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The Urbz: Sims in the City

50 17 November 2004

The Urbz: Sims in the City is a simulator developed by Griptonite Games, released 17 November 2004 on Nintendo DS.

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What The Urbz: Sims in the City is

The Urbz: Sims in the City is a simulator game developed by Griptonite Games and released in 2004. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the The Sims series

The Urbz: Sims in the City is the 16th of 227 entries we hold in the The Sims series. The next entry was The Sims 2: University in 2005. Its critic score of 50 is 21 points below the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is The Sims 4: Parenthood at 90.

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How it was received

The Urbz: Sims in the City holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 8% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points below the year average.

What it launched against

The Urbz: Sims in the City launched on 17 November 2004, within three weeks of Half-Life 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords and World of Warcraft. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Half-Life 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords, World of Warcraft.

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