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EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Publication date Topics the sims , maxis , ea , the sims 2. I enjoyed it for a while but became frustrated at how hard it was to juggle relationships, bathroom breaks, and sleep time in order to get to the top of the corporate food chain.
But over the last few weeks, I finally discovered something, partly due to a lot of the improvements made over the first game. From the neighborhood view, the player selects one lot to play, as in The Sims. There are both residential and community lots, but Sims can only live in residential lots. Sims can travel to Community lots in order to purchase things like clothing and magazines, and to interact with NPCs and townies.
This feature was only included in this game. The player can choose between playing a pre-made inhabited lot, moving a household into an unoccupied pre-built lot, or constructing a building on an empty lot. One novelty from The Sims is foundations. Buy and build mode cannot be accessed when on a community lot, but can be opened by using the neighborhood view. It is also possible to import neighborhood terrains from SimCity 4. The game contains some time-bound social challenges that provide a reward if successful.
Sims can throw parties to gain aspiration points or invite the headmaster over for dinner in order to enroll their children in private school.
Some expansion packs have new mini-games, like running a Greek house in University or dating in Nightlife. In Nightlife, each date is a challenge to keep both Sims as happy as possible while accumulating aspiration points. Various other expansion packs introduce supernatural characters which Sims can be turned into, such as Zombies, Vampires, Werewolves, PlantSims, and Witches. It is a brilliant simulation but also a wonderful caricature of life in general.
You can almost equate it to a very strange canvas. Maxis is selling some amazing tools to create all kinds of things from architecture to full blown stories. New to the series are fears and wants. Depending on your Sims' aspirations that you choose when you create them, a slot machine style dial spins, revealing what your Sims wants and what your Sim is afraid of. Your Sims can be afraid of commitment and they can want to have sexual relations with another Sim.
Completing their wants and avoiding their fears help the Sims have a better life, improve relationships, and helps when they are trying to get a job promotion, and it also gives the player more to do, leaving absolutely no window of opportunity for boredom to set in.
More factors come into play to make this sequel even better than the original. Your family trees are now kept track of, so you can now have a giant legacy of Sims.
Your Sims can grow old and die, get pregnant, and move out of the house. The possibilities are truly endless. Along with the more intricate character customization options, you now have more tools available to you for building the perfect house and there are plenty of more items to purchase for your home. All of the actions available to you from the first game and its expansion packs, such as dating and throwing house parties, are also available, so you didn't buy all of those expansion packs for no reason.
However, this is a special edition of The Sims 2 which includes two expansion packs: Nightlife and Celebration! Nightlife is very reminiscent of Hot Date from the first Sims game, but it adds much more. You can now visit downtown areas and such just like with Hot Date, but it also expands on the relationships that Sims have with one another by making dates much more involving. Relationships are also expanded with the idea of disloyalty in mind. If a Sim is married to one Sim and then cheats on that Sim, the Sim that was cheated on can attack that Sims' property.
Actually, even if a Sim is dating a particular Sim and that Sim feels cheated this can occur, which adds a whole new layer of emotion to the gameplay because we all know that after awhile, you get attached to your Sims.
You also have certain chemistry with particular Sims that can help a relationship further or falter.
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