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This Game is Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: May 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun since you can have puppies, however only when your cat or dog get pregnant by another cat or dog and you have to be at least friends with them before they will do this for you. However your sims can have fun playing with their very own pets. You can give your pet a job, teach them new tricks, your can every train them, and buy items for them. You can only do limited tasks like playing, feeding, let out, and clean cage with small pets like the guinea pigs and birds. If you like pets and Sims 2 you should buy this game.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: April 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I got this game for Christmas. I enjoyed playing my regular Sims and could not wait to add an expansinton pack onto my game. The pets a very realalistic and the graphics are great !!! You can have big dogs, small dogs, puppies, kittens, cats, birds, and a hamster. I wish they would have put other pets like fish ,horses,and turtles, but the other animals are cool too. Your pets can have jobs like movie star or rescue pet. Your pets can even fall in love!(how cute) Anyway I recammend this game to pet lovers and Sims fans of any age. It really is a great game to paly

One of the Best

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: November 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

BEST YET!!

The birds and reptiles are just bought "as is", but when you buy your puppy or kitten you can choose its gender and from 15 different types. For cats, go from Siamese to striped to minx with no tail. For the dogs, you can get 101 Dalmatians, or maybe a terrier is more your style? The web also offers many, many other skin types if your favorite breed doesn't come with the software. I was able to make a dog that looks, and acts like my REAL DOG!! It is so close it isn't funny.

In addition to the pets, this expansion also offers five new careers - education, fashion, circus, culinary and animal care. You can grow food in your garden if you wish, and there are new places to visit in town, including a pet show to show off your new friends.

But the highlight of course are the pets. You can't control them - you just interact with them. But the interaction can be quite fun. Before you know it, other neighborhood pets will be wandering by to say hello! A must-have for any Sim lover, it really adds a lot to an already addictive game.

Mediocre, convoluted... WTF!!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: January 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

It's a Sims 2 expansion pack that adds pets...

There are only a few things worth noting:

1.) You must be a patient Sim-overlord if you are going to tolerate pets in your Sim home. You have no direct control over the pets, and depending on the pet's personality, you may go through a lot of furniture until you can have your Sims convince their pets not to destroy your hard-earned furniture.

2.) You must be willing to suspend some disbelief. Otherwise, you will find yourself cursing profusely at your monitor as your sim-cat refuses to leave its litter-box, slowly starving until the Sim City SPCA comes to the rescue of the poor neglected animal. Why wouldn't the cat move from its litter-box? The little squeaky mouse blocked the cat's egress.

3.) Did I mention patience? The Pets expansion fits in well with the micro-management style of Sims play. However, it soon breaks down into frustration and annoyance the more hands-off you become. Sims are all too happy to play with their pets. However, even one pet can keep the whole family busy cleaning up after it until bedtime and beyond.

This expansion is a novelty at best.

Sims 2 - Pets Review... Eh.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: February 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Personally, I love The Sims and the expansions, but this one in particular fell a bit short. My biggest beef with the pets are the pets themselves...

When you have a new puppy and are training said canine where to "go potty" - the buggers are about as sharp as a circle. They want to go outside so they freak out trying to find a way down (if there is a foundation). Then, they pick some random object in the outdoors to pee on... Usually way in the far off corner of a huge lot that is foliage -- or the mailbox. You don't want them peeing on the mailman? Punish them to unlearn the trait, then re-praise them after they're gone potty inside and you have to break them of that a second time... rinse and repeat until they pee where you are pleased. Not fun. This especially comes into play when they pee somewhere waaaay far away. You forget they ran there, you forget to have someone clean it up.... and then you have a negative million environment score outside. Why? Because the area is so overrun with weeds that it takes almost a full sim day to clear it all out. Tips: have a robot maid (not the Servo specifically, a CleanBot -- if you have Open for Business), use a Servo (also OfB required), or hire a maid + gardener.

The other big beef is the motives are a bit...off. Sim is a family sim. Sim has a lifetime want of having 30 puppies / kittens grow up to be adults. (Literally. Not children. Pets.) Annoying if you are doing a particular family without a pet.

My final beef with this expansion entails the new wants... I want a birdcage. I want a kitten. I want a puppy. I want a hamster. Sadly, I had all four of those at one time -- on a knowledge sim! Sheesh! It's like with the University expansion -- yay for new stuff, boo that if the sims don't get to PLAY with the new stuff they go mentally insane -- literally.

