This a new shot from a german magazine, and as you can see, it needs translating. CALLING ALL GERMAN OR GERMAN-SPEAKING SIMMERS!! Your help will be appreciated!! However, it seems that the trams/trains/shuttle buses can be used in game by the concept art! What do you think?

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OK, finally seen a car. I feel better about that but where does the car go? Is it a teleporting object again or does the car get driven from the driveway unto the street?

That looks like an open neighbourhood to me (or at least partially).

Soul Food and mardi gras for the sims - at least visually decides to move the new sims the American South, including villas and pretty garden blooming. Not without a reason is the new neighbourhood called "Garden District". (translated with google and help of shante090 to make sense).

The first picture of a car
I'm really interested about the public transportation and how that will work.

Well I can't read German, but "Soul food und Mardi Gras fur die Sims" is pretty clearly "Soul food and Mardi Gras for the Sims" or something similar, and since it then goes "amerikanischen Sudenstaaten" which I'd guess to be approximate to "Southern American state," it looks like our guesses of a New Orleans-type town is correct. Whether or not the Soul Food and Mardi Gras stuff is literal or not, I wouldn't know.

Also, note the foundation, two stories, and friezes (I think that's the right word?) on the house. Either that whole roof stuff doesn't count towards the story count, or we're probably looking at more than three stories for a house.

In previous shots, the ceiling was a tad larger than a standard wall, so the friezes could just be attached to the wall or some other form of black magic, idk.

i hope you finally get the option to create a driveway for your car, which will leads up to the road. expectations, expections...

I spy with my little eyes, a few objects recycled from The Sims 3.

This image was in GAMES magazine, but was much smaller.

Is that a lake behind the house?

Playing the sims 2 the other day for the first time in years, I shed a tear when they drove their car out from the driveway and on to the street..

maybe you can park the car anywhere, or doesn't have to be coloured. you can see the space there for the car to get near the house from the street.

edit: also, we can see again the trolley on the black& white picture. is it possible a city without taxis and have to wait for transportation on a " trolley stop" ?

it seems so.

I'm not digging the shade of green on that grass, but the trees and bushes look nice to me.

Plugged it into Google translate because I was impatient.

"Soul food and mardi gras for the sims - at least visually decides to move the new Sims in the South American countries, including beautiful villas and lush gardens. The new neighborhood is not called Garden District."

I may have mis-transcribed some words, and Google translate is obviously flawed, but that gives us a rough idea.

I guess I missed a bit. :P

"Not without a reason is the new neighbourhood called "Garden District" (there's probably a better name for it in English xD).

PS. I don't speak German but that's what I've come up with with the help of a dictionary :-P

There're two sims in front of the house...i hope that means that we CAN have multiple sims, unless the second sim is just their neighbor...i mean, why else would there be a house so big and filled with many rooms if it was only meant for one whole sim? Unless every Sim we meet is single and rich-for-no-reason with a huge mansion and expensive cars despite having an average job lol

That certainly makes sense. I edited the post, thanks!

Ohh! I just realised it said "garden district". This could mean open district area of a neighbourhood??

there seems to be room for a cardrive/garage right in the middle of the screenshot where the lawn is completely empty and the grass on the sidewalk breaks up... one can dream, right?

This neighborhood looks so nice, im ecited ot play it. My only worry is it looks to Upscale and not suburban enough, I dont want al my sims to live in fancy ass houses, I want some to be "average" or poorer. O well.
Also, I think lots and cars will be the exact same concept as ts3. In one of the shots (the overview of the blue house) you can see the lot outline as a thin bright gren line, that stop at the sidewalk. So unless they make a driveway that can magiccaly cross lot lines nad whatever, Im not expecting anything. Cars were pointless in ts3 anyway.
Also, I dont even think that car has opaque windows, so why even bother.

If those black-and-white pictures are part of the neighborhood, then my like for TS4 went up a bit.

The black-and-white pics are most likely concept art.

Yeah i noticed that too! In the sims 2, there was a lower class, middle class, then upper class. THEN in the sims 3 it was middle class or upper class (but mainly upper class, almost everybody my sim met was rich ) i hope the sims 4 isnt made up of just rich sims. And hopefully making money won't be so easy this time!

I think the English name would be closer to "Gardenborough" since borough came up in google's alternative for "bezirk"

Hasn't anybody noticed non-rectangular lot? Or am I late and you guys knew?