12DOVE Verdict
Pros
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You can totally go online AND play
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Low maintenance Sims
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Designed for Laptops
Cons
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Slimmed down so much
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Doesn't expand on The Sims
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Poor performance on high-end PC's
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Wonderfully, even the most wholesomely intentioned recreations of humanity can create the oddest events. It’s like wholesomeness just won’t stick. And so, a lovely, clean-cut young lady strolls to the bathroom door to watch as the lovely, clean-cut object of her affections takes a dump. OK, this shocker was more likely created by her need to use the crapper herself - she eventually wandered to the other toilet - than by a love of scatological voyeurism, but still. Our eyebrows still rose.
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| Genre | Simulation |
| Description | Life Stories throws you into a fully developed house and lifestyle, and tasks you with managing a person's soap-opera-like affairs. |
| Platform | PC |
| US censor rating | Teen |
| Release date | 6 February 2007 (US), (UK) |
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