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Unless you have been away from planet earth for the last 10 years, you undoubtedly have heard of a little franchise from EA called the Sims. What started as a spin off from their main Sim City brand grew in popularity and stature until it swallowed up all other life sim games and became the epitome of vicarious living. Whilst micro-management of these needy individuals or Sims if you will, may not be everyone's cup of tea but has proved the worth of a game with such wide appeal. As has been more recently achieved by Nintendo with the Wii, the Sims was able to open the gaming door to all sorts of people who previously wouldn't have considered themselves gamers.

With this in mind, it was inevitable that EA would want to sail its chief casual gamer franchise onto the wide open waters of the Wii's wide market appeal. Although they couldn't resist porting some existing Sims games to the Wii, they also committed to a proper re-working and re-imagining of their brand to better fit the Wii aesthetic and the so-called, touch generation. After a year or so of development MySims now emerges to be a game that looks to be ideally suited for at least the younger end of the Wii's gaming audience.
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