Sims feel more like people than ever before. What really sets apart Sims 4 from its predecessors is personalities. Mischief, Rocket Science, Programming and Video Gaming are all new to Sims 4, and they also respective careers linked to them: Criminal, Astronaut, Secret Agent and Tech Guru. Some of our favorite skills make a return, like Gardening, Guitar and Handiness, and some, like Mixology and Violin, which were first seen in Sims 3 expansions, are also returning. You can collect seeds to plant in your garden, and you can catch bugs, fish and frogs. Of course, you need things to do, and Sims 4 has a pretty fair amount of this. Sims isn't just about making the sim, though. I was able to max out the game on my middle-of-the-line PC, and I've only crashed twice at the time of this writing, which is probably the most crash-free I've ever experienced with an EA game (I fully expect this to change by the time a few expansions are out, though). The downside to this is the world feels very small and empty, but the upside is the game runs so much better than its predecessor, which I imagine was the point. Traveling between these neighborhoods leads to a load screen. There is a business neighborhood, a residential one, the central park, and the entertainment district. Each neighborhood only has a few buildings, usually of a certain theme. Instead of the Sims 3 neighborhoods, Sims 4 has worlds that are comprised of four or five smaller neighborhoods.

Lifestyle traits determine how they interact with the world, if your sim is Ambitious or Clumsy or Lazy, and Social traits affect how you interact with other sims, if you're Family-Oriented or Mean or a Bro. Hobby traits decide what your sims like to do and what desires they have Bookworms want to read and write books, and Geeks want to spend time on their computers. Emotional traits determine which emotions your sim tends toward more often, like Cheerful or Gloomy.

They're divided into four trait types, and you can select whichever ones you want as long as they don't counteract each other (you can't be both Good and Evil, for example).

You then choose three more personality traits from a pool of 35.

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