Well I decided to pick this up and.......it's surprisingly good! It is not exactly like the PC version. For example, playing the game normally, you can't just build your own house from scratch right from the get-go rather you must earn the right to build your own houses later on by unlocking it. Although, there are some cheat codes for the game just like PC that you can enter and do whatever you want. To do this you hold down RT, LT, RB, and LB all at once on the start menu.

One thing I noticed also is I wanted to make other sims for friends and love interests in different households on the same map that I could meet with when I am on my regular sim but have not figured this out yet. I will get back to you all on this though.

Right now I am playing the game normally and it is quite fun. The graphics are not quite as good as your PC but close enough. I think they finally adapted the game to a gamepad successfully since the controls seem pretty good. The only complaint I have so far is the loading times for stuff but I got over loading times when I played through Dead Rising 2 lol.

I have seen reviews ranging from 7-9 for this game. I would say an 8 so far but gotta play it more to give a definite score.

Anyone else getting this?

I doubt I will be picking it up ( just not a sims person ) , but I'm glad to see it has made a successful port to the console. My wife use to play the original, and maybe I can recommend this to her.

I'll be getting this when I'm done with Fable III. So it'll be a good looooong while, lol.

Got it from gamefly on release, loving it!

Bought it on release day for the wife, who's mostly taken over my 360, but i've played it a bit myself. I agree with the 8 of 10 comment. At least she let me play my Fist of the North Star i got from gamefly today for a little while.