GAME STUDIO DESCRIPTION: The Sims 2 swept the nation making it one of the best selling PC games of the year. As the first expansion pack to this record-breaking title, your Sims are now young adults, leaving home to live the ultimate college fantasy. With The Sims 2 University, you immerse them in college life as they become the Big Sim on Campus. They’ll relish their new-found freedom as they settle into an all-new college town and party with friends, join fraternities and sororities and pull outrageous pranks. Packed with over 100 new objects and décor items, your Sims will explore all the campus hot-spots as they frequent lounges, gyms, coffee houses and more. Studies are important too; they can earn a degree and open up new career paths. All new college-based wants and fears lead to new rewards and powers that can help your Sims achieve their goals and reap all of the benefits of their university years.
*Requires The Sims 2 to play.
Key Features
* New Young Adult Age Group– All-new hip, trendy university age Sims leave home and take over campus. Now they have the opportunity to alter their life goals and lose their innocence.
* Become the Big Sim on Campus & Influence Others-Your Sims have all-new wants and fears tied to their social and academic life. Enhanced aspirations gameplay centers on building influence and players have the opportunity to develop their Sims’ ability to influence friends, classmates and faculty.
* New “College Town”-Now your Sims can live the ultimate college fantasy whether it’s living in dorms, rushing a fraternity or sorority or shacking up with friends in their very own pad.
* College Lifestyle-Immerse your Sims in the ultimate college lifestyle –Join a band, crash parties, find a part-time job, or get initiated into a secret society, where they can print money, and cheat on their studies. How will your Sims enjoy their college years?
* Earn Degrees to Open Up 4 New Careers-Choose from 11 majors for your Sims including such popular choices as history, art, biology and political science and keep their grades on track. Secure the final degree and open up 4 new career paths.
PLAY: The Sims 2 University adds loads of gameplay to what is already pure addiction. The beauty of the university edition is that you can really extend the life of your sim unless you are brilliant and finish in four years otherwise you can labor on for six years or more.
What is an added plus to the original sims is that it now becomes important to do well in high school if you want to go on a scholarship otherwise you might have to downgrade your college residence. Although it seems that most gamers will chose to take up residence in the dorms—after all this is where all the fun happens—some may opt for offsite digs. The dorms are cool except when you have to share the showers, bathroom, and food.
If the dorm doesn’t suit you it’s always possible to move out. You can rent out a house or join a fraternity/sorority. Your sim can update the fraternity/sorority houses but not your dorm room. You can update the houses so much that you become the envy of the entire campus. Interestingly, your sim must be accepted into the fraternity/sorority which requires you to make and maintain friendships before they can be initiated.
The University addition requires more of a hands-on approach than the full version. If you want your sim to do well in school than you must make sure they’re achieving the right goals. Another interesting addition is making friends and building your “influence.” Influence can impact both your friendships but also your education—a sim can have individuals cheat for them if they wield enough influence.
Then there is your sim’s aspirations that can change throughout the course of their college years. Want to be an A student or a loser? Maybe you want to be the next big thing and decide on being a musician. There is a huge choice of instruments. You can also have a keg party or kick around the “kicky bag” (hacky sack).
You can interact with a lots of individuals—including professors who can be influenced to give you better grades as a teacher’s pet or doing it the old fashioned way—sleep with them.
GRAPHICS: We always give much love to EA for their graphics and Sims 2 University expansion pack is no different. The animations are brilliant. The human movements are phenomenal.
FRANKLY: The Sims 2 University expansion pack adds to an already fantastically deep game. It’s not perfect mostly because it’s impossible to duplicate the real college experience. You’d expect more excitement and many let downs, too.
+ Richie Wright
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.