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| The Sims 2: Apartment Life Expansion Pack (PC DVD) | 
| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: £19.99
Buy New: £14.98
You Save: £5.01 (25%)
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 52
Platform: Windows Xp
Genre: life-simulation-games
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5030930066093
ASIN: B00197YSHO
Release Date: August 29, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 One Of The Best EXP for the Sims 2 August 31, 2008
O. Marshall (England)
27 out of 28 found this review helpful
Like The Sims 2 Seasons, this expanision has a major impact on the game, whereas packs like Pets only enhance the experience. I've had this pack for a couple of days and I'm hooked. The Sims 2 tends to slow down after a while and this just totally refreshed it. The apartments are cleverly designed and great fun to customize! Now your sims have neighbours who they can interact with and form strong relationships.
Kick start your sims apartmenting lives with a swanky pad, or go budget and have your sims work their way up.
One of the best aspects of the pack is raising the Sim children in an apartment, they make tons of friends and have fun in the playground.
This game is auesome, it offers a variety of funky clothes and a few wicked hairstyles along with dozens of new objects and a whole new take on the game.
One point, the Sims 3 is coming out in April next year, this could be one of the last ever exp for the Sims 2. Buy It!
oh my god i love it!!!! September 2, 2008
Ms. Laura A. Parker (notts)
16 out of 20 found this review helpful
Buy this game you wont be disapointed!!! i love it so much it will probley be one of the last expansion packs for the sims 2 as THE SIMS 3 IS OUT 20TH FEBUARY 2009 and i cant wait. getting back to the game lol its great you have a selection for apartments to out in your own neighbourhood or move into belladonna cove ( new neighbourhood) you pay rent on your apartment and have a landlord which carrys out all repairs gets rid of and vermin lol and cleans all the communal areas. You can go into the build menu and clear the apartment out apart from the bathroom and kitchen and you will find the rents lower and then you can put all your own things in it. You cant build your own apartment block or move walls doors or windows in a pre built lot. its great for kid sims as thes new playground items like a roundabout slide and climbing frame tree house thing. New stuff for your apartment like a pull down bed incase your apartments really small to save space a huge cool plasma tv dressing tables and much more. You can have room mates to help pay the rent if you keep them happy they become your best freinds and if not they may drve you mad ( you cant control your room mate but can see how they are feeling what job they have what they want etc. which is good. And if you cant stand them you can kick them out and get another or live alone. New hairs styles for the adult sims which are nice a few new clothes. I think i have covered everything. This games really good and i would defo recommend buying it as you wont be disapointed at all. And it will keep you ocupied until 20th febuary 09 when sims 3 comes to stores. Happy apartment living guys !!!! laura xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Better than it sounds September 25, 2008
Ms. C. A. L. Turner (Kent, England)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
From the blurb on EA's site, I wasn't expecting great things from this expansion. It sounded as though you just get a new building type, but there's much more to it than that.
Sure, a large element is the apartments, but even those are better than I anticipated. If you've ever been stuck with a homeless family with low funds, or if your single guy is friendless, apartments provide the perfect solution. If your sim feels lonely, they only have to go and tap on someone's door (at a reasonable hour), and some apartments cost less than 1k a week.
There's also a hint of magic in the air, but I suspect that it takes more than the hour that I played to find that
wicked game September 2, 2008
A. Chubb (somerset)
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
had no probs with this game it's good fun if you got probs with it then it's ither your comp or hacked objects i don't think they would sell a game with bugs and anyhow they will prob do a patch ive had no probs at all
One of the better expansions September 10, 2008
Jenesis (UK)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
As opposed to the waste-of-money, product-placement-up-the-arse "Stuff Packs", most of the Sims 2 Expansion Packs actually add useful functionality and gameplay elements to an already decent game, and this is one of the best ones. If I had to recommend just one expansion, it would probably be this one (or Seasons), as it adds exciting and new, yet realistic, gameplay.
Apartment living is easy to get into. Either pick one of the premade families in the new neighbourhood, Belladonna Cove, or make your own Sims and move them into apartments. If you're really adventurous you can build your own apartment buildings, but this is very difficult due to the complexity needed in apartments, and you have to use a cheat to zone the apartment correctly (I think the official website has a tutorial). Apartment building is only recommended for experienced builders.
I had no problems installing or running this. One tiny complaint is the load time on game startup; if you have all the expansions or lots of custom content, or both, be prepared to stare at a blank screen for 10+ minutes while the game starts up. I run the Sims 2 in a window for this exact reason - I can watch a video or browse the internet or something while the game is loading.
Overall I recommend this expansion pack. If you only have the base Sims 2 and want to add that little bit extra before the release of Sims 3, get this pack. It's the last pack that will come out and it adds (in my opinion) the most varied and useful gameplay elements. If you have all the previous packs, then why are you reading this review? You're going to buy it anyway :-)
Oh, and one final quibble: It's not an apartment. It's a FLAT. Bloody Americanisation strikes again.
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