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 Pretty good! But there's not much that's new.... | |
| The Sims was some real good fun. Livin' Large (the expansion pack) is as well. I can certainly see why there have supposedly been people who have gotten so addicted that they lose their jobs (I know a friend who would be at this level if she wasn't still in school). The only thing that keeps this product from getting five stars is the lack of new features. Livin' Large certainly spices up the game, breathing new life into a product which is getting a little old.... While do you get several new neighborhoods (to allow for more houses and families), you cannot have people from one neighborhood interact with another. As a more minor point, all of the new neighborhoods physically look are the same-until you start changing them while building. I got Livin' Large thinking that I would get to relive the experince I had when I got The Sims all over again. Unfortunately, I was wrong. Livin' Large felt very similar to The Sims, and while there were some new objects and decorations, it didn't feel like that much more. The new careers were kind of nice, but different careers doesn't have that much impact on the gameplay (besides your goals, clothing, and salary). Foretunately, the lack of an abundance of new objects, skins, and decorations can be made up for by downloading user made ones from the internet. So, overall I felt that Livin' Large didn't exactly made my Sims "live larger." If I went back in time with this knowledge, I would choose to get Livin' Large again. It certainly improves bits of the game and is a worthy expansion pack for any Sims owner. I would just have my expectations lower. | |
 Could it get any more annoying that this? | |
| I must admit that this expansion adds what it promises. i will spare you a listing of what's new and improved and get straight to the point of what is new but makes the game unenjoyable - at least under certain conditions. I have one word for you: Clown! Now, I like playing this game as much as anyone but when my Sims get visited by that annoying Clown I have to turn the computer off and leave the game be. It makes me want to uninstall the expansion altogether. You can't ask the Clown to leave (cause it won't) and your Sims live get forced into interactions that I don't want them to have at all and that add nothing to gameplay except frustration. Fortunately, however, the Clown only appears if certain requirements are met. Nonetheless, I keep thinking that I must be missing something with this game. it just does not seem addictive to me. while I find myself playing such games as Age of Empires even years after purchasing them, I am getting fairly tired of the sims after only a few weeks. So, I have created nice families or singles, I have made them work out, read, or build up their charisma, i even created a house full of criminals. I have bought all there is to buy, have build various houses of all sorts of sizes and designs, I have had wild parties, and made many friens, and now i simply don't know why I should ever return to the game. | |
 Cool! | |
| I've played Livin' Large for a week now. Remember that review I gave on the first Sims game? I said that I didn't think it was addicting. Yeah right! It's 5:25am, and I haven't gone to bed 'cause I was playin' "Livin' Large." I can't wait to install House Party! :) In the first Sims game, you got 10 lots. In this game, you get 40 extra lots! That's 50 in total! Lots are places you buy to put houses on, in case you haven't figured that out alreay. I'm sharing this game with my brother, so we would get 25 lots each. I already used up around 8 of them. My brother's only used 2. The Sims Livin' Large comes with 5 new careers (Slacker, Journalist, Paranormal, Hacker, and Musician), more building styles, 125 new items, and new characters. You must install the first Sims game before playing Livin' Large. The Sims are livin' large! |
