Tuesday, August 3, 2010

The Sims Medieval

There's one thing the Sims franchise has always done well, and that is making the mundane seem real in a digital world. In my opinion, the Sims was the first game to really capture the nature of existential crises and package it in a way that made creating digital entities to toil their whole lives only to end up an inappropriately placed gravestone next to the grandkids' swimming pool seem like an entertaining way to spend a rainy afternoon.

But now The Sims is going in an exciting new direction, an exciting medieval  direction, where elements of traditional RPGs meet the world of the Sims.

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