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The Sims 2

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The Sims 2 is a 2004 simulation game developed by Maxis and published by EA Games.

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About The Sims 2

From the neighborhood view, the player selects one lot to play, as in The Sims. While there are both residential and community lots, Sims can only live in residential lots. Sims can travel to community lots in order to purchase things like clothing and magazines, and to interact with NPCs and townies. The player can choose between playing a pre-made inhabited lot, moving a household into an unoccupied pre-built lot, or constructing a building on an empty lot. One novelty from The Sims is foundations. The player switches among the Live mode (default) to control Sims, the Buy mode to add, move, or delete furniture, and the Build mode to rebuild the house and make structural changes. Although the Buy and Build modes cannot be accessed when on a community lot, the lots can be built on by using the neighborhood view. It is also possible to import neighborhood terrains from SimCity 4.

The game contains some time-bound social challenges that provide a reward if successful. Sims can throw parties to gain aspiration points or invite the headmaster over for dinner in order to enroll their children in private school. Some expansion packs have new mini-games like running a Greek house in University, or dating in Nightlife. In Nightlife, each date is a challenge to keep both Sims as happy as possible while accumulating aspiration points. Various other expansion packs introduce supernatural characters which Sims can be turned into, such as Zombies, Vampires, Werewolves, PlantSims, and Witches.

The main part of the game is to lead a Sim from the start of life to death. A Sim will be born when a female Sim and a male Sim try for a baby several times. The mother will spend 3 Sim days (each day lasts 24 minutes though time can be sped-up) pregnant before giving birth to a baby. During Pregnancy, the belly does not expand gradually. Instead, every day, it pops to a bigger size. Players can name the new Sim upon birth. The baby's appearance and personality will be based on the genetics of its parents (though the baby's appearance is hidden until it becomes a toddler). Babies can also be adopted by calling adoption service on the phone, even by single parents, old age sims or same-gender couples. The baby will change into a toddler in 3 days, and 4 more days for the toddler to change into a child. After 8 days, the child grows into a teenager, and will live 15 days before changing into an adult. After 29 days, the Sim will become an elder. An elder will eventually die; the length of this final stage depends on the aspiration bar when they become an elder.

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    Hi guys, need help…I installed the game, everything went ok, but I can’t mount those 2 bin files, it says – file corrupted or unknown…..meaning i can’t crack the game or play it…anyone had this issue?
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    OK, SO I really need help….I installed the game, everything went ok, but I can’t mount those two bin files-it says file corrupted or unknown…..meaning i can’t crack the game and play it-.- can somebody help? ty
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    The original game downloaded fine but now I am trying to donwload the expanision packs like Pets and Nightlife and I cannot get them to install because it says that there is a problem with my Sims 2 game, but I followed the directions exactly so i don’t know what went wrong
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    Hi, I’ve installed the game correctly. It ran fine last night and this morning it won’t launch. It just comes up with a graffiti ’MONEY’ picture and does nothing. Any clues?
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      make a Downloads folder in EA Games / TS2 name it “Downloads” and place all of your CC & mods from sites in there.
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  5. 0
    I keep getting an error while installing the ultimate collection at 6%, says an archive file is corrupted, and mega.nz webpage won’t load to download the games individually. What do I do?!
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  6. 0
    I’ve downloaded this game, but when I want to open the game it keeps asking to put the right CD-rom in. What do I need to do to just play this game? Pleas help me, because I really want to play this game!!
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        you need to mount the iso onto the harddrive then install the game and then replace the application file with the file thats in the NO CD document it should work then
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      Hey! I got the same problem. And all what i did wrong was that i din’t extract the folder. When i did this, i was able to mount iso file and follow the next steps and everything worked for me then. Hope i helped ^^
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    I really want to play this game, but it keeps asking me to put the right CD-rom in when download this game. What can I do??
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      Heya! I got the same problem. And all what i did wrong was that i din’t extract the folder. When i did this, i was able to mount iso file and follow the next steps and everything worked for me then. Hope i helped ^^
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  8. 0
    oof well im trying to get this game since i love it so much . i wonder if yall have the sims three . then that would be great ciao!!
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  9. 0
    I’m trying to improve the screen resolution, but there is no Sims 2 data file in program files (x86). There is just my Sims 4 game.
    Any ideas anyone?
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  10. 0
    It´s keep asking me to put the right CD-rom in, what do i do?
    It´s the first time i´m install a game in this way, so i need all the help i can get.
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