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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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模拟人生2De Sims 2Die Sims 2Les Sims 2Los Sims 2Os Sims 2TS 2

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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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1,169 thoughts on “The Sims 2”

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    works perfectly. thank you so much. i played this like 12 hours a day on weekends, and every evening, in grades 3-7 lmao. so thank you for the serotonin boost from the nostalgia
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  2. 0
    I installed this a while back and everything worked well (it crashed sometimes, but no big deal) but I found the dics at a thrift store and I’m going to use those from now on. How do you uninstall this? Is there anything special I need to do?
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      Go to C:Program Files (x86)EA GamesThe Sims 2. Open “Sims2_uninst.exe”. If it does not work, open “eauninstall.exe”. Or just go to your computer settings and uninstall TS2 like other program did.

      If you bought the disc version, I suggest you to get a no-cd crack on somewhere in the internet, because sometimes the disc verification is failing on Windows 10. Or, just run it on older computer running Windows XP (if you have any)

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    My sims have frozen in their bed and I can’t get them to move/. Their aspiration / wants / needs meters are behaving as expected (i.e. all of them bar energy and environment are going down), and life is continuing on around them as normal (car pools & newspapers arriving), but they are not moving and I can’t get them out of the bed. I can queue actions like use toilet or take shower, but it does nothing, help !
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  4. 0
    for some reason I can’t install custom content and can’t get it to work. I’ve made downloads folders and put the files in them but it wont work. can anybody help?
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  5. 0
    Maybe I’m stupid, but I followed your tutorial and all, but I dont have any houses or local famillies. There is literally nothing in town. And when i choose to create a new family the game jus crushes…
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  6. 0
    I installed the game but some problem occures. I don’t have the Caliente sisters, plus there’s limited amount of npc locals sims. I need more friends to go higher in my career but literally there is no more just few sims to call. When go to the public place there always come those few sims that I already know. I also cannot call to the directors of private school to keep in touch. Any idea to fix it?
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      Delete N001 folder in Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2, so that the game regenerate Pleasantview and hopefully your problem solved.
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  7. 0
    I’m not sure where I’m going wrong but the game looks like it installed properly and makes it as far as the main loading screen after the theme song plays but then crashes and shows an empty error box with a red cross and no options other than closing the message.
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    I’m not sure where I am going wrong. I have followed both the above tutorial as well as Disil’s tutorial and all that I am able to get is an error stating to insert the correct DVD-ROM, select OK and start application. I’ve tried using the compatibility option, using the administrator, I made sure that it was mounted and had the key (I have a disc version of my own but my disc reader doesn’t work properly, so I opted for the digital download instead). Please help.
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  9. 0
    Ok, i mounted it, but the only mount that was there was mount as a drive or something like that, but now i do not see a “setup.exe”
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  10. 0
    Hi, so your instructions say to “mount” the game, but when i click it, it doesnt show mount. i followed your link as well, but it still didnt show up.
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  11. 0
    do we have to crack paste in the garden and stuff game u have put ? i installe dthe game,, theres no problem but when i move a family to any house it keeps on loading FOREVER and never loads, when i quit it, it says game crashed sometimes, do i have to crack paste?
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    Hi, i have a question, why it doesn´t give me the option to put the code? i been playing this game for 2 days by this tutorial, but since yesterday i cant open it anymore, and it doesnt give me the option to put the code.what can i do?
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    Hi, i have a question, why it doesn´t give me the option to put the code? i been playing this game for 2 days by this tutorial, but since yesterday i cant open it anymore, and it doesnt give me the option to put the code.
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