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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...

The Sims enter the Wizarding World

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The Sims Makin' Magic Expansion Pack allow us to play around in the wizarding world. I loved this idea but found one drawback to it. Some of the spells backfire when used on other wizards. It seems like everyone within Sim Town is a witch or wizard! So it kind of defuncts a few spells. Other than that, I found myself having all kinds of fun. Once you get your logic skills up, you can perform on stage and make quite a bit of magicoins. You can own a dragon (watch out! if you get a mean one he'll burn the place down! Otherwise they'll just eat all your flowers so be prepared to give just enough attention to your egg replant you rosebed quickly), if you live in Magictown you just might get lucky enough to have a magic beanstalk grow! Turn people into toads, cheat in front of your wife and black roses begin to grow! The magical world can be quite odd and strange at times...

With the popularity of the Harry Potter series, this addition to the Sims lets Simfanatics join right in brewing potions and making charms. Even your children can get in on the action. And should a wary muggle try and look at your recipe's? Not to worry they'll get a nasty little shock warning them to be gone!

I couldn't be happier with this addition to the Sims series, there's so many little easter eggs within this expansion pack that finding them is half the fun. After all this is magic! I know I grew up dreaming I could do magic, I'm sure I'm not along in that - and viola! Now we can! ...well...sort of -sheepish grin- our sims do our bidding and we command them to do magic - yes...that's it!

Anyone who enjoys the sims series, houdini, the potter books and/or movies should not miss out on this expansion pack. Two words - it's Magic!

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 can't wait

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: August 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'm going to get this game soon, in like a week. i always wanted it, and i'm sooo excitedthat i'm finally getting it. the other expansion packs are fun but they don't really have anything that makes really unique. but makin magic is a different story, from the screenshots i can tell that makin magic, by itself, could keep you playing for hours on end trying to get all the spells and magicoins. i really can't wait to get it!

The last chapter?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Wow! This is my favorite expansion so far. I have all of the expansion (even the sims2) and I still come back to this one. Upside... a whole new area to explore, you can duel people, take on personal quests, learn a new trade.... Downside... you have to put in a lot of time developing your creativity and logic to start doing anything cool. But, it is worth it. This game works great with all the expansions or by itself. Really worth the buy.

Really great!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: March 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is really great! I would write a long review, but I don't have the time, its so good!! You can do all kinds of new stuff!

It is not at all what I expected

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: December 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I hate to sound so negative but this game is not all what it is cracked up to be. Sure, there are tons of new items and magic gadgets; and, yes, there are the neat places to go but the time it takes to do them all is not worth it. You can meet several new characters in the Magic Town(thier last name being Strange), but you can never call them because they are always at work in Magic Town.

Also, every sim I have created with varying personalities get drained quickly from harvesting the honey, churning the butter, and the other tasks that can be done.

I also found the dragon character a little lame. There are three colors,(you cannot choose by the way),each color being a different temperament. I found it unchallenging to get the "nice" dragon, but even he burned furniture. He eats wildflower plants in excess, which can get very expensive and boring to keep buying.

On a positive note, I thought the zombie maid beneficial. You buy her coffin and knock anytime that you need her. She even repairs broken gadgets, but at a slower pace than the repairman. Just don't let the live maid see her!!

It does take a while to load up at the beginning. Pets Sims was better. I plan to buy Sims House Party next,(a little backwards I know) and to uninstall this one.

THIS GAME SUKS

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 19
Date: December 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have,nt had a chance to play this game because it keeps quiting before it gets to the neighborhood.I have been dying to get this game but when i do it keeps quiting on me i,ve heard that this is a good game but EA GAMES U COULD HAVE DONE BETTER!!!!!

This is an awesome and super great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: November 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome you can use magic and teach your sims diffrent spell and put them on other people and you can go to a magic town and they even have hunted houses that you can live in and you can plea the grim repper and you can do TONS of stuff
this is worth every penny you spent on it

As Fun As in Harry Potter

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: September 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I read and watched Harry Potter series. One day this expansion pack is available on the game shop. I bought this expansion pack and installed it. It is just as fun as I tought before!

I can learn spells, cast it to objects or even myself. :D I can go to secret shops in a Mystery Town and buy odd ingredients needed in my mixture. When I have time, I went to the Mystery Town via special hole in my backyard and I played some games there. I can also meet other wizards and have some battles with them.

New clothes, furnitures, objects, and some other stuff are included in this expansion pack, making it possible for me to create my own Castile. :D I use stonewall wallpaper to wrap all my walls, plant some old-abandoned-well and dead oak tree, use antigue doors and windows, and select 'magic and ancient' furnitures instead the ordinary. I just love it! XD

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