The Sims 2
by Electronic Arts
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Video Game Reviews of The Sims 2
Customer Review: SIMS 2
Summary: 5 Stars
THIS IS THE NEW SIMS 2 AND THEY ARE 3 DIMENSIONAL! THEY ARE MORE LIFE LIKE THAN EVER BEFORE! YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE WITH THIS GAME. THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING! THERE ARE PLENTY OF EXPANSION PACKS TO GO WITH THIS!Customer Review: Amazing Game
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this game. You get so much out of this more advanced version of the sims. You have the smae basic idea that you can make a family and watch it grow. it gives you more choices and the downloads that you can find are made better and are more abstract. This game is infact made as a great contribution to virtual gaming and it is an amazing game that should recieve a high rating and high value game.Customer Review: Great 2nd generation
Summary: 4 Stars
The Sims is groundbreaking, and the sims 2 is a great 2nd generation development. You'll be suprised at the advancement of characters and what they can do. It's more advanced,so it's a little harder to build, and design. But so much fun!Customer Review: Needs more options but still great
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this game about six months ago and love it.I will say that I'm so happy I'm out of school because it's kind of addicting and you play it for hours without realizing it.
My favorite thing about the game is the romantic options.I've had Sims with 10 lovers and it's a lot of fun balancing them.Also,I love the big families and right now the Pleasant family has nine kids(some moved out). I hate most of the clothes and hairstyles though.I'll probally just get better ones from other websites.
I wish the game wasn't so perfect.I have to create dysfunctional families just to make the game more interesting.(There has been a lot of cheating going on in Pleasantview).They should put out a game where Sims can have more problems.A more urban version.
One other problem I have is with the glitches.Objects have become stuck as well as Sims.For days,Mortimer Goth and Dina Caliente were stuck hopelessly in the hottub.I just went back to the Goth household and moved her in.A few days later I create a new family and move them into Dina's old house.I was shocked to find Mortimer laying on the floor asleep and stinky in his swimsuit.He died a couple minutes later and when I returned to the Goth household to see if any damage had been done he was relaxing on the bed as a ghost.He disappeared shortly after.
The game is fun but it needs improvements.Maybe a Sims 3 will be better.
Customer Review: Absolutly Wonderful Toy/Game for those with an imagination.
Summary: 5 Stars
i've been playing the Sims2 and its expansions for allmost 2 years now, and i must say its one that i keep coming back to. This game has a great ammount of features in the game; that when you first hear them (like i did) you wouldn't think it was all that great (i was very hesitant at first to play this) but after a while it grows on you.
one of the big things about the Sims2 is that your created characters age and eventually die (though usually when they get to be grandparrents i turn off aging cause i love em too much). through that time they live out approximatly 80 days (two as an infant, 4 as a toddler, 8 as a child, 13 as a teen, 28 as an aldut, the rest as an elder) making friends, making money, and basically living the lives that you tell them to. there also aspirations in the game, which will give 4 wants and 3 fears. for instance, my Romance sim is afraid of getting married and has a want to Wohoo (have sex) with 10 different Sims.
the other part that i really like about it is the ammount of leeway maxis entertainment gave for players to create thier own content. not only can you create your own sims and houses, but you can create thier clothing, thier makeup and genetics, as well as wallpaper and other decorations. if your really good at it you can also share them with other people through the Exchange on the Sims2 website. in my own Neighborhood that i created, there is very little there that i did not create myself or have someone else create for me (truth be told i'm not very good at making my own stuff).
i have to point out something, and this could make or break the experience for you if your on the fence. This more down the lines of a Toy than a Game. if your not big on the imagination factor, or you just didnt like playin with them legos as a kid: this is probably not something for you. if you dont give the sims something to do, they will sit around and do nothing (or at the least very monotonous things). however if you try out different things, awesome things can happen (one of my sims bought a really fancy telescope and went stargazing one night, and he got abducted by aliens. when the aliens brought him back to the lot he was impregnanted with an alien child. i dont care who you are, but seeing a grown man in maternity is something that gets your attention)
also, they do not speak English, but rather Simmish (which is just a fancy word for Jibberish), but picture cues are given up above the sims to give you an idea as to what they are talking about. Will Wright has talked about this before in an interview. he stated that like a comic book, you will subconciously fill in the missing blanks (like when you see a woman yell at her husband and you see a simbol above her head that looks like a puddle and/or a shower, you automatically know "oh, shes mad at him because he made a puddly mess when he took that shower and he didnt bother to clean it up". i have no problems with that, but i've heard other people complain
one of things that i did find aggrivating (but thanks to the Nightlife Expansion pack is covered) was that if you wanted to go anywhere you had to allways call the taxi. with the Nightlife Expansion you get cars to drive so that did remedy some of it, you also get to go on dates with other Sims and added some much needed Hedonism to the game.