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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 7.55 inches | | Product Width: | 5.4 inches | | Product Height: | 0.62 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.36 pounds | | Package Length: | 7.5 inches | | Package Width: | 5.4 inches | | Package Height: | 0.6 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.25 pounds | | Release Date: | September 29, 2009 | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 34 reviews |
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| | Game Information | | Platform: | Nintendo Wii | | Media: | Video Game | | Item Quantity: | 1 |
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| | Features | Customize your headquarters with treasures from your adventures, customize it to look the way you want and equip it to maximize the skills of your team.Explore your city and beyond, from a ski chalet on the top of an icy mountain to an ancient temple in the depths of the jungle.Use your wits, skills and trusty collection of gadgets to solve puzzling mysteries.Follow leads wherever they take you, whether it requires jumping, climbing, balancing, picking locks, or hacking into computers.Recruit MySims you meet along the way to come back to your headquarters and join your team. Send them out on missions to gather information and unlock rewards for you.
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 Will be fun for some, others will be put off by the lack of action Jun 08, 2010
There's just something about the Sims games that make them incredibly addicting. While I got this as a Christmas present from a sister who wasn't aware that the MySims games were aimed predominantly at younger players, I have to admit that I'm really loving the MySims games so far. Even with the simplistic gameplay, there's a spark to most of them that comes through to the older player.
MySims Agents brings back many of the characters you knew from the other games, only this time you're doing some investigative work rather than wielding a wand or other actions. The player not only has the ability to play straight through the game, but to also employ other characters as field agents & assign them various tasks that fit their unique abilities.
Now for the review. As with all of the MySims games, the play is obviously oriented towards younger player & there's very little for parents to be worried about content-wise. The only thing I'd warn people about is that there is far more reading in this game than there was in MySims Kingdom. The very young players or those who are still learning to read might get frustrated at the amount of talk that goes on in this game. My niece will have to wait a bit before playing this game. While she's very good at reading for her age group, she would get a little frustrated at the amount of text in the game. I also have to say that I was a bit irritated that there's not as much free will in this game. You can still move about at will & revisit most of the areas at any time during the gameplay, but for much of the game you'll have to follow a specific storyline. It was just a little irritating at times.
Even so, there's enough here to like. I liked the game's controls & despite it being insanely easy for me, I still enjoyed dressing my sim & going about my character's daily activities. It might not be something I'd have gone out of my way to get, but it is fun enough to keep playing through the end.
In the end, this game isn't going to appeal to everyone in the target age group, whether it is because of the lack of game action or the issues above. It will still appeal to many, but for the current price at the time of this review (in the thirty dollar range) I recommend that you rent this game rather than buying it. There's not a lot of replay value to this game, so you might want to save your money for the more replayable games.
 BEST GAME EVER! Jun 06, 2010
I got this for Christmas when my cousins came over and we had SO MUCH FUN!Although it only took us 4 or 5 days, we had a blast! We couldn't put it down and we stayed up till 1 o'clock trying to beat it.
There are so many things to do and levels. You create, collect and beat. You start out with minor cases, but then it becomes exciting! Its like a page turning book that you can't put down. The animation and graphics are great. You can explore lots of places and interact with many things.
There are some disadvantages. Its a game to beat, so when your done, you don't know what to do with it. The worst is sometimes it freezes and deletes all the data you have been working on. We were really sad. Save your game frequently so what happened to me wont happen to you.
Overall, buy this game. Fun for all ages and is more addicting then you think. Buy! You wont be disappointed.If you liked My Sims, you will love this. More mind boggling adventure waiting for you. You have done it again My Sims!
Cute game, fun puzzles. Apr 27, 2010
This is a really cute game. I bought it to entertain me while I was on bedrest through my pregnancy. It'd be perfect for kids around 7-14.
Fun way to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills in 9-11 range Apr 14, 2010
I bought this game for my daughter's 10th birthday in early March and tonight, about 6 weeks later, she finished the main story line. The experience was bitter-sweet, as she absolutely loved the game and was pleased to have solved all the puzzles but was left wanting more. I think that this is an inevitable feeling when one finishes a well constructed game -- I remember it from my own gaming past.
