The Sims 2: Fun with Pets Collection

Product Details

The Sims 2: Fun with Pets Collection From Electronic Arts List Price: $19.99 Price: $18.33 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Ships from and sold by Amazon.com 29 new or used available from $14.50 Average customer review:

Product Description

Create a happy home with the perfect pet, garden and décor! Give your Sims a furry or feathered companion to play with and love—but prepare for the unexpected! Indulge your Sims with new décor and landscaping options to create the perfect home.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3016 in Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Model: 16856
• Released on: 2010-01-12
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .40 pounds

Features

• Choose from three new architectural themes, Moroccan, Art Deco, and Second Empire, to re-imagine and re-make the exteriors of your Sims' estates.
• The Sims 2 Fun with Pets Collection includes 3 great titles: The Sims 2 Pets Expansion, The Sims 2 H&M Family Fun Stuff Pack, and The Sims 2 Mansion and Garden Stuff Pack.
• Your Sims can share a lifetime with their pets. Sims can adopt dogs, cats, birds, and more. Choose from dozens of dog and cat breeds, or customize features for a unique pet and then pick their personalities.
• Your Sims can encourage and discipline pets, training them to shake, play dead, and more. Unruly pets might dig in the yard, claw the sofa, topple the trash, or surprise their Sims in other ways.
• The ability to possess must-have items for your Sims' entire family. Hang loose with Hawaiian style patio furniture and clothing or bring out the kids' adventurous side with exciting costumes.

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Product Description

The Sims 2: Fun with Pets Collection is the ultimate, and ultra inexpensive collection of Sims 2 expansion and stuff packs for The Sims players on the PC gaming platform.* Containing The Sims 2 Pets Expansion Pack, The Sims 2 Mansion & Garden Stuff Pack and The Sims 2 H&M Fashion Stuff Pack, it allows players to create a happy home with the perfect pet, garden and décor. Give your Sims a furry or feathered companion to play with and love—but prepare for the unexpected. Indulge your Sims with new décor and landscaping options to create the perfect home. Packs Included: Give your sims a friend for life. View larger. Utilize customization functionality. View larger. Turn sims' homes into mansions. View larger. Create and relish in stunning gardens. View larger. Enjoy H&M fashions and environments. View larger. Take your new style to the catwalk. View larger. The Sims 2 Pets Get your paws on The Sims 2 Pets Expansion Pack. From scampering puppies to cuddly kittens, add a new furry or feathered friend to your Sims’ lives. Choose from dozens of the most popular dog and cat breeds like Dalmatians or the American Shorthair. Or create a unique cat or dog by modifying their body shape and facial features, choosing specific colors and markings, and more. Decide on a personality—smart, sweet, silly, or sloppy. Your Sims can teach their pets tricks, take them for a romp in the park, and countless other things as they share their lives with their pets. But keep one thing in mind—your Sims’ pets have minds of their own. Don’t be surprised if cats scratch the sofa, dogs dig holes in the garden, pets sleep on your Sims’ bed, or worse. In fact, expect the unexpected. Game Features Sims Have Pets! — Your Sims can share a lifetime with their pets. Sims can adopt dogs, cats, birds, and more. Create-A-Pet — Choose from dozens of dog and cat breeds, or customize features for a unique pet and then pick their personalities. Pets Have Genetics — Cross different breeds to create designer pets or make new ones and register them to appear in Create-A-Pet as a unique pedigree. Sit Spike, Sit — Your Sims can encourage and discipline pets, training them to shake, play dead, and more. Unruly pets might dig in the yard, claw the sofa, topple the trash, or surprise their Sims in other ways, but Sims can change their pets’ ways with the right training. Pets Have Careers — Now your Sims aren’t the only ones bringing home the bacon. Skilled pets can earn a living from three career tracks—Show Business, Security, and Service—and work their way up through five job levels. Friends for a Lifetime — Your Sims’ pets are members of the family and share all of life’s great moments—whether it’s kids training puppies, teens playing fetch in the park, adults watching TV with their cats, or elders enjoying a sunny day in park with their longtime companion Show off Your Pets — Share your favorite Sim pets with other The Sims 2 Pets players through the exchange. The Sims 2 Mansion & Garden Stuff With The Sims 2 Mansion & Garden Stuff Pack players are free to design impressive estates and meticulous gardens for your Sims with three all-new architectural styles. Infuse your Sims’ mansion with the intricate beauty of new Moroccan designs, add a touch of retro-modern style with stately and new Art Deco elements, or build in the imposing new Second Empire style. With a host of new architectural and landscaping items to choose from, your Sims homes will look more stunning than ever. Key Game Features Re-create your Sims homes into luxurious mansions. New items including exotic columns that create stunning new archways, chic ceiling fans that add an element of cool, or sweeping grand staircases that make a bold statement. Completely reinvent your Sims’ gardens with a colorful foundation of flower beds and shrubs including delicate irises, cheerful daylilies, and bright sunflowers. Choose from three new architectural themes (Moroccan, Art Deco and Second Empire) to re-imagine and remake the exteriors of your Sims’ estates. New items include: architectural elements including solar panels, all new windows, doors, and fencing; a variety of bold sculptures, foliage, and topiaries. The Sims 2 H&M Fashion Stuff The popular European fashion retailer that is taking the US by storm with its trendsetting contemporary fashions is now coming to The Sims 2. Your Sims can choose from cutting-edge men’s and women’s clothing including dresses, jeans, and other outfits, complete with accessories—all inspired by real H&M designs. They can also design their own H&M store environment with retail décor items including mannequins, clothing racks, cash registers, and a fitting room. Then your Sims can showcase their up-to-the minute clothing line with a fashion show, complete with fashion runway. Update your Sims’ wardrobes, design fun and trendy H&M stores, and let them put their fashion foot forward on the fashion runway. Key Game Features Find Your Summer Look — Dress your Sim in a stylish ensemble showcasing the vibrant colors that are all the rage this season. Then complete your Sim’s look with coordinated accessories. The Go-To Place for Hot New Trends — Design your own H&M retail environment, or use new store-themed items to build an intimate H&M boutique for more sophisticated citizens. Spotlight the Top Fashions — Design a runway and host a couture show featuring all of your favorite H&M styles. Special Items — Heighten your Sims 2 not only with a special outfit for both your Female and male sim, but also focused retail lighting and a red-striped drape suitable as a backdrop. System Requirements Minimum OS: Windows XP, Vista Processor: 1,000MHz or faster (1,300MHz for Vista) RAM: 512MB or more (1GB for Vista) Disc Drive: 8x or faster DVD-ROM drive Hard Drive: 3GB+ of free space (5GB if installing both The Sims 2 and The Sims 2 Fun with Pets Collection) Sound and Video: DirectX 9.0c compatible cards required Input Device: Mouse and keyboard * Requires The Sims 2, The Sims 2 Deluxe, The Sims 2 Double Deluxe or The Sims 2 Holiday Edition to play.

