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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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1,168 thoughts on “The Sims 2”

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    I am now having the problem where my game keeps crashing. I uninstalled everything and even removed my Downloads (CC) folder and reinstalled everything and now it doesn’t load AT ALL.
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    everything seems to be working fine but every time i try to go to a gym or anything like that it always crashes no matter what I need help cuz i cant just stay on my own sim’s lot 🙁
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  3. 0
    I’ve just downloaded the file and it is in my download file I’m currently using windows 10 but there is no option to extract files and everytime I try to open it it just brings me to the internet any suggestions
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    Great game and everything seems to be working properly except for one thing; i try to save my game but when i save and then quit it’s all gone. Everything i’ve done is swiped. If anyone could help me resolve this problem that would honestly be great.
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    Hi. I’m trying to fix the resolution in the game and when I go into the notepad to make the changes given in the resolution fix note, I get told that I need admin permission to save changes to the notepad. How do I go about getting permission or working around this?
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    Hello! I wanted to download the Sims 2, but it asks me to put in a disk. I dont even have a disk Driver and i dont know what to do.. can you please help me? I would love to Play it again…
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  7. 0
    How do i make the Ikea Stuff work in my game? I see it in my folder but, it won’t show up in game play…
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  8. 0
    Hello, Thank you very much for this DL link ! The game works very well !
    (even if there are some graphic lags in the building mod)
    But, I have a problem to make the game into french. I know I have to use regedit and research “COMPUTER/HEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/EA_Games but there isn’t the EA_GAMES folder :/
    What should I do now ? Can someone help me please ?
    Thanks
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