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The Sims Life Stories

It's Their Life, But It's Your Story.

The Sims Life Stories is the first release in an all-new product line called The Sims Stories. Play through all the great moments of your Sim's life in this easy-to-play, laptop-friendly version of The Sims. In the new and engaging directed Story mode, you take your Sims through a unique and entertaining storyline full of romance and dramatic twists. You even unlock cool rewards along the way as you achieve set goals. In open-ended Classic mode, you create Sims and then choose how they'll fulfill their dreams through life's biggest moments. Stay connected by using your own IM and email while playing.

Read Riley's Diary

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Features

  • Direct Their Lives in Two Complete Stories

    In all-new Story Mode play through the life story of Riley as she returns home to start a new life with new friends, new experiences, and unexpected surprises. A bonus second story lets you sort out the love life of Vince, a love-struck high-tech whiz who's been unlucky in love so far.

  • Create Your Sims' Own Stories

    In Open-Ended Classic Mode you create your Sims, design their dream homes, fulfill their desires (or dash their hopes), and tell their stories as they experience life's biggest moments.

  • Life's Most Memorable Milestones

    From first date to first job, from finding Mr. or Mrs. Right to building a long-lasting family legacy, take your Sims through a lifetime of unforgettable experiences.

  • It's Never Been Easier to Play on Your Laptop

    Specially designed to play easily and quickly at home or on the go, this laptop-friendly game features simple shortcuts and an all-new auto-pause that lets you start and stop easily when opening/closing your laptop.

  • Be Creative While Staying Connected

    You can easily stay in touch with your friends by using your own IM and email while playing the game in its own window.

  • The Start of an All-New Product Line

    Also Coming Soon to The Sims Stories Line: The Sims Pet Stories invites your Sims to care for and train loveable but unpredictable pets, and in The Sims Castaway Stories you help your Sims make a new life in an unexplored island paradise. All releases in The Sims Stories line offer two fun ways to play, directed Story mode and open-ended Classic mode, and are designed with laptop-friendly controls that let you play even when you're on the go!

Each game in The Sims Stories product line is a standalone product and does not support expansion packs or stuff packs from The Sims or The Sims 2 game collections.

System Requirements:

PC

  • OS: Windows XP
  • CPU: 1.4 GHz (1.8 GHz laptop) or faster
  • RAM: 256 MB (512 MB for laptop) or more
  • Disc Drive: 8x or faster DVD-ROM drive
  • Hard Drive: 2.7 GB or more free space
  • Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible
  • Video: DirectX 9.0c compatible*

*Video adapter must have 32 MB of memory or more and one of these chipsets: ATI Radeon 7500 or better; Mobility 7500, 8500, 9000 series; Mobility M7, x200 or better; Mobility Fire GL/GL v5200; NVIDIA GeForce 2 or better, GeForce Go 6100 or better; Quadro Series; Intel Extreme Graphics 82845, 82865, 915, 945 series, 950 or greater.

Mac

  • OS: Mac OS X 10.3.9
  • CPU: Power PC G4, G5, or Intel Chipset 1.0 GHz or faster
  • RAM: 256 MB or more
  • Disc Drive: DVD-ROM
  • Hard Drive: 3 GB of free space
  • Video: 32 MB or memory or more*

*NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200, 6600, 6800, 7300, 7800; NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500; ATI Radeon 9000, 9200, 9550, 9600, 9650, 9800, X600, X1900; INTEL GMA 950

The Sims Life Stories Quick Tips

General Story Hints:

  1. Use the time between goals to take care of your Sim’s needs. If your Sim is in a bad mood they will have a difficult time completing their goals.
  2. Should a fire start in your home, the smoke alarms will immediately notify the Fire Department. Leave the extinguishing to them!
  3. Before heading to a community lot, make sure and check your Mood Meter. You just don’t know how long you will have to be out. Better to be prepared.
  4. Pay close attention to the time. If you miss a meeting with a Sim, try again another day.
  5. If playing with the sound off, make sure and look for the visual alerts of an incoming phone call. Important story line information can often arrive by phone. If you think you missed a call, better to stick around the home. Who ever it was will probably call back soon.
  6. Sims still require their needs to be met throughout the stories; otherwise they may not be in the mood to follow instructions. A happy Sim is a compliant Sim.

Riley's Story Hints

  1. Early in Chapter 1, when talking to Mickey, try to improve your long term and short term relationship with him by talking, flirting, telling jokes, and generally paying attention to him!
  2. It may take some time to win Mickey’s love. Flirt with him as often as possible to make goals easier down the line.
  3. Paying attention to Riley's motives while you're in between goals will help you fulfill the goals and complete the game much more easily.
  4. When ordering for two, make sure you have the waiter’s full attention. If the restaurant is busy, just chat with your date for a moment to give the waiter time to come by your table.
  5. In Chapter 9, talking to Mickey over the phone is good for reestablishing your relationship, but nothing works better than some one-on-one time together.
  6. During her pregnancy, Riley’s needs can fluctuate greatly. To make things easier for her, try hiring some help or let Mickey pull his weight while she takes it easy.

Vincent's Story Hints

  1. A first kiss shouldn’t take place in a loud and crowded bowling alley. Lead your date to the back patio to get the sparks flying.
  2. As nice as it would be to stop Samantha from destroying your things it would probably be dangerous to get in her path right now. You’d better just let her get it out of her system.
  3. Vincent really likes to hang out and bowl with his friends even to the early hours of the morning. Make sure he’s well rested before he heads out in Chapter 2. Nothing’s more embarrassing than falling asleep between frames.
  4. Maxing out your skills early can help alleviate missions that require skill gains. If Vincent is a guitar rockstar before Chapter 12, he won’t have to rush to earn a skill rating before Naomi’s expected arrival.
  5. At times other Sims may be mean to you no matter what you do. Some people just have anger issues.
  6. Keep track of all your guests when having a party. Invite them to join you if you want them to participate in the fun.

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