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5 Stars for the game 1 for cheating people out of cash

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 21
Date: November 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I admit, the sims is a very good game. But come on people, the people at Maxis come out with more expansion packs to take away your hard earned dollars, Plus if you don't have a computer that can take this amount of Space, then it's useless. Please Maxis stop making expansion packs, I admit they are great, but why not just make another Sims with all the stuff together. Now I know people are gonna say, they use it to make more money! I KNOW THAT! I just don't like to see you the hard working consumers be deprived of a lot of money. The game of course is spectacular. But people plz this not a review saying the game is bad. It's a review written with you in mind.

I love The Sims!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: November 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The Sims Makin' Magic is so cool! I got it for my birthday. It was so cool! I love that you can make charms and spells! I even turned Mortimer Goth into a frog! I also love the new furniture! I,who has all the Sim games thinks this is the best one, second of course is The Sims Superstar! If you are looking to buy a Sims game I recomend you buy this one! Byebye!!!

From The biggest Sim fan ever

The Sims + Harry Potter = One happy person

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: October 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

OMG!!! Can it get any better? An all-new Sims expansion pack combiened with the magic of Harry Potter! Although I haven't played it yet I'm sure that this will definately be the best expansion pack, and what a way to end a great game! With the skeletons in the closet and the crazy Magic Town your Sims won't have a free moment to put their feet up infront of a flamingo maid.

I got a preview!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME IS ONE OF THE BEST YET!!! This is a great game you can play for hours. You can customize your folks' with your family and friends! (Let me tell you that is fun playing!!)

This game features:

* Sims are granted magical powers with the ability to cast spells that are playful or deviant. ( Your sim is a "Harry Potter" you can cast spells some of these are VERY FUNNY!!)

* Venture to an all-new magical, carnival-themed destination: You sims go on a real date. This is tons of fun! They get sick!

* Experience exciting new gameplay, gain over 150 new items, and encounter a whole new cast of quirky characters. YOU WILL HAVE TO GET THIS TO SEE OF OF THE 'circus' folk

* Cast spells to improve love lives, wreak havoc on visiting neighbours, or put an end to tedious chores

** ALSO.. You can create a DRAGON!! that will eat people's pets that bother you!!! This was sooooo funny!!!

YOU WILL LOVE THIS UPGRADE!!!!!
Jess

Setting the record straight.....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I really can't review something that's not out yet, but I had to comment on a previous "review". The author of that review bashed The Sims Online (TSO). I agree with his assessment of TSO, but it has nothing to do with Makin' Magic. Makin' Magic is an expansion to the original game. The author that bashed TSO makes it appear that it is. As far as Makin' Magic, it looks like it's going to be great. When I get it, I'll post a real review.

Its great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This expansion pack is the greatest ive never had so much fun! You can cast spells on your pets and family members and you can bake food its awesome. I got it for christmas and ive been playing it forever!

AWSOME GAME!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'm a huge Sim fan and this is the best Expansion pack yet!
Lots of fun things to do like turning your neighbor into a frog. So much fun in one little game that comes with a sneek preview of The Sims 2. So buy this, you won't be disappointed.

Hocus Pocus

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Another great idea for The Sims! The one thing they've been missing all this time. Magic! I enjoy all the quests you go on for the vendors as well as performing to earn MagiCoins. MagicTown is a wonderful change from the Suburban humdrum of the neighborhoods et cetera. I like the colorful array of people in MagicTown as well. It's fun unlocking all the spells to see what they do, but there is one thing about the game that I really don't like. When you hatch a dragon egg, if you don't have the right stuff for the dragon, it will start spewing fire at everything inside and outside of the home. My dragon went berzerck and burned down my whole lot, including my Sim. R.I.P. You need all the proper supplies before you hatch your dragon. Hopeful Dragon tamers beware...

