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The Sims Bustin' Out

The Sims Bustin' Out is the second title in The Sims console series and the first The Sims title to not be released on PC. It featured the same 3D environment and engine the past game did, however adds several…

75 15 December 2003

The Sims Bustin' Out is a simulator developed by Maxis, released 15 December 2003 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

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What The Sims Bustin' Out is

The Sims Bustin' Out is a simulator game developed by Maxis and released in 2003. It was published by EA Games. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Sims Bustin' Out is a 2003 social simulation video game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts for the Game Boy Advance, GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox, with a port for the N-Gage following in 2004. It is the second title in The Sims console series, and the first title not to be concurrently released for Microsoft Windows.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.

How it was received

The Sims Bustin' Out holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 51% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 6 points above the year average.

What it launched against

The Sims Bustin' Out launched on 15 December 2003, within three weeks of Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly, Deus Ex 2: Invisible War, SpellForce: The Order of Dawn and Deus Ex: Invisible War. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly, Deus Ex 2: Invisible War, SpellForce: The Order of Dawn, Deus Ex: Invisible War.

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When did The Sims Bustin' Out come out?
The Sims Bustin' Out was released on 15 December 2003 for Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

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