1UP writes: "I'm all for the "YouTube-ing" of videogames -- giving players the virtual utensils usually reserved for overworked level designers. Whether I'm customizing everything in Little Big Planet or diversifying my garden in Viva Piñata, I love having a toolbox to impart my panache.
MySims Kingdom is a relative departure from last year's initial MySims outing, removing the Viva Piñata-style elements (where various items attract residents), adding RPG elements (like errand boy/girl fetch quests), and divvying up the landmass into several themed islands. You'll flick your wrist to mine, fish, dig, and shake down trees to collect essences, which unlock blueprints to build necessary structures. Thankfully, you can eschew the generic arthritis-inducing motion controls for the face buttons if you prefer."
PBG plays MySims Kingdom for some unexplained reason. Is it really as awful as it looks? Well...yes.
Green Pixels: Plunking down $50 for a brand-new game can be a gamble -- it's a lot of money to pay for something that you could end up hating. However, most games don't stay full-price for long, which is why we scoured the inventories of four major retailers (Amazon, GameStop, Target, Walmart) to find a slew of great titles that are now priced at just $20. For the cost of one freshly released game, you can buy two older titles and still have $10 left to spend on snacks. (And we all know the importance of snacks.)
RealGamer writes: "MySims Kingdom for the DS is very similar in principle to its Wii brethren, just scaled down. Instead of a host of different islands to explore and customise you have a single town that has undergone a massive upheaval due to someone stealing all the decorations?"