As a parent, I want my daughter to have a range of interests and not be a "couch-potato" -- but I also believe that age-appropriate games such as MySims Agents are a fun way to introduce important problem-solving and critical reasoning skills to young students. This game is filled with mini-puzzles that get harder as the game progresses (3 basic models -- gear and pulley puzzles that require the player to connect power sources and machine parts to "fix" game elements; a "chemistry" game that involves matching colored dots representing chemical "elements" with different numbers of dots that correspond to the number of connections each element must have to other elements, and; lock-picking puzzles that require moving various pieces to clear a path for the key -- these last ones were very easy for my daughter, but this was OK as she liked doing these without too much trouble and that took the sting out of the more challenging puzzles). The overall game narrative also involves a mystery and provides numerous interesting scenes for the player to explore, interact with game characters to gather clues and to solve game puzzles (usually involving collection of various pieces from each game area needed to open up the next level). Included are lots of challenges involving the movement of boxes or other equivalent objects to gain access to hard to reach areas. These are common video-game features, of course, but she did not know that so it struck her a pretty cool the first time. And of course, that is the beauty of video games! By playing the games and solving the puzzles, you are sharpening the very analytical skills necessary for success in school, on standardized tests and in day-to-day life. When my daughter asked for help, I chose to talk her through the challenges so that she could see the process I used to solve the problem -- and then i watched as she brought to bear the same process herself on the next challenge! That alone was enough to earn the game 5 stars in my book!
I should also note that the characters talk in standard "sim-gibberish", which is sometimes annoying but also pretty funny (my wife and I find ourselves using it sometimes at random moments!). The "translations" that appear on the screen are also often very funny and the vocabulary used is understandable overall, but includes some challenging words used in context so the young player can hopefully expand their language-horizons as well.
Overall a great and fun game. I should note that I was frankly not expecting much from this game. My daughter loved the original MySims game -- but i found it pretty tedious after a point (just building and running about) and did not see much narrative progression. Still, she found it fascinating after hours of play so I though we would give this a try. I am glad we did! We are looking forward to the next episode of Sims Agents.
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Great family mystery solving fun! Mar 25, 2010
My 5 and 7 year old got several Wii games for Christmas, and this was one of them. It sat on the shelf for two months until they had played out their other games. Once they tried it, they declared it the best game they ever played. We all sat together as a family and worked through the mysteries and puzzles at the end of every day, and when we turned it off every evening, we couldn't wait to play the next day. We talked about it at breakfast, lunch and dinner. What did we need to do next? Who did it?
The best thing about this game is that it requires kids to read and solve puzzles to get through it. My 5 year old is a good reader, but he didn't understand how neat it is to read, and he would never just pick up a book and sit down and read it. This game got him really excited about reading because he had to read to make progress in the game. About a week after we finished the game, I found him in his bed reading a book to himself for the first time!
There are little puzzles that need to be solved in order to unlock items or get new clues. These puzzles are one of the big highlights of the game. It's great to watch my kids thinking process as they are working through them. The puzzles start out fairly easy, and get harder as the game goes on. I think most 6 year olds can solve the easier puzzles on their own, and the hardest ones are still kind of challenging for adults. Once you've solved the puzzles, they go into your arcade unit back at headquarters so you can play them again.
The kids also loved all of the little extras such as changing their characters costumes and customizing the office spaces at headquarters.
Our only disappointment in the game is that it seemed a little short. We solved the game in a little less than 2 weeks. That was partly our fault for playing it so obsessively, but we were kind of sad to see that it was over. We are hoping for a sequel.
If I had to compare this to other games we know, I would compare it to Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility. On the whole, we liked Agents better, and found it to be more engaging. Also, Agents doesn't have some of the tedious, repetitive parts of Harvest Moon, such as having to go to bed every night.
It was great family fun, and as a parent, I never felt guilty about my kids plying it, which I can't say for all games. We are looking forward to more Sims games like this!
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