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Sims Reveiw

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 10
Date: January 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

It is actually ok go on one vacation and your sims fall in love make them jealous and make your sims life awful

Wasn't able to play the game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I purchased a MAC version of the Sims Vacation and cannot use it on my computer so I've never played it. Unfourtunatly it was a waste of my money.

WOW!...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 17
Date: November 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The game is really cool!... It's Awsome to play!...

Have Fun Gaming,
From A Video Gamer

A new land to discover.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It's like descovering a new land. A new part of the game is now availible. And I payed very little for it. Cheap upgrade. With a lot more availible and to do. Just remember to go to the ASPYR website to register and update the product. As well as download any needed debugging or fixes for problems.

Frozen!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: September 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Perhaps it's just me, but Vacation installed successfully on my mac and everything looks fine and works fine until I try to actually play the game. My sims are paralyzed and time is standing still. Again, I'm not sure if it's a bug in MY program, or if it's going to happen to everyone. I look forward to others posting here- in the meantime, be aware that the game is unplayable if it happens to you too!
(I give it three stars because I know if it worked, it would be wonderful. Somewhere between 0 stars and 5 stars, is three.)

Slower Processors Beware!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Although my G3 266MHz meets the minimum system requirements on speed, I was a little shy on memory so increased my virtual memory as recommended. However, even then the game was extremely sluggish and slow to the point of crawling. It was pretty much impossible to play with my current computer configuration. If you would like to add this one to your collection, be sure your system meets at least the RECOMMENDED specs, not the minimum and you should have loads of fun.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: August 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The reson I like this game is because it is so cool building all new resorts all the time then finnaly experiencing them for yourself. Win tockens from playing carnival games, then spend them on great soveniers for your memory chest, and you can make hotel reservations at snowy mountion lodges, swampy tents, and beach bungalows. Plus make new friends, and new memorys for your sims at the one place they will ever have this much fun, your resort on The Sims Vacation Expansion Pack.

Speed up, Sims!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The Sims Vacation is a fabulous game, with several new items such as the Shower-Tub, Igloo, Campfire, and Waterslide. Social interactions are no longer just one thing, but are split into different branches. For instance, the "Talk" option can be either "About Interests" or "Gossip-" you choose!
Another of the social improvements is dating. If you don't want the raciness of Hot Date, Sims can still call over their sweetheart and go on a vacation island date.

The downsides? Vacation Island is incredibly slow and skips a lot. The actual houses are more prone to crashing. Also, more negative social interactions will pop up spontaneously. Just as Sim A is going to propose to Sim B, Sim B will jump into Sim A's face and "Nag," about money, the house, or his rowdy friends. This sends the relationship for a dip and is also very frustrating.

On the whole this is a great game with exciting new features that could revolutionize Simming.

Answer to the Slow play problem.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: September 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Most of the time, the more items your computer has to process to re-draw, the slower the play. If you have a faster processor the game play should speed up. I have an old original G3 blueberry tower with a 400 speed processor and the redraw is much slower than when I play it on my 500 speed iMac. So it can either be an old slower processor, or you have only the minimum requirement for RAM, or you have an older video card that is making your game play slow. These are all posibilities. Apple's web site does have free firmware updates for things like the video card. I hope this helps.

LOTS of fun...once you get it to work, that is.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 14 / 20
Date: January 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I eagerly anticipated Maxis' porting of Sims Vacation for Mac. I got it for Christmas, and immediately installed it. BOY was I disappointed. The game was SO SLOW that my Sims couldn't even do anything at home, let alone on Vacation Island. However, I went to the store and bought some more RAM, and tried again. At this point I had almost 1 GB of RAM, which I figured would be more than enough. No dice. The game was still unbelievably slow. I emailed Maxis and they told me to reinstall EVERYTHING.

GRRR! Not exactly what I was hoping to hear. However, once I reinstalled (which took FOREVER, I might add), the game worked beautifully and was a lot of fun. Apparently, the game was so slow because I had installed too many downloads--extra objects, skins, and so on. While this was no problem in Hot Date, evidently the new actions and such in Vacation were too much for it all. This means that now I am playing the game at factory settings with no add-ons. Not as fun as it could be, by any means! Every die-hard Sims fan knows that 75% of the fun is customizing the game with downloads! I'm going to have to start downloading stuff again and adding gradually...ugh.

I would like to give the game 3.5 stars, but Amazon doesn't do half-stars, so I'm leaning more toward 3 stars than 4. The game is a lot of fun once you completely reinstall and start over new, and if you have a TON of RAM in your computer. If you don't want to have to drag over your old stuff to a new install, or start over completely, then you probably shouldn't bother. I don't know if it's worth it. I'll have to play a few more times before I make that decision.

By the way, Maxis says that these issues with slowness and such have been addressed in Unleashed. That's good on one hand, but at the same time, why should we have to fork over ANOTHER $30 just to get decent game play???

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