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very fun
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 4 / 13
Date: April 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User
ok if you are stuch with lord mole shoot him with the water gun
Sims 2
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User
First I brought the Sims 2 game for my computer but when I'll installed it it would not work so that is why i got it on nintendo ds. I though the nintendo ds verison will be the same as the pc verison where you can actually make families and build houses for them like in the original sims but it isnt. the sims 2 for nintendo ds is your character gets stuck in a desert and becomes a manager of a hotel. Fun game but nothing like the pc game
Good in concept.
1
Rating: 1,
Useful: 2 / 4
Date: April 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User
This game has a lot of aspects that are enjoyable and when it was running it was fun to play. There are quite a few glitches in this game that cause it to freeze and when I tried to access the options menu it blacked the screen having to be reset. If you play this game save often, otherwise you spend most of you time doing the same missions over and over.
WHAT A WASTE!
1
Rating: 1,
Useful: 4 / 14
Date: June 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User
this game is not what i expected! i didn't want to run a stupid hotel! i wanted to actually date and cook and stuff! its an OK game but BAD on the fun! DON'T WASTE UR TIME!
Great Game to Pass the Time Away
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 2 / 5
Date: April 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User
In overall, this game was pretty good. I like it a lot, but the only thing I did not like was that it only had a little selection of clothes, and the way it froze up. Being used to The Sims 2 on Playstation 2, this was way different.
I enjoyed it at first because you meet the townspeople and help the town. Then over the time, you have to save up your money to buy the different Hotel rooms. There is about 3 other Hotel rooms, (they are all different looking on the inside), and lots of different shops you can buy. There is other "secret" rooms.
Then, over the time, I don't know if it was MY Nintendo DS Lite, or the game, but whenever I clicked on the things I had in my "Pockets", it will freeze up, and you need to click on it because that is your inventory. It has happened twice to me already, and I have only had the game since last Christmas. I've had to restart the game.
What I think is the funnest part of it is there is an Art Gallery, where you can paint up to 5 of your own paintings. That is really fun. And the other thing I really like is there is a Music Lounge, where you can create your own song. You speak or sing into the Mic, and it records your voice for about 10 seconds.
*WARNING - Spoiler*
When you buy the room that is called either, "Secret Storage Room", or, "Basement Storage Room", I couldn't find it at first, but it is by the "Alien Autopsy Room", the crates and barrels, you walk up to the barrels and crates and it will flip open and in there is a secret stairway going down. In there you will find BigFoot, and you have to make sure to feed him once a day, or he will make your Guests at your Hotel, mad and/or sad.
*Secrets*
If you tip over the Cow, and press, "Milk", you will get a Milkshake, instead of your regular Milk.
most boring game ever.
1
Rating: 1,
Useful: 4 / 16
Date: January 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User
this game is NOTHING like the sims 2 you can play on your computer. you're only one person and your stuck in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do. seriously, it's the worst game i have ever attempted to play. do not buy it unless you want to throw away twenty dollars, well, actually throwing away twenty dollars would even be more fun than this game. just don't buy it. get the computer version if your heart is set on the sims.
It's Okay
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User
Sims 2 isn't what I expected, I mean, there wasn't many choices to choose from, and right now, I'm stuck on a goal which is impossible, practically. I need to find 5 mechanical, which is hard because they only appear once a week, at a certain time, at a certain place. Other goals are'nt very life-like, like how aliens attack, and the city hall catches on fire almost every day, and also you can pass out in the desert after 2 minutes, and somehow, in a matter of time (2 seconds)you end up in the manager's suite again. It is really weird.there are a lot of different people to meet, but make sure you still let them stay in your hotel.Choose wisley on what kind of person you want to be.It can affect the way the game works. Also, make sure you build lots of rooms, for more buisness and their version of money. Anyway, the positves is you can become ratman, and have your'e own personal suite to be built, and it's very simple to negotiate with other people. All in all, you have to be very patient with your character that you create, and he/she will bring great things for entertainment to you.Watch out for the guy in the penthouse.Oh yeah, and try to meet as many people as possible.-Kate
Fun For Awhile
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User
This game can become the same old thing with little new to experience after you play it long enough. Although fun and exciting at first, like any new game. There is a lot to explore if you enjoy running around freely.
Not bad, not awesome either
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User
I have to say that while I was addicted to this game, what I didn't like about it was the fact that it was in real time. This means that instead of most sims games like the castaway one (which I enjoyed more than this but was done with in like four days)or the computer version, where it is daytime for only like 15 minutes to an hour, this one actually runs on YOUR time..meaning you could literally play it all day long. I'd turn it on at 8am and get a mission I couldn't do until literally 8pm my time. So i'd play for a little bit, interacting with the charactors, cleaning the hotel, earning money and then turn it off until right before 8 and do my mission. It took me two days to do my last mission because I needed to get three more mechanical symbols. That really annoyed me because once you get those symbols you just fight the robots and once that is done the game is over. I have to say that in that two days I got really bored interacting with people and looking for their cell phones. Except for the times I would find them in the desert or right outside the hotel, I could never find them. Overall it was a good game, just not a GREAT game. I think it would have been more enjoyable had it not run in real time.
Also LOL man that cop in the town is NO help whatsoever. Of course he arrested ME the one time I fell asleep on the floor of the bank but he ignores everybody else.
As someone else pointed out too, my Mayor disapeared sometime during the game. I also didn't like how you had to wait literally 8 hours for Tristan to build a room. Also for the person that asked about killing the mole, you don't actually have to. He isn't really that bad of a guy, it's the robot that is the bad dude.
ALSO what really annoyed me is that even though you were supposed to be on friendly terms with the alien and trying to find blue prints, he still came in and did invasions and zapped you! I hated how if I jailed two aliens and then the third one zapped me and I ended up back in my room, walking in my room like I had been anal probed, I had to capture them ALL over again. Or if I captured the two other aliens and the main alien flew away, the only way to get him back was to step into a room for a minute and then stop back out again and he would be back. But so would the aliens you just captured sometimes. Frustrating.
At the end when I only had two mechanical symbols to collect, I found myself with like 100,000 dollars and really nothing to spend it on but furniture but there was really no point. All my rooms were built, no one was asking for anything, etc. It was really boring. I found myself just wandering around seeing what I could find in the desert. At one point they said to find a chest in the desert by 8pm. I searched that whole desert five times and found no chest. Only to step back into the hotel and have Penelope call me and say"I just found a large chest in the desert. Hope no one was searching for it." I was like you witch LOL
The Sims 2
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 2 / 7
Date: May 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User
The sims 2 is a fun game. You run a hotel and get all of these wierd guests. Between Aliens and Bigfoot your almost never bored. But thier are some cons to this game. At times you wish you weren't concealed to strangetown. Overall it is a good game.
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