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The most addicting expansion yet!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 18
Date: March 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I've only had this expansion for a day but I've played long enough to say that it's AWESOME! The new "young adult" age group fills in one of the age gaps The Sims 2 was missing. Now if they would have the "middle age" group it'd be perfect.

Anyway, I was impressed with the load times. I was expecting to wait half the day for my houses and neighborhoods to load, but it actually took less time loading than the original Sims did (if you had all the expansions for it).

Influencing other sims is an interesting new feature, and the new interactions like kicky bag, pillow fights, and hanging out makes it easier to make new friends and the cell phone makes it easier to keep them.

I was hopping there would be more new furniture, clothes, hairstyles, wallpaper and stuff but all the other stuff on the expansion more than makes up for it. It really is like another game all together. I'm addicted to The Sims all over again.

Not the best idea

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 12 / 15
Date: June 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

A little boring, the time in college takes a long time. Your sim needs to study and earn skills to pass college which leaves little time to enjoy taking your sim through the college life. You have 72 hours after graduation to move out, which means you can live the college life in that time, but you have to go through such a long period of studying and stuff to get to this point. It's fairly easy to be 4.0 GPA, but I've had lower. It might be worth it for the objects as Maxis put out a lot of nice clothes with this, I'm a teenager and the clothes in this expansion pack appealed to me way more than the original ones. Overall, if you spend a lot of time in 3 speed (the fastest speed it can go) college life will take you about 2 - 3 hours of continuous play to graduate from. Once I've used University I don't want to play sims that haven't gone to college, so I would probably say it was worth it... I only regret paying the $40 for it when it first came out.

Fun stuff

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 17
Date: November 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The University expansion pack is fun. You get to pick majors for your Sims, but you have to make sure that they do their term papers and study or else they get kicked out of college. There are also interesting scholarships that your Sim can qualify for, like one for alien abductees. I would recommend that you only try playing a couple of Sims at a time or else you will probably end up getting some of your Sims expelled due to Academic Probation.

Buy this! You need it!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: March 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This expansion pack for The Sims 2 is an essential. It allows you to send your sims to college and while there they not only gain mega loads of skill points but depending on what they major in, when they are adults they can go right into a career and don't have to start out at the beginning level! Just think. You had your toddler play with toys that earned him skill points. When he was a child you had him use the oven for little kids that gained him some cooking skill points. When he was a teenager you had him read books to gain skill points. Then when you send him to college he learns a bunch more. By the time that kid is an adult it is going to have a jump start and THEN SOME! It will totally kick butt in life and in it's career. College is also a great place to make friends! If you're in a dorm then tons of potential friends are around all the time. You don't have to call people over or go out. They're already there! Since friends are the other essential in zooming through the levels of a job to the top, this is another big plus. And don't even start me on explaining how helpful influence points are, which I believe you only have if you have this expansion pack. So, get this and be glad you did :)

Already Returned Expansion for Refund

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 37 / 74
Date: March 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I waited passionately for the day the first expansion would arrive. And after installing the game, I was disappointed with the poor repetitious music replacements, very longer load times, and extreme slow game performanece when trying to maneuver through a dorm. To top it off, my young adult inexplicably died after sitting down to eat in the cafeteria. This all happened in the first few minutes of the game. By the way, the option for "Young adult" is only available if you go to college. The expansion (2 CD's) will alter your save game files and will delete everything (including any downloads you have added) if you uninstall it.

Very, very disappointing expansion, with the price tag of a full game! There's also an advertisement for the next expansion coming this fall which is similar to Hot Date, that allows your sims to go out on the town to nightclubs.

I would be more grateful if they had just fixed the bugs in the main game, and perhaps add pets, like dogs and cats.

