The MySims franchise takes on a new slant with Agents. The game plays like a traditional RPG, with you searching for clues as to who’s committing all the crimes and misdemeanours around the town. As you’d expect with a MySims games there are plenty of opportunities for customisation so the town can be called whatever you want, and your agent and sidekick too. After many hours of painful consideration I finally named my agent ‘Bourned’, and his sidekick ‘Cue’. I named the town “Bourneville.” Yeah I know. You can customise your character’s appearance and clothes, your house, the town, and eventually even design your own A-Mazeing race game.

Mayor Hopkins has called you in to solve crimes and unlock new mini games you need to explore the towns various areas and meet the people. Conversing with them via the text speech windows is frequently long-winded but you usually learn something interesting or important, which will be added to your contact list so you don’t forget it. You soon learn that the chief suspect of the town’s crime wave is a guy called ‘Thief V’, and so you set about tracking him/her down.

As you talk to townspeople they’ll often let you know when something you need to be present for is going to happen, and some events are time dependent and may occur in the morning, afternoon, evening or at night, so you may want to go home to sleep early which will fast-forward the game to the next day - something you'll end up doing a lot.