Wii misses out again!

[richardhutnik]

nordlead said:

richardhutnik said:
Isn't Animal Crossing a Sandbox game? You can do a lot of things in it. A Sandbox game doesn't automatically mean you do drive-by shootings, or crime or mayhem like that.

I always considered Animal Crossing a "sim" game, unless you want to count The Sims as a sandbox game too, cause don't they sort of play the same?

 

I view The Sims as a sandbox game, which happens to provide some simulating under the covers.  I can argue a game like Simcity was on the whole "Sandbox" thing LONG before Grand Theft Auto came along, and seems to have got people thinking that "Sandbox" means doing mayhem.  A Sandbox, as I understand it, is an open-ended game where you set your own goals, and have freedom to explore and do things you like, and seeing how the world responds.  "God Games" seem to fit this description also.  Just the view you take is higher up.  The Sims dropped it down to the character level.