Strangetown



Strangetown is a pre-made neighborhood in The Sims 2. There are 11 lots, one of which is a lot not yet built on, and 187 Sims.

It is similar to real-life Roswell, or any other small desert community. It is filled with mysteries, alien stories, disappearing Sims, mad scientists, and possibly a serial killer.

It is related to the Pleasantview plot, as one resident townie is Bella Goth. However, as in all neighborhoods, the NPCs, townies and downtownies, are unique. Strangetown is also the neighborhood used in the The Sims 2 for Nintendo DS and GBA versions of the games, although only Tank Grunt and Johnny Smith make an appearance. The Sims 2 on PSP, however, takes place wholly in Strangetown with much of the same cast and added Sims.

Families

 * Beaker Family: Loki, his wife, Circe, and Loki's test subject Nervous.
 * Curious Family: The Curious brothers, Pascal, Vidcund and Lazlo. Pascal is pregnant (via alien abduction) when first played.
 * Grunt Family: General Buzz and his very different sons, Tank, Ripp and Buck.
 * Loner Family: Ajay living alone.
 * Singles Household: Roommates Lola Curious, Erin Beaker, Kristen Loste and Chloe Curious.
 * Smith Family: Pollination Technician 9, his wife Jenny, their son Johnny, and daughter Jill. Despite being half-alien, possibly the most normal family in Strangetown.
 * Specter Family: Olive Specter and her orphaned niece, Ophelia Nigmos, with many ghosts. Some of the ghosts' names are Easter eggs.

The Bella Factor
Strangetown is connected with the Pleasantview storyline, in which Bella Goth has been abducted by aliens, and then left in Strangetown. However, the 'Strangetown Bella' is "fake", many fans remain determined to get the real Bella back. It is possible for Bella to return to her family, (see below) but the actual storyline remains that Bella in Strangetown is the "real" one. For more information, please see Bella Goth's page, and the link below.

For information how to bring back the real one see Reuniting the Goths.

Also, Bella views the TV show, Strangetown, with the other members of the Goth family on The Sims 2 for Gameboy Advance.

Allusions in The Sims 3
If a Sim throws away perfectly good food, the Sim will get the negative moodlet "wasteful". In the description of the moodlet, it is mentioned that "there are starving children in Strangetown!"

The Infectious Disease Researcher level of the Medical Career mentions a contagious "Strangetown Syndrome".

Also, when a Sim becomes the Leader of the Free World they may get an Opportunity which mentions Strangetown suffering from mud and a heavy blizzard, causing the mud to freeze.

The Console Version
There is a town similar to Strangetown featured in the console version of The Sims 2. Here live two aliens: XY-YY and XHT-F, surname Smith. The house they live in is a regular house, though it's full of alien computers and sleeping pods. All the doors are metal, and they slide open as if on a spacecraft. The house itself is disguised by a cloaking device which creates an illusion of a house; this illusion can be walked through in order to reach the real house. (Behind the house is a crater left when XY-XY crashed in the title sequence. The crater holds the remains of the spacecraft, which is beaming up to ground level, as if projecting itself onto land in order to preserve itself.) Next to the house is a trailer home owned by a Sim named Jonas Bragg. The two species are in a feud, presumably because of their differences. "8 Rockpile Road, Strangetown" is also an address in Free Play mode.