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A total waste of time and money!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 33
Date: July 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have played many simulation games... Caesar, Civilization, Sim City, you name it... and Sims Complete Collection is without a doubt the most poorly designed sim I've ever had the misfortune to purchase.
Poor help/documentation, a sluggish and tedious and confusing interface (even with more than enough PC power/memory/video), and abysmal playability are just a few of this game's shortcomings. No wonder there are so many "cheats" out there... the game is basically unplayable without them.
Given that time passes more rapidly than real time (it takes 25 "sim" minutes just to get out of bed), so you soon find your characters have no time to explore their environment or expiriment with different interactions. Just bathe, eat, go to work, come home, eat, clean up, go to bed... over and over again, day after day.

There are good sims and not so good sims, but even the not so good ones still have some playability to offer.
Not so with the Sims Complete Collection.
It's a good concept, but very poorly executed.
A total waste of time and money!

2nd Disc doesn't work

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 34
Date: March 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

if you have any CD player on your computer, then the Sound disc won't install. i can't install it. wasted $30.00 on it. if you get these games, make sure that you don't pay over $10.00. it's not worth it

Everything or nothing..

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 24
Date: September 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

What you need to understand when purchasing this item is that all of the expansion packs get installed at once. Not only does this take time, but you end up with a very confusing game, with none of the elegance and ease of play that made the base game so much fun.

Some of the packs are fun, but all of them, together, with no way to turn them off? Bad idea.

Bad Sims

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 42
Date: November 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you had a choice to go to prison, or play the game, you would probably have more fun in prison and the game has bad graphics. If you want to try the free trial on Sims Online, you will wait all night for the download and then it won't even work. It wont Be Fun at all. After you read this, you might want to think of a different game to buy and never buy sims.

A graphics dinasour

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: September 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

After having only known, played, and become a die-hard fan of The Sims 2, I bought this TS1 collection out of sheer curiosity. Boy oh boy was I surprised when I installed it. I never would have guessed the huge difference in graphics quality (or lack thereof) in this game in comparison with The Sims 2. I've never seen such a giant leap in game and graphics quality between game versions until now. I'm SO glad I already have The Sims 2, along with all of the expansion packs and add-ons, to keep me entertained, but this was at least worth the cost to check it out and to collect. It also comes with all of the expansion packs already included, too so that's a big time/money saver. I may fiddle around with this version a bit more in the future, but I'm quite thoroughly satisfied with The Sims 2 and it's hard to take such a big step backward graphics-wise and quality-wise and still have as much fun. So I'm only giving this 3 stars.

Game WILL run on Windows 98 & 2000 NOT just XP

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 14
Date: April 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is for the person who wrote "Hi, Does the complete version only come in XP?"

This is what the sticker attached to the game says:

*THE SIMS COMPLETE COLLECTION SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

OS: Windows XP, 2000, or 98
CPU: 450 MHz or faster Intel Pentium II or equivalent
RAM: 128 MB or more
Disc Drive: 4x or faster CD/DVD drive
Hard Drive: At least 3.8 GB of free space
Video: DirectX 7.0 compatible video card
-Video card must have 4 MB or more memory and must be
capable of displaying 800x600 resolution in 16-bit color
Sound: DirectX 7.0 compatible sound card

1647424

So the Amazon webpage may say that this game only runs on XP, but going by the sticker it WILL run on Windows 98/2000/XP (as long as you've met all the other requirements). I'm only giving the game 3 stars right now because the 2 or 3 times that I've tried to play it have been pretty frustrating.

If you click on an existing family things might run smoother, but when I try to "set up" a household things get messed up. For example: You buy a fridge and stove, but your Sims want a bed. So you sell the fridge and buy a bed, but then they want a couch. So you sell the stove to buy a couch, but then they get hungry and want the fridge back. I personally don't find this "fun", just really annoying. I actually started looking for a "lightning" button to zap my Sims to the Pearly Gates. I know there's a "Free Will" mode, but they still stand there grumbling at me. :-)

They ALSO make a MACDVD version (MAC OS X), but THIS IS NOT IT!!!

sims complete collection

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 18
Date: April 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It is a great game but only for PC computers! What's up with that? I have a Macintosh computer and can't play any of these games I have to go to a friend's house to play this game! PLEASE make them for Macintosh, and I am posotive you will get a better business! If you don't, stop making them for macintosh computers. DEAL!!!!!!!!!!

sims complete

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I finally got bored trying to get many things to work at the same time, takes time indeed. Maybe I'm too hasty in games and this is not the one for me.

BIG WARNING

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 17
Date: January 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you have played sims2 before, DON'T buy this game!!! This happened to me and I'm gonna have to get rid of it.

Some good, some bad

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Many things in this game get a five-star. But just as many get one star, so the average comes out to three.

Things that were awesome...

-All expansions within one. This game is so full compared to the original Sims, though it can be overwhelming at times.
-You play God. You can even kill your Sims, or have them go into gay relationships.
-Building houses is a real kick. I have one house that is Goth-style, one that is a villa, etc etc.
-I love the pet option that comes with Unleashed. Spells are fun to cast (Makin' Magic) and it's fun to go on Vacation. I haven't really done much in the Superstar area though.
-The clothes! Oh, the fashions that I can put my Sims in! (and this Complete collection has a program that lets you create your own fashions as well) As each expansion came out, more outrageous and wild fashions were available, so this collection has them all and then some. Thus, you could make a house AND a family that fit together, though the kids could have used a few more clothing options.

Bad things?
-Some of the 'rules' of the game are annoying... having to make a certain amount of friends to advance the job ladder. It was so time-consuming to keep Relationships and make them just so I could get a better-paying job.
-One thing that pisses me off is the Beanstalk in Making Magic. I desperately want a magic beanstalk but keep getting crappy things like the geraniums or the stupid Root. I got ONE crystal (out of seven possible ones), and several ordinary beanstalks. I have no patience to keep buying magic ingredients to make spells in the HOPE of getting a magic beanstalk, or more kinds of crystals. Shame on the creators of this game for the convoluted rules.
-Unrealistic time. It takes so many Sim-minutes to do simple things such as getting out of bed.
-The bills that the Sims have to pay just for the stuff that they already paid for. Seriously.
-I already had the Sims and four of its expansions before I bought the Sims Complete Collection. This was just a big money-making scheme (fortunately, I sold my single Sims games on eBay to recoup some of my money) I might buy Sims 2, but only when they stop making the expansions for Sims 2 and make a Complete Collection like they did for this one.

So, overall, 3/5 (or 6/10 stars) No wonder so many people used cheats, or hacked game objects for easier use or download.

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