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Got My money Back

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 17 / 36
Date: March 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is such a great disappointment from Maxis and EA games. This is so dysfunctional it totally ruins the process that most of us began last year in our new Sim environment. Deeply saddening that this new expansions doesn't even support it's own parent game. But, like all Sims fans, you'll have to own it- just for continuity purposes, if you're anything like me. I myself own all of the original Sims/expansions.

Finally, while the Sims 2 got off to a rough start with most people in the technical installation/playability phase upon first release, Maxis eagerly compensated and counceled via their website, realizing they threw it onto the shelves just a tad too soon. Now that most of us have it running relatively smoothly, here comes University, which will delete any efforts you have made in your original game.

Univerity is a vanity release. It adds nothing substantial to the original game or the environment, nothing really of the 'fun factor.' In fact, its the same model of game just with new wants and animations.

It's important to note that piling up demands on players is why the Sims Online failed to fetch the audiences everyone thought it would. It began with a boom but when players in a massive multi-player environment realized the demands were so incredibly high (i.e. sleep, eat, bathroom, skill, socialize, shower, eat, sleep) they left for games less like a job and more like... a game, including reverting back to their original sims, which, while having the wants and needs factor, at least provided the single player environment to accomodate those needs in.

The Sims 2 kept those sim necessities while adding independent 'wants.' Fulfilling or not fulfilling those can deeply damage your needs, and having multiple Sims (Or big families) can really end up in heated battle to avoid neglecting any one.

So Univerity comes along and adds to the pool of more 'Wants' that must be obtained in order to increase your sims overall mood. Again, there's little addition to the 'fun' factor. In fact I felt the product was a little pointless. However, the promise of the next expansion that takes your Sims out of the hermitage of their neghborhood seems more fun, if Maxis decides to let it be.

Got to love the upgrade!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 17
Date: April 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

They'll relish their new-found freedom as they party with friends, join fraternities and sororities and pull outrageous pranks. Your Sims will explore all the campus hot-spots as they frequent lounges, gyms, coffee houses and more. Help them fulfill new lifetime goals to unlock more rewards and reap all of the benefits of their university years.

You are now able to create a whole doom fill with college bound Sims. It has really been a LOT OF FUN! I love to have them streek about the campus!! Really funny!

Fun expansion pack!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: September 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

You can choose to send your sim off to college when they become a teenager or create a new sim in college town. Its a tough decision let me tell you. Well the Sim keeps his/her friend relationships and can choose to go back to the same house when they graduate at least. The only bummer is if you have a mate that doesn't go to college and you plan to marry them, you have to play both sides to keep the ages the same. You could play college town to death and his family back home do not age. SO you have to go back and forth alot to keep things even, if you want to anyways.

The only thing is that it is a commitment. You have to see the sim through college and it take a while. The biggest plus to sendiong them to college is that they gain options that regular sims don't have. Like more wants, and more career options. And of course that college degree you can hang on the wall. They also remember the college cheer and will do it with sims they went to college with. It is worth putting them through college, but it is like playing a whole separate game. You can spend just as much time in college town as you can in their home town.

It is also a good idea to start in college town when you are creating a new character. There are more options to creating a sim young adult there. And a good idea to create more than one sim in the same household, you can give them different family names and they can move into different houses after graduating. It is a good idea because you can work on more than one sim at a time. I usually put a couple together that I want to marry later. That way they can build relationships and finish school together.

It is really hard to decide where you want to divide yout play time!

It might be worth the frustration.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 18 / 41
Date: March 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you are willing to put up with the problems and glitches, the game is worth playing.

Like The Sims 2, this product was released full of bugs and glitches. As a software engineer, I'm well acquainted with the complexity of this product. The graphics are actually pretty amazing. However, the complexity of such graphics has overwhelmed EA Games with problems.
Releasing a software package that is buggy has become an industry way of life. For many years, software companies have sold their product with the attitude "Buy this now, and if there is a problem, we might have a fix". Ultimately, patching and upgrades become necessary. The maturity level of a company, and its ability to test its product, both effect the quality of its merchandise.
EA Games has cheat codes in this game that it will not support. Cheat codes are available in a lot of computer games. Most of the time they add playing flexibility that increases playing satisfaction for many customers.
If you read the limited warranty, you will discover that only the distribution media and the manual are warrantied. EA Games offers the software "AS IS". In other words, EA Games does not offer to guarantee its software!
If you are willing to support a company that does not guarantee its product, buy and play this game.
If you are willing to support a company that embraces poor quality, buy and play this game.
However, I recommend that you wait until the first patch is released before you buy it. This will likely save you a lot of frustration.

