The Urbz: Sims in the City is a game made by two North American studios, Maxis and Griptonite Games, and published by Electronic Arts for a big number of platforms, starting with home consoles, like Nintendo's GameCube, Sony's PlayStation 2 or Microsoft's original Xbox, and going to portable ones, like Nintendo's DS or Game Boy Advance devices, released on November 17, 2004, in North America, and March 11, 2005, in Europe.
The Urbz: Sims in the City was launched by EA as a another spinoff based on the hugely successful Sims franchise of casual titles, keeping their same regular mechanics, with players customizing their own characters and guiding it through everyday life, but also introducing new features like an overarching story focused on an urban environment, which needs to be completed in order to unlock new things.
HINTS
Free items
A free item will appear at your house every thirty game days:
Ultimate MP-DEE Stereo System
Be at 100% relationship with Darius and invite him over to your house. If he likes your house, he will give you a housewarming gift. After that, talk to him and he will give you the stereo.
Magic Lamp
Become friends with Crystal until your relationship is over 90. Invite her over your house. If she accepts, she will arrive instantly. Go to her and she will give you a Magic Lamp. You cannot place it anywhere, but can go inside the lamp by selecting it on the pocket menu. There are only two things you can do inside the lamp. There is a big golden toilet and a big bed that you can use.
Free services
Call Services (works with all service calls). When they are almost finished, go outside then go back in. They will be gone. You can finish the work yourself and you will not have to pay.