Sims 4 News: EA’s Upcoming LifeStyle Simulation Game Has More Than Half A Million Sound Files; Sound System Gets Technical Overhaul

More Sims 4 news about the game's sounds and acoustics were revealed.

The Danish magazine, "Gameplay" offers fresh Sims 4 news in the sounds and acoustic department of the upcoming game, according to Mod The Sims user McNum, as reported by SimsVIP.

One of the interesting Sims 4 news shared on the post said that the latest iteration of the game has more than half a million files for the sounds. Moreover, it stated that the sound system for The Sims 4 "has had a technical overhaul, which will allow "sound to have a direction."

As a result, "a Sim with his back facing the camera will sound a little muffled when he speaks, or a stereo being blocked by walls and sounding different depending on the shape of the room. Basically, we have acoustics," as posted on SimsVIP.

Morever, Robi Kauker talked about sound design, mentioning that for a voice actor to be able to speak a convincing the Sims language, Simlish, it will generally takes about one month. As posted, "while the Sims may use the same words for certain things, the tone and pronunciation will change depending on emotional state. Which is where a lot of the 500.000 sound files come from. Very subtle variations of the same lines in Simlish."

The Sims 4 release date is scheduled for 2014, though a particular schedule has not been announced yet. According to the Sims team, this 2014 version of the hit simulation game will focus more on the Sim's emotion and will also provide new tools for "Build" and "Create A Sim" feature

Moreover, it was confirmed that the game is specifically created to run on low-rendering machines, which is a good news for those interested to play The Sims 4. Those who are interested to play the game will not need some kind of a super computer to be able to experience it.

Expect more Sims 4 news and updates to arrive in the following months.