The hot new creation at the world’s top video game convention may be procreation. Amid the thousands of new products at the Electronic Entertainment Expo featuring shooting, racing, punching, slashing and pummeling, a handful of upcoming titles like “The Sims 2” and “Playboy: The Mansion” have focused on “love” – or at least the physical act of it – as the player’s main goal.
In “The Sims 2,” a sequel to one of the most popular PC games ever, players create and manipulate a family of characters, trying to satisfy their social, emotional and physical needs. In the original, the characters had to be told to do simple things like take out the garbage, take a shower or use the bathroom (you could download updates that made sex an option). The sequel relegates those mundane acts to the background. Now gamers have a host of emotional categories to fulfill – and the game differentiates between love and lust.
Source: Excite/Associated Press
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