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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $11.80
You Save: $8.19 (41%)
New (9) Used (10) from $9.79
Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 570
Format: Cd
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Xp
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 15780
UPC: 014633157802
EAN: 0014633157802
ASIN: B0012GUAII
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 8 Out 10 Good Expansion Pack August 1, 2008
Kitchen and Bath is a Good expansion pack with a great selections of extras. However it's not necessary unless you're a big Sims 2 fan and enjoy the games Customization features such as building and decoration your own home or business.
 It comes broken from EA Games - Disappointment! July 9, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Pros:
The items are more modern, and probably account for the most coordinated group of The Sims 2 objects EA Games/Maxis has ever put out. I was under the impression for years now that Maxis employees were all locked in separate rooms and given separate assignments and not allowed to know what their co-workers were creating so nothing would be able to match!
So it was a nice surprise to find coordinating appliances and floor and wall treatments.
Cons:
Do you have the Seasons and FreeTime Expansion Packs installed? If you do, you will find that the new interactions that these two add-ons bring to the game are *not usable* on Kitchen and Bath Interior Design Stuff pack objects.
That's right - if you have Seasons, you can't get leftovers out of the new K&B fridges. If you have FreeTime, you can't Tinker with any of the K&B appliances or fixtures.
And because it is a Stuff Pack, EA Games does not provide a patch. Your best bet is to download a patch from a third party custom content site. I had to use object editor tools to fix the interactions on custom fridges I had. There is a patch out for FreeTime that might correct this, but I'm not sure since I had already fixed it by another method by the time the patch was put out by Maxis/EA.
I somehow expected better from Maxis fridges, especially since Seasons and FreeTime have been out long before Kitchen & Bath was released.
While not a show stopper for some, it was sloppy work by Maxis/EA to not make the objects fully compatible with other The Sims 2 expansions they had already published.
 Not feeling the love here... July 7, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
For whatever reason, people have gone gaga over this pack, yet I found it to be extremely disappointing, at least in comparison to my fave Stuff packs (Glamour Life, H&M, Teen Style).
The idea this time around is to provide users with (supposedly) four new sets - romantic kitchen & bath, and modern kitchen & bath. My disappointment comes from the extreme amount of overlap between these four seemingly different themes. Aside from that, the new objects aren't even all that different than existing objects! The 'modern' shower is a simple black shower identical to the high-end shower that comes with the base game. The new 'modern' kitchen set looks suspiciously like a recoloured version of the kitchen set that came with Free Time.
Even then, items for the Romantic and Modern sets overlap between one another - the same counter is applicable to nearly every set, ditto to the (non-matching!) floors and walls. Additionally, it would have been nice to include a new dining table set for the new kitchen, even if it was just a tiny dine-in set.
There are some other new additions I guess to try and make up for the lack of object additions - a couple of new hairstyles, some new clothes (mostly in the cozy family i.e. sweaters, bath robes, or working ensembles) etc. but nothing special or notable.
Overall I was quite disappointed with this pack, and very surprised at the relatively warm reception its received. I'm glad that Maxis/EA tried to make a pack for a much overlooked area of the game, but they really could have done more with it. I do like the new colour schemes for the modern kitchen - but I can't say I love anything else that came with this game.
Good overall stuff pack July 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am somewhat new to the Sims 2 and have bought a couple stuff packs and expansions. This particular stuff pack appealed to me because I didn't feel there was enough kitchen and bath stuff. It also adds some extra clothes and what not. I'd recommend this pack.
I have Teen Styles stuff pack, but it more for my daughter than myself [...] as the Kitchen&Bath stuff pack
 Sims Kitchen & Bath June 29, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was a gift. She has already remodeled All her Sims baths & kitchens & is creating more so she can make theirs beautiful too. It's a wonderful game.
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