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791. Nightlife Article

Written on Wednesday 9 March 2005 at 23:10 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

GameSpot has posted a small article about the Sims 2 Nightlife, the second expansion pack announced in the box of the first one, University. The main news from the article is that EA still has nothing to say about it, and won't acknowledge the expansion pack's existence. Of course we'll keep you updated, but for now here's the jewel case insert again - this time of somewhat higher quality than the one we were forced to remove earlier.

792. University Avatars on UK Forum

Written on Tuesday 8 March 2005 at 16:07 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The official UK site has updated the forums with a bunch of new avatars. These new ones are of young adults, the new life stage that comes in the Sims 2 University. To use one of the new icons, go to the official forum and go to edit your profile. There you'll find the option to change the avatar as well. All 20 new ones are in the "University" category.

793. BetaVille Full City

Written on Tuesday 8 March 2005 at 00:23 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

In The Sims Online a new test city called BetaVille opened about two months ago. In that city, Free Will is enabled, and Sims can play the game in a style that's closer to the original Sims game. If the city proves to be popular, the Free Will feature will be developed further and might head to the other cities as well. If it's not, Betaville will remain open, but it won't be worked on anymore and focus will stay on the traditional TSO gameplay. The city will not be wiped or closed before it becomes a real city, but through a version update other features of the normal game will be added to Betaville. See the newspost at Stratics for more info.

794. Wright's Own Home

Written on Tuesday 8 March 2005 at 00:14 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

After building many virtual ones, Sims fans can now see how the creator of the Sims, Will Wright, lives. SnootySims found a somewhat old movie of November 2004, in which Wright gives a tour through his place. If you want to see the 4 minute movie, head over to its movie page. Note that this linked page checks that you are using Internet Explorer, so using an alternative browser might not work without digging into your settings.

795. University Guide Preview [Update]

Written on Saturday 5 March 2005 at 20:58 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Prima has recently published the official Sims 2 University Strategy Guide (available in our shop). If you're not sure whether to buy it yet, a preview might help. On their website, Prima has posted two pages of chapter 5 of the book as preview. See the "Look Inside" for some first-hand information from Prima.

[Update 7 March, 23:05] Besides on the main Prima site itself, another preview has been posted on the eStore site. This Look Inside shows one page of a number of chapters, as well as the index of the book. You can take a look at by clicking the Look Inside image on the eGuide details page. Thanks to XPDude for submitting this link.

796. TS2U Reviews and Installation Problems

Written on Saturday 5 March 2005 at 16:38 by ChEeTaH - 1 comment.

Several new reviews of the first expansion pack of the Sims 2 have appeared the past few days. While we've already covered a few, there are three new ones we haven't told you about yet. In these reviews, the most criticizing notes are that going to college is really hard work - there are no vacations whatsoever - and that the game takes a long time to load. But all in all, the reviewers are positive about the product as an expansion pack, and think it's worth it. Click the links for the reviews.

• GamePro (4.0/5)
• Yahoo! GamesDomain (8.0/10)
• 1Up (85%)

Meanwhile there are several reports of the expansion not installing properly. This seems to happen only if the first patch is installed, but not the second one (which includes the first). Having no patch, or the second one installed seems to be alright, but otherwise you might have trouble installing the game. In that case, download the second patch from http://thesims2.ea.com/update/ and install it. That way you should be able to properly install the Sims 2 University. Thanks to SimsZone for the info.

797. Chat Transcript

Written on Saturday 5 March 2005 at 16:17 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

As announced earlier this week, Maxis held a chat about the Sims 2 University last Thursday. The expansion pack has shipped and so almost all information that was given during the chat is old. The new information is that Sims can move to another college in town, as they're put in the Student bin when you move them out. This bin is shared between the colleges, so you can move them in anywhere else and continue their education. There's also the cheat to increase the number of allowed floors:

setHighestAllowedLevel [X] where X is a number that sets the maximum number of floors you can have.

To get to know the rest - if you don't already - read the transcript for the info.

798. New Poll

Written on Thursday 3 March 2005 at 23:52 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

You may already have seen it, or you may not, but we've added a new poll again last night. This time we want to know from you what you think of Nightlife, the rumoured (but almost certainly true) second expansion pack for the Sims 2. You can give us your vote on the right, or on our latest poll page.

Last week we asked about handheld devices, like mobile phones, MP3 players and handheld gaming systems. These are all available in University, so your Sims can now make use of them. Well over 55% of you voted that your Sims will be using all of these three. The Mobile Phones are the most popular of the three, with 22% of all 208 votes. Second are MP3 players (12%) and finally the game devices (8%). The Sims without any of these will be just 2% of the population. See the exact results on the results page in our archive.

799. SIMposium - Movies

Written on Thursday 3 March 2005 at 23:18 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

I wasn't the only one who attended the SIMposium event. In fact, there were about 20 people visiting Maxis during the event. One of them was baconandeggzie (Eggzie) from Sim Movies. He's written an article about the new Sims 2 movie making features in the future, which has kindly been submitted to this site. In it he also says it's been hinted that new movie making tools for the Sims 2 might be released this month. You can now read the article in our SIMposium Special.

800. Looking Back at Five Year Sims

Written on Thursday 3 March 2005 at 22:47 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

It's been five years since the first Sims game was released, and became a major success. 7 Expansions, a sequel (with one expansion so far) and 3 console games further, GameSpy looks back on those years with several developers and producers of the games. Character designers, producers, animators, and other Maxis employees tell about their experience developing whatever titles they've worked on. If you want to look back as well, read the article.