EA has shadow-dropped re-releases for The Sims 1 and 2 as a part of the franchise’s twenty fifth anniversary, and you’ll choose each of them up proper now on PC.
Ranging from in the present day, The Sims Legacy Assortment and The Sims 2 Legacy Assortment are each accessible on PC by way of Steam, Epic, and the EA app, though you have to to put in and use EA’s proprietary software program on Steam and Epic to play them.
Each packs bundle in the bottom video games and the entire expansions launched for each of them all through their lifetimes, in addition to Sims 4-themed bonus content material to sweeten the deal. It is a deal that may want fairly a little bit of sweetening, too, provided that the primary Sims will set you again $20 and the second will value $30 (though there’s additionally a $40 bundle).
Except for the included bonus content material, it looks like these aren’t remasters of The Sims and The Sims 2, however re-releases, which suggests you should not count on an excessive amount of in the best way of revamped visuals and gameplay.
Nonetheless, if you happen to’re searching for some nostalgic retro thrills and also you’re craving for a return to the times when not the whole lot in The Sims was bought by way of DLC or microtransaction, then you definately’ll undoubtedly wish to choose these re-releases up.
You may try the (quite disturbing) launch trailer for The Sims and The Sims 2 proper right here. Bear in mind that it incorporates a minimum of one clown.
These re-releases harken again to a less complicated time, when the path EA was taking with The Sims was maybe a bit easier and extra standard.
Again in September, the studio revealed that it has no plans to create The Sims 5 anytime quickly, and that the main target is as an alternative on creating extra content material for The Sims 4, in addition to updating the sport to make sure it retains up with trendy requirements.
If you want the sequence would return to conventional flagship video games quite than this reside service-adjacent mannequin, then it seems like The Sims 1 and 2‘s re-releases could also be the place you get your cash’s value. They’re each accessible now on Steam, Epic, and the EA app.
