Computer Bild released a new issue of their Magazine. This time, The Sims 4 is featured in it. The article is in Deutsch, but there are lots of new and interesting screens, including the Grim Reaper concept art!

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Come to life in The Sims 4, the much anticipated life simulation game that will let you play with life like never before. In The Sims 4, create new Sims with intelligence and emotion. Experience all new intuitive and fun creative tools to sculpt your Sims and build unique homes. Control the mind, body, and heart of your Sims, and bring your stories to life in The Sims 4.

It’s been three years since the last main entry in the series. How have the Sims progressed since then?
So the big thing that we’re bringing to The Sims 4 is this idea of emotional interactions with your Sims and really bringing those emotions to life in believable and intelligent ways.

What else has been carried over to The Sims 4 and what has stayed the same?
We’re bringing over all the elements that people love, but we are re-imagining them in new ways. So stuff like our creative tools, they’ve always been really powerful tools in the past, We wanted to make them very approachable whilst still retaining all that power though, now you go into Create-A-Sim and you’re just, pushing, pulling, poking and grabbing. It’s changes your Sim, it’s very tactile that direct manipulation and it’s the exact same thing with our Build Mode where you are going in and grab a room and you can drag out the sides of it. You can pick it up, drop it down and everything moves with it.

Another new feature is to mold your Sims, kind of creating them the way you want them to be which is amazing.
You can give one a long nose if you fancy… Well that’s what I’ve been doing when I demo the game. Yank out the nose and then I’ll put a little crook in it and I’ll twist it down a little so they look quite evil.

You can be quite cruel if you want to!
Yeah, and that’s one of the aspects that people have always loved about the Sims.

Can you give us an example of how emotion plays a part?
We have this new technology that we’re calling Smart Sim and a big part of it is conversations. So when I’m talking both of you guys are looking at me and that makes sense and we’ve never had that in a Sims game before. You know, when you just jump in and say something we both pivot and look at you and that’s a lot of the group dynamics that we’re trying to go for to bring these Sims to life. You know, we talk about their AI and their intelligence and all that but really it’s about simulating life in believable ways, and that’s so cool.

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The Official Magazine of The Sims 3 Spain, has posted 10 bullet point facts for The Sims 4 in their latest magazine issue. Included in the facts posted, The Sims 3 Spain confirms that Facial and Head Hair will grow gradually over time. They also confirm that “wind” will allow hair and clothing to sway, which I believe would give it a more realistic touch.

Rincon Del Simmer, who found this new info, was kind enough to properly translate the article for us. Check out all the tid bits below!

1- There will be right-handed Sims… ¡but there will also be left-handed Sims!

2- The Sims 4 will work better in low-end machines than The Sims 3.

3- With the passage of time, hair and beard will grow.

4- The wind will make the Sims’ hair and clothing move.

5- With the Create a Sim feature, you will be able to change the feet size.

6- Pregnant Sims will have unique emotions that no one else will experience.

7- There will be three voice types for men and women.

8- There won’t be Wishes, but little goals for Sims to accomplish and gain awesome rewards.

9- Every life cycle will have a special emotion only for Sims in it.

10- Sims won’t die randomly anymore, like by a meteor strike or a lightning. They will die only by things done by the player.

The Sims 4 was revealed at Gamescom a few weeks ago, and really impressed. The new create-a-sim functionality is solid, the build tools seem powerful and easy to use, and the gameplay itself is taking quite a few big steps forward.

The headline change is, of course, the new emotion system, which is being designed to give sims a more nuanced life, where gameplay isn’t as much about fulfilling needs as it is about managing your sims’ emotional states. It’s a smart move, building neatly on top of the traits and moodlets that were introduced in The Sims 3.

Alongside emotions, however, sims can now socialise in groups – so if you hold a party it’ll actually look like a party as opposed to a series of isolated interactions, and multi-task – another crucial change, allowing players to accomplish several things simultaneously.

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