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Take it BACK!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: May 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I had this game for one night.. bought it at a second hand game shop. The price was right.. yet.. I came to find out.. it is only for one player. I have a big family.. and we all like to play. This is only for one player. What a rip off! If I were you.. I'd stick with the Sims 2 game. Even the first Sims game for Gamecube. I found this game very very boring!

Not Happy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I ordered the game for my daughter on 11/28/06 quite confident that her big item wish was bought and I could forget about it. I never recieved it and was never informed by Amazon that it was returned as undeliverable. So on Christmas day when she opened her presents, she asked where it was. I told her I ordered it and we started looking about the house as to where it was. After going on the computer to the website I then found out that it was returned and my credit card had been reimbursed. Shame on them. I will not use them again. I believe they got too big for their britches and the customers are the ones paying the price.

A Let Down

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I loved the original SIMS. I had hoped that SIMS 2 Pets would be only an improvement. It was in that the graphics were better and the pets are wonderful; however, the building options were more limited and unlike SIMS 2 there wasn't a story mode, which I looked forward to playing.

Alien Language

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: January 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is ok, to a degree. If you like these kinda games i understand. but...i personallly like games that i can UNDERSTAND. BLLAGUSHAPU....WHAT?!?!?!!?!?!?

2 stars...tops

Flawed CD

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The CD was new and most of the game play worked, but I wasn't able to add any wall coverings or the game would freeze, I hope others don't have the same issue.

Groundhog Day anyone?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game quickly lost its appeal with my kids after the second week. The number one reason?? IT'S BORING! The PC game is much more entertaining and the cheats at least make it interesting.

With this game, you get to create your pets and people and then you get to move them in and either build from scratch or have them move into a pre-made home and buy them the stuff they need to survive.

Then the repetition begins. In order to survive you need the basic necessities. A bathroom, kitchen, bedroom and entertainment. In order to get those things you'll need a job so it's, go to work--come home--cook, bathroom, entertain, bed. Got to work--come home--cook, bathroom, entertain, bed. Go to work--come home--cook, bathroom, entertain, bed. Go to work-- See the pattern?!? Now if you or your kids are into building and getting cool stuff for your place this isn't the game for you, unless you enjoy the occasional moment where your character or pet passes out and has to be revived because you aren't following my above monotony to get money to feed everyone---because that is all you'll be able to afford even working everyday.

The Sims in this game lose their hunger/fun/social/etc. points way to fast and you are always playing catch up to keep them happy so they go to work.

The graphics are nice and you can train your pet. The movement of the sims is also nice and you can really get up close and personal with them but sometimes that intimicy is a bit awkward and walls/furniture/pets get in the way. Multiple exits are a must because a sleeping or passed out pet in a doorway means no escape for the sim in the room.

Social opportunities abound when you go to the community lot but you don't spend simoleons--you'll need pet points, which you earn when you teach your pet new tricks (which is close to be impossible because of the monotony you'll need to do to keep your sim happy and fed). There is also the occasional rainstorm and if you don't buy a roof you get rained on while sleeping, lol.

Overall my kids enjoyed finding all the new things in this game you don't find on the PC version. They also had fun with all the passing out and reviving. Oh, and a sim who needs the restroom has a hilarious run that they really enjoyed. Other than that there was nothing else entertaining about it and it's function now is to collect dust.

The Sims 2: Pets... literatelly pets.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: November 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I decided to write a well-thought review for the second time since the last time I reviewed this I was really just venting. And a lot of people disagreed with it, so here is what I actually think.

The Sims 2: Pets revolves around the pets a little too much. Most of the objects revolve around the pets in the game. Like, most of the descriptions say something about pets. Puns, actually. I think they should have just toned it down just a little bit. I mean, we do want something to be about the sims, too. What if we got tired of having to take care of the pets over and over. It does get repetitive at a point, you have to agree.

The Pets actually can breed, which made me disappointed and upset since if they could get the pets to breed, why didn't they put in the ability to create several generations of a family? And the puppies and kittens grow up a little just WAY too fast. It was too fast for me to count how long it took for that little puppy in a basket to grow into a neon purple dog with weird fur patterning. The genetics don't really work out in this game. I mean, I don't have any neon animals in my neighborhood, trust me. I ONLY have the basic colors. And after the puppies and kittens grow up, they seem to fight with the other pets all the time, so the only option you have is to give it away.

The sims don't have any more things. Actually, they are more limited than they ever were. WooHoo'ing has been taken out of the game for some reason, which made the game a little too cutesy and cheerful. I would like to have them have some fun at least once in a while! And trust me, the Sims seem to like to reject you EVERY time your sim opens it's mouth. It's extremely hard to make friends with the sims without using the garden swing. I mean, I do a romantic kiss on Betty and then a romantic hug and then I try to do a romantic kiss again, Betty pushes me away. The interactions effects are very random. And Betty was my sim's wife.

You no longer can marry as many sims as your sim's heart desires. It actually was fun seeing how many people you could get married with in the Sims 2 for gamecube. You only can marry one sim. That's it. But at least if your sim is mean and stuff to you, you can simply tell the sim to beat it with that awesome kick out interaction. And trust me, you will need it with the 239857195 interaction rejections you get.

The objects are actually cool. There's a giant stereo which has some nice songs. In simlish, of course. But that's just one aspect of the game. There are a lot of new objects. And guess what it actually was inspired by? Animals. A little too annoying. I mean, does any house actually have furniture that is shaped like a cat's head? Or even a bed? Linoleum flooring that has pawprints on it? Not too common if you ask ANYONE.

So I'm actually trying to say... they should have thought more about the sims. Both pets and sims should have had the equal amount of effort the producers put in the pets. I'm just disappointed that the game was just extremely re-vamped and the Sims actually are worthless. They don't mean anything since they only can have jobs, talk to other sims and sit around. The pets have more opportunities. I just hope to God that next time they do some thinking about the sims too.

This was my thought-out non-flaming review. I hope you all don't disagree with it as much as you did with my last one.

IT FREEZES UP

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

HAD IT ONLY A FEW WEEKS, AND IT FREEZES UP ALREADY. NO, IT IS NOT THE GAMECUBE BECAUSE THEY PLAY OTHER GAMES ON IT AS WELL. I DO NOT LIKE IT AT ALL, AND MY 7 YR OLD IS BEGINNING TO BECOME DISPLEASED WITH IT AS WELL BECAUSE OF IT FREEZING UP. THUMBS DOWN ON SIMS 2 PETS.:(

I had problems too

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I really enjoyed this game, and got pretty far into it UNTIL IT STOPPED SAVING. It is not the memory card's fault, as every other game we have saves just fine on the memory card. I was so disappointed--what's the point of playing if you can't save?

Just like the other Sims games.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

You play this game just like the other Sims games. You control the people that you choose to create in your family. You create your pets, but you can't control them. I bought the game thinking that I would be able to play the game as a dog or a cat, but then I discovered that I could only play as people.

The game is just as entertaining as the other Sims games. The main difference is that you not only have goals for your people, but for pets too (lean tricks, potty training, etc.).

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