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Tarfumes.com - The Sims 2: FreeTime
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List Price: $29.99
Our Price: $27.99
Your Save: $ 2.00 ( 7% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Electronic Arts
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Amazon Maximum Age: 20
Amazon Minimum Age: 144
Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Video Game
Brand: Electronic Arts
EAN: 0014633153712
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Feature: Discover new activity types
Format: CD
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Electronic Arts
Manufacturer: Electronic Arts
Platform: Windows 98
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release Date: 2008-02-26
Studio: Electronic Arts
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Features
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Discover new activity types
New group activities
Hobbies offer lifetime rewards
Requires select Sims 2 titles to play
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Editorial Reviews:
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Now your Sims can rediscover the joys of leisure time! Awaken your Sims' true passions in life as they discover and excel at all-new activities. Whether they're tossing a football with the family, practicing ballet, restoring cars with friends, or building train sets, your Sims now have more ways to build skills, enhance friendships, and make their lives more successful. Craft new, unique items for your Sims to use in their daily lives including clothing, pottery, and more. Your Sims will even unlock secret rewards by mastering their hobbies and advancing all-new careers. Explore a wide variety of new hobbies that will change your Sims' lives!
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Good but glitchy.
Comment: The Sims 2: Free Time EP gives you Sim the opportunity to have hobbies. Sims can now have many interests which include Cuisine, Nature, Music and Dance, Sports, Fitness, Arts and Crafts, and Tinkering plus a few others. You can use older items from the Sims to build Sims interest in their hobbies. The easel is builds up interst in Arts and Crafts, the telescope increases interest in Science, and the swimming pool increases interest in Fitness. Sims can "tinker" with the showers, bathtubs and garbage disposals. It also inclues new items like the car for Tinkering, a pottery wheel and sewing machine for Arts and Crafts, and ballet bar for Music and Dance. When Sims build up interest (similar to building skill points) they open up different options like the ability to talk about their hobby, read about their hobby, and blog about it. They can also subscribe to hobby magazines and gain memberships to clubs on secret lots. When the interest is maxed out Sims get "in the zone" and their needs go down more slowly. Sims also get a Lifetime aspiration meter and can get a Secondary Aspiration.
This EP also includes some much wanted new items for babies and toddlers. There is a new style of baby furniture items, including a crib with a canopy, and the activity table which toddlers and children can build their mechanical and creativity skill points. The activity table is my favorite new item included in this EP.
The downside to this EP is that it has some problems. The Sims needs decline much more quickly with this EP. It's is hard to build up hobby interest when the Sims energy, hunger, and hygiene go down very quickly. Another issue is that the nannies refuse to use any of the new baby items that came with Free Time. They won't put the babies in the crib and they won't use the new changing table. Instead they lay the babies on the floor and change them in the middle of the room, leaving a dirty diaper laying there. Other people have complained that the EP is incompatible with the kitchen and bath items from the Kitchen and Baths Stuff Pack. The Sims cannot tinker with the new showers or tubs and they can't get leftovers or make platters with the new fridges. However, EA games does have a patch on the Sims 2 website that fixes some of these issues. I think this EP is definitely worth getting but it definitely requires the patch.
Customer Rating:
Summary: APPARENTLY THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TOO MUCH FREE TIME...
Comment: This is the...7th expansion of the SIMS 2, so one has to ask: was there ANYTHING not done yet? Well, apparently yes.
Our Sims are given a choice of 10 hobbies (ranging from dancing and sports to...video games - Sims playing the SIMS 3? Yeah...deliciously ironic) which not only improve their mood but also their job skills if compatible. Said leisure-time activities can also serve in making money, since most hobbies end up, first, creating something and, then, improving on it.
Yes, there is a new Hobby-meter...Keeping it high will ensure your Sim's admittance into hobby-specific exclusive clubs. There are music and dance, arts and crafts, sports, fitness, scientific, nature lovers, gaming, cuisine, tinkering, and, finally, film and literature clubs - each branching out into more specialized subcategories.
Besides new clothes and items, this expansion comes with 5 new careers: architect, dancer, entertainer, intelligence officer (no Sim-Jack Bauer, no) and oceanographer. The controls are more or less the same - and so are the graphics and sounds (well, whatever sound the SIMS ever had). What I did not appreciate was...SecuROM (hence the second star withheld).
SIMS 2 always required a lot of micromanagement. FREETIME does add another level of complication, but I am sure it will appeal not only to hard-core Sims-fans. However, by taking care of your Sims' free time, make sure they do not take up all of yours...
Since this is supposed to be the last expansion, fans of the series will not resist. However, keep in mind that EA will probably release a SIM 2 bundle in a couple of months. If missing on more than a couple of expansions, I would advise to wait.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Greatest expansion pack ever!!
Comment: I LOVE this expansion!! Definately the best of The Sims 2 series. I'm really into music and dancing so I love the new music and dance stuff. I wish this wasn't the last expansion cause it's just now getting really good!! I think they could do alot more with this line.
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