Your Sims can be anything from a lazy slob to a working functioning member of your Sim neighborhood. Although there is a tutorial family to start with, you can customize your very own family. You tweak each Sim's personality by giving points to categories that include neat, outgoing, and nice, among others. After deciding on personality and outward appearance you are ready to play. After you've assembled your Sim or your family of Sims.
Players can choose to either buy a new home or build one of their own designs from the ground up.
The game has a lot of nice details. Radios play a variety of music. Your Sims yell if they accidentally cut themselves while cooking and they laugh at the television. Their language sounds like gibberish, but you can always tell whether they are arguing or telling a joke. But always be sure to give parties or you won't have any friends.