Fun game, great addition to the original Sims

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

When I first got Makin' Magic expansion pack, I was ecstatic. Mainly because that was my first expanison pack and before I had just been playing normal Sims. I've had it for so long, like 3 years, that its just lost its magic for me. But still, it was a fun game. There is:
-New Locations-
MagicTown is unlocked and ready to roll! There are 10 locations in MagicTown, where you can buy ingredients, play minigames to earn magicoins to buy them, and there are 3 carnival locations where there are rollercoaster rides and putt-putt golf to play.
-Magic Spells-
Now your Sim can be a wizard! You can make most ingredients needed for spells, but some you need to buy in MagicTown. Get a magic wand, put the ingredients in the wand charger, and fire it up! You can also make charms that look like little crystals to cast spells. Some spells you can do are: turn someone into a frog, bring gnomes -that you carved- to life to care for your garden, love spell, friendship spell, and many others that I can't say because it would spoil it for you!
-New Clothes, Head Skins and NPCs-
In MagicTown there are some NPC shop keepers. You can barter with them or ask for a quest to do to earn special ingredients. Shopkeepers include Vicki Vampiress, a fairy, and others.
There are new head skins that match the new MagicTown clothes! Some heads with hats, with peasant outfits to match.
-Gardening and Cooking-
Now you can grow your own food and cook it! Now available as a floor tile, the dirt plot, you can buy seeds at your local MagicTown, plant them and care for them! Now available is a cooking oven, that acts just like a charm maker, only you're making food. You can also use the winepress to make nectar. You can grow elderberries and grapes. You have to buy baking mix and sugar at MagicTown, but you can make your own elderberry pies. You can also just make bread, or a homemade cake.
I might also mention that in the Sims Unleashed expansion pack, you can grow your own vegetables and eat them. If you also have Makin Magic, you can make carrot cakes.
-New Items and Furnish-
There are tons of new wallpapers and floor tiles, plus a couple new starcases. Now you can buy Bonechilda, a skeleton maid that lives in a coffin. Just knock and she'll come out to clean up! There is also a beehive where you can make your own beeswax and honey to use in spells and food recipes. Gnome builder tables also. A magician table where you can practice your logic skills. New couches and and chairs also! A butter churn is available too.
-Dragon Pets-
Now available from Vicki Vampiress in MagicTown, you can buy dragons nests! Take them home and take care of the dragon egg. There are three different colors that your dragon can turn out, but watch out for the red one! Red dragons frequently set things on fire. Dragon eggs are just like babies, only if you neglect it it turns into a red dragon. DRAGONS EAT TRASH! Make sure to leave trash out for them to eat! If you don't they will get angry and leave. They only eat the small piles of trash, also. If you groom your dragon enough, you will get some dragon scales to use in spells when you need them. Same for tickling dragons; do it enough and you get some dragon tears for use in spells.
-Appropriate for kids?-
I think so. Nothing bad about it at all. No blood, sexuality, or anything else you'd watch out for. I'd say ages for Makin' Magic should be 8+.
Good expanision pack, I really enjoyed it the first few weeks I had it. =]

I enjoy this so much I'm afraid to try The Sims 2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought the Sims Double Deluxe a few years back as it was on sale at CompUSA and I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Well, I went back the next day and bought all the expansions including Makin' Magic.

Well, I moved on to other games, uninstalling this one an put it on the shelf, promptly forgetting about it. Then my computer died and I got a refurbished eMachines which was superior to my Dell. (NOT in quality, but in simple system specs. Dell rules.) I bought several games that required more Umpf than my Dell could give, but I grew weary of them quickly.

Then I remembered my Sims collection. It took three days to install them to the point that I could play. What happened was that there is apparently a non visible defect on the play disk for Makin' Magic that would cause it to destroy the installation of the entire game, causing me to have to start all over from scratch. Eventually, I stopped with Superstar and played for awhile, but I really REALLY wanted Makin' Magic back, so off to Amazon I went.

I bought my replacement copy from NothingButSoftware for a song... like... 9 bucks. I ordered it before bedtime on Thursday and it was waiting for me at the post office Saturday morning. Dang.

Anyway, aside from the original game that introduced the whole concept, Makin' Magic is THE most important expansion of all. It changes the whole dynamic of the game. It gives you things you can do that serve a greater purpose than just to increase your motives. You create new items and have a whole new world of ways to interact with other characters.

As I said in the title, I'm a bit reserved about buying The Sims 2 because I like this so much. I wonder if it would be superior... or is it more style than substance. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love creating and furnishing new homes, but I just think it's going to be tough to top Makin' Magic...

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