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 | Title : The Sims Unleashed Expansion Pack
Author : Electronic Arts
Release Date : 20020923
Binding : CD-ROM
Regular Price : $29.99
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Editorial Reviews :
What's been missing in your Sims' family life? Pets of course! For the first time ever, The Sims Unleashed will give your Sims the chance to add a furry friend to the family. Visit the pet store to pick a dog or cat for your Sims. Then run their pet lives and fulfill their pet needs as you increase the fun and social life of the whole Sim household. Housebreak your pets; train them to do tricks; play with them; buy them toys, treats, and accessories; and do your best to keep them from destroying the whole house! Your Sims will have plenty to do while taking care of their pets. An expanded neighborhood with 30 additional residential lots and five community lots featuring parks, cafés, and a vegetable market will give your Sims and their pets a variety of places to meet their neighbors.
Note: This is an expansion for The Sims, and requires a copy of The Sims to play.
Buyer Reviews :
Okay, by now, we all know what The Sims is. The perfect people simulator that lets you take total control of an actual family. You have to build their house, buy their necesseities and wants, make sure they have skills so they don't fall on their face, or, in worst cases, die, etc. There are a ton of things that you can do in The Sims. The Sims have been also expanded alot. Instead of a full-blown sequal, the people at Maxis have decided to expand their original Sims with more than 4 expansion packs, each giving the Sims even more to do.
Enter Sims Unleashed. Now the Sims have pets, or can have pets, and your Sim has to keep them happy, or they can actually leave your Sim for good. Cats, dogs, iguanas, snakes, birds. You name it, it's probably in here. The Sims can now have a garden, growing their own root vegetables. And where can they get all this stuff? The Old Town. Unleashed expands in your neighborhoods again, letting you have a mixture of community and residential lots. Instead of adding neighborhoods, though, they expand on the ones that are in the more core games of the Sims. Thus, now a full 41 lots are avaliable.
All of this is very good, and I recommnend it to anyone who has loved the Simulation genre for awhile. However, while playing, you will run smack dab into the same problem that has plagued the core Sims for two years. First, it seems like your Sims never get a day to relax. They are always needing to go to work, or make friends, and you only have one day to skip work (two days in a row, and you get your walking papers). It would be nice if the employer gave you a few days where you didn't have to come to work, or for the kids to have a few days off from school.
However, that's not a key issue to many. The issues starts when the Sims take FOREVER to do a simple action when trying to get TO what you want them to preform the action on. If something is in their way, then they will either try to find another way, or, even worse, the action will be forgotten altogether. All this time, and the Sims still haven't had the chance to learn how to move things out of their way, or tell someone to move (if someone is in their way, a Sim may just sit there and wait until nightfall until deciding to just give up waiting). This is the most annoying thing in the Sims, and it's even more fustrating when Maxis doesn't even acknowledge the problem and address it. The other main problem from the core game: the graphics. It's aging, FAST. Either Maxis should buckle down and just make a full-blown sequal, or find some way, in the next expansion, to improve the graphics engine for the original one.
Now to the key problems in Unleashed, all of which can be ignored, but still will loom a black spot over it. First, why can't I control the pet myself? The pet is totally free will, and the only thing you can do with your pet that it doesn't do itself is to say for it to go to a certain spot in the house. It would've been nice to be able to tell your pet to take a nap, or to play, or to hunt, or something. Secondly, is it me or are making friends unecessarily harder in this expansion that it was with all the others? Even if you are best friends with someone, it'll take several tries before you can even do simple actions such as hug them in Unleased, whereas it was very easy in Hot Date and Vacation (which had the exact same social engine). Sure, we love a challenge, but was this really necessary to do?
And then, the one thing that may really turn people away completly: this thing is a hardware HOG. First, if you don't have a good video card, and a good amount of space on your hard drive (say, 1.6 Gigs with Unleashed ALONE), then Maxis says too bad, so sad to you. It'll run awfully slow (this was the same thing that people understandably complained about with the recent expansions), and even on higher-end systems, it'll STILL take a toll on it. Especially in the Downtown, Old Town, and Vacation Island lots. And maybe 600 MB f back
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