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Time for a vacation from your Game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 35 / 58
Date: September 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Your Sims need a vacation. All that dancing and gesturing wildly has them worn down, and they'd love nothing more than to get away for a while. Lucky for them, the newest Sims 2 expansion pack, Bon Voyage, is here.

The Sims 2: Bon Voyage is a massive pirate ship your Sims can crawl around on. There's a practice dummy for swordplay, a plank to walk and a captains' quarters to loot.

"The pirate ship is definitely the biggest object we've ever made (in the Sims)," Pearson said.We've previously reported that Bigfoot is wandering around the forests of the game's Mountain Getaway location, but there's also apparently a ninja or two to be found at the Far East destinations, Pearson said.

You can take up to eight Sims along on vacation (sorry, no pets or toddlers allowed), including NPCs. Like the maid at your hotel? Why not take her home?

I played this new expansion last night and it is awesome. Eats up a LOT of memory for your computer so be sure to upgrade!!! Or be ready to. It is one of the best upgrades they have done!

Jessica Lynn

I love this game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 16
Date: September 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I think this is the best expansion pack I've played yet. I love how you can book the vacation and spend the days at the resort. It's awesome. I just bought it last night and have not gotten into the full details yet but I am thoroughly excited.

The Best So Far!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: September 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Have to say besides loving the season this is number 1 of all Expansion packs that they made so far for the Sims 2. I ony played on the island and can not stop plying for the Islands are great so far and love how you can pose for a picture and learn a fire dance which is fun to watch when they are learning it. Hope the other two places are just as fun. Hope everyone will enjoy this. for this is the best yet.

Installs unwanted program that can be harmful to computer

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 22 / 24
Date: September 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The expansion was really bad, but the worst part is some kind of program called "Securom" that installs itself on your computer.
The problem is that sometimes when I try to start the game, this unwanted program locks the whole computer and I can't do a single thing, I have to turn it off by the powerbutton which is NOT healthy for a computer.
This happens 8/10 times when I try to play the game and it's not worth risking destroying my computer, so I'm uninstalling this game and never buying a Sims game again.

I liked it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 27 / 29
Date: September 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Overall, an excellent expansion. However, I would say that this expansion only applies to "hard core" players who enjoy different aspects of the Sims rather than just "life". It gives exactly as it promises: vacations. So does this really add to how your sims live? Not really. Unlike, say, Seasons or University, the Bon Voyage is more of a nice little add on rather than a change in lifestyle. Everything about this pack looks great. I haven't really encountered any bugs thus far. The vacation "badge system" is nice beucase it can make your vactation as goal oriented as you want. I enjoyed how in order to earn some local customs, you just have to let your sim roam around on his/her own (it allows the NPCs to approach your sim). So it's almost a vaction for the player compared to the nitty gritty details of Open for Business. The three premade vacation spots are different enough in that it will make you want to visit all three. Tons of new objects allow you to create your own vacation spot or just spice up a home. Also included are a few new serious build tools for those who enjoy making custom houses. So, as I said before, a really nice and well put together add on. I would rate other packs over Bon Voyage based only on necessity. But if you just enjoy the Sims and like those little touches that make it that much more like real life, Bon Voyage is a worthy investment.

Nice!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: September 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a good expansion pack. It's a little buggy, as all are when they first come out, but I have experienced fewer glitches with this one than any other EP I've gotten. The vacation lots tend to lag a little, but the normal lots do not. I imagine (hope) this will be fixed when they put out a patch.

While Seasons is my favorite, this makes a very nice addition that I have spent hours and hours playing. Some new things you can look forward to:

Tai Chi
Two new dances
Beach lots
Digging for treasure

And more. I don't want to spoil the surprises for you, so I'll leave it at that.

Extremely slow and annoyingly glitchy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 75 / 95
Date: September 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was really excited to get my hands on this newest expansion pack in the Sims 2 franchise. Unfortunately, it didn't live up to my expectations.

I'm running Windows XP with more than one gigabyte of memory, which (according to the requirements on the box) should be more than enough. It isn't. I experienced the worst slow-down in loading times. Even "Pets" wasn't this bad! To load the game took nearly five minutes. To load the neighbourhood took another five. Then it was another couple of minutes to load a lot. I thought that my custom content was perhaps slowing things down. So I got rid of all of it. I didn't notice any difference. I can't imagine trying to run this expansion pack with the recommended minimum 512 megabytes of RAM. I'm not sure the game would ever even load.

