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MAXIS, Why did you do this????

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 106 / 139
Date: November 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The Sims 2 is an incredible game! The PC version, that is.
But the Playstation 2 version? Guess what? This is NOT the Sims2.
No matter what the title may be, this is an unbelievable farce.
Let me tell you this for a fact; Sims 2 on PS2 is complete rubbish. There have been plenty of products that I have ridiculed on Amazon but I have always been aware that they are only my opinions and everyone has different tastes.
But I want anyone who is considering this game to know that what I am telling you about it is not an opinion.It is a straight fact.This game is... (a word Amazon will probably block, that starts with c and ends with p and has 4 letters)

It is nothing like the real Sims 2, and it is less interesting than any other SIms game ever.
The Create A Sim area involves a few small drawings of tops, skirts and pants.Apparently you can be a fashion designer!Oh sure, long sleeves or short sleeves?Collar up or collar down?How exciting.
The body and face maker is lesser than even the first Sims, you won't be able to see what you are doing anyway and no matter how you "morph" them, they stay looking the same.Plus, they don't even look real.They are ugly.
Story mode?Forget it. How fun it is to fulfill your sims needs that include Take A Shower. (Not!)
All while your ridiculous looking sim runs around like a lunatic as the useless creation that it is.
Free play mode?What the hell?? The SIms 2 is supposed to be about creating family trees.They can not even have children!!!
There are about 2 familes (but they aren't really families, there are no actual families) and there's space for you to create two more lots of roommates.

The build mode looked like a migrainne, while the buy mode was absolutely pathetic, with teensy child-like drawings.Very few too.
Thsi game is expensive but reeks of amateurishness. You will have more fun with a 2 dollar toy.
(And please note that this review is coming from an extreme Sims fan)
Maxis needs to aplogize to anyone who waited for The Sims 2 to come to console, and anyone who spent money for or recieved this ghastly piece of cow dung.
I have really really liked the Maxis gang for a while, very grateful for what they have done with the original Sims 2.
But now, Maxis, you owe us. Big time. To start with, can I have my money back?
It baffles me why they have made such an honestly horrible game.Do not buy it!
If you have been dying to play the Sims 2, I suggest the computer game.I know it has steep system requirements but I managed to purchase a new computer and I don't have much money.SO it can be done, if you want the (real) SIms 2 as badly as I did.
The computer game is truly fantastic but the console version is a nightmare created in the bowels of Hell.

the worst. period.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 16 / 19
Date: November 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

ok, i bought the sims 2 for playstation from amazon about 1 week ago. i had gone to my friend's house, who had the sims 2 for her pc, and were were playing it and i was hooked. i had the sims 1 for my mac and hot date and house party too, and i was planning on getting TS2 for the mac but, unfortunately, you needed a G4+ and we had a G3. shucks.

anyway, i bought this, thinking it would be easier on the ps2. (on the pc you have to install 4 discs and it takes forever, and i thought it would basically be the same thing without the annoyance of installing.) so i was so exicted when it came in the mail, i put it right in. from the second the main menu came up, i was heartbroken.

here are 11 reasons you should NOT buy this game:

1) you can't even see the houses! on TS2 for pc, you get to look through the entire neighborhood, then click on the house and you can bulldoze it or move in a family, and you can choose what it looks like, like the outside and if it had 4 floors or something, etc. but here, there's like, 4 houses and 2 of them are premade and the others are empty, but you can't choose which house that you specifically want, basically.

2) YOU CANT HAVE CHILDREN! the main reason i bought this is so that i could start families! no children, NO FUN! theres only 1 age thing, which i believe is adult. ughh!

3) the items are really bad, there aren't any useful ones, and they're badly animated. they provide very bad comfort, bladder control, etc. and on TS2 for pc, you can can chooose the colors for the items, but you cant here, and theres tons more items for pc.

4) the build mode is SO annoying! it takes FOREVER for me to build one room. there's barely any floor tiles, and there's really only 2 wallpapers i like. unlike any other sims game.

5) there's like, 5 unlocked outfits in create-a-sim and the rest are all unlocked! i mean, on TS2 for pc, you don't have to unlock anything, i think! and the ones that are locked are the actual good outfits.

6) the sims you can create are so unrealistic, its crazy. they have like, 5 REALISTIC make up choices, 2 clothes youd ACTUALLY WANT your sim to wear, the animation is horrible, i mean really! on TS2 for pc, you can choose the chin, the eye color, everything! on TS2 for ps2, you can only do the hair, fattness of your sim, nose size, clothes and thats it!

7) there's no formal, sleepwear, athletic wear, none of that. it's just ONE skimpy outfit. and the outfits look good in create-a-sim, but look weird in gameplay.

8) you dont have a REAL marraige, with everyone there and the wedding arch and all that. THIS is what it is:

step 1: you propose to the person.
step 2: you suddenly pop up and wear a dress / tuxedo.
step 3: you do a dement*d dance.
step 4: "congrats! you have been married to bob!"

and you can do that anywhere--in the living room, in the kitchen, or in the bathroom for gods sake! and no one watches, its just your sim and the person its marrying. plus, after you marry them, you can get divorced or break up very easily. PLUS, you can't interact with maids, paperboys, pizza guys or anything like you normally could in TS2 for pc. all you can do for maids are "dismiss" them, and all you can do for pizza guys (i think) are pay them. sheesh!

