Sim Brother (SBC)



Sim Brother is an SBC Production Studios reality show, created using the Sims 2. Based on the popular CBS TV Show, Big Brother. The shows premise is based on a group of 12-14 strangers (the houseguests) who enter the Big Brother house, and do not come out until they have either been evicted or won the show. While inside the house, the houseguests are completely cut off from the outside world, being watched 24/7 by dozens of cameras and listened to by Big Brother via the many microphones located all throughout the house, even the bathroom is rigged, no privacy is a main theme. Each week the Head of Household (HoH) will nominate 2 houseguests for eviction and then the public will vote one houseguest out of the house. The last houseguest at the end of the 3 months wins $500,000! The show has had 3 seasons thus far. All seasons have been hosted by McKenzie Sonade.

Main Series
The host has always been McKenzie Sonade. Up until recently the narrator and Big Brother's voice have been the same but SBC replaced Big Brother's voice with a new one, still leaving the narrator's voice to be the same. Both voices are from Text-to-Speech sites. The Big Brother voice is from Cepstral, and the narrator's voice is from AT&T, so is the host's.

Format
Sim Brother is a combination of Big Brother USA and UK. Each week the house guests play in a competition to determine a new Head of Household (HoH). The HoH must nominate two of their fellow house guests for eviction. The two house guests then face the public vote to decide which of the two will be evicted. The the process repeats itself until the final 2.

From the USA version, we get the idea of an HoH, and from the UK version we get the idea of a public vote of eviction. The food competitions/tasks are based around the UK version and the luxury competitions are based around the USA version. The house styles have mostly remained very USA until season 3, where the house took on a very open UK style.

Veto Removed
In the second episode of Sim Brother 2 it was announced that the Power of Veto (PoV) was going to "be removed from the game temporarily " we have not seen a veto competition since  season 1. SBC Production Studios said the Veto wouldn't be returning in season 3 as a main part of the game.