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Publisher:	Electronic Arts
Current Sales Rank:	#721 in Games
All-Time Sales Rank:	#141 Overall
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Product Description

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 customize the facial features of your Sim with a few simple clicks, to a level of detail never realized before. In The Sims 2, players are now able to build dwellings over two stories and have the ability to coordinate and customize the homes of their Sims to a new degree of design with all-new furniture, lighting and objects.

System Requirements

600 MHz P3 processor; 256 MB RAM if Windows XP, Windows ME, Windows 98 or Windows 2000; At least 3.5 GB of hard drive space; Nvidia GeForce 2 / ATI Radeon 7000 or better.

This is what the original Sims should have been like to play. The only complaints I have are the insensitivity of the mouse when rotating the camera, and the camera controls can be more difficult to use than they need to be.

What I really like is now when you use the buy catalog or build menus, you can expand the catalogs so you can see ALL items in a group at one time. Also when painting floors or walls or the outside of your house they have done something wonderful - basically if you hold the shift key in a room or on a wall you get a preview of what the wall will look like and a single mouse click will paste it down. Another wonderful improvement is in the creation of rooms, instead of having to build each wall separate you can now just drag out a box in the size of the room you want. Something else great is being able to purchase items in different colors, or being able to choose and cook different meals (based on your skills).

There is a strange quirk in the 3D which is that you STILL cant place items at any angle you want. I can understand why you couldn't do that in 2D, but this is 3D and it makes you wonder why they bothered going to 3D with all the great improvements in the gameplay.

The Sims 2 (PC Games)