(Almost) Everything we know so far about The Sims 4

Hi Everyone, ZaccyM here

With just over a month until The Sims 4 is released in Australia (September 4, 2014), I figured I'd write up a list of almost everything we know so far about The Sims 4, are you ready? Good, here we go!

• The open world will NOT be as open as it was in The Sims 3, but neither will it be as restrictive as in The Sims 2, it will be sort of in between. Essentially, worlds in The Sims 4 will be broken down into neighbourhoods, and the neighbourhoods will contain lots, there won't be any loading screens between lots, but Sims can now travel between neighbourhoods and worlds, and there will be loading screens between those.
• There are two confirmed worlds for release: Willow Creek (which looks like a sort of outer metropolitan world, nothing fancy but it has everything a family would need, with a few luxuries), and Oasis Springs (which I would say is a typical rural area)
• It has also been confirmed there WON'T be any Toddlers or a pool building tool at release (this could mean they may be added later, possibly a patch or expansion pack, fingers crossed)
• You can also die from laughing too much, but this will be rare (somebody will probably make a mod to disable this)
• Sims now have emotions, and there will be special interactions for a Sim who is in a given mood
• Aspirations are back, and they now have special traits assigned to them
• Ordinary traits are also back
• There are no more sliders in CAS, instead, you just use your mouse to directly manipulate the Sim you are creating
• You know the genetics feature in CAS from The Sims 2 and 3? Well, that has been enhanced so you can now create a Sim's parents and siblings!
• You can now pick up and move individual rooms around a lot, and the objects in any moved room move along with it
• Speaking of rooms, you can also resize them, and the game will move objects accordingly
• Also in Build mode, you can still adjust the height of foundations even after the house has been built, and any stairs will be adjusted accordingly
• Even more in Build mode, blueprints are back
• There is now a gallery, in which you can download stuff from the Exchange while the game is running and have it appear instantaneously (at least, after it's been downloaded), ready for placement. And by "stuff" I mean anything from small objects to entire houses and everything in between. In the case of Sims downloaded from the gallery, they will automatically join your active household.

So that's everything major in The Sims 4 that I've heard about up until this point.

Alrighty everyone, happy Simming!

ZaccyM