I took my Sims on two vacations. For the first, I took a single woman to Twikkii Island. I noticed how slow it was right away. With all the other Sims wandering around these vacation lots, there's bound to be a bit of lag. I had her visit the beach. It rained and the gameplay grew even slower. I had her visit some ancient ruins. The game slowed almost to a stop when she encountered a hot springs (it must've been the steam animation). It was just too much for my computer. Plus, each time my Sim walked to another lot, there were more minutes of loading time.

For the second vacation, I took a couple and their child to the mountain vacation destination. By this time, the loading times were really starting to annoy me. I only had them visit one other lot, and I made the mistake of having the mother and daughter play on the log roll. The mother got completely stuck, and I had to look up how to free her using the debugging tool. A search of the BBS on the official site shows that I am not the only one to experience this problem.

I didn't bother having my Sims visit the Far East destination. By the time I got my poor glitched family back from their vacation, I'd had enough.

The developers seem to be using their customers as beta testers. That's fine if they tell you that. But when I buy an expansion pack for my favourite game, I don't want to have to avoid certain gameplay experiences until a patch is released. These issues - if they are as common as they appear to be - should have been addressed before the games were finalized and shipped.

I've uninstalled "Bon Voyage". I'll go back to playing with the setup I had before. And I'll seriously think twice before wasting my money on the next piece of memory-hogging garbage that's released under the Sims 2 brand.

Not that great

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 36 / 48
Date: September 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First of all I totally agree with La Coccinelle's review. I have plenty of memory, graphic cards and anything else that this game needs to run and it is terrible, the graphics in my opinion are cheesy, it took forever to load and as my person on Twiiki Island was actually having fun it all crashed on me. I have unloaded the game and now my computer is happily running how it always does, great...honesty I feel these expansion packs are being put together too fast and not tested really well. The more that come out the more I am getting annoyed, there aren't that much things that adds to decorations, as I said the graphics are cheesy and it is not worth the time it takes to load the game for it to just crash... I can't take it back so it will just sit on a shelf collecting dust waiting to see if they come out with a patch or SOMETHING that will get it to work...I would not buy this until it has been out long enough for the glitches to be worked out...

Better than I thought

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 12
Date: September 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

At first I was not sure how this would expansion would contribute to my enjoyment of the game but this expansion is comparable to seasons on how it enhances the gameplay. Now of the two seasons is definitely better because it enhanced and improved every aspect of all the previous expansions in effective way.(except sims 2 pets) However hardcore sims 2 fans will not be disappointed in this expansion.I wont list everything that was new and different but there is things to look foward to like expanded romance options, additional business prospects, more building options, and decent amount of nifty items. I would best describe a sim going on vacation as being a pleasure seeking sim on a greatly expanded outing(nightlife expansion) without the same problems associated to it. Now I did not give this game 5 stars because of two things. One is the techinical issues. It is understood there is no such thing as flawless pc game. Every game that comes out is followed by patches to fix programming glitchs that are usually minor. This is the first time I experienced hardware failure after a sims 2 installation eventhough my computer exceeded minimum requirements. I resolved most of the problems by doing driver updates on my video card, keyboard, and mouse. I am still experiencing a slower load times and lag in the game. This is excludes the typical software glitches found in games. My second problem is that bon voyage is not a very deep expansion. The first 3 sims 2 expansion the nightlife , university and open for business are true expansions because they actaully expanded gameplay. The last three pets,seasons, and this one are just mostly enhancements. Its far to easy to play the game and still enjoy it without these last three being installed. I am thinking we are coming to close to finished product as far as expansions are concerned since the sims 3 is already in developement. So I predict no more than a couple more expansions before EA is done. My recommedation is yes buy this if you a hardcore sims 2 fan but if you are more casual player wait unitl the patch come out or better yet when they offer some of these expansions in bundles.

Response to negative feedback

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 35
Date: September 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Ok, first of all, the negative reviews from customers are bogus, they are complaining because they have a crappy computer and the game makes them crash, its not the games fault, its your fault. Now, about the game.
The game itself is great, the best in my opinion, very entertaining, fun locations. If you are a sims fan or if you are not, get it, its amazingly fun.

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