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Game Information
- Platform: Windows XP
- PEGI Rating: Ages 12 and Over
- Media: CD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
Product Features
- Move into the perfect apartment: a spacious loft, a cozy place for a young couple, or a multi-bedroom flat-share with friends
- Mingle with Sims from all-new social groups: stylish socialites, artsy bohemians, sports jocks, gadget-collecting techies, or edgy gearheads
- Take advantage of apartment life: form social networks to make new friends, advance their careers, or look for love
- Build your Sim's new reputation meter: with a good reputation, your Sim can find the right friends to help them achieve their goals!
- Control multiple households: will you make your Sims live in happy harmony or comical conflict?
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Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
Your Sims are moving into a brand-new apartment, and their lives will never be the same! Adventure, fun, and drama await them as they meet new people and explore their new neighbourhood. Will they take their kids to the local playground, mingle in coffee shops, or hit the park to learn from the breakdancers? Close quarters mean new opportunities-move in with compatible roomies for a thriving social life, advance your career with the right social network, or find true love just down the hall. Whether they live in artsy converted lofts, the ultimate studio bachelor pads, or luxury apartments with their own butler, your Sims will experience all of the excitement of apartment life!
Product Description
Requires The Sims 2, The Sims 2: Special DVD Edition, The Sims 2: Holiday Edition, or The Sims 2: Deluxe to play.
Your Sims are moving into a brand-new apartment, and their lives will never be the same! Adventure, fun, and drama await them as they meet new people and explore their new neighbourhood. Will they take their kids to the local playground, mingle in coffee shops, or hit the park to learn from the breakdancers? Close quarters mean new opportunities - move in with compatible roomies for a thriving social life, advance your career with the right social network, or find true love just down the hall. Whether they live in artsy converted lofts, the ultimate studio bachelor pads, or luxury apartments with their own butler, your Sims will experience all of the excitement of apartment life!
- Move into the perfect apartment - A spacious loft, a cozy place for a young couple, or a multi-bedroom flat-share with friends.
- Mingle with Sims from all-new social groups - Stylish socialites, artsy bohemians, sports jocks, gadget-collecting techies, or edgy gearheads.
- Take advantage of apartment life - Form social networks to make new friends, advance their careers, or look for love.
- Build your Sim's new reputation meter - With a good reputation, your Sim can find the right friends to help them achieve their goals!
- Control multiple households - Will you make your Sims live in happy harmony or comical conflict?
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Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
69 of 73 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
Like The Sims 2 Seasons, this expanision has a major impact on the game, whereas packs like Pets only enhance the experience. I've had this pack for a couple of days and I'm hooked. The Sims 2 tends to slow down after a while and this just totally refreshed it. The apartments are cleverly designed and great fun to customize! Now your sims have neighbours who they can interact with and form strong relationships.
Kick start your sims apartmenting lives with a swanky pad, or go budget and have your sims work their way up.
One of the best aspects of the pack is raising the Sim children in an apartment, they make tons of friends and have fun in the playground.
This game is auesome, it offers a variety of funky clothes and a few wicked hairstyles along with dozens of new objects and a whole new take on the game.
One point, the Sims 3 is coming out in April next year, this could be one of the last ever exp for the Sims 2. Buy It!
Kick start your sims apartmenting lives with a swanky pad, or go budget and have your sims work their way up.
One of the best aspects of the pack is raising the Sim children in an apartment, they make tons of friends and have fun in the playground.
This game is auesome, it offers a variety of funky clothes and a few wicked hairstyles along with dozens of new objects and a whole new take on the game.
One point, the Sims 3 is coming out in April next year, this could be one of the last ever exp for the Sims 2. Buy It!
52 of 56 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
As opposed to the waste-of-money, product-placement-up-the-arse "Stuff Packs", most of the Sims 2 Expansion Packs actually add useful functionality and gameplay elements to an already decent game, and this is one of the best ones. If I had to recommend just one expansion, it would probably be this one (or Seasons), as it adds exciting and new, yet realistic, gameplay.
Apartment living is easy to get into. Either pick one of the premade families in the new neighbourhood, Belladonna Cove, or make your own Sims and move them into apartments. If you're really adventurous you can build your own apartment buildings, but this is very difficult due to the complexity needed in apartments, and you have to use a cheat to zone the apartment correctly (I think the official website has a tutorial). Apartment building is only recommended for experienced builders.
I had no problems installing or running this. One tiny complaint is the load time on game startup; if you have all the expansions or lots of custom content, or both, be prepared to stare at a blank screen for 10+ minutes while the game starts up. I run the Sims 2 in a window for this exact reason - I can watch a video or browse the internet or something while the game is loading.