9) the "recipes" are unrealistic and are so annoying! they can make your sims bladder go REALLY low, they can come out really bad, and half of the recipes are made up! i don't even know why i, or maxis in fact, should even call them "recipes."

10) the controls shuck. its so annoying! like, you cant even make them like, scare eachother, the actual GOOD controls from TS1 got replaced by reta*ted ones. eew.

11) YOU CANT MAKE POOLS! i thought the entire JOY of TS1 & TS2 were the famous sims pools! yeah, there's hot tubs, but i don't see any pools! plus, YOU CAN'T MAKE MORE THAN 1 FLOOR! on TS1, you can at least make 2 floors, and on TS2 for pc, you can make up to 5--yes, FIVE floors. i mean, really!

ok, there were my 11 reasons NOT to buy this game for the ps2.. hope you enjoyed it and you don't buy TS2 for ps2, but buy it for the pc/mac. thanks. :)

What's happening to Maxis ?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: November 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Is this game called the sims 2 ? it's really amazing.Everything that is great in the sims 2 (PC) is certainly not in this game.
What makes the sims 2 so exceptional (compared to the previous versions)is the idea of generation !!! and in this game, no generation, no grandparents, no children...where's the point in playing the sims 2 and having 2 adults kiss for days? SUddenly it seems that Maxis have lost all genius. Can I have my money back ?

The Sims 2? More like The Sims 0!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: December 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Well let me just say this, if you liked TS1 for PS2, you'll LOVE it once you play this! Its like a first version of TS1! Seriously, it should be called TS0! I have TS2 and TS1 for PS2. I've played TS2 once, and I always play TS1! WARNING: If you're planning on buying this, DON'T!!! If you STILL want to play this, RENT IT. What ever you do DON'T i repeat DON'T buy it!

Awful

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 26
Date: December 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I had played Sims 1 and thought that it was a fun game, which is why I bought Sims 2 Holiday version for my hubbie and I this Christmas. I was shocked to find how morally inappropriate it was. A game that encourages cheating on your spouse and teenage sex has no place in our home. No wonder the divorce in our country rate is so high! This is what we are teaching our teens is acceptable adult behavior? I also think that the rating for this game should definitly be mature!

What The ???? Happened To The Sims?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: January 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I so wish I had read these reviews before I asked for The Sims 2 for Christmas. I was so happy when I got it and couldn't wait to play it. I had so much fun with the Sims on PC but it took up so much of my computer I had to take it out. I figured finally I could get my Sims fix without a major system freeze, yea right. I totally agree with everything everyone has said about the Sims2 for PS2! It is awful! I too miss being able to call for pizza. And what is with the no kids stuff? How can you create a family with no kids? They can marry as many people as they want at the same time and I have 2 Sims who have aspirations of cuddling in bed with THEMSELVES! How do you fulfill that? Sometimes in the socialize mode the two Sims will start talking, but no sound comes out until a few seconds into it, then it's like watching a badly dubbed Godzilla movie. I thought I was stupid because it took me two days to figure out the controls! Good luck seeing what the little drawings are in the create a Sim mode. I have to click each item to put it on my Sim just to see what it looks like. Needless to say changing clothes is a major time consumer. I hate it, I'm sorry I asked for it and I too want my husbands money back. I should have asked for an upgrade on my computer and stuck with the PC Sims2. Steer clear of this waste of time.

Where are the children?!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: November 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game 3 days ago. I have to admit that it's addictive and amusing.. but when I found out that you're not able to have children, I freaked. Creating and raising families was the main reason I bought this game.

The PC version is absolutly incredible, but since my computer does not meet the system requirements, I can only play it when I visit my friend.

Really, I have no intention of playing the console version anymore, I'm ready to take it back. I'm completely dissatisfied.

BORED BORED BORED

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: November 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The creators have lost th whole theme of the Sims which is to create you own family tree.
I cannot believe all you get to do is fulfill wants and aspirations. I get bored doing this. I mean the best part of the Sims was that you created your own family from birth-death. Instead the computer generates you a supposed family tree-they are so ugly. A load of crap. [...]Funny how they failed to mention that all the original aspects of the Sims has been removed in SIMS2 playstation. You'll have more fun buying the SIMS2 on PC not PS2. Serious. I don't play computer games often- but with the Sims I thought it was worth my time-now I have lost interest- I feel cheated- so will you if you buy on PS2.

Not the Sims 2

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I do not like this game at all. The graphics are awful. I even like the first Sims for the Playstation than this one. I feel I was ripped off paying $50.00 for this farce. I have the Sims 2 for the PC and all the expansion packs and I love that game. I feel like I'm getting somewhere on that one. You can't shut the aging off so don't know if on this game they age or not. Don't know if the they even have kids and if they age or not. Also they work 7 days a week just like in the first one. I don't recommend anyone buying this one. I wouldn't buy any of the other ones they have either because if they are anything like this one it's just a rip off.
When I went to make people I didn't get many choices on anything and the people looked and walked just like they did on the first one. They should never have called this one Sims 2 because it sure isn't.

Bad, Bad, and BAD!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: March 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I really liked the origional Sims for PS2. But this one was terrible. I played it for a very short time and stuck it on my game shelf and now it's probibly covered with dust. You can only do one thing at a time and I hate how people just move in with you for no reason at all. Yes, the graphics are better than the Sims 1 for the PS2 and it is actually fun to create your people but still this game is just plain terrible. I also hate this weird socialization zone that you get into. I highly recomend not to touch this game. BAD!!!!!

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