The Sims 2 Nightlife Expansion Pack

The Sims 2 Nightlife Expansion pack is a great addition to the already
popular PC game. The Sims 2 has experienced amazing success and
continues to grow in ways that the original Sims was unable to.
In the fall of 2004 The Sims 2 was released and fans went wild.
The new 3-D world of the Sims was just what gamers were looking
for. Sims were able to grow up and experience life, just like we
would. Two expansion packs later and a third one on the way…the
series still continues to be one of the most popular PC games of all
time.

The Nightlife expansion pack includes a downtown area that your Sims
can visit. They can go shopping, partying, to a park or just out
to eat. Now your Sims can even go on dates with other Sims to
experience the true pleasure in life. There is also a new
pleasure aspiration for you to choose when your Sims become
teens. This aspiration allows them to indulge in the many
pleasures of life. They live to party and always want to do
things like bowling, playing poker, and hustling others in a rowdy game
of pool.

With the new pleasure aspiration and the ability to date when your Sim
meets another one you can tell if they are attracted to each other of
not. If they are not and you still want them to get it on then
you can buy love potion 8.5 from the local gypsy. When they drink
it the first person they see instantly becomes attracted to them.

If you don’t like the life that your Sim has there is a new item that
you can buy with your aspiration points in the Aspiration Reward panel,
a ReNuYu Senso Orb. This orb can turn your Sim’s life inside out
or upside down by changing their life aspiration.

There is also a new type of character in the game which is a
vampire. They only come out at night in the Downtown area.
If you become friends with them you have the possibility of being
bitten and turned into a vampire. Then you can take this back to
the rest of the town and possibly turn your town into one that if full
of vampires. I have not worked with this part yet. I got to
be friends with a vampire, but I was unable to get them to bite me.

The best part of this expansion back is not the new pleasure
aspiration, the ability to play the dating game, vampires or the 125
new items, but rather the fact that your Sims can now own and drive
their own cars. They can buy any variety of cars, which range in
price, and then they can drive to work on their own schedule and even
take it for a spin downtown. This adds more freedom within the
game for those of you who hate waiting for the taxi or the carpool.

This game grows in addiction levels with each new expansion pack.
Right now your Sims can grow up, go to college, buy a car, visit
downtown and play the dating game. This spring your Sims will
have the ability to own and operate their own business in the Open for
Business expansion pack. Then you will have total control over
your Sims because you can control their work lives.

I highly recommend this game to anyone that has hours at a time that
they can kill. It is also good for control freaks because it
gives you someone else to control. Maybe that is why I like it so
much.