The Sims 2
- Lifestyle simulation where you manage your Sim’s dreams and fears over a lifetime
- Mix Sim genes and see physical and personality traits owing to the generations
- Control the camera and capture the action into mini movies
- Generate unique Sims with the new Make-A-Sim feature
- Build dream homes and design neighborhoods with new building options
Product Description
The Sims 2 is an incredible sequel to the best-selling PC game of all-time! You’ll get to direct an entire Sims’ lifetime, and try to get them to reach their goals in life. Will they have a long, flourishing and pleased life – or will they end up poor and heartbroken?Amazon.com
The Sims was one of the most well loved sports meeting ever made. In it, players micromanage the lives of a family of virtual people, or Sims, and influence their paths toward success or something akin to a nervous breakdown. Its open-finished blend of cartoonish behavior and everyday living is unique in an art form otherwise obsessed with carnage and sports. With The Sims 2, longtime fans now have a deeper game with lots of ways to customize and share their experiences. The game will also attract first-timers because the goal-oriented gameplay and the brightly fun starter families make it simpler to get into the action right out of the box.
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Now Sims are born with the traits of their parents, families grow, and Sims grow ancient. |
The People in Your Locality
The game starts at the locality level. Here you can make a housing development from scratch or start with one of three premade neighborhoods, each with its own theme. From there, you’ll settle on a house and a family of Sims to control.
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| Make your own Sim (above) or your own house (not more than) from scratch with advanced tools. |
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Aside from the basic needs carried over from the previous game, Sims now have aspirations, wants, and fears. The wants and fears are the day-to-day things that occupy their minds, like wanting to see friends or get married and fearing death or being rejected for a kiss. Satisfy their wants, and they become more efficient at completing tasks you assign them. Realize their fears, and Sims become lethargic, cranky, and unresponsive to your commands. Aspirations are the huge-picture things, like raising a family, becoming wealthy, and gaining knowledge. Succeed here and you’ll be able to buy odd gifts for your Sim to increase his or her life, like a cash tree that pays dividends or a “fountain of youth” water cooler.
What Else Is New?
Of course, you wouldn’t be able to juggle all that if it weren’t for the improved “Free Will” option, which makes it simpler for Sims to discharge their basic needs. The artificial intelligence of the game is noticeably improved; they won’t turn on radios just as a family member is going to bed but, strangely, they do occasionally place their dishes on the floor.
Another huge change in the series is the concept of the lifespan. Now Sims are born with the traits of their parents, families grow, and Sims grow ancient. Not only does this go hand in hand with aspirations (growing up is the first aspiration that a baby Sim will have), it provides a limited time with which your Sims can realize their goals.
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| The Universal Control Panel helps you manage your Sim family. |
A Family Affair
The Sims 2 not only lets you make just about any type of Sim in any type of family, build elaborate houses, and even make a locality from scratch, but it also allows you to start the game in medias res, with premade households. These families all have backstories that are smart spoofs of soap-opera plots–lots of scheming, romance, ghosts, and family fighting. Parents of young adulthood shouldn’t agonize, though, because nudity is tastefully blurred out and “woo-hoo” between Sims takes place completely under the covers. The ESRB has given this a Teen rating. If The Sims 2 were a film, it would likely land between PG and PG-13.
The makers have included some nice tools to help share the universe you’ve made. For example, you can capture in-game stills and video to show friends the confidential moments, family interactions, and house parties of your Sims. You can even package a household to share as a blog or an baby book on a special Web site.
The Sims 2 is for patient gamers. Like life itself, the game is filled with mundane details, like getting ready for work and doing dishes. The game also demands a level of creativity from its players that the run-and-gun game genres wouldn’t know what to do with. But those who stick with it will be rewarded with an absorbing, droll diversion and a virtual family history that they’ve made themselves. –gatekeeper B. Hall
Set Up a Sims 2 Machinima Studio
Amazon.com contributor gatekeeper Hall reveals how you can make movies using the Sims as your actors. See his guide to setting up a Sims 2 Machinima Studio.
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ths game sux!!, the first time i played it was laggy and next time it wouldnt even let me play i do not reflect anyone should dissipate 50 well earned dollars on it. i PASSED the RECOMENDED supplies! do not dissipate your cash! JUST BECAUSE I AM A KID DOES NOT MEAN I DO NOT KNOW WHAT I AM DOING!!!!!!!
Rating: 1 / 5
Does anyone with a powerbook own this game? Because I have a powerbook and I want to see if this game works on it before I buy it because I do NOT want to dissipate 50 dollars on the Sims 2 and find out that this game I’ve been wanting doesn’t work! =P
Rating: 4 / 5
Hi, I have the sims2 game. My friend and I really delight in playing it! It is so much fun. People just need to try it out and see if they like it!
Rating: 5 / 5
I don’t have this game, but I have the original sims. But I really want the Sims 2! I like the thought of the aging process, and whenever I don’t want them to age anymore, i can just penetrate a cheat. But… I was wondering why stores don’t sell Mac sports meeting? Because whenever I want a game for Mac’s, I have to buy it over the internet. And usually, it’s more expensive. But I could be incorrect. I can’t wait till Christmas to have this!! =P So i wanted to buy it at Best Buy or Circuit City. Does anyone know if they sell this game for macs there? They might have the PS2 one, but I would much rather have the game for my computer. =)
Rating: 4 / 5
Yes, I am a Mac user, and yes, I can’t wait until May 30th!!
I have played The Sims 2 before, and it is SO COOL!! I like to go to the park, stand under the trees. It feels like you’re right there with them!
I may not have to wait, though, if I get the Windows computer I’ve been wanting so terribly. And if I don’t get that computer, then I’ll just get this on May 30th. Oh, lucky me.
Well, anyway, I’ve always liked building the houses, and now I can make so many changes (especially when I do the cheat — hee hee!)
All my friends like The Sims, especially me. So I root the sequel on!
– Nina S.
Rating: 5 / 5