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The Sims 2 |  | From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  75 reviews
Sales Rank: 3589
Platform: PlayStation2
Genre: racing-game-genre
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: PlayStation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.5 x 0.5
Eye Toy Compatible
Memory Card
MPN: 100730
Model: 14633151268
UPC: 014633151268
EAN: 0014633151268
ASIN: B000AOEUPC
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Each Sim has their own DNA -- take your Sims through generations and evolve their family tree | | • | Fulfill your Sims' dreams - Do they want a life of family and romance? Great knowledge? Fame and fortune? Whatever they want, it's in your hands to get it for them | | • | Take your Sims to all-new extremes - They'll get arrested, see ghosts, marry an alien or write a great novel | | • | All new Create-A-Sim for unlimited creativity - design a Sim, their house, even their entire neighborhood | | • | New in-game movie camera lets you watch the game from a whole new angle |
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Product Description
The Sims 2 is an incredible sequel to the best-selling game! You'll get to direct an entire Sims' lifetime, trying to help them reach their goals in life. Will they have a long, successful and happy life - or will they end up poor and heartbroken?
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| Customer Reviews:
 Eh.. July 2, 2010
Char
This version has a way different feel to the computer version, but I bought it a long time ago when my computer didn't have the juice for the game. Overall, it was very boring plainly because there was nothing to do. I did find it fun in it's own way... before the data corrupted and I lost it all.
 Wonderful Game June 29, 2010
Amanda
I have had this game for a little over two years and I am STILL addicted to it! It is a very fun game and a great way to spend a boring afternoon. There are some flaws, like long load screens. Also you cannot have children or marry in two player free play mode. This game is great because you can have serious sims dedicated to work or sims who just wanna party.
Since This Is a Kid Friendly Website,I Will Not Be Able To Say All The Things I'm Thinking. April 12, 2010
Curtis Butcher (Aquilla,Tx,USA)
Who Ever bought this stupid game I feel sorry for!!
Whatever person slash stupid computer That made This C*****Y game needs to be heading down with the Grim Reaper like this R******D GAME!!!!! I was like waiting like a month because I wanted to play something besisde a computer game,I have the first one on PS2 and I loved it,but this one,If your sim is tired or wants to talk to someone,or's bored The slunch over like retarted and walk about a FOrth of a mile in REAL 24 HOURS!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE THE OTHER SIMS GAME,which have goof graphics that looks just like a human,but this,this? THIS IS NOT A REAL SIMS GAME!!!!!!!!!!!! I was hearing about this game thinking about how only ONE fLAW ABOUT BABIE,THAT'S IT,but there's no pools,no.....No.....NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I finnaly bought the computer version. get THAT one instead,so you can buy a cheap expansion pack instead of a WHOLE nother game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 The Sims 2: Sampler Pack September 14, 2009
Marvin Powell
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I ordered this game for the PS2 three months after it came out on the consoles and wanted to enjoy the Sims 2 because I do not own a sophisticated enough PC to enjoy playing the real thing. I will say this. It IS fun and addictive. However, it's not nearly as good as the real thing. I compare it to a handheld or mobile phone version of any real console equivalent of a video game. It gives you a small taste of The Sims 2 but not the full, enriching experience.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
- You can customize your own Sim, to a degree. However, imprefections such as moles and wrinkles you can't control. You also can't control height, or for the most part, their body shape or size. Mostly all Sims are thin and tall. You can also customize the Sims' personality based on how neat, outgoing, active, humorous, or nice they are. My Sims family were Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa Simpson.
- You can dress your Sims up in neat, nifty outfits. However, the clothing options are limited. Not so much where as you can't dress them to look nice, but the options aren't as versatile as you'd think. There are enough clothing options to make at least 20 to 30 Sims look completely different from each other, mainly due to how much you can change the color or wear-style of the clothes. But the total actual different clothes options for shirts, pants, shoes, etc. will be only 20 different options or less. It's the customizations of the outfits that make them look different, as each clothes will have from 3 to 8 different fabrics or colors to them. This is how you can really get Sims to look different from each other, even though there's less than a total of 20 different pairs of pants or shirts (and at least half or more of them have to be unlocked in One Player Story Mode).
- You can build your own houses and have Sims live in them. Unfortunately, they can only be one story houses and you are limited to how much you can furnish them. So really, it's more like you can build your own ground-floor apartments, rather than actual "houses." The furnishing items are more varied than you might think, but because of the "fire code" you can only put down a very limited amount of them. If I had to guess, I'd say somewhere between 50 and 80 total items in the house (with the One Player Story Mode homes being able to ignore these limitations and be much larger than what you could build in Free Play mode). Now if you think about your house growing up or your parents house or your current house, you can imagine how 50 items is actually not a lot, at all. Especially in dealing with two to three bedroom homes.
