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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. 0
    Hi! Just wanna say the game is good and I like it BUT! I can’t exit from fullscreen and the fullscreen is 800×520 (520 ish). if there’s someone who can help me with it please msg me or comment idk 😀
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    I already done with the instalation but when I click the setup.exe and click yes no reaction after that, can anyone tell me what next or what should i do for the next step? please hel me
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    I already done with the instalation but when I click the setup.exe and click yes no reaction after that, can anyone tell me what next or what should i do for the next step?
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    Can someone please help me, I’ve successfully downloaded and installed, ran the game and I decided to delete the Disk Image File to clear up some space, after doing so I realised that was a bad mistake and the game could not work without it. So I deleted everything and reinstalled the Zip file, unzipped the game put whenever I try and run the setup I get a empty prompt on my screen. Please help 🙁
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    If anyone knows how to set the game up and is willing to do a YouTube tutorial on how to set it up pls leave a link to the video for everyone to see so people don’t get lost everytime they download the sims. It’ll save a lot of us🙏
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    The game is working fine, besides the fact that changing the shadows to medium or low still leaves the black box when sims are indoors. But that’s not too bad, what I’m having trouble with is that every time a family goes to change appearance or visit an external lot, the game crashes.
    Can anyone help me with this?
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