Like you're doodling, rather than constructing.Īnd this is just the dimensional aspect of things. It’s playing around rather than using tools, and because of that, it feels like a much more creative process. There’s something about grabbing and sculpting that feels much more natural and direct. While the move from sliders to this new system might sound like a fairly nominal step, the practical upshot is almost night and day. It's very efficient and controllable, making it easy to create whatever likeness takes your fancy. Like the body, the face can be manipulated by grabbing and manipulating one of the many adjustment points. From the size and shape of the tip of the nose through upper and lower lip size and plumpness to the exact positioning of the eyebrows, you can push, pull and tweak to your heart’s content. Every facial component can be played with, and thanks to multiple adjustment points on features like ears, eyes, nose, forehead and mouth, the potential for customization is amazing. Zoom onto the face, and the same mechanisms enable you to tweak your Sim’s visage in an almost bewildering amount of ways. The effects are immediate, and the potential for creativity is quite astounding, because there are multiple points along each limb, and many points around the torso, head and neck where adjustments can be made, from the incrementally subtle to the outright ridiculous. Using the Create-A-Sim tool now feels akin to shaping clay, since the way it works involves grabbing whichever body part you want to adjust, and moving the mouse to change its shape. Skinny hipster or chubby hubby? Sims 4's new easy-to-use tools lets you experiment with ease. Because next year’s Sims game has evolved the franchise’s more traditionally-functioning tools into something that feels completely natural, intuitive, and most important of all – fun. Instead of using sliders and menus to bring the character I have in my head to on-screen life, I’m pulling, pushing, grabbing and shaping quickly and easily. I’ve just been playing around with the creation tools in the upcoming Sims 4, and… well… they barely feel like tools at all. But while the tools are comprehensive and deep, they are quite time-consuming to use. One of the more impressive aspects of The Sims series is its set of tools, which enable players to create unique characters and homes for them to live in.

About the sims 4