IGN: SimAnimals First Look News for SimAnimals have been quite, but I guess that is normal considering it still has a few more months before its releaseActually, next year! IGN gives their look of the game coming off of the Games Convention Event: The Wii version of the game is controlled entirely by Wii Remote. Grabbing and dropping animals is a simple point and click, and moving around the world is a click and drag affair. The Wii pointer functions handle most of the control in SimAnimals, but theres a little accelerometer usage here as well: if you twist the remote left or right youll rotate the camera. No unnecessary Wiimote shaking here. The Nintendo DS version has a similar design as the Wii game, but the visuals are more scaled back all animals, plants, and environments are 2D pixel art, and because of this the camera is fixed at a set distance in an overhead perspective. You still have the ability to shift things around with your on-screen handits just not as fluid as if it was in a 3D environment. The DS game is being developed by EA internally, a first for the Sims team since it usually outsources Nintendo handheld versions to studios like Griptonite and Full Fat. GC 2008: SimAnimals First Look
