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Evern better than the original

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The first of the expansion packs. This is a truly great game with or without expansion packs, but expansion pacls such as Livin' Large make it so much better, and I personally consider them a necessity.

Livin' Large has a futuristic theme. There are new social interactions, new skins, new styles for house decorating, and new objects. Livin' Large also can provide some new friends for your Sims. Some include Servo, who is a high-tech robot who can cook and clean, and the genie, who comes out when you rub his lamp. Be careful though--even genies aren't perfect. Sometimes the genie will make a mistake and something terrible could happen!! (i.e. your house turining into a pile of ashes or your plants dying.) Also, there are new career tracks, including: Slacker, Paranormal, Hacker, Musician, and Journalist, all of which pretty much speak for themselves and don't need description.

Livin' Large gives playing The Sims a whole new meaning. I higly recommend this expansion pack for all you sim-lovers out there.

You do already have this, don't you?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Livin' Large, the first of The Sims expansion packs, is important because it adds some significant new features to the game in addition to a number of cool new items. For starters, it gives you five times as many neighborhoods to fill up with assorted sims of your choosing. If you're like me, you hate to get rid of anything you have already created and spent time on, no matter how ready for change you are. With this expansion pack, you can leave your current sim neighborhood as it is and simply start over from scratch on a blank slate. You also get five new career tracks to choose from; now you can indulge your fantasies of becoming a hacker, paranormal investigator, journalist, musician, or all-around slacker. New experiences also await your sims once they begin livin' large, including my favorite of them all, alien abduction. The 125 new items included in the expansion pack are also nice, even though virtually all of them can be downloaded from Internet; that, however, would take up precious time in which you could be playing The Sims. Computer gaming is rife with expansion packs that are really not worth the money, but Livin' Large is definitely an exception. This is an expansion pack that no serious Sims player can do without.

Bad and Good Points

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: September 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed playing the older version of the Sims, I bought the 2nd new version a few weeks ago and was overwhelmed at 1st. The Sims eatting noise is very annoying, though I could have turned off the sound in the game. Another gripe is it's more eye candy, it does teach you a person sometimes how to make friends and such. But with eye candy of new job skins, it's like a race to see what they look like. The good points is more neighborhoods to build more Sim houses, the genie lamp does help and the crystal ball does give you a few more points for each trait. The buidling of the pool is a semi-bad thing, if a Sim gets lonely in the red bar zone, I tell them to call on of their friends, they do and than they head to the pool and spend all day while thier poor friend is still waiting by the front door. You need so many pool ladders, and they still do not climb out to meet a friend or even get to the car pool. The other items are great, the machine shop and chem-lab and such. Though I agree with some other reviews, just download the items to your 1st Sim game. I would give it more stars, but it seems the game get's to be a memory hog on the hard drive. Making me take out some of my other favorite games.

The best just got better

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: January 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Much as I adore The Sims, this add-on makes it that much better! There are new people, new clothes, new furniture (thank goodness!) including a vibrating bed o' love where your Sims can get frisky...in a properly private way, of course. There are new professions and all manner of bizarre additions that I'm not even going to try to explain because 1) I doubt I could do them justice and 2) You really need to find out for yourselves.

I loaded this up the day I got it in the mail, and spent many happy hours playing with it. I have had not a moment's trouble with it on a system that's just about two years old now. (Pentium II, 400MHz, 128M RAM) The pack addresses a number of concerns, requests and complaints aired by Sims fans. Let's hope EA continues to improve this amazing game.

only for Windows 95/98

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 12
Date: November 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I am extremeley disappointed with this game because it will NOT run on Windows 2000 or higher. If you have Windows 95/98, this looks like it could be a really great game. I was really looking forward to playing it. But I spent 2 weeks dealing with techsupport at Electronic Arts and Microsoft, and can't get it to run. I wish EA would stop making their games only compatible with Win 95/98. They said it MIGHT run on XP, but I'm not about to go buy it just to play a game. Don't get any of the other expansion packs either if you have windows 2000, apparently NONE of them are compatible.

