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 | The Sims 2: Family Fun Stuff |
| Price: | $33.98 |
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Product Description
Add excitement to your Sims’ family with this all-new collection* of furniture, clothing, and décor. Decorate the home with an assortment of cool new furnishings, including upscale living room items and adventurous bedroom sets. Dress your Sims in matching attire for an amusing day out with the family. With 60 new items from castle beds to cruise ship replicas, your Sims now has have more stuff for more family fun.Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #3420 in Video Games
- Brand: Electronic Arts
- Released on: 2006-04-11
- ESRB Rating: Teen
- Platform: Windows XP
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .53" h x 5.75" w x 7.75" l, .30 pounds
Features
- Family Fun expansion pack includes 60 new items to add to your virtual family
- Decor comes in several different themes, each of which is distinct and fantastic
- Turn your sims' house into a fantasy castle, or make them pirate-loving deck hands with a nautical theme
- Costumes come with each theme, turning the sims into dragons, princesses, pirate captains, and more
- Expansion pack requires a complete version of The Sims 2 that is not included in this package
Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
The Sims 2: Family Fun Stuff
is an expansion pack that requires the complete Sims 2 game in
order to play. In The Sims 2, like The Sims before it, which
quickly grew to be on of the most popular PC games of all time, you
create one or more autonomous characters (sims) with distinct
personalities and needs. You then create a virtual household for your
sims, deciding whether they're roommates, spouses, or parents, and you
move them into a pre- or custom-built house and neighborhood.
Your sims
will interact with each other and other sims in their community, with
children going to school while the adults head to work. The Sims 2,
however, has several new options, such as an enhanced neighborhood
editor that lets you import custom cities from Maxis' own SimCity 4 (not
included), and expanded building options for building bigger houses.The
most significant additions in The Sims 2 are the behavioral and
character enhancements made to the sims themselves. While sims still
have specific personality types determined by their horoscopes and
adjustable individual characteristics, such as neatness, niceness, and
playfulness, they now have some notable new features, such as memories,
genetics, aging, and the new aspiration/fear system. When creating a
family, you can now have the game randomly generate children based on
their parents' appearance and personality, though you can still edit
these children. You can choose to re-create a real-life couple or family
to see what kind of genes get handed down from generation to
generation. Or you can experiment by interjecting the DNA from an alien
into the family tree, as The Sims 2 includes the ability to
create aliens from outer space and even marry them off to your more
outlandish sims family members.
The Family Fun Stuff expansion
pack lets you add a whole new selection of furniture, clothing, and home
decor to your Sims 2 characters' world. The decor comes in
several different themes, each of which is distinct and fantastic. With
this expansion pack you can turn your sims' house into a fantasy castle,
complete with four poster beds and tapestries, or decide to make them
pirate-loving deck hands with a nautical theme. Costumes come with each
theme, letting you turn your sims into dragons, princesses, pirate
captains, and more. The furniture matches the theme, so you can add
items such as a captain's desk or a complete underwater kids' bedroom
set to your nautical theme. For those of you who can't get enough of the
virtual sims world, The Sims 2: Family Fun Stuff
expansion pack will give you even more hours of fun, with 60 new items
and costumes that give your virtual family a distinct look and
character.
Turn your sims into
dragons, princesses, pirate captains, and more with the new costumes.
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Add a whole new selection
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Customer Reviews
Why didn't they add this in with the Business expansion?
I'm going to try to give a
fair review of this pack for those of you considering it. But this is
going to be hard, so please bear with me.
This "Stuff" pack,
released less then a month after "Open for Business" came out, is
minimal at best. I bought this, going against the advice you see here by
other reviewers. I was sorely lacking for some kids room ideas, having
done "Alien Rooms" and "Soccer Rooms" to the hilt. As a long time Sims
fan, I generally don't like downloading objects from the internet fan
sites, as I've heard stories of viruses being in them, and also them
ruining your saved games. This stuff pack seemed to be a happy medium. I
would be able to get new objects for my Sims, without introducing a
entire new part of the game, as in the previous expansions.
Something
about the best laid plans - they never work! I bought this today,
luckily at a less expensive price then Amazon, at Target. I installed
it, and made a "Sea" and "Castle" theme room for my Sims. That took all
of 15 minutes. This is the problem with the pack. Those rooms are neat
and spiffy, but to totally go through an expansion pack, trying all the
different options within 15 minutes, means to me that it's not worth the
money. The clothing options for adults are limited to 3 outfits each in
the Hawaiian style. There's no new adult things, just a few minimal
decorating objects. This pack would have been better named "Kids Fun
Stuff" because it's truly about the kids.
My opinion comes down
to save your money. I know people are going to be miffed with this pack
and probably sell it in Amazon.Com marketplace for alot less then it's
selling for now. If you must have this pack to complete your collection,
my advice is to wait.
If Maxis/EA wants to release stuff
collections like this one, I would think a downloadable pack on the
internet for about five dollars would be reasonable. 20 dollars for a
pack like this just isn't fair to your die hard Sims fan. Considering
that an average Sims player forks over 50 for the original game, 30 for
each expansion, this was an unfair move to capitalize on a weakness of
the game. (Weakness being lack of good kids stuff)
Just my two
cents :o)
Maybe later
Originally when stuff packs
were mentioned as an option in the Maxis surveys I was quite excited.
The idea of buying a CD chock full of objects sounded like a great deal.
But here's my problem. Family Fun has 60 objects, that's it. For $19.99
here at Amazon. That's not such a great deal to me. That's .33 cents
per object. I think the face masks, the floor globe and the Hawaiian
clothes are nice. The other stuff is plain icky. I like realistic
furniture, crayon green, hot pink or purple is not my idea of realistic.
And
apparently there are bugs with this stuff pack. If you choose a Family
Fun outfit in Create-A-Sim the outfit will disappear from the outfit
choices. You have to have the sim buy the outfit at a clothing store
until the patch comes out. It's pretty disappointing that a patch is
needed for a stuff pack.
If this pack drops $10 perhaps then I'll
think about it. Otherwise with the beautiful custom content made by sim
fans out there and most kindly shared for free I could easily pass on
this pack.
Maxis takes advantage of
loyal sims players
Before issuing this pack of
new items for Sims game, Maxis ran several surveys on their web site.
The question always was would you spend 14.99 for 40 items or 19.99 for
80 items. Somehow they decided on 60 items for 19.99. How they decided
on that I don't know.
Second, there is every indication that most
of these items should have been and would have been part of the Open
for Business expansion pack until EA got greedy and decided to release
this as a separate set.
Clue number one: Open for Business was
the first expansion pack to only require one disc instead of the usual
two. Why? Do you really need me to answer that?
Clue number two:
in Open for business there was a "Fantasy Items" folder but only a very
few items for it in the expansion pack. All of the Fantasy items for
that folder are in this twenty dollar rip off.
To make matters
worse, this pack was released with a major bug in it where if you dress
your Sim in CAS then insert them into the game, you lose all of the new
clothing items from the Family Fun Pack. A patch has yet to be issued.
(04/22/2006) It seems more and more software developers are using their
customers as beta testers.
I know that EA poured a massive amount
of money into The Godfather game, but it would seem as if they are
trying to recoup some of that investment from the loyal Sims players who
have supported all of the expansion packs. Well, not this guy.
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