The Urbz: Sims in the City is a video game made for different home consoles like the Nintendo GameCube, Sony's PlayStation 2 or the original Xbox, as well as portable platforms including the Nintendo DS or Game Boy Advance, by Maxis, together with Griptonite Games and published by Electronic Arts on November 17, 2004, in North America, and March 11, 2005, in Europe.
The Urbz: Sims in the City is part of EA's extremely successful Sims franchise, thus featuring the regular mechanics of the series, allowing players to customize their own character through all sorts of options, and then help him or her live in a busy urban environment, as opposed to the typical suburban one, seen in previous Sims games, filled with story-based quests that gives them access to even more customization elements.
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Nerdies
People in this group belong to the "high-collar" workforce or are academically outstanding. They are intellectual and refined, choosing to spend their time learning something new. Choose "Computer Daze" for the first question if you want to be in the Nerdies at the beginning of the game. The group consists of:
-Polly Nomial (leader): Bespectacled geek who spends her time burying herself in books and studying. She can be found at the University almost all the time.
-Lincoln Broadsheet: A passionate and inquisitive journalist who loves his job lot. He can be found in the newspaper center, or outside, almost all the time.
-Maximillian Moore: A doctor obsessed with good hygiene. He can be found inside the clinic in Urbania or on the streets of Urbania most of the time.
-Sue Pirnova: She is your resident inventor who is really into research and discovering new things. She can be found on the streets of SimQuarter, Urbania and the University most of the time.
-Rival gang: Artsies.