I like to play the Sims games. I don't like to reinstall software or tweak my PC configuration all of the time!

Would be a great EP if the bugs didn't ruin it

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 13
Date: September 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The idea behind this EP is fantastic, it's too bad it was literally harpooned by the bugs. Only a small number of bugs can be blamed on custom content, numerous others are due to internal errors in the code of the game itself. Reach a certain number of character files in your neighborhood folder(about 800) and you'll be plagued by frustrations such as the "final exam bug" the "undead elder bug" and the "sim graduated but won't go home to the original neighborhood bug." Kicky bags get stuck, only to be remedied by bulldozing the lot and Greek members develop "amnesia" where they lose important memories like their first kiss as a teen.

What has EA/Maxis done to resolve these issues. First they said that they couldn't provide a separate downloadable patch, that it was "too hard." A patch would be included in the next EP, Nightlife, effectively coercing consumers to pay out more money to get their game to work. Then as Sims fans expressed their outrage EA/Maxis promised to attempt to make such a patch but it still won't be available until sometime after the release of Nightlife, if ever at all. I was able to rectify my bug issues with third party bugfixes. I appreciate those modders taking the time to make the game playable but it was truly EA/Maxis' responsibility to provide timely support for their game. I am waiting at least a month before I consider purchasing Nightlife because I want to see the following-
1. A free downloadable patch to those who've already bought University and what it will correct
2. What the patch included in Nightlife will correct (hopefully it will be the same as the downloadable patch) and is Nightlife going to cause any new unpleasant messes from code errors
3. EA/Maxis working to treat consumers with more respect; timely support for their product like other software companies (such as Atari and Microsoft)

I never expected the game to be bug free, I simply expected EA/Maxis to have a better attitude about supporting the product they have sold to us. Especially since the errors are of their own making.

Sims II University Expansion Pack

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: February 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is a lot of fun. The graphics are very good especially, the close-ups. The tasks of meeting the needs of my college sims, so they can do their homework is a challenge. Providing specific skills for my sims, college student enables them to do well in their major. Seeing my sims breeze through college is enjoyable. The music within the program is pleasing to my ears. I like it.

Best Expansion Pack EVER!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: August 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love it! If you have gone to college you might like it more than others. I bought Nightlife before this one, and though Nightlife is okay, University is AWESOME. It is like a seperate game by itself where as Nightlife is more of an add-on to Sims 2. There is so much to do at University I think I will be stuck to my computer chair for the next three days! LOL!

Got an old Computer?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 22
Date: March 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Don't bother with this game if your computer doesn't have exactly the system specs and I would recommend much better. The Sims 2 worked on my old computer but would crash consistenly once University was installed. You can't fudge those system requirements, so don't even try.
As far as game play, its pretty good. I might not find it as interesting since watching someone go through life at a university (study, class, exams, homework) is something I can do pretty often here at school. The new objects are mostly decorative but a few are exciting and useful.

Awsome Game!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 13 / 28
Date: March 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This was a great game I got it yesterday.I've played it for hours and hours and hours.The whole point of the game is that your sim is in collage and you have to try to pass every semister of your sims collage years.The only thing i didn't like is every semester is really slow even if you speed the time up.Overall this was a very good game.I would recomend that every sim fan to buy this game.

Not challenging enough

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: June 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have played this expansion pack since release date and although it is enjoyable, I cannot put my hand on my heart and say that this actually gave me any tough choices to make. Unless I were woefully neglectful, or particularly malicious to my Sims, it is very hard for them to fail, or even scrape in with a regular honours instead of full honours.

While the new stuff is nice, I can't really recommend this to anyone who has The Sims 2 and wants to take their game to the next level, for the following reasons:

1) If you're hoping for the Wants and Fears to be massively expanded, I'm afraid what you get covers the bases that you would expect in a University-themed game, and no more.

2) While there are new careers available only to those Sims who gain a diploma, there are no corresponding LifeTime Wants for those careers - these are Wants which are always waiting to be fulfilled and typically involve achieving some lofty goal, like reaching the top of a particular career ladder. This seems like an obvious thing that was overlooked in the rush to get the expansion shipped.

3) You can get an additional two Want slots, but in the stock game these are constantly clogged up with Wants for all the musical instruments, even after you have left University, and the electronic gadgets. So really, it's not much of a reward for your labours.

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