Following the official reveal of The Sims 5 yesterday, fans have been quick to point out the similarities to upcoming life sim Paralives.
In case you missed it, yesterday The Sims developer Maxis hosted the Behind the Sims Summit where it updated fans on all of the new things the team has been working on. During this presentation, we got our first look at the "next generation Sims game" which is currently codenamed 'Project Rene' but what everyone is choosing to just call The Sims 5 anyway.
As demonstrated in the posts below, it seems that many fans have spotted similarities between Project Rene and fellow life sim game Paralives. It seems that the main resemblance comes from Paralives' furniture manipulation mechanic. As we saw from yesterday's The Sims 5 footage, players will soon be able to change items with a number of new customisation tools - tools that are already in Paralives.
You can genuinely tell that EA & The Sims Team have been keeping a close eye on Paralives considering The Sims 5’s current state closely resembles it.October 18, 2022
they really saw paralives and said let’s release the sims 5
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