The Sims Medieval Review

This is what kingdom mode looks like

I had just recently purchased the new game, The Sims Medieval, and there is a lot to say about this game. In the game you can be a Knight, Wizard, Spy, and many other professions, although when you first start the game, you are the monarch.

My kingdoms queen sitting on her throne

The blacksmith shop

You run your own kingdom by completing different quests in order to obtain resource points, which let you add new buildings in your kingdom. Each character has two traits, and one flaw that help shape the decisions they make during their quests. For example, the queen of my kingdom is blood thirsty, making her want to fight with people.

Your Sims can spar with people, like here where my queen is
fighting with the kingdoms spy. You can either spar, which is
friendly fighting, or duel, which is more intense.   

The queen practicing battle

 I will first start off with all the negatives of the game, just so that i can end this review with a positive note. One thing that I did not like about this game was that there is no build mode, and the buy mode is not to good. Everything is pre-build, and you can not change any of the room sizes, or build your own house. Also, although the buy mode has quite a few items to buy, compared to how many things you can buy in the other Sims games, there is not that many options. Another problem with this game is that lack of family. In the other Sims, you can have children, and have a spouse (in this game you can have a spouse, but you can't control him/her). Another problem is that it you can only see half the interior of a building, unlike in other Sims where you can see all walls.

There are three religions in this game. Your Sims can be Jacobian,
Peteran, or Agnostic. Each religion (except Agnostic) has their own
priest. This pic is of the Jacobian Church.

When you are the monarch, you can sentence criminal Sims (or
Sims you just don't like) to the stocks. There you can choose
to throw eggs at them or spit on them.

On the other hand, this game has many positives. On great thing that I noticed the first time I opened the game was that it loads a lot faster then the Sims 3. Another thing that I really like about this game is that there are many quests to do, using all the characters in your town. (you can control multiple households in this game). And even if you ever finish all the quests, you can replay them, or try and receive all the achievements (like having a level ten knight, or having a certain number of buildings in your town).

The kingdom has a beast that lives in a pit. Brave Sims can choose
to jump in the pit and battle the beast. Also, your Sim can feed the
beast, like what my queen is doing here..

Over all, I would give this game a 7 out of 10. I think it is a really creative game, but I feel as though there was a bit more potential for this game to be better.