The Sims 1 & 2 Come Back to Mixed Reviews

A 25-year-old game is supposed to be ironed out and rid of all the possible issues, or so you might think, but Maxis and EA defy this expectation. The companies released Legacy Collections of The Sims 1 and 2 to celebrate the anniversary of the franchise, and I would love to jump into this nostalgia, but the reviews make me pause.

The Sims 1 and 2 became available on PC for the first time in a while, but fans' excitement was dampened when they discovered their many bugs. At the moment, both Legacy Collections have Mixed reviews on Steam, which means something since the memory of the good old days couldn't overshadow the games' problems.

Players' main complaint seems to be a whole collection of crashes. "It took over 2 hours for me to get the game to even launch. I had to surf comments on Steam, EA, and Reddit in order to come up with an insane number of steps to try to pinpoint the issue. After multiple restarts, re-downloading Visual C++, checking if graphics cards had any updates, running in compatibility mode, and finally running in integrated graphics mode, I eventually got the game to LAUNCH," said one person. "Now that the game launches, it simply CRASHES every 15 minutes. I haven't gotten a single save in yet because I constantly have to restart."

Apart from this, there are plenty of gameplay bugs, like despawning characters and broken item actions. Overall, I'd wait until EA stews in people's rage enough to release a huge patch before buying either of the games.

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