The games addicting, I'll give you that. I sat there planning to play about 20 minutes and ended up playing for a few hours. At the end of my spell I decided that although original and sorta fun, I think I'll take it back to the rental shop tomorrow.
It doesn't do much for me to do things that are happening in real life. I have a job where I can upset my boss, I can borrow money from my wife, I can clean up the house, I can sleep, etc....
And to be honest, real life has a little better graphics and is a bit more exiting than the Sims.
The graphics are horrid. It reminds me of my old computer before the word 'pentium' is known. I couldn't figure out what half the little captions above the peoples heads were on my 32' TV and it's hard to read the storyline.
I need excitment in a game, I need something new... not just something original. Maybe if you could play video games of sims playing video games of sims I would play it.