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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 198 / 203
Date: October 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Maxis has really outdone themselves this time... the Sims have pets!!

When you install the game, there are TWO DISKS which need to be installed, but only the first one is used to play. When the game is installed, you enter to a very different looking neighborhood... it has been expanded! There are several new lots, not just for housing, but also community lots. As there is with most of the expansion packs, they have a quite a few of already created families and houses for you to play with. If you choose to create a family, they have new outfits and heads for you to pick, including some new hair colors! Then, you can move your new sims into their house and begin playing. There are some new walls, floors and furniture for you to decorate you house with, and also some some new ways to landscape. You can enter "Buy Mode" and buy furniture (which includes pet supplies!) for you new house, or get ready for your new pet. Once you have gotten accustomed to your new house, you can pick up the phone and call a cab to explore the "Old Town".

"Old Town" is all of the community lots which you can go to and either buy pets, gardening supplies or even visit a cafe!! After you call a cab, you will see a trolly come and pick you up (there is no fee for going to Old Town!). Then, you will go to a neighborhood shot where you can choose where you wish to go. There are buttons along the top, which bring up arrows, showing you which shops sell what. If you are looking to buy a pet, you can either choose to buy a big pet (dogs/cats) or a small pet (iguana/fish/birds/turtle). Once you are on the lot, you are joined by some neighbors and/or computer created people. There, you can choose to do whatever you like! Keep in mind, when you go to Old Town, everyone in the family goes with (even pets... if you already have one).

When choosing a large pet (dog or cat) in the store, there are little stands with either a cat or a dog playing happily on top. You can choose to play with it or adopt. When you select adopt, you can choose the gender and breed. The computer will then ask you if you are sure you want to adopt a pet, once you have bought your pet, you get to name it (be sure to give your pet a name which will help you to know which gender it is, because if you forget, there isn't a way to find out). Once you are done with buying/naming, you will see your new pet appear at your feet. Then, you can choose to buy supplies for it (toys, collars, treats, etc.). While wondering around the lot with your new cat or dog, you may see a man walking around, with strange clothing on, he is the pet trainer, he offers to train your pet, but for a fee (the fee will grow larger, the more experienced you pet gets). You can either choose to go home with your new friend now, or go to a different lot.

Now, just because it is called "Unleashed" it isn't all about pets! You can garden too! First, you must go into "Build Mode" to buy some good planting soil (it's about 65 simoleans). Then, you have to call up the trolley to take you to Old Town, look for a good gardening shop, and go there. There should be large seed racks where you can choose your seeds. You can choose from four different crops (lettuce, green beans, carrots and tomatoes), when you buy the seed packets, you are given five seeds, which is good for five plating lots. Once you have enough seeds, you can go back home to plant. Click on the square of dirt where you wish to plant your seeds. Your sim should walk over to the area and begin to plant (it may seem to take a bit longer compared to the amount of time it takes the sims to do other activities). After your crops have been planted, you must carefully tend your crops, which involves a lot of work (weeding, watering and eventually harvesting). When your plants have grown and are ready to harvest, do so, and the produce will get added to you inventory. You can then either choose to store you plants in one of the new pantry shelves, or sell them.

But, there is one last thing! There are now five new career tracks! You can either choose a job in the line of culinary, animal assistance, fashion, teaching or your sim can even choose to join the circus!!

I hope you have found this review helpful... and I hope you go out to buy the game. It is so much fun!!

The sims in New Orleans?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 40 / 45
Date: December 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I won't waste your time by re-stating what was already said in the review below mine, which gives a run down of everything in the game. Instead, I will tell you what I enjoyed the most out of this expansion pack.

After examining screenshots and playing Unleashed on a PC, I must tell you that in my opinion, Unleashed is the best expansion yet! I was not looking foreward to having pets, the whole idea seemed silly to me, but I enjoyed the furry little things after a while, even though they can be a little annoying.

So, with Unleashed comes all the objects I have been needing to make grand houses, spiral staircases (in metal and wood) new windows and doors, shutters, new decor and some really nice wrought iron fencing. However, all of these things have a touch of the New Orleans style to them, and the wrought iron fencing, that looks like it just came out of the French Quarter! Not that I object since I spend most of my time making grand plantation style mansions for my sims to live in.

Not only is there just decor to make me think that this expansion is based off of the dark and mysterious streets of New Orleans, in Olde Town you can find a fortune teller who will read tarot cards, masks, to make a Mardi Gras celebration perhaps??, and a charming cafe scene.

I also must say that having a HUGE new neighborhood is a perk. I was getting a bit sick of the old lots, and now I have a chance to explore totally new house lots and community lots, which is like getting a new version of the Sims!

If you haven't already ordered this expansion, I highly reccomend it, if only to give your sims pets, gardening and beautiful new objects. Maxis and Aspyr have really outdone themselves on this one!

Not a perfect 10

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: May 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I was super excited when the release date was finally announced for the Mac version of this game. The concept is awesome and the feat was large, but a speedy arrival by no means is better than a flawless game. Unleashed is in deseperate need of patching. Some things not mentioned in many of the other reviews is that this expansion pack slows down the game quite a bit. There are skips and jumps in the activity, especially on community lots. Pets cause the slow down and skipping also to happen at home on the origingal lots. So I would reccomend only bringing pets home to the new lots. I agree with the mentions of strays, and yard cleanup from pets that aren't you own. I don't want you to get the wrong idea, this game is fun if you can put up with some slowing and annoyances. I however have stopped playing until a patch is released because my patience has run short.

