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Sims 2 Fun on PC & Mac but Not on Xbox!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I recently bought this and thout it was going to be great!, like on the pc or mac right?! But NO it's not at all like the computer version, so I definitely feel like I did not get my moneys worth! Do not by, just wait for the Sims 3 on the console coming next year (Hopefully)!

Sims ADDICT!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I LOVE this Sims game! I haven't finished it YET! Still working on Bustin' Out.

fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: December 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

NOTE: i only rented this
this game was fun. i made my sim waiting to get to the action. i've never played a sims game before so i didnt know why i couldn't walk on the road but i eventually figured out. thought they just plopped me in a house with housemates. on PC you get to build your house start from scratch. overall i think this was pretty good. then i had to return it. if you want this try hard to see if you want it PC or XBOX (they're a huge difference).

Buy This Game If You Like To Waste Money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

When you first get this game, it is very addicting for about a week. Then you get extremely tired of it for about a year. Then you never want to see it ever again. But honestly, this is as bad as it gets. There's no decent clothing or decent styles for rooms in your house, and you can never find furnishings that you like. So on my free plays, all my houses looked similar because there was only a few house options I liked. You can't build two story houses, and your Sims stay the same age always. When you have a family, you can't have younger kids, just adults. In story mode, there's only one house that's interesting, and even then, it gets boring. Please, don't waste your money on this one.

Age

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I played this game once in july 2006 and I haven't been able to play it since. My mom and Dad are too strict. I just love this game. I just love setting my sim's house and the sims on fire.

Sims 2

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My daughter wanted this game, and plays it almost daily. It's a simulated game that you play, making your own profile of people, or aliens that are green--that can live together in a home. You get to build your own home, decorate it, and invite friends over. Earning points, and getting jobs to buy furniture and clothes, this game is addicting. The only thing I don't like about this game is it shows people sitting on the toilet going to the bathroom, and if you have a male and female sleep together they show them having sex by having the covers go up and down (suggestive big time). I thought that was inappropriate for a game. My daughter is 13, and I told her she isn't allowed to let characters sleep together anymore. She doesn't do that anymore, and basicly she pretends the guys are her brothers now. She really loves this game, but the graphics could be a lot better. I think the graphics on the PSP are a lot better than for the Xbox version. Kids love this game, so I thought you would like to know about these things before buying it.

Highly addictive and a blast to play

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 16
Date: January 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I play xbox a lot, probably more than I should...and this game is extremely fun and dangerously addicting. But hey, what's more fun than reefers and video games?

Stick with the PC version as long as you can.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: October 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Sims 2 for Xbox had to have been on my amazon wishlist for at least 6 months, even before they had a box shot for it. I've played every version of this series from PC, to PS2, and onto Xbox, and havent been really upset with its rough PC to console translations. This edition though has three vital changes from the PC version. First, sims do not age. Secondly, no building of two story homes. Lastly, the sims work everyday, unlike the PC's 2 days off per week. These arent features that make or break the solid innovation of the series but the game should have been promoted as a stand alone title, and this console version leaves little to be desired.

New Features But disapointing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: April 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I saw the PC version advertise and was excited. Then the Xbox one came out and everything the PC version advertised wasn't on there except aliens. I'm tired of the console versions leaving so many important details. Especially not being able to have babies or grow older which was what the PC version was really about! There was fun things to buy but you can't keep them all because your only allowd so many things on your property so that is annoying. Fun to play but don't expect much. If you can, wait until they come out with a new and improved SIMS.

A step back from Bustin' Out

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: November 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Instead of writing a complete review, I'll just add to what reviewer Nicholas J Verboon wrote and go from there. Since that review point out most of the good points for the game, I'll tell you what bothered me the most. First of all, I miss the "water tool" to create swimming pools, rivers, and all of those water bodies. The new two-player interface doesn't split your screen diagonally anymore, now it splits it horizontally. It doesn't take much to get use to it, but I feel that there is a little less field of view than before. Also, the tip bubbles that appear intermitently and perhaps too many times, obscure the time of day and other important information. Also, when a thief gets in your home and you were sleeping and in fast-forward time, the time doesn't slow down like before, now it keeps going and the thief most likely, even if you have your place filled with burglar alarms, would steal something. The police rarely arrives in time. More than once I found out that I was robbed the next morning after I couldn't find my refrigerator, even as I have 2 alarms outside, 2 inside, and one on each side of the lot next to the main neigborhood sidewalk. The items you can buy are of less appeal that those in previous games, it's almost as if EA just leave in mostly the essentials. You may know by now that unlike the way better PC version you can't build 2 stories houses. Also, you can't buy endless quantities of items since there is something called "the fire code" that limits you on this. So your dream house may be limited for what you are allowed to build, but then again, there isn't too much to buy and build in this version. The Artificial Intelligence doesn't even begin to compare to its PC cousin, it's very limited and you may feel that very soon when playing mostly because the story line gameplay (wich, by the way, it's only a catching name since it isn't a "real" story like previous versions, like Bustin' Out) and the Free Living gameplay would eventually get so tedious that nothing will be left to cover that striped down AI version of the PC game. By the way, the Free Living version is also very flat, there isn't much to do after you have opened all your items and are at the top of your career. What's left is changing careers, sell your stuff and buy other stuff (maybe of lesser quality, but just for a change or to do something different), rearange the furniture, maybe walls and decor, etc. In free living mode you cannot leave your house, you cannot visit other sims, and the connections and relationships with other sims are almost done mandatorily to step up on your career or fulfill your normal, gold, and platinum wishes. As it has said before, you can't grow older or have children like the PC version. It's basically a game of going from A to B to get C that eventually will grow tiresome since there isn't much left to obtain in it. As one reviewer someplace else said: if you are the obsessive type of gamer who simply enjoy unlocking and collecting items, may be this game is for you. If not, rent it first.

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