- You can control entire families inside one household. You can run four Sims' lives at once inside a household and make them get jobs (or not). You can also build up their job skills stats, such as mechanical or cleaning skills, to further set their personalities apart and to help them get job promotions, with nine promotions being available in any career. Building up their stats and number of friends are how your Sims can get promoted and there are 10 different careers with ten different ranking levels in those careers. There's law enforcement, science, art, fashion, crime, medicine, politics, and so on.
- There is a First Player Story Mode that allows you to control a Sim as a life coach. You move into people's homes and help them take care of various problems in their lives. Once you fix their problems and lives (which could take hours, days, or even weeks), you move on to the next unlocked location. There are about 12 different "stages" in all and will vary from rich snobs living on a yacht, young adults living on a beachside front, Western movie set ghosts, and even aliens living inside a crashed spaceship!
If you're thinking any of these will be a quick fix, then you're wrong. You'll spending so much time in a location, trying to keep your Sims living requirements up, building their job skills, and keeping up their social networks, that it'll sometimes take a real-life week or two before you can take care of everything, depending on how often you play. It'll take numerous hours to solve all the problems in each location, I'll tell you that much. In the Sims world, it could very well be a month or two you'll be living there, especially if you have to control three other Sims that aren't your main character. So this makes the Single Player Story Line very long, but very entertaining because of it. Like I said, you'll be in some locations for a very long time, so you better make sure your Sim has a decent, well-paying job, and that he or she can afford to really make the place their own because they'll be there for a while. One example is the Mesa Gallery, which is just a small desert museum of art. There's a public restroom and that's it. So you'll basically have to build an entire living quarters while you help Jasmine become a popular artist. And you'll also have to keep her dirty hippie friends Willy and Rico alive while there, as well.
- Ultimately, you can very eaisly lose HOURS of your life playing this console version of the Sims 2 just as well as the main thing. Most of your time will be spent juggling your vital life needs, keeping up social circles, and expanding job skills. The one player mode is good, but I doubt many people will like it as much if they've played the PC version of the game already. (Well, maybe the uncreative people.) I can tell you this: the console and PC version are two VERY different games! The "Full" version of The Sims 2 is all about creativity and living out your dream life, with families and such. This version is all about fulfilling the personal life goals and needs of various Sims, with increasing difficulity in doing so. One really hard Sim to help is the player-wannabe on the HMS Amore, Hector. To help him, you must get him involved in a polygamous relationship with three Sims, at once. This includes making out with them, getting three of them in multiple hot tubs at once, and eventually having WooHoo (between the sheets fun) with a total of three sims. It's hard to build a serious relationship to the point of WooHoo with just one Sim, but with three? Very difficult! But at least the mojo "love" beds help.
WHAT YOU CAN'T DO:
- You can't control Sims' ages. All of them are roughly between 18 and 50 years old. No children, no adolescent teens, and no seniors. Of course, the main thing that's got PC players all riled up is this means, the Sims can't age and you can't have children. To all of them, I say SO WHAT?
- Sim Customization is limited. Just beware you won't be able to make ANYTHING 100% accurate to your liking in the consoles version of the game. But I managed to recreate The Simpsons' house to a good 90% accuracy, if you don't count the upstairs being missing. I turned the garage into a bathroom. The wallpaper/windows/door home creation options have enough variety so that it's really difficult to accidentally duplicate homes or living quarters. I'd guess maybe 40 different options for floor tiles and wallpapers and maybe 25 different doors and windows. But they don't have every color or style of anything, so getting a 100% accurate anything is pretty impossible.
- You can't build multi-level story houses, as said before. All homes are only one level. You also can't build anything outside of your own household area, like other neighborhoods or homes, for example. Each memory card allows you to build up to four houses; one in four different neighborhoods. Two homes are pre-built, but can be tore down into an empty lot easily. The neighborhoods are a midtown condo neighborhood, a woodsy-area suburb, a rural area, and a Japanese part of town with wide open space. All of the neighborhoods are roughly the same size for building space. You also can't build/customize neighborhoods; only the hosue lot space. So, in any given memory card, you can build up to four houses with one to four family members in each, in the Free Play mode. If you want to build more, you CAN tear down certain areas in the Story Mode to use as extra space for more homes. But four homes and families that you can completely customize is a decent number. However...
