The Urbz made me want to become a body piercer at the tender age of nine. Who could blame me, though, when the grungy attitude of Urbzville represented everything Pleasantview was not?
I'd been a diehard Sims 2 fan for years by 2004, always fighting my siblings every day after school for a go on the computer so I might wreak havoc upon my unsuspecting digital playthings, but The Urbz soon changed that. I'm revisiting the city kid iteration of my childhood favorite franchise once again, basking in the pure nostalgia of trading my idyllic Sims 4 environs for the grimy, gritty, rep-building streets of Urbzville via my brother's old PS2. This game is 20 years old, but The Urbz harkens back to an exciting time for EA's flagship life sim – and I only wish that The Urbz 2 were on the horizon instead of The Sims 5.
