A different version of The Sims where you have goals. Now in a new version for GameCube!
This addition of having goals to complete made the game really interesting, in a way that you have a more focused objective, but at the same time you still have that virtual life characteristic of the sims, where you can decorate your house, live your life the way you want to. It also is the strongest difference between this game and the original The Sims, making it a completely different game.
In "The Sims Bustin' Out" you begin living in your mother's house. Then as you complete the goals you have there you unlock new places you can live, you always share it with some people and you have then other goals to complete. You can always come back to places you've already lived. It depends on the career you're following, the order of the places you'll move into will be different. If you'd like to throughly complete the game, you'll have to finish one career and then star another, and for doing so, you'll need to go back to some places you've already been.
The graphics and gameplay of this game are great, the sound is good too.
I didn't use to like the idea of playing the sims on a console, I've always preferred it on the computer, but this one I really enjoyed, maybe because it is not a real "the sims", it is definitely one of my favourite games... If you like the sims or virtual life games, you'll probably like this one. If you don't, you could at least try it out once it is so different from the already known the sims...