The Urbz DS

I got this used as I did not like The Urbz on PS2 that much (I got my free copy as a Maxis employee, excitedly brought it home, and then we, 2 Sims freaks, lost interest in a matter of hours).

So I had pretty low expectations for this, but I was really pleasantly surprised!
The opening was engaging, the character creation was not too unwieldy but enough to make you feel like this is a custom character.
I think they did a great job with the missions - eventually moving you from just hanging out on the top of one building, to being able to roam all over the city.
You usually have various missions in different states of completion, making the game feel much busier.
Keeping needs fulfilled was a bit more of a pain here but it pushes you on a lot of the time because you get caught in the middle of something, needing to sleep or go to the bathroom, so then you just want to keep playing longer to see what happens when that mission is done.

I liked the conversation system here much much better than in Sims 2 DS.

I did get annoyed looking for people I needed to talk to (reminds me now of looking for animals in Animal Crossing who are not in their houses or walking around). Half the time I would be too late once I did finally find them.
But then I found out I could call people on the phone and they would tell me where they were going to be, which made the whole thing a lot less random.