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Yesterday, EA announced MySims Agent, a mystery-solving game for the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS:

-Love mysteries, twisting plots and sinister villains? Love puzzles, adventure and high tech gadgets? Now players can enjoy the thrill of solving the mystery, while re-joining their MySims™ friends. EA Play Label of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS), today announced MySims™ Agents, an original IP, mystery-solving adventure game for the Wii™ and Nintendo DS™ where players are the heroic agents who must stop a sinister plot that threatens the fate of an entire city.

The Wii version of MySims Agent will feature recruitment of various MySims to build a mystery-solving team. Players will use gadgets, solve puzzles, and collect clues to solve the mysteries set forth by the lord of the criminal underworld, Morcubus. Players can also collect treasures to decorate their base with. The DS version of the game will feature 10 mini-games, interaction with favorite MySims, and more puzzle-solving.

MySims Agents is scheduled for release in Fall 2009, and has not yet been rated by the ESRB or PEGI.

Now, maybe it’s because I’ve never played The Sims franchise, but is EA going too far with it? It seems like EA is milking the franchise for every penny before letting it die. Then again, there are still a ton of Sims fans out there, and I’m sure they’re happy to see the games being produced and released.

I look at it this way: with KOEI’s Dynasty Warriors series, I drew the line at Dynasty Warriors Gundam. I realize that KOEI’s milking the series, and in a way, Dynasty Warriors to the nth power is just repeating itself for playability, not innovations, at this point. Has EA reached that point with the Sims franchise? Maybe. But that’s for the fans to decide.

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