Ah, The Sims. The game with unlimited potential, where you are God and your only limit is your imagination. What great adventure will you carve? Will you create a rich and famous movie star? Will your they marry the Sim of their dreams, buy a mansion in the country and raise six sickeningly gorgeous children together?
No. In the average The Sims 2 (or 1, 3, or 4) game you will:
Give him an equally hideous wife, a cute dog, and move them into their own home.
Micro-manage like there's no tomorrow...
...because your Sims have to eat, sleep, play, bathe, clean, tidy, cook, study, sleep, work and entertain the random strangers who show up at their houses, all in approximately half the time it takes to do all that stuff in.
Have a LOT of cartoon sex, probably with just about every Sim in town.
Experience the totally realistic birth of your Sim's children:
And then you get to do it all over again because, unlike in it's predecessor, that cute little bundle of joy that just fell out of the ceiling will grow up! Unless you forget to look after him and he gets taken away by the social worker...
...I preferred TS2's neighbourhood customisation - not being able to create vacation worlds in TS3 still hurts - and I think TS2 has a better balance of simplicity to creative freedom.
...because your Sims have to eat, sleep, play, bathe, clean, tidy, cook, study, sleep, work and entertain the random strangers who show up at their houses, all in approximately half the time it takes to do all that stuff in.
Why? For the same reason that you do everything else in The Sims: Because you can.
Experience the totally realistic birth of your Sim's children:
Ignore Biology class, babies actually fall from the ceiling
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And then, of course, the classic pool murder! No day on The Sims 2 - well, any The Sims game for that matter - is complete without a visit to a watery grave and from the Grim Reaper.
And then you get to do it all over again because, unlike in it's predecessor, that cute little bundle of joy that just fell out of the ceiling will grow up! Unless you forget to look after him and he gets taken away by the social worker...
The Sims 2 was an awesome game that allowed some of the freedoms that the original The Sims game didn't afford us, such as aging which added a feeling of progression, without any of the drawbacks that it's successor went on to have, such as hefty loading times and lag due to massive, open neighbourhoods. As someone who has spent a little bit of time Simming...
Just a tiny amount
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If you don't already have it, you'll have to look for a second hand copy of The Sims 2, as EA hate making money and it is no longer available on Origin. If you do have it then check out the mighty TheSimsResource, AroundTheSims2 and MTS for custom content that will literally make you squeal with excitement.
Now if you'll excuse me, I think I left my toddler by the pool...
Now if you'll excuse me, I think I left my toddler by the pool...
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