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Going to be Much better than The First Sims!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 18
Date: August 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is going to be the best Sim game ever! It's gonna have a full 3D Enginea and will use genetics! The Sims actually will grow old and eventually die. This game's gonna ROCK!

Ok i guess...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 18
Date: February 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game like day or or 2 after the fay it came out and i was all exited when i was installing it had this little game of some sort to entertain you will it installs the 4 discs but when i was done installing it it said "Failed to find DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics adapters in this system! Please make sure you have DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics adapter and have installed the latest drivers by the manufacturer. The application will now terminate." i was shocked because i was waiting a long time to play this game and i have not played it on my computer because of this error.i suggest that you do not buy this game unless you have a new computer or all upgraded things on your computer

Excellent with an exception

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: January 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This Game Rocks. period. there is one downside though. The game requires about 90% of my CPU. i have a new computer(2004 model) and it still is a little slow. it also requires a very good graphic card.

Boy, did Amazon drop the ball on this one.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: September 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'm sure the game will be terrific once Best Buy delivers my copy. I pre-ordered from Amazon, like the other reviewers, and at the time the estimated delivery date (with free shipping) was 7-9 days after the release date, as you would expect. Then two days before the release date the estimated delivery date changed to sometime between Oct. 20 and Nov. 4. I tried changing the shipping options, but the delivery date stayed the same. This is completely unacceptable, of course, so I've cancelled my order and ordered my copy from Best Buy online. When I pre-ordered from Amazon I expected the experience to be like the pre-orders for the Harry Potter books - product shipped on the day it's released. It's not like there's any reason for there to be product shortages - it's not a lawn chair, it's software. It's easy to burn extra copies. Bad planning, Amazon - we expect better, and you're losing sales by the hour as a result.

Useless Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 24
Date: October 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game (DVD Version) was a gift from my Husband, for my Birthday. I was so happy to receive it, I tried it right away. Well, after trying for a half an hour, I realized that it was NOT going to work on my computer (Windows ME),...which Does have a DVD player, so that was not the problem. What was the problem, I don't know, & I don't really care. I'm grateful that my Husband got his money back, but still very disappointed that I have to miss out on what looks like a fun game, because the game is too complicated for the computer I have. IT'S JUST A GAME! Why not make it simple enough for everyone to enjoy,...that makes for good business, also.

New Ages!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Woo hoo!! I'm so happy that in the Sims2, we'll be able to have teens. I always made "teens" as adults in tighter clothes and more makeup, etc. Now we'll be able to have special moments with them, like first kisses. They can also get jobs.
I'm overjoyed about the 4-story house. My favorite part of the Sims was building houses.
I doubt in the Sims 2 we'll be able to have towns. Maybe by Christmas 2005 Maxis will come out with some expansion packs. Some ideas could be: Living Extreme, (theme: sports), Dean's List, (theme: education/college) and Exotic Travels (where they have a SimParis, SimLondon, etc)
I am truly looking forward to this game. It comes out on August 15. I was disappointed when they moved it back two months..
Time to start saving up your money, SimAddicts! This game costs [money], but I'm sure it is well worth the money. Over time the price will lower.
Chant with me, SimLovers. We want the Sims2, we want the Sims2!!

Reconsider.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 38
Date: May 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I played the original for a while, and it looks like you can do a lot more in this latest release, but they haven't added anything you can't do with the Sim reading this review, that is, yourself.

If you're looking for an entertaining and "virtually interpersonal" gaming environment, you might try some sort of fantasy/role playing game. These days they're not just fighters and wizards, but craftsmen, politicians, and other things. You'll meet some interesting people from the real world in some amazing fantasy worlds derived from the imaginations of J.R.R. Tolkien or George Lucas, rather than Martha Stewart.

All of these games are big time-sinks, but you at least have options other than the Sims that place you in a environment far different from the one where the chair you're sitting in now resides. Of course, me taking the time to write a review of I game I no longer play rather than do something more productive or meaningful is something of a contradiction, but hopefully three minutes of my life can convince you to save tedious hours of yours.

SUCKS

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: September 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Sure this game may be worth it, however I cannot get passed this DirectX 9.0 compatible graphics adapter thing! I am so disappointed that I could just puke. They postpone this game for so long I actually thought they were trying to make it better. I guess not! Because they actually made it worse! U suck maxis!

It's not fair

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 20
Date: September 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I spent $50 on this game, to get it, and find out that my hard drive wasn't compatible with DXSELECT or whatever it's called 9.0 and that I can either spend a couple hunderd dollars on a new driver or not play at all. I DON'T HAVE THAT TYPE OF MONEY! My computer is only 2 years old, and I can't even play the game. This is cheep and I'm very upset.

Worthless & Lame

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 39
Date: December 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

<Sigh> like Frodo Took's character used to say in the game. Where to start...Of why I am glad I wasted my parent's money on this game instead of my own.

Negatives...

1. The relationships made in this game are difficult and even harder to maintain. How come you have to interact with everyone and they do not even notice you are alive? They never intiate any conversation with you when you are at a community lot or at your house. The men in the game have a unisex personality and do not differ from the women in the house. What's the difference between making the men, men and the women, women? Their interests are the same, their conversational options are the same, "Joke" and "Chat". Starting the relationships is VERY slow, you can talk and get close to people and 2 days later they aren't your friend anymore. Snore! There is no general idea of beauty in the game, the looks don't matter, so it doesn't matter what you look like and if this is a simulation game what's real about that? Marxism in its truest form.

2. The language was cute at first but it got annoying when you had to analyze the thought bubbles to figure out how the talk was going. I made a teenager and she was the stereotypical look of beauty and she was treated no different. If you are buying this game because you want to be defiant and deviant, then you have the wrong game. The sex in the game is so far and in between, the most I got out of these lame characters was one lame kiss. You are not treated any different if you have money or not.

3. The game is made for girls, its got the frivilous collecting and decorating.

4. The neighborhood is small and on your block where your house is, if you step out of your house and look down the road its blankness of emptiness. The sims AI is weak most times when they have a problem or need like a bathroom emergency, they are standing right next to the toliet and they don't react until you direct them. They need too much food to live, too much sleep to live and too much social to live. If you are looking for a free environment in this game, how bout all the people that want this idea take it, harness it and put it into the living world!

5. The jobs & the school the sims go to are invisible. So they just disappear. The books they read are only 3 subjects to earn a skill, Mechanical, cooking and cleaning.

6. The DNA code is not really that, its a standard code dictated by the Aspiration of your parents. That is not DNA its just a computer generated code that makes for the same signs are the parents.

7. The balanced aspiration characters are boring as people, the other unstable ones act like addicts. They stay up until the dead of night when they know that they have school or work the next day. So they stay up and obessess over whatever they are lacking in, if it be creative or fun. Then their whole cycle is thrown off because they are offset, not enough sleep, comfort, social or fun.

8. Once you get behind in homework there is no catching up.

Positives...

1. You can fence your sims in the backyard and starve them to Death.

2. You can put a dead Sim family member's grave in the fence with your starving sim.

3. Death comes to all terrible Sims. The animation for Death was the best graphics in the game.

4.The graphical detail was high in the game but what you saw got boring.

5. If you abuse your brats in the game the social workers come and pick them up. That is a great feature.

Still better than Animal Crossing, but that game was a turd on a stick.

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