The Sims 2 September 21, 2004
Posted by Liz in : It's a Sims Life , comments closedThe Sims has been an addiction of mine for sometime now. I own all of the expansion packs except one (Makin’ Magic); I was a beta tester for the Sims On-line (which was great until it went public and all the parents bought it for their 12 year olds. 
sob ) So when I heard that they were working on a “new” real Sims I jumped for joy and waited in much anticipation!! For a year now I have been drooling and counting down the days for the Sims 2 to come out! Finally it has arrived, and yes, I had to have it on the day it came out!!
The Sims are now alive and better then ever!! They have fingers, facial expressions, and grow up!!! Those annoying kids that would never grow up, well instead of killing them by building a wall around them or making them dive into a pool without a ladder to get out…. well, you can just let them grow up! Yes, those pesky little kids become teenagers, adults, and then old farts later to die of old age. There are some other things that your sims can die of, but I haven’t experienced any of those yet. I guess if you want you could still kill them off; sometimes it’s nice to have a ghost walking around the house at night.
As if the fact that they have fingers now wasn’t cool enough, the sims have real goals in life! When you make your sim you pick what their goal in life is to be. Some of the goals are: Romance, Family, Money, Popularity, Knowledge. So, as you play, you are to help them out with tasks that will make them reach those goals and in the end die a very happy camper! If they don’t reach for their dreams, well it makes them very sad a depressed and can make them very sick.
A cool feature that is totally new to the game is the video capture mode. That’s right folks, you don’t have to settle for just still screen shots, you can record those memorable moments. By moving it around (it is taking some work to learn all this) while the event is happening, you can capture it at all sorts of new angles. What do you do with these videos after you have made them? you ask. Well, you share them with your friends and others in the Sim community of course!! 
One of the cool things that you can do with the Sims 2 game is that they give you your own sim web page. You can post blogs about your game experience and upload videos and photos of your game play. Here is a link to my sim page, but I haven’t uploaded much to it yet. Some people have put a lot of work into theirs already, but hey, I have a husband and a dog to take care of too. Can’t ignore them all the time… have to feed them just like I have to feed my sims. 