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 immediately, The Sims Legacy Assortment and The Sims 2 Legacy Assortment are each out there on PC through Steam, Epic, and the EA app, though you’ll need 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 all the 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 which may want fairly a little bit of sweetening, too, on condition that the primary Sims will set you again $20 and the second will price $30 (though there’s additionally a $40 bundle).
Other than the included bonus content material, it looks as if these aren’t remasters of The Sims and The Sims 2, however re-releases, which suggests you should not anticipate an excessive amount of in the best way of revamped visuals and gameplay.
Nonetheless, for those who’re searching for some nostalgic retro thrills and also you’re craving for a return to the times when not every thing in The Sims was offered through DLC or microtransaction, then you definately’ll positively wish to choose these re-releases up.
You’ll be able to take a look at the (quite disturbing) launch trailer for The Sims and The Sims 2 proper right here. Bear in mind that it comprises not less than one clown.
These re-releases harken again to an easier time, when the course EA was taking with The Sims was maybe a bit easier and extra typical.
Again in September, the studio revealed that it has no plans to create The Sims 5 anytime quickly, and that the main focus is as a substitute on creating extra content material for The Sims 4, in addition to updating the sport to make sure it retains up with fashionable requirements.
If you want the collection would return to conventional flagship video games quite than this dwell service-adjacent mannequin, then it seems to be like The Sims 1 and 2’s re-releases could also be the place you get your cash’s price. They’re each out there now on Steam, Epic, and the EA app.
