Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years Amazon Minimum Age: 144 months Binding: DVD-ROM Brand: Electronic Arts EAN: 0014633190786 ESRB Age Rating: Teen Format: DVD-ROM Label: Electronic Arts Manufacturer: Electronic Arts Model: 19078 Publisher: Electronic Arts Release Date: August 26, 2008 Sales Rank: 262 Studio: Electronic Arts
Features:
Move into the perfect apartment: a spacious loft, a cozy place for a young couple, or a multi-bedroom flat-share with friends
Mingle with Sims from all-new social groups: stylish socialites, artsy bohemians, sports jocks, gadget-collecting techies, or edgy gearheads
Take advantage of apartment life: form social networks to make new friends, advance their careers, or look for love
Build your Sim’s new reputation meter: with a good reputation, your Sim can find the right friends to help them achieve their goals
Control multiple households: will you make your Sims live in happy harmony or comical conflict
SecuRom Scam
I have bought every single Sims to date (back till the origninal sims) but I will NOT buy this one. I will not buy from EA until they remove manditory SecuRom downloads with their games. SecuRom will slow down your system and cause problems with other games, NOT just Sims. It is very comparable to Malware, and once it gets on your system dont expect to remove it unless you are very proficent with computers.
A class action suit against EA has been filed for SecuRom issues.
***Buyer BEWARE***
Sims 2 goes out with a bang
The "unofficial" word is that Apartment Life will be the final expansion pack for the Sims 2 line. I don't really know if that's true, but if so Apartment Life closes the series on an up note.
Along with Seasons and Nightlife, Apartment Life is one of my favorite expansions. I really like the apartment feature, it's been long overdue. It's so much easier now to start off a sim newly graduated from University by having them live in an apartment. It's so much easier to get them suitable living quarters.
I am so glad we finally have spiral stairs and playground equipment. They were both very much needed 4+ expansions ago.
The social townies can be kind of annoying in a way, but the reputation feature is nice. ... Read More
Great EP
This is a fun game. You can only play 1 family at a time but you can work on relationships a lot faster. Not sure if this is gonna be the last ep until sims 3 comes out, if their is, I'll buy it too.
Love the expansion pack. but it's not worth the DRM hassle!
I purchased two copies of this expansion pack because both my son and my wife are Sims 2 addicts. Both of them loved the extras BUT then the problems began!
As a 'PC expert' I was called in when my son's copy would not load. It seems that he had re-installed the game at least four times because he had installed corrupted custom content on his new Sony Vio laptop. He then found he could not get Apartment Life to work at all.
I tried and every time I insert the disk it ejects and the message 'Insert a disk' appears. I tried my wife's copy and got the same result so it wasn't a bad disk. I investigated the problem on Internet and found EA have protected the game using SecuRom - the same software which caused the Spore DRM ... Read More
Fun.. Fun Fun..
How to describe the new add-on to the endless Sims 2 series in one sentence? Rental housing at its best.
Despite being the eighth expansion pack for The Sims 2, Apartment Life has really interesting features. You will love the beautiful architecture and you will be surprised at how much fun, magic can bring into the normal lives of the ordinary sims. This is more entertaining than Free Time and the apartment roommate element spices it up a touch. That's the farewell gift from the team - next expansion is inevitably expected somewhere in 2009, but for "The Sims 3."
