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The Sims 2: Apartment Life

Written by Jesster
Thursday, 04 September 2008
I'll be the first one to admit that I'm a full blown video game addict. Anyone that knows me can tell you how much of my time I spend my face lit up with a gaming screen of some sort, whether it's playing PC games, Xbox or just GameBoy games. Doesn't matter, I'm always playing something... I'll also be the first to admit... that I am addicting to playing The Sims 2. I have every single Sims 1 AND Sims 2 expansion and stuff pack. I've over 8gigs of custom content to play with in Sims 2 and I've made over 20 different Neighborhoods and countless houses and Sims. The Sims 2: Apartment Life was released August 28 this year and I went out and bought my copy just yesterday. I haven't had much time play so I haven't really even begun to dig into it. I've played for a couple hours but I'm already in love with it and thanking the Sim Gods for adding some of the stuff they did. Since The Sims: Making Magic, avid Sim players have been waiting for some form of magic to be incorporated into The Sims 2. FINALLY they decided to bring back a tiny piece of the magic. We now have WITCHES! I am so excited about this. You can decide whether to be good, neutral or evil. Each witch will have his/her own spells to cast, potions to make and robes to wear (white for good, brown for neutral and black for evil). You will have a witch book to look spells from and there are now 2 new special hidden lots for witches (one for good and one for evil). You even get your own broom to fly around on! I am so anxious to create a new witch! There are a couple other things that I've been hoping for that they finally added to the game after such a long wait. There are now built in closets with clothe changing abilities already built in. The new Murphy bed looks pretty neat. It will be great for guest rooms and such. Also, there lots of new social actions and gestures. There is now a "reputation" meter that allows you to build well... reputation. They added lots of new room themes: tech geek, gear head, modern and chic and a whole bunch more. Then of course, there are the apartment buildings. You can have up to 4 controllable families in these apartment buildings. You have a land lord and you pay rent on a weekly basis. Your land lord takes care of leaky faucets, growing hedges, and squeaky doors. You can also have (non-controllable) roommates that chip in with the rent but you need to keep them satisfied or they will get upset and move out. Something I found sort of funny is that you can music coming from a neighboring apartment at times. Little music waves show up on your wall and you are able to choose the action "Bang wall" in order to make the neighbor turn down their music. I got a little kick out of that. This expansion seems awesome so far, I plan on taking more time to explore it fully and get the most out of it. I'm really anxious to see how it works having 4 controllable families in one building it seems like that would be a lot of work. I'll blog more about the game once I start getting deeper into the game. Jesster