The Sims 2 Pets
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Video Game Reviews of The Sims 2 Pets
Customer Review: Great game!!! :-) Two thumbs WAY up!
Summary: 5 Stars
Okay, after reading the Amazon reviews (mostly negative) I was pretty much turned off by the game. But, when I went to the store yesterday, planning to buy Sims 2 for DS, they didnt have it, so I crossed my fingers and settled for Sims 2 Pets...great decision!
I do agree that this game is very different than the PC version of Sims 2 Pets, but definitely not in a bad way. You are a veterinarian, and you first name yourself, dress yourself (not as many choices as in the PC version, but it's okay) and make your pet.
You start off in a small country home with a living room / kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, garage area (where you can play and train your pet), examination room, and a foyer. You dont have much time between working the veterinary office and sleeping - a few minutes, Sim time, which is about 5 seconds, because it automatically puts you to bed at closing time, 8:00pm. Your vet opens at 8am, though, and you wake up at 7:55, so it's not a lot of time to take a shower, use the restroom, and cook yourself some fried eggs.
When you examine pets that patients bring in, you first have to raise their "heart" bar, so they are happy, by petting them. Then, you take their temperature, comb their fur for fleas, and possibly give them a shot of medicine, or a snack. Their are not many illnesses" fleas, flu, worms, swallowed foreign object (which you can detect if you have an X-Ray Machine, which you have to buy), and if their owners say they're dirty or they smell bad, or they are ugly in need of a makeover.
If a pet has the flu, you have to buy flu shots from the internet. You give the pet one flu shot per day until it is healthy again. If a pet has fleas, you can buy Flea Shampoo off the internet and bathe it using the shampoo every day until it is healthy. If the pet has worms (which you realize if you give it a snack during examination), you can buy "Worms-B-Gone" from the discount store, and lots of other choices of food to get rid of worms.
When you diagnose the pet, the owner will ask you when he/she should pick it up...there is a choice of One Day, Three Days, or Five days. If the pet is just dirty, hungry, or in need of a makeover, one day is a good choice. Three-Five days is if the pet has the flu, fleas, worms, and Five Days if it has a swallowed foreign object or a broken bone.
Like the Sims 2, you can decorate your house, deleting objects, adding objects, and arranging things. You can buy lots of interactive things, like a wardrobe, vanity, sewing machine...speaking of sewing machine...
A sewing machine is a great long-term savings item. It is $1000 simoleons, and you can actually sew your own clothes for dogs/cats. Online, you can buy patterns for outfits, and it will tell you what materials you need, ie: cotton, buttons, clasps, nylon thread, etc. You buy the items, and click the sewing machine. Pick a pattern, and the shape of the clothing piece will show up. You have to follow the edge of the shape with the stylus, and if you dont make a mistake, you get to use that piece of clothing! But, if you make a mistake, you fail, and you're out $15-$30 for the lost materials.
You can also move into one of three bigger houses, if you have enough money. A the smallest houses is $5,000, the medium sized one is $12,000, and the largest one is $20,000. I have not moved yet, but I am working on it. When you move, all of your furniture goes into storage, so it would be a bit of a hassle once you move in, in my opinion.
Some reviews say there is no socializing envolved in Sims 2 Pets for DS...yes there is! First off, you can socialize with patients, choosing things like "greet", "joke", etc. Also, when you go to the park, you see other people and their dogs/cats there, and you can choose from a broader plethura of choices - greet, joke, gossip, praise pet, insult pet, and one flirty choice, which I choose not to use, LOL.
Well, off to play SIMS 2 PETS for NINTENDO DS. I reccomend this to anyone and everyone out there with a spare thirty dollars! :-)
---Sims Addict---
Customer Review: A disappointment, to the greatest extent.
Summary: 1 Stars
I am a big fan of the Sims, and have been since the first hit the shelves. Due to past experience, I thought I would love the new game. However, I found i was immeadiately diasppointed.
It starts with you as a veternarian. It ends...it never ends. And you are still a vet. You get to make your own pet, sure, but it doesn't do anything. You treat patients, sleep, use the restroom, cook eggs, treat patients, get new patients (with the same problems),...and so it continues.
The two biggest disappointments were: bad graphics, and no socializing.
Addressing the lack of socialization: the Sims has always been something fun- you can manipulate your sims to the greatest extent, creating complex webs of friendship and love. In the Sims2 Pets (for DS), none of that is possible. The most you ever do is toss a ball at your pet.
A pet that is square, or freakishly proportioned, or even half tan, half black. The graphics are terrible, way below Sims standards. Creating pets is bad, as well. You can choose what they look like. At first, the coat blending option sounds fun- make a calico, right? Unfortunately, it just takes the front half of one coat and the back half of another and plasters them on your not-so-cute little pet.
Designing sims has always seemed to have endless oppourtunities: outfits, faces, personalities. Again, the bad graphics come into play. However, you are provided with a bleak selection for sim customization. A couple of shirts, which are nice, but there is no great variety of clothing. Hair is okay. Nothing more, just okay.
I would absolutely not recommend this product to anyone. Instead, try something better like the first Sims2 or the Sims Urbz. Don't waste your money on this, though.
Customer Review: Not what I expected...
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this game and thought it would be like Nintendogs, but with all kinds of different pets, but all you do is walk around and cure pets of different illnesses. Not what I expected. I guess if you are into the whole kind of curing pets thing, then it's fine, but if you are looking to have and take care of pets of your own, then I recommend something else like Nintendogs.Customer Review: Sims 2 pets
Summary: 4 Stars
I brought this game because I love animals. In this game you play a vet and you treat dogs and cats. Fun game if your an animal loverCustomer Review: Not like The Sims...
Summary: 2 Stars
It's true that this game is fun at first, but after a while it's very boring. I stopped playing it the second day. All you really do in this game is heal pets. Patients are constantly coming to your house and you have little time to get your needs up. I reccommend the regular Sims 2 DS game.
Fun- 4/10
Sound- 6/10
Graphics- 2/10
Overall- 3/10