Memories impact your sims' future behavior (though not to any huge extent), and they can also be used to build out a highly customized neighborhood with its own background story and photo album if you're so inclined, though they don't add much more to the basic game. Memories are generated by important events that occur in sims' lives, like getting married, having a child, or having a loved one pass away. While they still have specific personality types determined by their horoscopes and individual characteristics like neatness, niceness, and playfulness (which you can still adjust to your taste), sims now have some notable major new features (some of which are more important than others), like memories, customized appearances, genetics, aging, and the new aspiration/fear system. Plus, there are expanded building options that let you build a much bigger house.īut the most significant additions in the new game are probably the enhancements made to the sims and the ways they act. However, the sequel has several new options, including an enhanced neighborhood editor that lets you import custom cities from Maxis' own SimCity 4, if you have that game installed. Your sims interact with each other and with their neighbors, children leave the house for school each day, and employed adults head out for work to earn a living in one of a number of different career paths. You then create a virtual household of one or more sims (you get to decide whether they're roommates, spouses, or parents) and move them into a house and a neighborhood that is either prebuilt or built from scratch. In the most basic terms, The Sims 2, like The Sims before it, lets you create one or more "sims"-autonomous characters with distinct personalities and needs. You can make a highly customized family, even if all you want is a bunch of Nerds.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's
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Then again, you could simply say that EA and Maxis are making sure the game has room to grow with future updates-and there's no denying that The Sims 2's additions will give dedicated fans of the series plenty of stuff to do. It also features plenty of options to play with, but it seems like it could've used even more content. Yes, it introduces plenty of new features that enhance the gameplay that was so popular in the original game, but it doesn't drastically refresh it. But considering that The Sims 2 is the sequel to what is reportedly the most successful computer game ever (and that's not even counting its many expansion packs), the new game almost seems like a victim of its own success. For some, especially the devoted fans that have enjoyed the first game's open-ended gameplay, which was all about controlling the lives of autonomous little computer people, this is all that really needs to be said. If you were wondering, The Sims 2 is a great sequel and a great game in its own right, and it's recommendable to just about anyone.
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