in design; However, reception of its control scheme varied greatly.