Overall I recommend this expansion pack. If you only have the base Sims 2 and want to add that little bit extra before the release of Sims 3, get this pack. It's the last pack that will come out and it adds (in my opinion) the most varied and useful gameplay elements. If you have all the previous packs, then why are you reading this review? You're going to buy it anyway :-)
Oh, and one final quibble: It's not an apartment. It's a FLAT. Bloody Americanisation strikes again.
Apartment living is easy to get into. Either pick one of the premade families in the new neighbourhood, Belladonna Cove, or make your own Sims and move them into apartments. If you're really adventurous you can build your own apartment buildings, but this is very difficult due to the complexity needed in apartments, and you have to use a cheat to zone the apartment correctly (I think the official website has a tutorial). Apartment building is only recommended for experienced builders.
I had no problems installing or running this. One tiny complaint is the load time on game startup; if you have all the expansions or lots of custom content, or both, be prepared to stare at a blank screen for 10+ minutes while the game starts up. I run the Sims 2 in a window for this exact reason - I can watch a video or browse the internet or something while the game is loading.
Overall I recommend this expansion pack. If you only have the base Sims 2 and want to add that little bit extra before the release of Sims 3, get this pack. It's the last pack that will come out and it adds (in my opinion) the most varied and useful gameplay elements. If you have all the previous packs, then why are you reading this review? You're going to buy it anyway :-)
Oh, and one final quibble: It's not an apartment. It's a FLAT. Bloody Americanisation strikes again.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
I was unsure whether or not to purchase this expansion as I was aware that the Sims 3 was coming out. However I am really glad I did buy it! I have all the other expansions and most of the stuff packs, and The Sims 2 Apartment Life is a great addition to the game. I do not feel this way about all the expansions, I feel that with many of the expansions availible you rarely experience them in the game unless you play particuluar actions such as 'going downtown' or 'creating a pet'. I feel the same way about the Sims 2 Seasons as I do this expansion. They both add things to the game, without you having to think about it or put in too much extra effort. I automatically find myself putting a family in an apartment or hiring a butler for any family, whether or not they live in an apartment. The element of having witches in the game is also very enjoyable, you do have to go to extra efforts to find witches or make your sims a witch but I do not feel this lets the game down. There are some elements in the game which fall naturally into game play, others that require a bit of effort to happpen and some which require a longer amount of time spent playing and fiddling with interactions. I find this is good and entertains me in all moods. I can put as little or as much effort into the game, depending on my mood, and still really enjoy the time I spend playing. Overall I love this game and I'm delighted that I purchased it. I think it's a great final addition to any sims collection and you shouldn't be put off by the fact that the Sims 3 is coming out soon.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Sims 2 Apartment Life.
This game is great! i love it, very different from the other ones. If your a teacher for instance and get like 3rd promotion in that career you can buy a teachers bookcase as i... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Rob
Chrissy Pressy
Apartment life for sims great, its hard to drag my daughter away from it. Bought used one and although I had my doubts, game does work perfectly. Hours of fun.
Published 17 months ago by Ms L
Not What You'd Expect
First off.. if you're a fan of the Sims 2 .. then buy the game!
But don't expect to be able to build your own apartments and change ones you're living in.. Read more
But don't expect to be able to build your own apartments and change ones you're living in.. Read more
Published on 14 Mar 2010 by P. Kieran
very cool addition
your sims can now rent appartments, you can build appartments etc, lots of new fun items, im sure you will enjoy this 1.
Published on 27 Nov 2009 by T. Schleich
Just what the sims2 was waiting for
This is just what the sims2 has been waiting for, having downloaded some patches for the original sims to enable houses to be split into appartments an official appartment... Read more
Published on 7 Nov 2009 by Rudi B
Sims2 Apartment Life
Very good, does everything it says on the packet.
Annoying things are it shows you things that you can't do because you don't have other expansion packs. Read more
Annoying things are it shows you things that you can't do because you don't have other expansion packs. Read more
Published on 27 July 2009 by J. R. Harvey Sporle
Lots of Magic!
Its really fun because there was lots of magic and witches, and you can get another skin tone (green). Read more
Published on 13 July 2009 by Naartjie
Adds to the social dimension of game play
This expansion pack has a few elements of added functionality but the main advantage of it is the creation of neighbours that live on the same site in separate apartments. Read more
Published on 10 July 2009 by ljd706
love this sims 2
love the game, got my little sister into them to this was her birthday present which she loved.
Published on 11 May 2009 by Ms. L. Livesey
What a disapointment
I was so looking forward to owning this, only to find out I cannot build my own blocks of flats, you can only use the ones in the dedicated neighbourhood, and those appartments are... Read more
Published on 28 April 2009 by Mum
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