Product Description

What better way could there be for youngsters to discover the world of the Sims than via an RPG-style adventure game? My Sims Agents on the DS offers the ideal introduction to the Sims universe – a place loved and frequented by millions of gamers. While primarily a game involving secret agent-style solving of mysteries, it also involves gamers in environmental, architectural and interior design, three of the elements which made The Sims games such a success.

One of the first things that strikes you about My Sims Agents is how customisable it is. It starts off with you being cast as an agent in the SPA (Sims Protection Agency), assigned to a town: although it’s called Autumn Bay, you can rename it, and you decide what your name is. Assigned an assistant, Joshua, you find the Mayor at the Town Hall, who gives you your first case – the mysterious Thief V is on the trail of a map leading to secret treasure, and it’s up to you to get to it first.

 As you seek Thief V and hone your investigate skills, you discover all manner of helpful objects. You are allocated a headquarters, which you can fill with furniture placed wherever you want, and which has a secret lift to your basement office hidden behind a bookcase. And you can also reshape Autumn Bay, thanks to a gadget called the Extractor, given to you by local inhabitant Ashley, which is able to extract the essence of outdoor objects. Those essences can then be put into another object given to you by Ashley, called F-Synthesis, which combines them to create completely new flowerbeds, benches and so on, which you can begin to place throughout Autumn Bay. And you can even add new buildings, by finding blueprints and taking them to Ashley, as well as your clothing. Thus, while you’re playing a game which feels like an action-RPG, you’re also learning the principles of The Sims.

 The bulk of the gameplay concerns exploring Autumn Bay and its surrounding areas (accessible by taxi) and conversing with the folk who live there, many of whom have shops at which you can buy various goods (there’s even a disco). Naturally, there’s much investigative work to be done: which involves talking to people, gathering clues, deciphering them, finding things and solving (often mechanical) puzzles. You can hone your investigative skills by playing a large number of fun mini-games, and SPA head office sends you handy secret agent-gadgets as you progress.

 It’s all great fun, and just the job for keeping young DS-owners occupied – indeed enthralled – for long periods, as they indulge their nascent secret-agent fantasies. But on top of that, there’s a great feeling of being immersed in an enchanting (and appropriately innocent) world. Add to that the ability to shape that world and your character – whetting the appetite for more of the same on a bigger scale with a game like The Sims – and the result is a game which defines what Nintendo’s DS is all about.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #971 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2009-09-25
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Format: Unknown format
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

Customer Reviews

Much better than I was expecting.
I used to love playing Sims on the PC years ago and so when MySims came out for the DS I was quite excited and, to be fair to it, I didn't think it was a bad little game and was hooked for first few days but I found the conversations with the characters v tedious, saying the same things over and over and the mini games too easy and boring.
I have only had My Sims Agents for the Wii for a couple of days but I am completley hooked and it has a very different feel. You start off as a detective solving quite easy cases which help you get to grips with the point and click style of the game and how to move around. You have various piece of equipment too like a magnifying glass which allows you to follow footprints and a crowbar to help you open boxes. Lots of talking to people to gain information and looking in dustbins for clues.
I was a bit worried at first that it was going to be too slow for me but when you are promoted to secret agent, it opens up a whole new avenue of things as you recruit Agents to help you and advise them on their cases my mobile phone so all gets a lot busier and the cases seem to be getting harder.
I think anyone over about 8 would enjoy this, a child would need to be a fairly confident reader as there is no speech in it at all and everything is written. My 5 year old was intrigued by this and could get on with all the pointing and clicking but would need me sat there reading it all to him. The game gives you lots of help to start with and so it's nearly impossible to get stuck, if you do then you go to your casebook and there will be clues there - like "reinvestigate the apartment" to help you get back on your way.
There's lots of opportunities for dressing your character up and changing her hair that pleased my 12 yr old stepdaughter and the game has a good sense of humour, lots of little jokes slipped in to keep things light.
Well worth the money for me just for what fun we've all with it this weekend. The kids like watching it as the graphics are good for a wii game and very appealing. Thumbs up - well done MySims.

Great Game
My son loves this game and so does my husband! Keeps them occupied for hours, search for clues and doing the puzzles. Does help if your child can read otherwise you have to keep reading all the dialogue for them which can be a bit painful if you're not playing. Other than that its kept my son occupied whilst he's been confined to the house after an operation so it must be good!

Great game!
My son has had all of the games in the My Sims series so far for the Wii, and he's loved them all. This one was bought for him as a birthday present for his 9th birthday, and we've had great fun playing it together. In my opinion it's the best of them all.

Characters are all the ones from previous games in the series, along with a few new ones, but this time there is definite 'plot' which adds to the fun. My son needed a bit of help with some of the mechanical puzzles which appear when you have to fix something, or analyse chemicals, but between us we managed to complete the game. I'd definitely recommend this game; in my opinion it's one of the best games we've had for the Wii, coming 2nd only to Mario Kart.