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Will Wright is milkin' the money cow.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 70
Date: September 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I can't even keep count of all the expansions that there are for the Sims! With this expansion, the count comes to 5! 5! If you pay [price] for all of these it's a grand total of [price], and adding the [price] that you payed for the Sims it's [price] smackers! Now look, if you reeeeally need MORE carpeting, walls, wallpapering, objects, pets(must admit kind of cool), places(you can go to a farmer's market), possibly actions ect. You have to ask yourself "Self, do I want, nay, can I AFFORD this game for all that it gives me?" Think of insted what you can go with [price] dollars...um...okay never mind.
Point being the graphics are NOT better, it takes up MORE RAM and hard drive space, when you're still playing the same game that has more doodads, and things to do. All and all it's just a C.D. that has more flashing light and whistles for an already fine game. Here, I'll measure it for you,

Pros More objects
Pets
More places to go(i.e. Farmers market)
new actions

Cons
moderatly expensive
lost hard drive space
same-old graphics
same gameplay
more RAM spaced required
The thought that another one of these
things will come out
Basically a souped up HOT DATE
Buying this will send a message that we
still want more expansions rather than than
a squel.(sorry don't know how to spell it)

There you go a pro and con table.
Really though it's really you're decision whetheror not you want to buy it. I'm just here to give you some advice.
even though you don't know me.

This game has caused me nothing but frustration!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 18
Date: January 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Make sure your computer has plenty of memory before you buy this. My computer did not, and I had to spend a couple of hours clearing up space for the game. Even after I had cleared up room for this game, it ran slowly and did not follow all the commands I asked of it. What made it even more frustrating was that I had to reinstall the original Sims onto my computer in order to install Unleashed. I'd been playing the Sims (with Livin' Large expansion pack) regularly without any problems, so I have no idea why the game couldn't locate the Sims on my computer when I tried to install "Unleashed". But reinstalling the original Sims caused all of my original game to be over-written so I had to start from scratch with no money and no career. I used to enjoy playing the Sims but now that it runs so slow with the expansion, and that I have to re-start from the beginning after a year of advancing in my money and my career, I can't even play the game the way I used to. :(

STAY AWAY FROM THIS VERSION!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 18
Date: November 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

We have every single release. This last one, Sims Unleashed won't even launch. It dumps you out to the desktop before the game can even start. I even did a full re-installation of Windows XP thinking it would fix it. NOT! The other versions were fine. This one is poorly supported. The website lacks support for this problem that everyone seems to have. I'm running AMD 2000, 384mb Ram, GEforce MX400, and WinXP Pro. I'm removing this...from my machine and leaving in the other versions. And please don't tell me I'm lacking in skills, I'm an MCSE and A+ certified technician and not even I could get it running.

Too many expansion packs!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: February 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The first two or three Sims games were AMAZING. I totally loved them, playing until all hours of the night. But when they started releasing all these new expansion packs, and I got each one as it came out, my computer had some digestion problems, so to speak. Now, it takes about fifteen minutes to load the game, and at least twenty to go to Vacation Island, Old Town, etc. When I'm in any of those places, my Sims move jerkily, and the screen jumps around. If I try to scroll too fast, the game either crashes or goes in slow motion. It takes my Sims at least three game hours to do anything, so I have to wake them up at 12 midnight if I hope to get them to school. All in all, I'd say to stay small and avoid all these fancy expansion packs! The pets aren't that great, and you could grow vegetables with downloads already!

i wished i had something more

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: September 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

i wished you could have put sim children with more interactions. like they start off as babyz then to toddlers, thensmall children then teenagers, then finally adulats. oh then old people.i want that.

Horrible Bugs & Crashes

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The game just came out and like many other buyers I went out and bought it! BIG MISTAKE!!

I have found that I am not the only victim of Maxis that many others have experienced the wonderful side affects of putting a game out before it is ready to be out! The first time I tried to install the game it crashed and I got an error message. The second, the third and the fourth time it just crashed. I get sent back out to the desktop every time. Don't bother asking for support or help with your game from the technical support people because they are just plain unhelpful! I really suggest people just wait till they put a patch out because otherwise it will be a frustrating time of reinstalling, deleting and starting from scratch to correct problems only a patch can really fix!

The Sims, the scourge of gaming

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 17
Date: October 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The Sims was a bad idea to start off with and the fact that they have draged it on says something about the publishers and the people buying it. I buy this game, every single expansion pack and I hate them all! This game is so boring, so trite, so unimaginative. This game has all the makings of a very bad game.

This game would be fun~ IF IT WORKED!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: October 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

For all those Windows 2000 users out there:
Yes, ...for Windows 2000~ but it doesn't [work]. Trust me, it didn't worked for me, and it didn't work for another Windows 2000 friend of mine. So, use the previous expansion packs, and have fun downloading thiings from cool websites but don't waste your time (or $$$$$ for that matter) on Unleashed. Don't worry, you aren't missing out on a revolutionary product. Neither am I.

Not fun or realistic

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: October 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was so excited to get this game as I love pets in real life...

However, it was totally UNREALISTIC - the pets are BORING PLUS!!!

Firstly, they don't try to sit on your lap or try to sleep on the beds. That would have been so cool because lots of people allow dogs on their beds and at the very least REAL DOGS AND CATS DO TRY TO SLEEP ON BEDS OR IN LAPS...

and
What are the pets doing going to the shops with you?????? They should stay home and wreck the place like real puppies.

Oh and WHY does EVERY member of the family have to go to the shops every time??? In real life that doesn't happen...

And what is the story with the cr*p you can buy at the shops "Mask of Rage" etc Waste your money on cr*p that goes on the grass and cannot be moved after you get home...

If the animals were more jumpy, excitable and real it would have been worth the money I paid for it - that's all I wanted... But didn't get it

>:(

Parents Beware

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 17
Date: January 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought "SIMs Double Deluxe" and "SIMs Unleashed" for my kids, and boy am I sorry. It crashes at least once every time they play. My kids come to me with long faces and want me to restart the computer. Their SIM creations are always lost.

I've been a windows programmer for over ten years. Even by windows standards, this is very poorly tested. Even my children admit the poor quality of the game is a pain.

It does this on three different computers, running Windows-98, Windows-2000, and windows XP. It happens at their friends houses too.

The upside to this crashing is that the game has NO EDUCATIONAL VALUE. It's a total time waster, so when it crashes it gets the kids to do something more constructive.

The expansion packs also use an obnoxious copy protection, so I can't make backup copies of my CDs. My kids often trash the originals, so this violation of my fair-use rights could cost me money. My solution is a vow to never buy EA products again, nor let my kids by any.

Parents, do not buy this junk for your children.

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