Sims unleashed review

The Sims has experienced incredible success and popularity and has also given rise to no fewer than five expansion packs. The latest of these is The Sims: Unleashed, which adds several major features to the original Sims game, including household pets, gardening, and new outdoor lots to explore, build, and furnish, plus new career paths and plenty of new objects with which to decorate your sims' homes and the various lots they can visit. The core game--and its various problems--is definitely starting to show its age, but if you've ever enjoyed The Sims at least a little, you'll probably find Unleashed to be a worthwhile add-on.

The most obvious addition Unleashed makes to the core game of The Sims is household pets. The new game lets you adopt cats, dogs, parrots, turtles, or lizards and train them, feed them, and even enter them into pet shows to win prizes based on how well you've trained them. While pets don't radically change the way you play The Sims, they're implemented extremely well.

You don't have as much control over your pets as you have over your sims, so you can't micromanage every aspect of their behavior you can't tell your pet cat to go to sleep, even if it's tired, for instance , but contrary to what you might expect, you don't have to worry about them too much, either.

If your pet puppy is bored, it will chase its tail to amuse itself; if it's hungry, it will sit up and beg at your sims, at which point you can order your sims to fill up their pet's food dish. Pets also add a few new options to social interaction. For instance, if your sims and their neighbors are cat lovers, they can discuss cats and become better friends--but if you don't like your sims' neighbors, you can order your dog to attack them. Unleashed also adds new gardening features to The Sims.

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May 22, Enjoyable This game is enjoyable enough and the addition of pets is fun, unfortunately, they are unable to be controlled. Though they don't die of old age, they can Continue reading. Report this review. Adult Written by erinhunterfan April 9, This is a very fun game! It is fine if you're responsible.

If you or your child if an adult is reading this is naughty and doesn't police themselves Kid, 12 years old July 10, This game is awesome. Kid, 11 years old February 5, What's it about? Is it any good? Talk to your kids about Our editors recommend. Fish Tycoon. Overall though its a good buy. Rocks but animals sometimes make the guests mad so u can't make that many friends.

A little disappointing Essential Links. By Metascore By user score. All Current Games ». God of War. Psychonauts 2. The Forgotten City. Clone Drone in the Danger Zone. Exo One. Age of Empires IV. Halo Infinite. The Artful Escape. Unbound: Worlds Apart. Not every neighborhood should be some gleaming suburban paradise; I want urban sprawl, rural squalor, and the rugged frontier too. I want trailer parks and medieval townships. I want colony domes on Mars. That to me is what a complete expansion pack should be: a whole new world, not just some dogs that come over and crap on my lawn.

But at the rate they're doling out the tools and new themes once every six months, it'll be twenty years before we can completely re-skin the Sims into anything. Oh well. But by now, the only people still playing The Sims besides those people who just bought a computer and with it their first game are serious, hardcore Sims players who are going to buy every expansion pack regardless.

And we've already downloaded hundreds if not thousands of new skins and objects, so that part of the expansion isn't very impressive. Was this article informative? Have you played The Sims: Unleashed? The Sims: Unleashed. The Sims Unleashed Review. By Jason Bates Updated: 13 Dec am. There's a classic scene in The Simpsons where Reverend Lovejoy is out walking his dog and they stop on Ned Flanders' lawn.

Do your dirty sinful business. Don't stop the music," he says as the dog does his business all over Neddie's lawn. Of Cats and Dogs First, the good. Verdict In the end, if you love pets and have been dying to have cats and dogs in your game, you're going to love Unleashed and will want to rush out and buy it right away. In terms of bringing pets into the world of The Sims, they did a great job. Likewise, if your eyes go wide at the thought of having neighborhoods with a ton of brand new lots to play with, you're going to love this pack too.

YES NO. In This Article. Teach Fido some cool tricks or hire an efficient Pet Trainer to do all of the work. Let your kitties and canines strut their stuff in the local Pet Show. Release Date. What did you think? More Reviews by Jason Bates. Hearts of Iron Review. The Sims Deluxe. Madden NFL The Biggest Games of