The Sims

Hi.
Does anybody know how The Sims was written?
Is it all in a language environment, or also sth like 3Dmax together with C++?

Is such a game capable of working with VB (and as stable as The Sims)?

Thanks
Wengang

The Sims was very likely written in C++, with models created in some 3d model editor. It COULD be written in VB, though it would be a lot slower(The Sims is all about AI, which takes a lot of computation, which combined with strong OOP, makes it a bit difficult to write in VB).

Z.