Unleashed Barks Right Up My Alley

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: December 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Overall, I love this expansion pack. It has excellent features, like gardening, and ya, the pets are really nice too. In fact, if you feel so inclined, you can become a fully self-sufficient dog/cat breeder. The possibilites are endless. I love the Old Town bit as well, although the new NPC, "W.C. Friendly" borders on becoming "W.C. Stalker" because he follows you EVERYWHERE, like an annoying, saxaphone-playing big brother. Also, whenever you go to the petshop, there is a Pet Trainer there. In theory, you're supposed to be able to take your dog or cat there ANY TIME to pay for training sessions. However, there is a flaw. Every time I have tried it, I've only been able to purchase training sessions during the single outting to Old Town wherein I purchase my new cat or dog. It seems that the Pet Trainer is rendered useless after the original venture.

But I wouldn't let that detract from your decision too much. Overall, the expansion pack is well worth the money and I love the new furniture, which coincides with the 1920's jazzy feel of Old Town. It's worth your time and your money, in my opinion.

s-----l-----o-----w

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: September 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I love the sims. I think it's a fantastic game, highly entertaining. I have greatly enjoyed the first few expansion packs, but with Hot Date and Vacation, my computer began to slow. (I have a second generation iMac with a GB of RAM) With Unleashed, it became oppressive, skipping and missing huge chunks of action.

Hopefully with my new dual processor G5, this problem will resolve, but you shouldnt have to buy a $5000 computer to run a computer game. (yes, I'm buying the G5 for other reasons.....)

The idea of the game is great, and the pets are fun. This is the largest expansion pack so far, with tons of new characters and items. Just make sure you have the computer power to handle the program.

Unleashed is WICKED!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: December 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've been wanting sims unleashed for like, ever. Finally, I had a enough money to buy it. It's really awesome having pets, on two occasions my sim-pets had puppies. It stinks that you can't control your pets actions though. All you can do is watch them. I like all the new objects (pet bath,dog bed,ect.) In old town, it is always sooooo slow. It's a bit screwed up. Anway, overall this is a fun game. I recomend it.

P.S. I can't wait for sims 2!!!!

Great Game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First off, this has got to be the most unique Sims expansion pack yet! I think the pets are a wonderful addition compared to the pets you could buy previously (the deadly guinea pig that came with Livin' Large, and of course the fish aquarium).

Now, while the pets are nice, there are a few things that I am not happy with about the game. One thing that drives me absolutely insane, especially if I'm trying to play a game without using the cheats, is that with all these new pets, there are strays. Yes, stray pets, the pittiful little pains that wander around non-stop through your neighborhood, peeing and pooping on this lot and that. It is very frusterating to have my single sims come home from work and having them spend an hour just to clean up the little puddles on the very outskirts of the lot, just so their room score won't drop dramatically in the morning. Also, if you don't "shoo" these strays from your lot, they always litter your sims actions with such a thing like "beg" and "pet" whenever you step outside.

Another thing that is quite annoying are the garden pests, if you plant a garden, rabbits and mice are unavoidable, and the only way to get rid of them is to have a cat or dog (and more times than not, you need both). Of course, even if you have a cat or dog, most of the time they're just too lazy to go out to the garden and get rid of the pests.

While I think the idea is terrific, and I absolutely love some of the new items, I just think Maxis went a little too far on the realism of the game, thus I only give the game four stars. Don't get me wrong though, I still think this is a wonderful, and well put together game, that is a lot of fun. Even with a few complaints, I think that it is definitely a game you should buy, after all, these are only problems to me, not necessarily everyone else.

The sims are awesome!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: August 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for my sister, who has a mac. She has had so much fun that I am very glad she has it. I have all the Sims and I would recommend all of them to anyone. Everyone should get this game so they can have fun with pets!

Feeling great when Unleashed was "unleashed" in stores

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: September 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

When I first got The Sims Unleashed, I couldn't wait to see what it was like. I loved it and right now, at this moment, I am creating houses and huge mansions with the style of a real house. Will Wright has once again made a hugely entertaining Sims expansion. And the best thing about this game is that it never ends; so you will never be saying that you won the game. I'll treasure The Sims Unleashed along with every other expansion-along with the regular Sims game. I can't wait to see what brilliant idea pops up in Maxis's head next!

Almost too much to do!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Even though my mac is slightly below systems requirements I got Sims Unleashed loaded and running. I upped my virtual memory, but I am not sure how much good that did. ... There are added features including stores, pets and some new items. The problem is as most Syms players, with more than one family are aware, that it is difficult to keep all their needs met. With the chance to add a pet, who must me trained and feed and cleaned up after, skunks roaming around the yard that must have animal control capture them, racoons dupping the trash, not to mention going to the stores you can easily get over whelmed. The biggest problem I found was that all household members had to be at home before the "cab" would pick them up to go. The good new is if you want to cheat the word is still ROSEBUD.

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