EA details MySims Kingdom for Wii, DS

[R.O.B.]

Filed under: Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Adventure, Casual

While we'll admit that The Sims was never more than a stone's throw away from being an all-out casual series anyway, EA will continue to dress the franchise in casual attire in MySims Kingdom, the sequel to last year's 3 million unit selling MySims. Shipping this fall worldwide for the Wii and DS, the game was first announced earlier this year as one of a handful of new dumbed down casual-themed takes on The Sims. However, EA today released the first details about the game, calling MySims Kingdom "a story of adventure, discovery and exploration to help King Roland and his subjects revitalize the Kingdom."

The gameplay, which once again sounds more than a little like Animal Crossing, will center on exploring and developing a kingdom through The Sims-style customization, with the DS version adding emphasis on mini-games as players try to turn aside a rival evil king. Adds The Sims studio head Rod Humble, MySims Kingdom will include "rewarding quests, building houses, bridges or even making contraptions powered by electricity or water." The game eschews much of the larger franchise's sandbox appeal for backstory, leaving us waiting for until next year's The Sims 3 before we can know the joy of deleting the ladder from the neighborhood pool.

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Source: Joystiq

[coire]

Once EA succeeds at anything, even the smallest thing, a franchise is born.

[Joxe]

Seems like a mega-copy of FFCC:MLaaK, which was a slight copy of the first MySims (dunno which was first though). Still I enjoyed MySims a bit and except for some bugs and design-misses it was a good game. Although it was my sister that got it, I just joined in on the playing part

[The shoemaker]

Originally Posted by Joxe

Seems like a mega-copy of FFCC:MLaaK, which was a slight copy of the first MySims (dunno which was first though). Still I enjoyed MySims a bit and except for some bugs and design-misses it was a good game. Although it was my sister that got it, I just joined in on the playing part

exactly what I thought. But somehow, that picture with the guy wearing a crown reminded me of that wii game king. It looked good, I wonder what happend to it. although that looked like MLaaK too.