Important aspects like name, gender, age group, traits and aspirations can be chosen here. Hidden at the left hand side of the screen, you’ll find a window you can hide and unhide as you like Accessories and make-up was missing from the version at Gamescom but you can see that those aspects are still in the game. You always work directly on the Sim itselfīesides the choices for hairstyle and facial hair you can finally also combine any hat with any hairstyle. By double-clicking on it can even get into advanced mode that lets you manipulate even more details. If you click on the Sims head, the camera zooms on it and you can shape the face how you like it. You can change the following separately: Body Shape and Size, Face, Skin Tone, Hair, Facial Hair, Voice, Clothing. Do you like the face but not the figure of your Sim ? Just change the things you don’t like. You can now randomize many different aspects on their own. That depends on the kinds of pants the Sims is wearing.Īnother change is the randomizer. It’s not possibel to choose though if you want the pants to go over or in the boots. Pants now automatically adapt to the shoes your Sims is wearing so the strange effect we saw in Sims 3 when Sims were wearing long pants and boots is a thing of the past. There are two sliders to change the body shape and how muscular you want them to be. The button for accessory was gray, so there was no chance of checking those out but we were told that there are more choices that you had with Sims 3. You can change the tops and the bottom as well as shoes and accessory. If you click on the Sim, you’ll see the the usual choices. Not all aspects of your Sim can be changed but there’s a few new areas like the Sims butt, the size fo of their feet or the size of the pupil. You can see how that works in the official Sims 4 gameplay video Create a Sim Everything is manipulated directly on the Sim itself.

The biggest change is that there are (hardly) any sliders anymore.

The new CAS looks very lean and with only a few controls which gives you a bit of a scare at first. Jill Johnson ( SimGuruJill) showed us the the most important chances and then we got to try CAS on the computer ourselves.

Sims 4 bigger butt