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Sims 2

Sims 2

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From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games

List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $12.99
You Save: $7.00 (35%)



New (16) Used (14) from $9.99

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 72 reviews
Sales Rank: 1448

Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 4.9 x 0.6

MPN: 100730
Model: 14633151299
UPC: 014633151299
EAN: 0014633151299
ASIN: B000ANYFVM

Release Date: June 15, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:
  • Control your Sims through all of the fully customizable locations - each one unique per platform
  • Create thousands of your own food recipes, clothing designs, potions, inventions, and even personal music tracks and paintings
  • Tell your own stories and directly control your Sims lives to build their worlds, excel in their careers, and fulfill their wants while avoiding their worst fears!

Accessories:

  • Electronic Gaming Monthly
  • Play
  • Tips & Tricks Magazine

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
The Sims 2 gives you the fun of the classic SIms world, in a portable and easy-to-navigate format. Create a fictional life for your Sims and keep them happy, healthy and prosperous! Direct an entire Sims' lifetime, and try to get them to reach their goals in life. Will they have a long, successful and happy life - or will they end up poor and heartbroken? It's up to you!


Customer Reviews:   Read 67 more reviews...

4 out of 5 stars Slow progress   May 27, 2008
 1 out of 2 found this review helpful

This game was pretty fun I thought. The biggest down fall is that it takes place in real time. So when you build something new in your hotel you have to wait 8 actual hours. This limits the how much progress you can make in a day. It makes the game a touch boring. Other the the time issue i loved it. Its also pretty easy.


1 out of 5 stars To Buggy   May 21, 2008
 2 out of 11 found this review helpful

Fun at first but freezes at the worst time, and just before you save after complete a chunck of the game, very annoying. DS sucks anyway. Get PSP.


4 out of 5 stars Didn't last   April 17, 2008
 0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I was disappointed in this game. It didn't last very long. I also couldn't move things in the hotel like I had wanted. The casino had one game in it and more never came. I did like the caracters, but some of them didn't do much at all. It was alot shorter than I expected and I couldn't do what I wanted in the game.


5 out of 5 stars "That animal was on the verge of ruining all my DEVIOUS PLANS...to watch television"---Optimum Alfred   April 16, 2008
 2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I started this game two weeks ago and just finished it (you can continue the game after finishing the missions by pushing "Select" during the credits). It is awesome! I had also finished Sims2 for Gameboy Advance (three times!) and, if you're not sure whether to get the DS version too, definitely get it! It is a completely different game. All the characters are there like Tristan Legend, Giuseppi Mezzoalto, Sancho Paco Panza, Frankie Fusilli, the mummy guy, Lord Mole and even Emperor Xizzle but, instead of acting in a reality show, you run a hotel.

As hotel manager, you check people in, they'll call you on your cell phone with complaints and requests, and you run around to cater to their every whim. These Sims have a lot of emotional problems. They need to be restrained, calmed down, and cheered up constantly! You also build attractions for your hotel. My favorite is the art gallery. You get to create actual paintings to put on display and sell. You can draw some pretty funny stuff if you know what I mean (nudge, nudge, say no more). You'll get calls on your cell phone from Sims who've bought your works. I've often run back to the art gallery to find out which painting was purchased. You can also save a favorite work of art and hang it in your room.

Another cool thing you can do is create music. In the lounge there is a keyboard with several songs already installed. You can use the keys, sound effects, and mixers to create your own song, record it and play it back! How cool is that! Other neat features in this game are the vacuum cleaner and metal detector. The vacuum is used on dust bunnies throughout the hotel which sometimes include valuable items you can grab for Simoleons. The metal detector is used in the desert to find spaceship parts, silver, copper, and gold bars, and other items you can cash in.

Sometimes you have to use a super soaker on aliens (led by Emperor Xizzle) who are invading the area. This takes patience as I've found the best strategy is to stalk them out and target one alien at a time before they can inform the others of your presence. It can be pretty challenging. The alien autopsy game is also a major challenge that I'm still trying to figure out. You also get to play a superhero, though I'm not sure about that rat suit!

The graphics are awesome! It's in 3D. The communication is better than the GBA version. You react to the body language of the Sims so it's not a guessing game to raise your social levels. One thing that could be better are the items you can buy. Sims games have never repeated the variety of things you could buy in "The Urbs: Sims in the City." Also, the skill levels, save for one, don't seem to have any effect on the game unless I missed something. Anyway, I won't give away too much stuff. The missions are easy to follow with just a little bit of thought. If you have Sims2 for GBA, here's a hint: insert the GBA cartridge in the system in addition to the DS. It will open up a game in the casino.



1 out of 5 stars Good in concept.   April 2, 2008
 2 out of 4 found this review helpful

This game has a lot of aspects that are enjoyable and when it was running it was fun to play. There are quite a few glitches in this game that cause it to freeze and when I tried to access the options menu it blacked the screen having to be reset. If you play this game save often, otherwise you spend most of you time doing the same missions over and over.

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