Am I sorry I bought this expansion? Nope. But it did fall short of my standards overall, unfortunately. Here's hoping the next expansion does a bit better.

Not Totally What I Expected

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: March 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I expected this to be more sophisticated than it actually is. All the dogs are built on a basic mold: either generic small or generic big dog and to make different breeds it alters it a bit. But the breed-specific anatomy isn't that great. I can't help but think the programmers didn't consult ANY breed standards. Many of the "breeds" on this game just bear a faint resemblance. Even when you totally customize a dog you are quite limited in what you can do. For instance the proportions are largely stuck the same. You can't really change angulation, leg length, depth of chest, etc. And forget about making far from the generic mold like Bulldogs and Shar Pei. There just simply isn't enough ability for customization. You can sorta change the texture of the coat (it has the options straight, curly, wavy, etc.) but it is not convincing to the eye. Pretty much the further away from straight you get the blurrier it gets. You can change coat length but it looks funny the longer it gets. I'm also not too happy with the tail options. Like for docked breeds you can have a docked tail but it's the length you'd see on a Weimaraner or Vizsla and it doesn't stand up at all! It looks pretty funny on a Doberman Pinscher, Schnauzer (you can actually make convincing schnauzers by the way!), Boxer, etc.

What really peeved me is there is no way to control the depth of the head. It's like, stuck on being really deep. So when you make a Pit Bull (called an Amstaff on the game) it looks more like a Pit Bull-Great Dane mix!

Now there are some good sides to it. If you don't care about breed-specific nuances and just want to make cool looking dogs regardless of if they look much like their breed or not then you would be happy with this. You have a good bit of control over markings in the coat.

You can own cats, birds, and some small pets too. Cats and dogs can get jobs which makes you quite a bit of money. This game adds wolves and werewolves. If you have a lot of trees on your property a wolf will probably visit. If you play with it for awhile it will bite you and turn you into a werewolf until you purchase the potion that cures it from the pet trainer. This is a good thing if you have a sim with these aspirations.

The Sims 2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I own every single Sims 2 Expansion Pack and Stuff Pack. I really enjoy them! I can play them for hours on end. I have a tendency to lose track of time when I am playing it. Pets is an awesome Expansion Pack, but the best by far is Seasons. Every one of these EPs and SPs is worth the money!

Fun expansion, worth the money

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

As a Sims 2 fan and a pets fan, it was only natural that I'd get this expansion for my game. The pets are a fun addition to the Sims. You can design your own or select from many breeds. Luckily the personality of the pets is independent of breeds, so you can get the really cute ones that are hard to train in real life with no problem on the Sims.

You can see the pet's needs and social relationships, but you cannot control them. However, your sim can reinforce good behavior and discourage bad behavior (or visa versa, if you want a "bad" pet) by praising or scolding them soon after they do something notable.

The pets are fairly self-sufficient and don't make the game run slower or cause any glitches that I can tell. My only qualm is that I'd like even more content with the pets. For example, there is only one dog toy. However, you can "unlock" content by achieving pet career goals (yes, pets can have jobs!) so I'll have to try that and see if there are more dog toys to be found.

Great Expansion Pack

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Ever since I bought the Sims 2 I have always been waiting for a Sim 2 versrion of Sims 1's Unleashed. I think the Sims 2 Pets is alot better than Unleashed. First off you can have different sizes for the dogs and add them and the cats personalities as well as customising them! I also liked it that you could choose colours and names for the birds and guinea-pigs. Also there was lots more you could do with your pets, you can get your pets jobs and there are WEREWOLVES. I apsolutly loved the were wolf part it was so cool! There was just one thing that I think EA could have improved. The choice of mini pets. I think they could have added Igunanas again and maybe a rabbit or turtle. But apart from that, this is a great Expansion Pack. Can't wait till the next one.

The Best Expansion Pack for Sims2 (Next to Seasons)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: April 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love this game as much as my teenage daughter! She loves playing the people's lives, while I love building houses & creating families. The Pets expansion pack makes the game itself so much more fun to play. We have an Australian Shepard & Papillon, neither of which were included, but both were easy to make. Sims dogs and cats have personality traits that so closely resemble the real things, it's amazing! The whole Sims2 series in just good clean family fun that, with adult supervision, can be enjoyed by all.

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