This game is either a love or hate thing. If you didn't like The Sims' direction then, this sequel doesn't improve much.
User Rating: 8 | The Sims 2 PC
These days every gamer is about First Person Shooters, Sci-Fi Action, Racing, MMORPG's, and a whole lot of other good stuff. But when it comes down to simulating and guiding little eletronic people that you can mold an image of yourself to, it doesn't sound like it will have any real lasting value. For those of you who have played the original Sims, this game will not really make you commit to any game in this genre much. The fact being is that Maxis still doesn't really get it. I really hated the fact that there were about 5 expansion packs to the original Sims, and when Maxis announced it would make a new sequel, I was thrilled, but now with the new expansion pack coming for The Sims 2, I feel a sense of deja vu all over again. Even though the new engine is quite impressive, your choice is to either have a good computer with a decent video card or tone down the resolution and detailing. But all in all this is a great game but seems to have little potential of being what if could've accomplished, many lessons that arose from the first Sims wasn't really fixed; but instead Maxis added more bugs onto it. Also trying to multi-task and manage more than one sim is more hectic than it was in the original sims. Although many new concepts were added to improve on overall gameplay like the fact that your sims can grow and age, or that you can now try and accomplish many of the individual sim's wishes or dreams, turning this game into something that you have to help your sim to work on before he/she dies. Even though all these new features are interesting, the overall core gameplay remains the same, graphics improved, sound has been updated, and all the stuff you'd expect for games now a days. But if your a fan of the Sims, this game will not dissapoint you but will leave you wondering what many more things and enhancements that Maxis could've added before publishing it. 
