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341. The Sims 2 Review - The Sequel Is Working

Written on Sunday 6 March 2005 at 18:42 by Andy - 0 comments.

An Honest Day's Work is the latest section of our review of The Sims 2 We look in detail at all of the honest ways of making money, looking at the ten career tracks and other ways to make money. It's all in here!

342. 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.

343. 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.

344. Sims 2 for Mac in June

Written on Thursday 3 March 2005 at 00:29 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Despite May 2005 was planned to be the month for the release of the Sims 2 on the Mac platform, Aspyr has delayed the project by a month. It's now in Beta stage (see Aspyr's Product Status page), and so is feature-complete and in the debugging stage. An exact release date hasn't been given by Aspyr yet, but we'll keep you posted. For more information about the Mac version of the Sims 2, see its info page.

345. Objects at 45 Degrees

Written on Tuesday 1 March 2005 at 01:01 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

A new cheat that will be included in University will allow you to place objects diagonally. This is revealed by MaxoidTom, a Maxis employee, in this post at the ModTheSims2 forums. He won't reveal the cheat yet, but Snooty from SnootySims does reveal that boolprop mayPlaceDiagonally [true/false] might be the cheat in question. It's unsure if this is the actual cheat, but it does exist in the original Sims 2 files but is disabled. It might be enabled in University. This is said in a post at the SimParool forums (post and most of the site in Dutch). It's unsure if this is the actual cheat or not, but Maxis will probably reveal that later.

346. EA Officially Ships University

Written on Tuesday 1 March 2005 at 00:53 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

EA has officially announced they've shipped the first expansion for the Sims 2: University. Although the release was officially set at 3 March, there are already many people who have received the pack a few days early. The European release date is set to late next week, and so Europeans should start receiving the expansion pack as well pretty soon. Read the press release for more.

347. Expansion 2: Nightlife? [Update]

Written on Sunday 27 February 2005 at 15:27 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Dutch site SP Zone has found a thread on N99, a limited forum, that the next expansion pack for the Sims 2 would be called Nightlife. The information comes from the jewelcase in the Sims 2 University, that has shipped and the first people have received already:

"Send your Sims out for a night on the town in the Sims 2 Nightlife Expansion Pack. Will they stay out late on a romantic dinner date or dance 'til dawn at a nightclub? Find out what else night has to offer starting Fall 2005!"

An image, as seen below, has been posted on forums by several users. On this page at the TSR forums Steve Bonham has said that it was made clear at the SIMposium, that the second expansion would be announced this week. Unclear is if the information at Add-ons.de is correct. That site claims the second expansion pack will have pets in it, but there's no confirmation about it. There is another thread as well, at ModTheSims2, that also talks about Nightlife. In these threads, features like restaurants and the fangs of the woman on the picture are discussed.

EA has also registered TheSims2Nightlife.com, and although it doesn't work yet it's another pointer that it might be true. It's unsure if the expansion pack will indeed be Nightlife or not, but of course we'll keep you updated with any new information. With thanks to Pyrobon at the MTS2 Forum for the picture below (click to see a large version).

[Update: 28 February 21:40] EA Europe has requested us to take offline the posted image of the supposed new expansion from this site. They has no further comments on the news, though by now rumours on several (mentioned) forums are growing stronger as University has been released by several shops in the US and the jewel case insert has probably been seen by many people by now. We'll keep you updated on the matter.

348. Indystar Interviews Wright

Written on Sunday 27 February 2005 at 02:39 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

News site IndyStar, an online version of the Indianapolis Star, has posted an interview with Will Wright. The interview, held by the Associated Press, discusses Will's interest in simulations and his expectations of the gaming community in the next 15 years. The interview itself isn't too long, but if you want to know more about the man behind the Sims, reading it might help.

349. SIMposium Special - Preview Part 2

Written on Saturday 26 February 2005 at 00:13 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

After our first part was posted a few days ago, we have now finished the preview of the Sims 2 University. The second part covers things like getting your grades, the new careers, influence, lifetime wants, and a lot more. You can find a lot of new information in the preview regarding the expansion pack that will be out next week in the US, and in Europe a week later. We will continue the special coverage again in a few days. Also remember we've had the opportunity to interview Will Wright, so come back here soon for that interview as well! For now, go to our SIMPosium Special to read the complete preview.

350. Invasion of Carpets

Written on Friday 25 February 2005 at 01:47 by Sumit - 0 comments.

RECALL:
Please redownload the Poka Blue Carpet for the newest version 1.1. Provided by changes by Echo, there are some minor bug fixes. As an added bonus, this carpet comes in a pair of two. All files required is in this one download.

I know I said no more rugs, but these will be the last for a while. These new rugs include the same Echo rugs found in Poka Blue v1.1. If you already have Echo rug files from that carpet, there is no reason to overwrite them on top of each other. You just need one pair of Echo's files. Also after many pics later, I found that the pics I took are in very bad quality and small. I hope that is not a big problem. Also another problem in the pictures I took is that the smaller rug looks lighter than the bigger rug. I assure you that was just the retexture tool from The Sims 2 which was highlighting the object...oops. That should be all, enjoy these rugs.