Customer Reviews

Face Factory Add-On for The Sims

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3 star:		(1)
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1 star:		(4)

 

 

The Sims already creates dozens of expansion packs for its game to force us to buy more and more rather than rolling them into one. Here is a real cash-in not worth it at all. The idea is to create custom faces that look more like the people you want them to look like. In fact, the faces look deformed once you alter them to try to make them like real people, and it is impossible to get them how you want them. Besides, you can download Sims FaceLift (incidentally no better but free) from the Sims website. Don't waste your money.

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!!!

This product is NOT from Maxis, the maker of the Sims, and is very complicated to use and to install the faces into the game. The Deluxe edition of the Sims includes a very easy program for creating your own faces and skins (clothes on body)that is well worth getting!! After only a couple of tries, you can create very nice new faces and skins that load automatically in the game for you: practically a no-brainer! I agree that there are 5 expansion packs for the Sims, that serious "Simmers" loyally buy, but there are also lots of imitators taking advantage of the popularity of the game. Be careful with anything not Maxis made and supported....the game could become corrupted.

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

This "add-on", distributed by Abacus, NOT Maxis or Electronic Arts, is not worth the money. The only thing that is different that the Sims FaceLift (available on the Sims website for free) does not do, is the "import your photo" feature in order to make a face for a Sim. Technically, with a little knowledge of how it work, you can import with FaceLift as well...

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!

I have found that Face Factory is pretty good for making faces for the Sims game. It does install into the game nicely. One big problem I have found is that there are only a few bodies to choose from. There is a link in the program that you can find more bodies but everytime I go there it says it can't find it. I am somewhat frustrated and almost regret not getting the Sims Deluxe edition. I have created a very cool monkey head and a alien head using face factory but that is as far as it goes. If anybody has any ideas on how to get more body styles for the face factory please contact me. Thanks 8-)

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.

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!

If you're still playing The (original) Sims and don't have this program, GET IT. You can put your friends' faces and your own on your sims by using photographs. It really works. Speaking from experience, do make sure the expression in the photo is something you can stand to look at in all circumstances for that particular sim. A broad grin, for instance, does begin to wear after a while. I'm giving Face Factory five stars assuming you understand it can only be used with The Sims, not with Sims2 or Sims3.