The Sims 4 will offer much better 3D graphics and emotional storytelling

LOS ANGELES — Electronic Arts unveiled more details about one of its most important new games, The Sims 4, and we’re getting downright emotional. The new title will let you create virtual characters with more emotional storytelling, unique personality traits, and expressions than you could create in the past.

The Sims is perhaps the most successful video game series of all time, with more than 175 million copies sold as of September 2013. The original Sims was the creation of former EA game designer Will Wright and his Maxis game studio, now a subsidiary of EA. The original sold 2 million copies when it debuted in 2000. But The Sims has been growing as EA pumped out sequel after sequel.