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Summary

The Urbz: Sims in the City on the Game Boy Advance feels like a handheld adventure wrapped in classic Sims mechanics. You steer your own "Urb" around Miniopolis, juggling the eight basic needs that keep the character humming while tackling five distinct missions. Along the way you can shift between four reputation crews—Richies, Artsies, Streeties, and Nerdies—each unlocking its own perks once you meet the required goals. Completing sets of objectives opens three separate districts, and after you finish the game you can roam any unlocked apartment or house as long as you’ve saved enough cash. The GBA version was crafted by Griptonite Games, giving it a tight, portable spin on the larger console releases.

Storyline

In The Urbz: Sims in the City for the Game Boy Advance, the player arrives in the city fresh from SimValley only to be fired when the owner of King Tower sells the building to the scheming Daddy Bigbucks. A botched attempt to steal a key from Lily Gates lands the protagonist in jail, but the city sheriff releases them on probation and bans them from leaving the Urban area.

Grandma Hattie soon recruits the player to lead a strike that reopens the bridges to Sim Quarter. After the strike, Bigbucks knocks the player off a ship, dumping them in the Bayou where the twin locals, Bayou Boo and Crawdad Clem, mistake them for a vampire. The twins aid the protagonist’s return home, though Bayou Boo is bitten and turns vampiric.

Back in Sim Quarter, Grandma Hattie gives the player a cookbook to make chocolate, which cures Bayou Boo’s vampirism. The duo is later arrested for “running,” but the sheriff lets them go. The adventure culminates in Glasstown, where the original King Tower owner, Mr. King, reveals that Bigbucks has built a time machine to claim the city’s land retroactively. With help from Ewan Watahmee and Sue Pirnova, the player constructs their own time machine, foils Bigbucks’ plan, banishes him to an island, and earns a lifelike statue in the city center.