BE SOMEBODY. ELSE.

The Sims Online is a massive world built by thousands of players. Create a Sim and play as yourself or your alternative Sim persona. Explore neighborhoods, make friends, host events, or run a business. How you play is limited only by your imagination.

*Throw parties, make friends, and improve your social standing.

Interact with other Sims through chat, instant messages, and hundreds of animations.

Take to the stage, become a star, or just be entertained.

Design themed businesses, homes, and neighborhoods.*

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Back of Box

The Sims Online is an unpredictable, alternate reality where you can be yourself or be somebody else. Be rich, powerful, popular, famous, or infamous. In this massive and never-ending online game you become a Sim -- choose your role and find your destiny.

THE #1 PC GAME OF ALL TIME GOES ONLINE Live Life Online to the Fullest

Choose from hundreds of outfits and thousands of appearance possibilities. Includes nearly all the faces, clothes, and objects from The Sims and the first four expansion packs.

*Create and customize your Sim to be whoever you want to be. Be a raver or a recluse, a business magnate or babe magnet.

Meet, flirt, and get to know other Sims through live text chat and secret instant messages. Express yourself with hundreds of animations.

Construct your dream home, build a business with your roommates, or open the craziest hangout in the neighborhood.*

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SUPERIOR SIMS

New and improved, The Sims Online adds to the favorites you know and love from the original game and brings all-new, never-before-seen experiences to The Sims universe.

NEW FEATURES - Jobs: Work hard, rake in the cash. - Pets: It's raining cats and dogs! - Service Characters: Hired help rules! - Clothing Racks: Shop 'til you drop. - Death: Spook. Possess. Mourn. Revive. - Secure Trading: Buy low, sell high. - AND MUCH MORE!

Interact with other Sims through chat, instant messages, and hundreds of animations.

Get paid for working in unique new jobs designed as mini-games.

Shop 'til you drop with all-new clothing options... everything from swimwear to formal wear.

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Back of Box (2003 Version)

Welcome to the neighborhood! A whole new life of enhanced power, wealth, and reputation awaits you as you create your dream home, build your own business, make new friends, and much more. Choose your role and define your destiny in this amusing alternate reality.

THE #1 PC GAME OF ALL-TIME GOES ONLINE

The Sims experience explodes to all-new levels of fun with more of the features that Sims fans love, plus tons of outrageous outcomes determined by the imagination of you and your friends.

Be Unique

Create your own unique Sim by choosing from literally hundreds of characteristics.

Imagine it. Build it.

Build a home, a shop, a dance club, or whatever you want in this fascinating, fun-filled online world.

Meet and Mingle

Make friends as you grab the spotlight, throw outrageous parties, or just be entertained.

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Inside Flaps (2003 Version)

EA Ships The Sims Online
The #1 PC Game of All Time Goes Online

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., December 17, 2002 – Electronic Arts (Nasdaq: ERTS) today announced the release of its highly anticipated PC game, The Sims Online’. The Sims Online is the Internet, multi-player version of the top-selling PC game of all time, The Sims’. The Sims Online is a massive virtual world created and populated by thousands of players from around the world. In this never-ending alternative reality players can be themselves or “Be Somebody. Else’.”

"This is one of the most entertaining, engaging and flat out fun games that EA has ever produced," said, Don Mattrick, president worldwide studios for Electronic Arts. "I predict that a lot of people are going to skip work to play The Sims Online."

In The Sims Online, players create and control the actions of a character known as a Sim. Players enter the world with a small amount of money to spend as they wish. They can purchase their own piece of land to do with as they please or they can join with other players to create shared homes and businesses or host wild events.

Players can explore the neighborhoods around them and meet scores of other Sims along the way. Players get to know other Sims through live text chat and secret instant messages. As players type, their messages appear in speech bubbles above their Sims’ heads. Sims can also express themselves through hundreds of animations. A polka, pile drive, or a passionate kiss are just a few of the gestures available for Sims to use to convey exactly what’s on their mind.

“It’s very inspirational for me to see how the original game has evolved into a vibrant online community where players can create their own world,” says Will Wright, creator of The Sims. “The Sims Online gives players tremendous possibilities to construct, customize and personalize a world with their imagination as their only limit.”

The Sims Online carries a monthly subscription fee of $9.99 with the first month being free. A credit card is required to register and play. An Internet connection is also required. The Sims Online carries an ESRB rating of “T” for teen. It is available in stores now for a suggested retail price of US $49.99 or by direct order from the EA Store at http://www.ea.com or by calling 877-EA GAMES (1- 877- 324-2637).

Important information on The Sims Online including terms of service and game availability can be found at http://www.thesimsonline.com.

The Sims skyrocketed to the top of the charts when it began shipping to stores in February 2000 and quickly became a universal gaming and cultural phenomenon. The Sims was the best selling PC game of both 2000 and 2001 and is now the best selling PC game of all time. Translated into 16 different languages, The Sims has inspired five expansion packs; The Sims Livin’ Large, The Sims House Party, The Sims Hot Date, The Sims Vacation and The Sims Unleashed. Combined sales for the franchise have topped 20 million units life-to-date. For more information on The Sims franchise titles, visit http://www.thesims.com.

Electronic Arts, headquartered in Redwood City, California, is the world’s leading interactive entertainment software company. Founded in 1982, Electronic Arts posted revenues of more than $1.7 billion for fiscal 2002. The company develops, publishes and distributes software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under four brand names: EA SPORTS’, EA GAMES’, EA SPORTS BIG’ and EA.COM. More information about EA’s products and full text of press releases can be found on the Internet at http://www.info.ea.com.

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Be Somebody. Else. ’

The Sims Online’ is a virtual world built from the imaginations of thousands of players like you. It is an unpredictable, alternate reality where you can be yourself or somebody else. You’ll have your own piece of land to do with as you please. Create a house, coffee bar, dance club, theatre or whatever you can imagine. In The Sims Online you are both spectator and participant. Build a network of friends to enhance your power, wealth, reputation and social standing. Create crazy locations or hold wild events to entertain others. Explore the neighbourhoods around you and meet scores of Sims along the way. In this massive and never-ending online game, you become a Sim, choose you role and find your destiny.

FEATURES - Be Somebody. Else. – Create and customize your Sim to be whoever you want to be. Be a raver or recluse, a business magnate or babe magnet.

• Build a house and a livehood – Build your dream home, the trendiest boutique, or the most popular neighborhood hangout around. The Web’s the limit in this user-created, on-line Sim world.

• Be roommates and partners – Develop a network of friends, go into business with your housemates, improve the neighborhood, or open a hoppin’ club.

• Express yourself – Meet, flirt and get to know other Sims through live text chat, secret instant messages and hundreds of animated gestures and actions.

• Live life to the fullest – Let your imagination run wild. Choose from hundreds of outfits and thousands of appearance possibilities. Includes nearly all the faces, clothes and objects from The Sims and the first four expansion packs.

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Electronic Arts UK website - Windows