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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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1,169 thoughts on “The Sims 2”

  1. 0
    I’m having trouble with the game now. It installed properly but it’s saying that that it cannot locate the DVDRom
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  2. 0
    All of my custom content won’t work and I don’t know why. I already have the Downloads in Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2 but still won’t load up in my game. Already followed whatever I could get yet still couldn’t solve it, anyone who managed to get their custom content work can you help me?
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  3. 0
    I installed it successfully however, I can’t access my saved progress. When I opened the game again I couldn’t find my character. Help please!
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      Let’s diagnose ur problem. First, go to Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2 folder. Do u see saves folder, or neigborhood folder? If not, well u need to run the game with the setup .iso mounted. Run the game as administrator, and see the result.
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        I see a bunch of folders such as cameras, collections, config, logs, lot catalog, movies, music, neighborhoods, projects, saved sims, etc.
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          Umm have u go to family bin (in neigbourhood menu in TS2) to see your family created in CAS?

          Also after playing, have you press the save button before quiting?

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          Have u press save when done playing? Also make sure to load the neigbourhood u played before. Run as administrator.
  4. 0
    when i look in the file there is no iso file that i can use is it becuse of my antivirus or something else
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  5. 0
    Update 31 March 2021

    1. You don’t need to disable your antivirus while installing this game, because anti-virus does not detect malware/virus at all in this installation!

    2. Still, you need to Mount “The Sims 2.iso” everytime you want to play. Unless you install mansion and garden stuff (of course)

    3. There is a high chance (70%) Sims 2 Uninstaller (Sims2_unins.exe) isn’t working in Windows 7, 8.1, and 10. You need to delete files one by one. Here is the tutorial: https://modthesims.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Uninstall

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  6. 0
    It didn’t work now why won’t it let me delete it?? It keeps saying it’s open in another program when it’s not??
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  7. 0
    Hi. My sims 2 base game was working fine until I upgraded windows. Now it says it is incompatible with windows and no disk found even though I am running as an administrator. How can I fix it?
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  8. 0
    Hello! I managed to install the game the first time but messed something up so I started again from scratch. Now, however, I can’t even install it! I’ve extracted, mounted, changed the properties, but every time I try to run either Setup or Autorun, it just tells me I don’t have the right CD and stops. I don’t know what to do anymore. Please help.
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  9. 0
    Hello! I managed to install the game the first time but then messed something up so I decided to try again from scratch. This time, however, I can’t even install it! I’ve extracted, mounted, changed the properties and all, but every time I try to run either Autorun or Setup it just tells me that I don’t have the right CD and stops. Can you please help me?
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