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Customer Reviews

pets i rated it 2 in the fun department because this expansion really aint an expansion, you get to buy, adopt or find a stray pet. it seems more like a stuff pack. its boring because you dont really do much except play with your pet. they have more varities for you to choose from but talking to the human sims is still better. i only bought it because i wanted the mansion and garden pack and didnt feel like paying 20 bucks for 1 pack when i can get all 3 for the same 20 bucks. i recommend it only if you want to have a complete collection of expansion and stuff packs or if you love pets. i havent had any bug problems with the game tho, so thats good. Sims 2 Pet's Collection I bought this collection to fill the expansion packs before Bon Voyage expansion pack. What I did not know was that Mansion stuff pack that came with this collection supersede Seasons expansion pack (My last expansion pack) and makes you use the Pet's Collection CD rather than using Seasons CD after the install. Despite the newer Securom being installed on my computer, I haven't had any problems with game and no computer malfunctions. The game however is designed to be run with Freetime expansion pack thus leaves a huge ? when it comes to some game aspects like the Aspiration Bar is now change to whatever Freetime has running and the game tells you to access the new Aspiration bar - install Freetime. This gives the game, you are playing a trial version so buy more of EA Game's products. Very annoying when you bought the game for PETS and not FREETIME. Pros about the product: The new items and I love the fact that there is more chemistry connections beyond the regular hair colors, make up, and etc. Now there is +6 job level, unemployment (lol), and many more. Now I don't have to just assign the same two chemistry connection I've been using for so long; I can give my sims more of a realistic attraction to one another. Cons about the product: Major cons about this collection is that you cannot install any more sims2packs from the Sims 2 Exchange after the installing of the game. The game does not recognize the sims2packs and says the the paths do not exist when you try to install them. I've contacted the EA Support but doubt that they will respond. This occurs after you install the Mansion stuff pack from the CD. If you install just Pet and Family stuff pack - this problem dos not occur. Thus if you use the exchange for custom content, install all the sims2packs before you install Mansion (Custom content installed before still works after Mansion installment). Other minor con is that the number of people passing by your house increases exponentially; before, I've got a random passersby every 10 am, 1 pm, and 4 pm. Now it is every 1 hour. And if they are friends of the sims, they tend to group by the house. So you got a minor riot outside your house. Might edit if EA games releases a patch for Mansion Stuff Pack bugs. Review: 2/22/2010 Lots of fun stuff! I love how this one disc has so much fun stuff included! The new items that you can purchase are really cool, and the pets are so much fun!