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its good because it has addons like drums pianos and the zombie but all it does when your done with college it just gives you more wants which its ok
Well l got this about 6month ago and yes its nice to send the kids to college get a headstart on the careers and make good money, but you have to study hard or be a party person and the purpose is to get good grades. l just think it should be a little easier to have good grades and have fun and one thing l dont like,if anyone can help me is when you want to have a party you only can pick a few people in the original sims you have a party people just come, can anyone help me on that one.
All in all, okay, but not what I expected. Example: You could either do your homework/papers like a good student, OR you could be social and take care of your basic needs. I have to say, I was a little disappointed in the gameplay of this particular expansion pack. The whole concept and set up was neat, but it seemed like you had to sacrifice one thing in order to do another. I also found that the game lagged a little when in a faster time speed because of the constant movement of other characters.
I mean, if you play the Sims 2, you simply need to get the extra stuff. My favorite, however, is the Sims Pets and Apartment life. It is great to try to collect all of the Sims 2 games. University has a lot of cool teen stuff.
First, the things I liked about this pack: Once your Sim graduates University they really begin reaping the benefits. At the end of each semester, so every 72 hours, your Sims has to take a final exam. I also like how you get to lock two wants, once your Sim has become a senior at college. He still starts over with $20,000.
Sims can earn money by doing little jobs like working in the cafeteria but let me tell you, they make so little doing that so don't even bother. If it's not full your Sim's GPA will drop. Or streak. You can fill the meter by doing assigments, writing your term paper (Sims hate this and their fun meters will drop FAST while working on it), going to class or by making friends with your professors. But OMG it is boring. And of course I love how my Sims can now buy cell phones - welcome to the 21st century. The new interactions that I like are available to everyone in the game, like the option to have your Sims "hang out", which just means they will sit and talk until you cancel out the action.
Just make them paint or tutor other Sims for Simoleans. You can also do research with books from the bookshelf and you have the option to do group research with another Sim in the area by clicking on them and asking them to join. You have a grade meter that you can fill up to the top and if it is filled, your Sim will earn an 4.0 GPA. I've only tried it once and really didn't find it very interesting but it fills the fun bar quickly.Now for the cons: the big doozy, one that many other reviewers have already talked about, is that sending your Sim to University and getting them through all 4 years takes a very, very long time. You'll have to read a book or something while playing this part of the expansion.
Once your Sim is a junior, he/she earns two extra want slots, giving them a total of 5, which is also awesome. If EA shortened the semesters to 36 hours or even 40 hours, it would make the game so much more enjoyable. You can then move the Sim back into the family home or you can find him his own place.You do get to keep your University interactions but really, are you just going to break into a school cheer for no reason. The semesters are 72 hours and there are two semesters for each year (Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior). They still start off with 20,000 Simoleans when they move back to the neighborhood but they have four new higher paying, albeit challenging, careers to choose from and on top of that, they get a larger starting pay with the other careers, like Law Enforcement or Athletic. When your Sim graduates and leaves school, he doesn't get to take any of that money with him. It is the first expansion that came out for The Sims 2 and I like that the concept - sending your teen Sims to college - was unique to the Sims 1, instead of a rehash.
I ended up downloading a mod that shortens the semesters to 36 hours because I was sending teens to college and then refusing to play them.The other con is minor - I don't like that your Sim doesn't get to keep the money earned from school when they go back home. This bonus allows your Sims to begin accumulating money and living the high life much sooner (for those of us who play without money cheats anyway ;)). Your Sims can make friends, join a frat house (good luck with that), streak, get in fights, live off of nothing but pizza, whatever you want for the entire 4 years. This is an excellent way to boost your friend count because while your Sim is yapping away you can tend to other members of the household. Other new interactions are pillow fighting and playing kicky ball.This expansion was worth $15 definitely. (I can see how that may be fun though.). To me, that is one of the best things about this expansion pack because I love my Sims to be rich, the richer the better.
They can buy an MP3 player and a handheld game too and if there is another Sim in the house or dorm that has a handheld game you can play together over a LAN or something like that. Research fills the grade meter very slowly so I rarely bother with it unless I need to just top of my grade meter before the final exam. Each final exam your Sim passes nets him some money as well, from $500 to $1200 in school grants depending on what his grade is. I gave it three stars because the whole University aspect, while definitely a great idea, just takes too flipping long. I bought the University expansion pack for myself this past Christmas when all the Sims 2 expansion sets were on sell for $15. It became incredibly tedious for me after I graduated my first Sim a couple days after I bought the expansion pack. You get $50 Simoleans for every Sim your tutor and that can add up fast.
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