Customer Reviews
It was pretty good, but not best...
The Sims 2 PC game was very enjoyable. It definitely kept me glued to the screen the first couple times I played it. I still like it a lot, but after a while you just get bored of the people's normal, same old lives so you end killing them for fun. If you are going to get Sims 2, make sure you also get the expansion packs, to make the game more interesting. The other downside of this game was that it sometimes slowed your computer down a lot because it used up a lot of the power. So because of this my parents uninstalled it on our PC. This is why I have rated the game 3 stars. With the expansion packs, it might be rated 4 stars. I sure hope this review will help you on making your decision about this purchase.
The best game ever
I played a lot with the original, the first The Sims and it's expansions, but i always had questions and disagreements with the game, I wasn't pleased with a lot of thing.
What can I say? The Sims 2 solved all of that and gave me more. I'm a 28 years old woman, with a full-time job, and I spend hours and hours of my "free" time building my alter ego world...
It's the greatest of games, at least for me it is.
Creativity thwarted
I totally expected to love this game. And I did- for the first two months. Sounds like a reasonable lifespan for a game? Not a Sim game. You see, I was hardcore- had been playing for roughly four years, bought all seven expansions for the first game. ALL SEVEN. But, after my initial enrapturement with the graphics, detail work, etc, I discovered something was missing. Sims 2 has too much little nitty-gritty stuff. My Sims were always whining about some new TV they wanted, or some friend they wanted to kiss, etc, etc, etc. I wanted them to be grand, mysterious heads of cults, agents of secret societies, scientists observing starving "subjects" enclosed in doorless rooms. They wanted to invite the papergirl over for a snack. My ultimate control, the pure creativity of making little stick figures more than little stick figures, was weakened. The game is still one of the best out there, yes. But what's out there ain't that great, not for the purposes of creative genius. These Sims are too human, too needy, to be much good. So their faces move and their eyes blink. So what? In the end, the features I most appreciated were the ability to put windows on diagonal walls, the free zooming, and the designing of the neighborhoods. Even the aging was a two-edged sword- it distracted from MY personal goals for their lives. I uninstalled S2 and the first expansion that I did weaken and buy, and I now play the classic version. I don't want to spend hours designing every twitch in Lola Sims face. The horizon thus far for expansion pack revival is bleak- honestly, are MORE kissing maneuvers going to give the game the edge it needs? Are yet more repetitive minigames going to satisfy the desire to design and control a unique simulated life? Whatever happened to Will Wright's mantra that "All game players really want to be game designers"?
