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DS  Sims 2: Funny and enjoying 4.0
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by Marooned Chic
Jul 3, 2008
THE GOOD:
The setting is quite good and so are the townspeople. You can get to know a lot of persons with different kinds of unlock able secrets that could be very surprising.
Being a super hero in that town could be cool too. Sending goons to jail and even scaring off aliens is fun and exciting.
Improving your hotel like adding more rooms and buying first class furnitures could be hard at first but you'll soon get the hang of it after gaining lots of money from the upgrades.

THE BAD:
My only complaint on this game is that it has extremely short story missions.
You can finish compulsory missions in just a few days because they were extremely easy. After all the missions are completed you can continue playing the game, manage your hotel, kick butts of goons and aliens.
But somehow you would wish that the game continues on with more missions to do.
Also, it's very hard to gain skill points because they are located in hidden places. Some of the skill points are necessary to advance through the game but if you don't have them you can be stuck for a long time.

SUMMARY:
The Gameplay surrounds on a girl taking over an ugly hotel that needs upgrading. It's an RPG game with a lot of customizations. Meaning you could choose the appearance of your character, design your own room and ofcourse design your hotel. Your character could transform into a superhero by wearing a ratsuit located in a secret room in the basement.
You could fight goons and aliens when they assault some of the townsfolk.
Saving the townspeople could gain you their friendship and some money.

I'd say that the graphics aren't that perfect. Somtimes it's hard to locate some places and you won't properly manage in going to some hard to reach places because you can't see well.
By designing your hotel, the price goes up because it depends upon if the furniture are expensive. You could buy stuffs in the nearby shop. You could also mine there, it adds up to your money because in the beginning of the game money is very essential.

The plot revolves around making the hotel business a success. There are over 15 characters in the game. Some are living in town and some are tourists who stay in your hotel. The tourists would always be the same, don't expect of new comers because there won't be any. Except for some bad guys who would appear like the evil robots and a fanatic Ava Cadavra.
They would be involved in your missions.

The Audio works fine, if you talk to the folks there you here their responses, whether they're happy, sad or angry.
You could also compose your own music that could be used in the gameplay.
The controls would be memorized in just a short time. It's not very complicated and it's very easy to use.

To summarize this, you begin with nothing then you should try to make your hotel grow, help people if they're in trouble, make friends to know their hidden secrets and design every room so that it would make more profit. The rooms are uniquely designed and it's really fun.

I recommend this to players who wants a game with a lot of creativity.
It's fun and it's worth your money.

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DS  A Disappointment to the Series 3.1
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by sxc_katee
from Aurora, , Canada
Jul 2, 2007
THE GOOD:
+ Story is good
+ Never ending gameplay

THE BAD:
- Terrible Graphics
- Not able to control Sims like PC version
- Gameplay becomes boring once you have beaten the game
- Annoying sounds
- Easy Storyline

SUMMARY:
The Sims 2 expands to more platforms, releasing the first Sims game onto the DS. The game is not like most Sim games, as you have a goal to serve. You play a Sim, in which you create, that goes to Strangetown. You are asked to run a hotel that is closing. In other words, you have to clean it up and make it a nice place to stay.

Gameplay
When you first start out, you will notice this game is not like Sims 2 for the PC. You cannot marry, create houses, have children and many of the exciting features for a Sims game. Instead, you run a hotel in Strangetown. You can still customize your character to some degree, which is a bonus. You constantly have people entering the penthouse on the top floor. Your objective is to complete their tasks they ask you to do, and once they are all completed, they will move out. But the game doesn't stop there. Once the last penthouse guest has moved out, you can keep playing. Other townspeople will stay in other rooms, and you can create an entertainment section to the hotel.

I found the most enjoyable part of the game in the entertainment portion of the hotel. This includes an art gallery, which you can create your own works of art that can be sold, and the casino, with a few minigames. Other than that, beating the game is simple and there is nothing else to do. Once I finished the game, I became bored of it and simply stopped playing.


The art gallery, where you can create your own works of art. The quality is quite low.


Sounds
The sounds in the game are not very well done. Even though the DS has low sounds, this game barely uses them. The background music is low quality, and the way Sims talk is just outright annoying. The only good portion to the sounds is creating your own music, which you can use as a cell phone ring tone.

The sounds bothered me a lot of the time, especially when Sims or Aliens spoke. I actually shut off the music, except when I created my own music.

Graphics
The graphics are low quality, especially for a Sims game. Any player of the new PC version will praise those graphics, and in comparison, these do not meet a Sims game standard. You can see in the above picture even when creating your own art can you really see the lack in quality. I found, luckily, that the graphics are easy on the eyes. This did take away a huge portion of the game, but at least if you bother playing, it won't hurt your eyes.

Lasting Opinions/Recommendations
I had very high hopes for this game, and it fell shortly. It was still a fun play, but I have played better DS titles, and better Sim games. I recommend this only to players who are fans of the Sim series, as this is not a great starting game for first time player. But even for those Sim players, I recommend renting it first before buying.
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