I loved every other Maxis game- YUCK!
I have only once been so unimpressed and disappointed by a video game. Well, only once by a fullprice game (I couldn't get mad about how bad Future Tactics was because I paid $3 for it).
While there are some cool new features (the paper has multiple job listings and the refrigereator interface made it into the XB version)
This game sucks in several ways:
-the graphics difference between it and Sims1 for console (XB) and Sims2(XB) are non-existent
-player cannot construct multi-level homes
-aside from the conversation interface and the direct control interface, it seems to be EXACTLY like the console version of the Sims1
-No Beef Sukiyaki Table (I love that thing)
-The only nice Sims2 feature available from the awesome PC/MAc version is the character tool which seems to be watered down and on the rocks and left to sit for five minutes (thus the ice melted and its extra watered down).
-You can't make fat people (I tried for the first time on Sat)
-The women haven't any flesh on their faces and so you always end up making ugly women.. ALWAYS
-You live in a ghost town: The lots have about four new characters each and in some cases less, very hard to meet new people for promotions
-The Sims can finally "woohoo" on any double bed, but I think my character has a fertility issue
-the son my sim had is a girl (he wears the girl's swimsuit)