- Unless you cheat with "Free Items" or "Infinite Cash" you can't start building everything right away. Your basic home without cheats will just require a bed, a fridge for food, maybe a way to heat up the food, and a bathroom. Maybe a bookshelf for job skills and a TV or radio for entertainment, as well. Just know this before going in, as your house will require some expansion before it starts to look like what you want it. Unless you cheat. I cheated! >:)
- You can't actually "go" to work! I'm not sure if this is also the case in the real version of The Sims 2 for PC, but "going to work" simply means building up your job skills, then going into a carpool and getting out of the car when you come home. A bit dissapointing for me, as if you ever wanted to live as a police officer or a doctor, you can't in The Sims 2 (console version).
- You sometimes can't stop crimes or accidents from occuring! Often times, criminals will strike when you're at work and EVEN IF you have a security alarm, it will never help you out! Also, since all that happens when you go to work is time passing by, you may not want to play as only ONE character living in a household, as it'll mean a huge chunk of wasted time. Have one person work while the other stays home. This also helps prevent robberies of your valued goods. You can get a best friend or two and they can essentially "housesit" for you while you're at work, in order to make sure you don't get robbed while away. Owning a PC will keep them, or any visitor, in your house virtually all day long, as they'll sit there playing The Sims 2 (INSIDE of the game, The Sims 2!) However, best friends can still sometimes leave before you get home and robberies of fires could still happen. You also can easily die if your Sim isn't skilled enough in certain areas, like trying to cook, or fix electronics. If your Sim isn't at a high enough level yet to fix certain problems, call the repair girl or maid to do it, for you! You want to avoid fires at all costs, especially if your home is at the "Fire Code" limit! Fires are hard to put out and if they burn down something and your Fire Code is near it's limit, you will NOT be able to ever replace it (without cheating). Even though you'd think that item being gone would lower the Fire Code limitations on your house, it doesn't. It stays as high as if the item you owned was still there. Fires also happen in completely random spots. At least burglars will try to steal your most expensive items. Fires are just all random, however.
- You CANNOT stop your Sims life needs. Sure, juggling the Sims' basic life necessities such as eating, sleeping, and going to the bathroom with trying to build job skills up and keep up friends in your social group may make the game much more complex and difficult, but sometimes I just wish you could cut those things off. Sure, some like not bathing or being entertained or talking to people aren't necessarily "required" or mandatory, but they can be annoying. The most annoying thing of all is the sleep. Sims need to sleep or go to the bathroom CONSTANTLY!!! I often will just have a Sim make an Ostrich-Llama-Strawberry sandwich to keep their energy up just to avoid having have them go to sleep, but most energy foods also boost their skills temporally (which makes them having to stay up to boost job skills pointless because they're already boosted by three points from the food) or the food will make them horny, making social conversations awkward. I just hate how there's no option to have their life needs be cut off, so that I can finally have them get around to talking to those 13 friends required to get a promotion or getting their Charisma skills up to Ten. I guess, at least, the constantly-being-too-busy aspect of The Sims 2 is what gives it it's realism. Because you spend one-third of your day sleeping and another one-third at work, it only gives you so little time to keep friends or improve your skills for work. Especially since really the 3rd one-third is most devoted to preparing meals/eating/going to the bathroom. But I guess that's just like real life. Only, in real life, you CAN ignore bathing, or sleeping, or eating, if you really need to get something done! Wish The Sims 2 had that much more flexibility.
All in all, The Sims 2 on console is a good "replacement" for the much more advanced PC versions if you can't have it run on your computer, like me. However, just be aware that it isn't really a replacement, by any means, more as it is a substitute. Like I said, it's like the mobile phone version of a console video game. It's good for what it gives you, but if you're a true Sims nut and want to create FULL lives and neighbors and houses and ultimately, play God in your own Sims City, then you need to get yourself a fancy enough computer and buy the real thing (and it's thousands of Expansion Packs) and leave this one alone. This game is different from the PC version and focuses more on completing tasks and challeneges rather than improving your overall virtual Sims life and raising Sim Families. If you just want to enjoy the basic gist of The Sims 2, however, the console version is a nice sampler pack.
slow sims July 2, 2009
rickey (Montclair, New Jersey United States)
I am not the best sims player. The good part about this game is the graphics. Maybe it's me but it moves along very slowly so I am bord. I just leave it set up and when there is nothing interesting on tv I switch over to the play station.
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