michelle7898's Full Review: The Sims™ 2: Nightlife for Windows
The Sims 2 Night Life is a great add on to the original Sims 2 game. This expansion pack makes the game more fun. I purchases it at Walmart department store here in Rhode Island. I paid only $19.99 for it with a coupon from the Sunday paper for 10% off. It was not a hard choice for me to have made. I love playing the Sims game. I may be 26 but the game is still loads of fun for me.
To install the Sims 2 Night Life expansion pack all you have to do is have your original Sims 2 disk 4 ready. They will ask for it some where in the middle of the Sims 2 Night Life installation. First put the Sims 2 Night Life CD in your computer. Then select the type of installation that you
would like to use. You can choose custom, and do your own installation. Or you can choose standard recommended. This way it puts everything the way they want to put it. Either way is perfectly fine and easy to do. When it asks for Sims 2 disk 4, put that CD in and click "ok". Then it will ask you to put the Sims 2 Night Life CD back in. Do that and click finish. Now you can register it or wait and do that later.You may now begin playing your game. This expansion pack works for windows 98 and over.
All of your regular Sims games have been added and saved to nightlife. From now on when you play you don't click on the regular Sims 2 icon. You click on the Sims 2 Night Life icon and it will run the correct way for you. I have noticed no flaws,and no negative changes in my original games that were
saved. And that Sims 2 Night Life runs smoothly, no issues like stuttering or any thing like that.
You have many more options for your Sims now that Night Life is in your game. You can choose a down town for your Sims to go to, or create your own. Visit friends down town. Go out in groups. Take a date to dinner. Meet new people at dance clubs! You will notice your Sims dancing in a different and more up to date sort of way than before.
Your game also now has new items under the buy menu and the build menu. In the build menu you will see that you now have elevators that you did not have before. And a drive way section where you can build and create your own drive ways. And you can also make a garage, and a garage with an apartment over it if you like. Making a whole new place for your Sims teenagers to live in. In addition to all of that you now also have the option to purchase a car or truck in the buy menu. You can set an owner to a vehicle or leave it open to use by anyone on the lot. You don't have a car limit, but you do have limited space. The larger you make the drive way. The more cars you can fit in to your Sims lot.
Having your own cars in the game makes the game a lot easier. No more calling transportation and taxi cabs to take you to community lots or to go down town. Now you drive yourself. However, even if it is a pick up truck two seater. All of the Sims on the lot, even if there are 6 plus pets will go if you choose to take more than one Sim.
Beware in your game now! When you go out down town at night there are vampires! If you are bitten you too become a vampire. Which means you will be unable to go out or do anything during the day. Your house will not be able to have windows, and you will only be able to have a windowless door. If your vampire Sim is in sunlight their levels of hunger, comfort and vital health goes down. They will die if exposed too long.
There is a potion for this. You must call from your phone and invite over the matchmaking service. She is a chubby gypsy holding a crystal ball. Once she is on your lot you need to greet her. Then click on her after you have greeted her and there will be normal options as well as the option to buy Vamprocillin D. This is what will cure you. Go into your inventory and drink that.
Your cured. And if you want to you can then ask the Gypsy to find you a blind date. She will ask you weather you want male or female. You click the gender that you want to have your Sim date. Then she will ask you to pay her. The more you pay the closer she will pick to your perfect match. This is determined by the turn ons and turn offs that you have previously selected for your Sims.
You now have the ability to ask other Sims personal like and dislike questions. You have a new flirt option that asks the other Sim if they like what they see. This build points for the relationship between the two Sims talking. Your Sims can also no scope the room to see who they like best. And once you have clicked on them and have chose scope room. A box will pop up in the upper right hand corner that says who your Sim wants to be paired with in the room at that time. This works for the adult Sims and younger teen Sims as well. Not for child Sims or toddlers. Yet does work for elderly.
You also have a few other things in the buy menu. You now have new party objects, new mirrors. a woohoo picture booth. You can take pictures in the booth. Goofy ones, normal and romantic. But adult Sims can also woohoo or try for a baby while in it. There is a new hot tub as well. And the woohoo option is available in cars and trucks too. But only for adults. It doesn't show anything. The booth shakes. The car bounces but the windows are fogged. So if you kids happen to use this part of the game they are not really seeing anything. Although this expansion pack is not really meant for kids to begin with. It is best suited for teens and adults.
To save your games, you do the same as you did with the first original game. G to the options tab and click on the disk. This will give you the option to save your game. Then either go back in play mode or just click the door icon to quit and end your game.
In build mode. You will also notice that you have been given new retro walls, floors and more, and in the buy mode yet more new stuff, decor items, pictures, signs. You name it and it is there. They really put a lot in to the The Sims 2 Night Life expansion pack. I am really glad that I made this purchase. My daughter still plays the game. But she has her own neighborhood that is not set with a down town or anything for Night Life. She is only four and won't understand what Night Life is all about.
The graphics are good like before, no new sounds really. Just the same. Just nicer stuff and a new way to play with your Sims if you got bored using it the old way. I also notice it is easier to build a Sims relationship with a potential partner using Night Life options. I just really like what it has added to my game.
I highly recommend The Sims 2 Night Life to all who already own The Sims 2.
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