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Nightlife?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 85
Date: June 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Honestly- the first expansion pack, Sims 2 University, is definately worth the money, because they can go to college! But, Sims 2 Nightlife- is this really worth buying?<br />The game just says how you can choose what your Sims do, but to me that doesn't sound like much of an expansion pack. If Nightlife has more objects to add, than it might be worth the money.

This is the Best expansion yet!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 32 / 46
Date: September 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This expansion is definetly worth the money! There are over 150 new objects, cars included! Now you can drop your kids off at school if they miss the bus, and you can drive to work!Now your sims can go out on the town to eat dinner, or dance all night. this is a great game! If you want more info go to www.thesims2.com

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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 49
Date: September 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

You didnt read it all. It says over 125 new objects! They also get cars that yes, they can drive, vampires are now a reality.....Do a little more research.

Looks like the best Expansion yet!! EXCEPT.......

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 33
Date: September 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Looks great, which all the new capabilities, the only thing I'm worried about is the ever dreaded glitches and bugs (university didnt do too hot in that department, there were literally 100s of bug reports!) I hope NightLife won't have as many, but since this is pretty new and unstable technology I wouldn't be too surprised. But even with that minor set-back, I would still DEFINITLY get it!!

The Sims Nightlife

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 22 / 34
Date: September 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The new expansion is going to be great. I just want to give a little more info for those of you who dont think its WORTH IT! You get cars for the first time, there are new interactions like slow dancing, and longing gazes. I even read you can change your aspiration, sort of like an epiphany. When the sims go on dates they have a date meter or if they go alone can find a date because they r now "attracted" to sims according to interests and zodiac signs. New hairstyles and clothes, and of course all the new items. Shoot, thats enough for me im coppin first thing Thursday.

Great Addition to the Franchise

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 339 / 347
Date: September 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I picked up my copy of Nightlife yesterday, as well as Prima's Nightlife Strategy book. The game is great. With this expansion, your sims have the opportunity to have enhanced social interactions with other sims. You can now see what sims are attracted to your sims. There is a new item in the relationship panel called "chemistry" and the sims with whom your sims have chemistry with are rated with a lightning bolt system - 1 bolt being low, 2 bolts being average and 3 being high. This helps if you're trying to get your sim a good match. You can also ask people about their skill levels, which will be helpful for me because there is nothing worse than picking up a sim who has low skills and thus contributes nothing good to the household.

You can now go out with groups of people instead of just one sim. This functions similarly to "throw party" in that the group outing is scored. (FYI-Dates are also scored) You can create and manage groups so whenever you want to go out with groups of people, the group is already preassembled.

With a new aspiration reward tool your sims can change aspiration. In the past this could only be done with a young adult sim while they were in college. However if your sim uses this object under the gold range their aspiration will automatically be change to "grilled cheese". They will only want to make, eat and talk about grilled cheese.

With respect to objects and building: I haven't used anything yet, however there are now 1/2 walls that you can build to break up a room a little bit, however it does not function in the same way as a full wall does i.e. if your kitchen has rotten food on the counter top and is separated from the dining room by a half wall, the dining room environment score will be affected. There is also a new driveway tool, new doors, windows etc.

I don't really like playing with cheats, but there are some new ones:
1 - You can give a newly created family additional funds without having to play with them. In the past you had to buy a house lot or a house, move them in and THEN use the motherlode cheat. So if I wanted to give Don Lothario $10,000 the cheat is "familyfunds Lothario 10000". You can insert a minus sign before the simoleon dollar amount to reduce a family's funds if you want.
2 - Give a family ALL the career reward items with "unlockCareerRewards".
3 - Maximize motives with "maxMotives"

This expansion pack is an "enhancement" pack. It takes simming to a whole new level.

"As if Sims 2 wasn't addicting all ready"

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 26 / 30
Date: September 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

A direct quote from a friend of mine as he watched my Sims explore the Downtown region contained within Sims 2.

WARNING: Review contains...spoilers? I guess that's what you can call them. Nothing plot related, though Sims doesn't really have a "plot".

Having never played a computer game with mulitple expansions, I was unaware the Sims 2 expansions built on each other. My Sims still have access to their Universities as well as Downtown.

Downtown is a fairly large community with tones of things to do. Resturants, clubs, parks, and more. With the taxi or personal car, you can choose to go JUST to the Downtown area and look around OR pick a specific place and head there.

Also with Downtown comes a possible solution to over-population. IF you connect a series of neighborhoods to ONE Downtown area, inhabitants of those neighborhoods can visit the other neighborhoods through this common link (something I was hoping for in University, but did not get...probably because the engine that allows this to happen was not working the way Maxis/EA wanted it to). It is quiet possible (though I have no yet tried it myself), that you can move familes from one neighborhood to another. PLEASE DO NOT quote me on that, this is just a speculation.

Now, on to the REAL stuff. 125 new items have been added, includined new clothing, new games, new building options, new trees and plants, etc. There are vampire couples, but much like the secret societies in University, you must get a certain number of "relationship point" with a certain number of them inorder to become a vampire. The number varies per Sim.

Cars are a nice addition, especially for those of us with Sim living on large lots or have a history of missing the bus. Cars can be parked on the street, down a drive way or in a garage. Again, I have not yet tried this, but it may be possible (with a personal car) to drop by and visit your neighbors. Again, PLEASE DO NOT quote me on this as I have not yet tried it. It is merely speculation.

Dating is fairly straight forward and gives your Sims a WHOLE new range of social interactions, including "Scope Room", which allows for single (and cheating) Sims to look for potential mates. Don't worry about calling the divorce court just yet, if you all ready have married Sims the expansion takes your pre-existing couple and does its best to mess them (if they turn out to be completely incompatable) with similar/shared interests. Turn ons/turn offs, are little traits that make your Sims hearts' flutter or make them gag. Having trouble finding that special someone? Hire a matchmaker and hope for the best.

Overall, it is a wonderful expansion and loads of fun! I am a bit disappointed that there were no new jobs added to this expansion, but since the proposed expansion for Spring 2006 is called "Open for Business" I will forgive this one minor oversite.

the best expansion yet!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 24
Date: September 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Fans have been wanting cars for 5 years now!!! If your a sims fan then get this expansion cause youll love it! Its got night clubs,vampires,new houses in downtown area,dining,dating,group fun, also some new furniture,new clothes, new hairdo's,cars(i love the cars cause now you can take the kids to school and take yourself to work or to downtown. This expansion is worth it! You will have a blast playing it!

Slightly Disappointed

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 11 / 30
Date: September 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I love the sims and when the Sims 2 came out it was even better. The best part for me is to build things and decorate. If you are like me you may be a bit disappointed. There are over 125 new objects, but they are not that exciting to me. I wish they would have made more new furniture and fewer pictures. Also I don't know if there is a cheat to avoid this, but you don't have many options for your driveway. I would like to have twist and things or be able to choose the size of it. It seems like it is either to long or too short. Either way I don't regret buying the new expansion. I can't wait to build a bowling alley, but it's not 5 stars. I WANT PETS!!!!! One more thing that is cool, there is a new tool to make hills for your landscape.

overall, pretty good, minus the bugs and gliches

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 14 / 29
Date: September 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is by far the best expansion for either the sims or the sims 2. I think it make the game only that much more enjoyable...that is when the camera is skipping around. The cars were an awesome addition, as well as the turn on and offs, it makes finding a date that much easier.

Overall, this expansion pack make the sims 2 that much more addicting, I already missed a few classes because i was so engrossed in this game.

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