If the river makes a noise its because water is running. The Sims 4 it just became a game free-to-play, so everything indicated that the fifth generation of The Sims was in development. We were not wrong. Electronic Arts and Maxis have just presented Project Renethe codename of the to be The Sims 5.
Project Rene, quite a reboot from The Sims series
Silence has reigned, but it was obvious that Electronic Arts had a new title in its simulation saga on its hands. The development team has shown us a small preview of what this future video gamewhich they anticipate will revolutionize the way The Sims is played.
There has been talk of revolution, renewal and rebirth of the saga. During all this time, Project Rene has been working secretly. Its launch, with total security, will not be next year, because in the video, they insist several times saying that the game is in a very early stage of development.
You can hardly see a minute of gameplay in the video (you have it from minute 27:45), but you can see that, in the future title, it will be possible to locate objects and furniture totally at will. Until now, that was only possible if we used the ‘move_objects on’ trick. In fact, they recognize that this implementation was born thanks to observe the game community itself.
Mobile experience and a multiplayer that is not very clear
The demo shown at The Sims Summit Stream Event ended with a surprise. We will be able to use a mobile phone or tablet to be able to improve the gaming experience, or play from wherever we want. However, we should not celebrate this so soon, because it would not be unreasonable if we were facing a game in the cloud.
Finally, at the end of the presentation there is a light talk about multiplayer experiences. This implementation has been a request from the community for years, but from the way it has been referred to, it is not at all clear that The Sims 5 will offer us this game system. In the video it is seen that they share furniture and objects with friends. But from there to power play online with our charactersthere is a great distance.
Will people jump through hoops?
A fifth generation of The Sims sounds good. However, it must be taken into account that the public that usually enjoys these titles already has most of its needs covered with previous games. In fact, there are players who have even stayed in The Sims 2.
the sims need revolutionize your gaming system so that die-hard fans are willing to invest another hundred euros in the franchise. Along these lines, there are not a few players of the simulation title who have openly expressed on Reddit and Twitter that they would not be willing to pay for a whole new set of expansions for The Sims.
For now, the studio originally founded Will Wright has already made a move. EA-Maxis has the foundations of what will be the next generation of The Sims. It will work? Will they be able to reinvent the game? Or will players still prefer to stick with The Sims 4 and its massive collection of community-made mods?
