Sims 2
by Electronic Arts
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Video Game Reviews of Sims 2
Customer Review: Not as good as I hoped.
Summary: 3 Stars
I have this game for PSP and was looking forward to see the difference on the DS. I was disappointed. The challenges are less interesting. Having to walk around to find skills rather than building the skills might save time but gets old fast. The "toughs" in the pent house are also not to my taste. Not being able to see the prices being paid for found objects is also disappointing on the games for the GBA you could hold on to items until you got the highest price. Over all I prefer the old GBA sims games and the PSP version of this one. I'm glad I bought it used.Customer Review: Sorta fun but with a fatal flaw
Summary: 1 Stars
***DISCLAIMER*** I DID NOT BUY THE GAME FROM THIS SELLER. THIS IS A REVIEW ONLY OF THE GAME, I'M SURE THE SELLER IS WONDERFUL.
I played this game for several days and was having more fun with it than I'd been having with Age of Empires, but it got boring in a hurry. It's not open-ended, which as a Sims player I didn't like. I know I shouldn't expect the DS to have that much capacity, but the game became mind numbing, an exercise only in advancing a preset storyline.
Another annoyance for me is that it plays in real time, so a minute of your time is a minute of your Sim's time. It's not so bad at first but as you advance in the game it means that you have to adhere to a schedule to finish the game, which I found really annoying (ie. there are critical parts of the game that can ONLY be accomplished at a certain time of day for the storyline to advance).
But the biggest flaw by far, and it's the reason I'm giving this game only one star, is that the game freezes with fair regularity, and I finally got to a point in the game where it ALWAYS freezes when I open the inventory page. This is a critical failure, rendering the saved game completely unbeatable. I cannot progress, I cannot beat the game, I am stuck forever at this point because I cannot access the necessary tools that I have acquired throughout the game, to beat the game. This game is notoriously buggy and freeze-prone according to other gaming forums, and at least one other person has had the same problem with the game always freezing when it has to access the inventory screen.
For that reason, I do NOT recommend this game to anyone under any circumstances.
Customer Review: This isn't a sims game
Summary: 1 Stars
I played this game for three days and noticed it isn't a sims game. You cannot create sims like before and those sims can't get married and have babies. All u do is manage a hotel in a town with one road and 5 buildings. I feel sorrry for u if u bought this game.Customer Review: Funnest Sims game for ds
Summary: 4 Stars
I'd say this definitely is better then the my Sims series or then Sims castaway. Let's say if you are used to the basic Sims content, you won't be disappointed. The rating is 10+ because of kissing and romance between Sims and computer lottery and gambling. I'd say 9 and up. There aren't a whole lot of mini games, and time on the game isn't the usual short Sims time, but the real human time so it's a little slow. Also, you can change your clothes with quite a variety, but you can't buy new outfits if that matters to you. In this game you run a hotel and your goal is to please your guests to the max and get a 100% rating on your hotel. This game has some unique cute features such a small cell phone with custom ring tones, cute exotic pets, furniture shopping, painting, and beep boxing. At first the whole scheme of the game can be found dull and boring, but patience is rewarded! Customer Review: It's different
Summary: 5 Stars
First if your buying this game expecting a hand held version of the either the PC classic or even the console version, your gonna be soley disappointed. It's called Sims2, but in some ways it's not the same. You play a person(who you can create just like in other Sims games) who's car breaks down in a small town, while waiting for your car to be fixed you take on the role of a hotel manager. Unlike the other games, you have an objective, to build and run your hotel. There's a prety colorful cast of oddballs(most of whom are pictured on the cover) and as you build rooms and check people in get to know them etc etc.
There is no woohooing, or any other areas you can explore. You have a series of goals that you have to achieve and it's almost like a regular game with some sims mechanics to it.
Does that make it a bad game, simply because it's not a carbon copy of the other? Absolutely not. In fact, while some tasks as others have mentioned get repetitive, the main goals are quirky enough to keep you interested and there's a bit of social commentary about the dangers of conformity with one. The people you meet are an odd bunch indeed, a gangster, his daughter, an arrogant out of work sci-fi actor(I'll give you 3 guesses who he's based on, and the first 2 don't count), a mummy, a moleman, an alien just to name a few.
One thing I found interesting is the game is played in real-time. For example, it take 8hrs to build a room. Now to those familiar with the PC Sims knows that an hour is a minute. However in this game, it really is 8hrs. If you start a room being built at 1pm, the room will be finished a 9pm. And yes, as one other reviewer pointed out, the game progresses even when your not playing. So if you build a room at 1pm even if you don't play again until 9pm, the room will still be done.
There are some flaws to the game, one of the minigames is to repel an alien invasion and it's difficult to aim at the aliens especially on the sundeck where you end up aiming at furniture.(note to those having trouble, dress as the rattinator) Also, when you bust crooks you have a split second between stunning them and throwing a rattarang before they escape. So you end up having to leave the screen and comeback and try again.
It's also not clear in the game how your supposed to deal with the mole king(hit him with the water gun) and Optimus Alfred(you have to beat him 3 times, including defeating a swarm of robots twice)
The real-time nature of the game has a drawback. Guests will check out of the hotel even when your not playing and if they're not in a good mood(moods change as well when not playing) they will check out and not pay fully. Keep track of what days your guests are checking out and try if you can to play at some point during the day to make sure they're in a good mood.
Also those who played Sims the Urbz will recognize some of the NPC's in the game. To those who haven't played it, it only refernces the Urbz once. When you build up relationships with the NPC(none playable characters) they give secrets and on Sim says he was replaced by a robot in the previous game. That's a reference to the Urbz, but that's the only one that'll leave those who haven't played it baffled.
All in all, despite it's shortcomings with the real-time problem issues and side missions being a little repetetive, if your a fan of the Sims, I say at least check it out.