If you love The Sims, the expansion pack is a must!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: January 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I was just starting to get bored with The Sims when I got this Expansion Pack, and my interest came flooding back. This pack offers so many cool things. My favorites include a genie lamp (different things happen every time your Sim rubs it -- some good, some bad), a voodoo doll (want to get a Sim in a bad mood, and fast? Nothing does it quite like a punch in the head), and a laboratory table, where your little Sim can concoct potions, drink them, and watch their life go straight down the tube (or they just might get an evil clone.) With the expansion pack, your Sim can also be abducted by aliens, make a garden gnome with their spiffy new workbench, or put a bush shaped like a dolphin on their front lawn. My complaint, however, is that while this pack offers lots of new stuff (I especially love the new floors, wallpapers, windows, and doors), it just doesn't have enough. I'm so picky. I just hope that Maxis comes out with a second expansion pack. Here's what I'd like to see: some new tables (small ones would be great), an invisible door (a door with, maybe, a very thin outline that makes it hard to see, but it's still technically door. I love to make houses with secret passageways and this would make it cool. Or what would also be cool is a door that has a bookshelf on the front so no one realizes it IS a door.), some new telephones, some new toys for young Sims (maybe some wooden blocks), more pets (the Expansion Pack offers a hamster but I'd like to see birds and lizards, if possible.), more roof patterns, a waterslide and floaty toys for the pool, and . . . hmm, what else? A vending machine would be awesome. Also, a desk set, with paper and pencils, where a Sim could write a note to a fellow Sim, either a love letter or a hate note, and that would create a reaction. I also wish there was the ability to get married to a Sim already living in the house (so far this has proved impossible.) It also is not possible to marry a Sim who lives in another house that currently holds a baby. They sure do think of everything! Other features of this Expansion Pack include the grim reaper (cheat death!) and I also heard you can get a ghost when a Sim dies, although that has yet to happen to me. Anyway, I would definitely recommend the Expansion Pack if you have The Sims and are kind of getting bored with it. If you hate the original game, then the Expansion Pack probably won't make you change your mind toward the series. Another thing I'd advise is to buy the Expansion Pack after you've had The Sims for a while, so you can truly appreciate all the Expansion Pack has to offer. Yet, I beg them to make another Expansion Pack. Bring it on! PS: In order to run this game you must first have the original Sims installed. You'll be using the CD from the Expansion Pack to run the entire game from then on. No switching CDs back and forth. Yay!

Don't commit a Crime........Buy the Expansion!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: April 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

O.K.,so you like "The Sims". But there we some problems.....right??? Like not enough different types of lights, or just not enough space in the neighborhood. But this awesome expansion pack gives you 125 new objects (27 lights total....hehehe)and 4 more neiborhoods. Very Cool. This expansion also gives your sims the choise of 5 new jobs:musician, slacker, hacker, journalist, and Paranormal. Finally, this expansion pack includes more skins for more variety. In other words, just get the game.....trust me!!

The Most Underated Expansion Pack

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: August 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Although Livin' Large is not my favorite expansion pack, I think it is the most underated. What would we do without the telescope, chemistry set and guitar? I loved all the wacky items that Maxis added and the medieval theme. If you have the sims deluxe edition don't worry about buying it... Livin' Large is included.

An excellent expansion!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is a really neat expansion for a few reasons. The best part of Livin' Large, is, as a few other people said, the forty new places for houses and people. There are more than 120 new items, which is really fun (hey, there are finally GOOD kitchen table chairs and that table is really nice too...) This is the best add-on to a computer game that I have seen. If you have "The Sims" buy this. It adds a lot of variety.

The Best!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: September 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Hi I'm 11 years old and when my grandparents got me The Sims I loved it. I downloaded all the objects from the Maxis web site...., and others to make the sims more better. Then I heard of The Sims: Livin Large and I had to get it. When my mom went and looked before it was only $17.99 at a Wal-Mart but when she got home I called and they were all sold out already! Now they went back up to $30.00. I have to say it's well worth it they have over 180 new objects. The only thing that stinks is that most of the "new" skins ar stupid or work clothes, but the new jobs are awsome!

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