| Publishers | EA Games |
| Developers | Maxis |
| Release date | 2004 |
| Genre | Simulation |
| Game rating |
Game Description
The Sims 2 is a 2004 strategic life simulation video game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. It is the sequel to The Sims. The game has the same concept as its predecessor: players control their Sims in various activities and form relationships in a manner similar to real life.
Publisher description:
The Sims 2 is the next generation of the bestselling PC franchise. For the first time, players control their Sims over an entire lifetime from womb to tomb. Every choice you make has a relevant and dramatic effect on the life of your Sim. More life-like Sims, all-new gameplay and the ground-breaking addition of genetics gives players a more vivid and in-depth Sims experience.
Guiding your Sims through “Life’s Big Moments” takes on new importance, as players now get a “Life Score” to measure how well they are playing each individual Sim. The decisions that players make throughout the lifetime of their Sims now have an impact on their long-term success or failure. A choice made as a toddler has a direct effect on the teen and adult Sim they become. Will players be able to successfully lead their Sims through such important events as a first step, first crush, or marriage proposal, all while the clock is ticking?
The Sims in The Sims 2 are more aware and responsive to both other Sims and their surroundings. Sims truly come to life expressing moods and feelings through more realistic body animations and for the first time facial animations. They form complex relationships and are able to distinguish between family and friends, platonic friendships and romantic love. Sims in The Sims 2 now have DNA. Passing along physical characteristics and traits to their offspring, Sims both resemble and behave like their ancestors. As in real life, the appearance of the Sims now changes over time. In addition to getting older, a Sim that spends too much time on the couch will develop a paunch and a Sim that works out will enjoy rock solid abs.
An entirely new 3-D engine makes the world of The Sims 2 more life-like and dynamic. The Sims 2 will also introduce an all-new “Create-a-Sim” feature. This allows you to customise the facial features of your Sim with a few simple clicks, to a level of detail never realised before. In The Sims 2, players are now able to build dwellings over two stories and have the ability to coordinate and customise the homes of their Sims to a new degree of design with all-new furniture, lighting and objects.
Download The Sims 2
The Sims 2 is no longer abandonware. You can now buy the game from:
Windows (2004)
The Sims™ 2 Legacy Collection on Steam
Additional files, patches and fixes
The Sims 2 Body Shop Windows Manual (English)
The Sims 2 Screenshots
Windows
Hello! I’m trying to fix the resolution the game is very stretched out almost unplayable but I don’t have the “The sims 2 mansion and garden stuff pack” file in my folder… but I can play an run the game okay. I’ve noticed I don’t think i have all the packs as well. Has anyone experienced this? Maybe something went wrong during installation? Help me please! 🙂
does this help? https://simsvip.com/2014/07/20/the-sims-2-ultimate-collection-increase-resolution-guide/
For some reason I am not able to set the shadow settings on either low or medium. It is like greyed out. Does someone know how to fix that?
https://simscommunity.info/2016/04/27/the-sims-2-setting-up-the-resolution-windowed-mode-smooth-edges-sim-shadows/ does that fix it?
Hello I am having problems with ‘sims2pack’ mods. so I’m trying to install houses from The sims resource website, that others have made, and I can’t get them to work. Usually a window pops up when you click on them but there does not appear to be done – only a blank box (windows 10) and does not work! I downloaded a sims 2 pack installer and this also does not let me install these types of files to the game! Can anyone help?
it keeps on saying when i install, ‘it is not found any file specified for isarcextract. and yes i diasabled my anti virus. SOS PLEASE :((((
It keeps on giving me some random error when i press install… any help?? https://media0.giphy.com/media/hAFPXyh2lHdfO/giphy.gif
Running the The Sims 2/TSBIN/Sims2.exe says I need the DVD to continue. I don’t see any ISO or CUE file to mount or a crack. What am I missing?
Figured it out, probably. No crack, no mounting. You start the game from Mr DJThe Sims 2 Ultimate CollectionThe Sims 2 Mansion and Garden StuffTSBinSims2EP9.exe. That’s where the desktop icon links to, anyways.
Thanks a lot, Mr DJ and Old Games. After a few years of trying to buy this game or get EA to unlock the Origin copy for me, I finally get to play this classic.
And you have no issues with the game? which windows are you using?
i don’t know why. i can download and play the sims 2 but if i want open my saved game it always has soo long loading and it can’t be open 🙁 please tell me what should i do :((
Are there any viruses in this file? And do I really need to install the DirectX?
I want to play it so bad ;-;
Thank you!! 🙂
Since most modern computers have DirectX already, when I do the DirectX install after it’s completed it says that your computer has a newer or equivalent to the DirectX.
And there are no viruses are in the file
how do i fix a stuttering issue in the game? everything works but everytime i rotate or move the camera, everything flickers and it’s a bit annoying
i get an error that some file is missing? please help 🙂
I wish this game is not a harmful program.
scan it with avast its not
I keep getting a DirectX 9.0c error
me too! keeps crashing and i cant play for more than 5 minutes
Can confirm that some of the DLC just flat out doesnt work/load. I have 6 starting neighborhoods which is still nice however not all the DLC shows up, specifically downtown and sim university. Otherwise a great upload just missing DLC. May not be the OP’s fault either.
Thanks. Even got this to work on an old (Windows 10?) Dell laptop for my niece. Apparently one of the best Sims games – not that I rate these games at all, as I played the first one a lot. More of a GTAV/RDR2 kinda guy, LOL.
Sims 2 on PC is meant to be better than the Xbox (2001 Original) version, which I was going to buy her.
just an fyi, most consele versions of sims suck. dont go near those. 🙂
Maybe, but if you could experience the performance of my laptop you’d not go near that even to browse the Internet – yet, somehow, it plays okay, once it loads up. 😮
My niece (11) is happily wasting away her school summer holiday playing it for hours, whilst suffering from the associated vitamin D deficiency. 😀
For those of you wondering if mods work they do, you just place them in the “Downloads” folder.
I didn’t get a downloads folder, let alone any. So, do I have to manually create folders for what I want?
Update: Never mind, they’re here! They weren’t beforehand.