subject: The Sims 2, Apartment Life [print this page] The apartment life extension has brought whole lot of new and improved features to extend your gaming experience bringing you really close to the real time experiences. The first improvement that they game provides with is the pre-made neighborhood so that you need not to make it all by yourself. The new neighborhood features a lot of apartments as well as exclusive townhouses. Trailer parks, libraries, coffee shops and grocery stores have all been added into the game play to enhance the experience. A landmark in the form of a statue of Bella Goth has been added that is a character from the story of The Sims 2.
The expansion pack tends to provide many more interactions within the game compared to the previous version. These social interactions involve High five, Earth hug, Fake out, Kiss kiss darling and Tough handshake. The set of interactions attract a great deal of people towards the game play enhancing the experience. There are special interactions for the children in the game as well. Sims of all ages except the toddlers can participate in Classic Dance or Jump rope.
The extension pack also provides you with a way to become witches and warlocks giving you exclusive experience of being a magical creature. All the different types of magical creatures have been added ranging from the infallibly good to atrociously evil with an exclusive costume of each of them depending on their nature. The witch experience is similar to that stated in the stories all around the world with all the objects that persist in the stories like brooms and cauldrons. Spells and mystic effects have all been included to make it look as real as it actually is in the fiction stories.
Apartment life has come with a whole lot of new objects in the playgrounds that include jungle gym, playground slide, merry-go-round and monkey bars. When it comes to your apartment, new furniture has been added into the game that include Murphy bed, open mic stand, break dancing mat, trash chute, apartment mailboxes, vibrating bed, vending machines, witch-themed furniture as well as new TV sets and a large fishing tank.
The building mode also has a couple of additions as compared to the original game play. Spiral stairs, elevators, built-in wardrobes, visible ceilings, ducts, vents, and heating and cooling windows along with new assortments of new walls, floor, garage door and door styles have all been added to make it look even more attractive them before. The two new additions in the transportation are helicopters and witch brooms. The building mode features add new life to the apartment giving you options to create an apartment of your own choice with all the color customizations with the wallpapers, floor tiles and similar stuff.
The apartment life extension comes with a few of non-playing characters as well as the playing ones. These include butlers, landlords, roommates and neighbors that are not playing. Once you move in your players into an apartment, the NPCs will move into the next vacant ones.
The reward meter feature has been added that adds up to your reputation every time you get into something positive and help someone. The higher this meter goes the more rewards you get in order to improve your state within the game. You can gain in terms of your occupation, inspiration and living. There are some more of the life skills that naturally occur in your life that the Sims need to learn in order to enhance more within the game. These include fire prevention, anger management, lifelong happiness, physiology and couple counseling.
The apartment extension also gives players with an option to live in apartments with high or low rent districts also giving the option to play with four user controlled families within the apartment building. The player also has the option to opt for a roommate. You can only chose the roommate and not control it as it will be one of the NPC. Before you make the selection, you can see how satisfied the roommate is before you can finalize having him in your apartment.
The Sims 2, Apartment life brings a whole lot of excellent features to enhance the game play and make it a nice experience for the game lovers. The extension pack has almost many of the features that used to be there in the previous extension packs commercially available including elevators that were in the building extension pack and a few more of the similar stuff that were previously offered by the extension packs. The new and added features that this extension packs brings distinctively are equal attractive because they render excellent game play features making the game look even closer to the real time life experience.
Landlords, new objects as well as the reputation meter are new features that it adds and give you a close to life experience. There are a total of 14 soundtracks that this game pack includes in the package giving you even more attractive experience. The game is one of the most highly ranked one across all the major platforms of game ratings.