Sims 2 University!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: April 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I love Sims 2. And recently, I bought Sims 2 University. It's amazing. You get new products for your origional families to buy, new career tracks, and the best part. Any of the Teen Sims, if you want, you can send to college. You follow them onto campous, where you can through parties, get engaged, visit comunity lots, or join Sorority's/Fraternitiy's.
Every so often - This may just be my computer -- Sims 2 University minimizes itself. My computer is really odd, and sometimes it bombs. YOU SHOULD STILL GET UNVERSITY!!! It's just my computer - but if your computer is like mine - I just advise you, save every 10, 15, 20 minutes or so... Just incase!
(I lost a whole house because I forgot to save. Whoops!)

Any way - This program is AWESOME -- It's WAY worth the money - If you have Sims 2, and you want some excitment, fun, or a challenge (college is DEFFINITLY a challenge on this), then this is a MUST BUY for you.

Bug ridden with no patch in sight...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: August 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

EA has let all Simmers down with this game and lack of patch. There are currently 129 *known* bugs in University with no patch in the immediate future.

Do not buy this bug-ridden game that EA has admitted may not have a patch for it until after the release of Nightlife. Don't buy Nightlife either...it'll be just as buggy and you'll have to wait at least another 6 months to get a patch for it.

WHOLE NEW LEVEL OF GAMEPLAY

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 14
Date: August 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I admit I was skeptical when I bought Uni since I had read all the reviews about bugs and glitches. But this game was AWESOME!!!

You get to send your sims to college.
You can live in a dorm, or a greek house, or a rented house. There is a new concept that allows your sims to influence other sims. You can make them write your term paper or pull pranks. And the new mp3 players help. When your "fun" meter is down, you can just select to "listen to mp3 player" and it goes really fast up!

And if you live in a dorm, you never have to cook because there's someone already working there. But if you want some extra pocket change, you can elect to work in the cafeteria or perform music on the guitar/bass/drums for tip, or be a tutor or personal trainer to someone.

At the end of your senior year, after your final exam, you have 72 hours to pack up your stuff and leave. But during that time you can P A R T Y ! If you select the telephone, you can choose to throw a graduation party and everyone shows up in their caps and gowns. And after you move out of college, and move in a real home. There is a career reward for college, which is a diploma and you can hang it up and read it and it will say what college your graduated from, what you majored in, and if you graduated with full honors.

And the new careers are so cool!

I had a guy who majored in mathematics, and he became a natural scientist and got to the top of that career. The highest level for it is "Ecological Guru". You only have to work on Wednesdays and you get 10,500 simoleons!!!

You are also able in neighborhood to move different families in the same house, so you don't have to build up their relationship and select "Propose >Move In".

All in all, this game is worth the $30 I paid for. If you are addicted to the Sims 2 original, trust me, you will love this expansion. My game has only crashed once, and I wasn't even using it, my brother was. B U Y T H I S G A M E ! ! !

Killer Bugs

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: August 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Lots of bugs and glitches, some funny, some merely annoying, some that are quite frustrating. This game is probably fine for the casual player. Because of bugs, gameplay gets limited beyond a certain point and loses a lot of its fun.

A Ho-Hum expansion pack

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: July 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

At first it sounded cool, send you sims to collge, well its not really. It just slows the computer down even more. College life is pretty boring. They can rush a frat house, butuntil you figure out the secret to doing it right, its an annoying headache and waste of a sim day. When you do move in to a greek house, its the same old thing. Nothing cool. Also there is a secret society they can join, but non of my sims ever made it in.
The only plus's to the pack is after they complete college it opens up more jobs for that sim to choose from, Paranormal (an old fav of mine from the fisrt sims, actor etc. Also the new objects are cool: Guitar, bass drums, pool table, keg. The clothes and ahir styles are so-so. Side pony tail? Please!

Also after I got this expansion pack some of my icons (like where it shows go to work, or school bus) disappeared. And they no longer changed clothes for work, or private school or marriage. Its really annoying. Unless youre really into the idea of college life, save your money and the room on your PC.

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