Second Hand Smoke - The Sims - Wow!

I cannot gush enough about The Sims, the highlight of my sojourn to E3. It is spirited, animated, humorous, beguiling, audacious, amusing, enthralling, charming, mesmerizing, seductive, and so many other things. It is, without doubt, the future of mainstream games in the innovative, original, creative, and imaginative way it takes a specific gaming genre and turns it on its head.

I have recently acquired a Synonym Finder. My apologies for its excessive use, but I had to break it in.

Still, that shouldn't stop you from believing me when I say, The Sims - Wow! Maybe, I don't get out much. Maybe, I am not hard core enough. Maybe, I can't take games seriously. Maybe, just maybe, I am right. I don't know how many copies The Sims will sell when it comes out at the end of this year. It's neither here nor there. The truth is, the success of The Sims is the way it drags you into its world, and the things it allows you to do once you are there. Call it game-play, but I call it an interactive soap opera.

Console games are mired in twitch fighting games, twitch racing games, and twitch sports games. PC games have become moribund in technological innovation at the expense of entertainment. It's all so much of the same old tired cliches. Sure, you can get a kick out of the eye candy, and the special effects, but do you really want to camp out for weeks at the same screen? It's all about game-play.