Prerelease:The Sims 2 (Windows)/E3 2004
This is a sub-page of Prerelease:The Sims 2 (Windows).
The Sims 2 was shown again at E3 2004, except that coverage was behind closed doors, thus not having much prerelease information revealed until later on. The game also has a new logo and a confirmed September 17 release date.
The Waterside neighborhood and the Baxter family were shown. The Baxter family lived in Waterside. Neighborhood and family didn't appear in the release version of the game.
Videos
Official
| Walkthrough with Will Wright | Meet My Sim: Don Trailer |
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Gaming Fansites
| NLgaming Coverage 1 | NLgaming Coverage 2 |
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Waterside
Waterside was a neighborhood used for previews of The Sims 2. According to development notes inside thumbnails_family.txt, it was intended to ship with the game alongside the other three neighborhoods unlike what previews implied. lotSpeck.txt indicates that a Speck family were meant to also reside here, in a lot called "Little Charmer - 1BR 1BA"
It is home to the Baxter family, Virginia, Dina, Laura, and Tina. The neighborhood description entry for Waterside can still be found in NeighborhoodManager.package, though unlike Riverside, the text strings are missing. Several lots seen in Waterside were reused elsewhere in the game, such as in Pleasantview, and as pre-made lots in the Lots and Houses bin.
An edited aerial view picture of Waterside appears as the loading screen background when launching The Sims 2.
The picture of Waterside that appears in the loading screen
An aerial view of Waterside
An aerial view of Waterside
Waterside on the Neighborhood selection screen
Images
The images were posted much later on, but were confirmed to be part of the E3 2004 demo[1] Notably, there seems to be two different builds in the images, as evidenced by the change in the WooHoo icon.
Differences
- The WooHoo symbol had a different expression, where it had it's tongue sticking out rather than showing teeth. Also, there's two versions of the expression, one with black-and-white hypno eyes and regular white eyes, where the latter would carry to the final. It was likely changed to tone down the suggestiveness. The same symbol can be found in the trailer above.
- The Family and Friends Motives are now scrapped.
- There is a symbol of a heart impaled with a dagger in the Fears, which is likely an early version of the "Get Caught Cheating" icon. It was changed from a heart to broken joined rings likely to avoid any borderline grotesque implications.
- The Age Transition Cinematic plays regardless if the Sim has a Platinum Aspiration or not unlike the final.
