Face Factory Add-On for The Sims

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $9.75

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PC Gamer (1-year)

Customer Reviews:

Look at Me - I'M A SIM!! :) [Posted on 2003-02-27]
After having little sucess creating Sims with faces that were actually lifelike with online downloads, I was excited to find software that would let me put 'real' people into my Sims game.

About three minutes after popping the CD into my computer, Face Factory was installed and ready to go. Always one to do things the hard way, I bypassed the (conveniently located on the disc) instructions and jumped right in. The main screen shows the inside of a fully-stocked laboratory with bleeps and blips everywhere - including one flashing button showing non-intruction-reading users where to go first.

A step-by-step on-screen tutorial guides users through creating that perfect face, showing you everything from how to crop and position the image to lining up eyes and ears. Although this program works best if you have two images of your subject (one front view and one side view), it still creates remarkably nice heads with just a front-facing photo. (Note: I thought at first that getting a perfect image was going to be a huge pain - not so. I took two pictures of my husband at night with bad lighting and it still turned out great. Don't sweat it.)

After only about fifteen minutes of playing with it my first time through (and a one-click button to import new faces into the game), my husband and I were both rendered Sims, and pretty darn good looking ones at that. Okay, female hair is a little tricky to work with - but they were undeniably us, and it was a blast watching us mingle with other Sim families. I can only imagine the chaos that will ensue when I import a few celebrities! :) The game includes a large variation of bodies to mix with the head you've created (male, female, boy and girl, so you can put ANYONE into the game) - but I found that after starting the game, you could put your new head on any body already installed as well. TONS of possibilities - although my husband was less than amused by his new Robin Hood attire.

The ONLY downside to this software that I've found is that, if you don't have easy access to a digital camera, then you're gonna have to wait around to get your pictures back. I'm not a big fan of waiting for anything, so I dug my camera out as soon as the software arrived and had Instant SIM!

All in all, this a great, easy to use Sims add-on - a great sight more effective than Maxis downloads I've wrestled with. Highly recommended to any fellow SIMs addict!!!

Not Happy with Deluxe Edition's Editor so I bought this [Posted on 2003-07-15]
It seems to me that this program is a lot better than the one that comes bundled with the Sims Deluxe Edition, I could not for the life of me get the bundled software to make a decent looking sim. Since I am a big fan of using Maxis supported software, I find this to be a bummer... Maybe they ought to bundle this instead... After all, I am still waiting for Sims Complete which would sell for like $$$ and be all expansion packs in one box!

Good face Creations [Posted on 2003-07-30]
An easy to use software program allows you to create Sims with your own face or faces of other people you know.
All you need is a picture of your face ( or someone else's face picture) to star as a Sim person in the Sim World.
A fun software package made us laugh .
This software is used primarily by my 10 year old son... easy to use.

What kind of face do you want to make? This is my face :( [Posted on 2003-10-21]
This was the worst peice of software I think I have ever bought! It is completely outdated, your sims end up looking like mushed up people. It is aweful. To make matters worse, when you transfer the heads (because you can only make heads--not outfits for them to wear) they mess up your game. Also, your sim will always have to have short hair, as long hair sticks straight out! Think long and hard about buying this software for you or as a gift! It is a waste of money!

Quite good but some problems [Posted on 2004-06-13]
I wish I could give this 3 1/2 stars but I'll settle for 3. It is huge fun at first to see yourself in The Sims. I have had no trouble importing the created Sims into the expansion packs, at least up to Hot Date anyway. The problems are that there really isn't enough data points when defining the Sims head so the end up with almost block like heads. Another thing is the heads are about 3 times the size they should be so you end up with something looking a little like you but with a huge squared off head:) I wish they'd had enabled more points to define the shape of the head and had more bodies to choose from. All in all fun for awhile but could of been a lot better.

Point to note, this is for the original SIMS NOT SIMS 2

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