(Preview game Wii) MySims Kingdom

The promise of this game was simple transform your crapshack of a town into a tourist hotspot by using the remote to build houses, paint houses, structures, furniture, and other various items. As it goes, you play the part of a pig pet named Sam who. The remote offers a tangible improvement over the original MySims, instead of having to backtrack all the way to your home to view your blueprints, now you can just tap the plus button on your remote to enter the construction mode, to enabling players to slap stuff directly into the landscape.


With your remote, you're sent out to fix the many various islands under the jurisdiction of your king. To begin with, you will have choice of just two islands, but successfully renovating the broken rubbish on these islands will reveal more of the game world map.

The closest island to home is a nature reserve, where you'll have to fulfil typically animal-related tasks such as making (and herding cows into) a pen and building a terrifyingly tall play centre for the resident cat to frolic in.


In such event, you'll have to unlock the new pieces by completing a magic scroll. Again mirroring the original, this is done by scavenging the lands for raw materials, either by pootling around with a metal detector, mining for gold, fishing or chopping down trees. Each is achieved using basic motion movements, such as swinging the remote horizontally to imitate a chopping motion. You know, to keep your wrists in good shape and all that.

MySims Kingdom is a more awesome game than its predecessor, which did suffer from a lack of structure. But if you want a freeform MySims, there's already one on the shop shelves.

MySims Kingdom
Developer : EA Games
Publisher : EA Games
Genre : Simulation
Platform : Nintendo Wii
Release Date : 2008
Worth to wait : 7/10