The Sims: Makin' Magic

The Sims: Makin' Magic is an expansion pack for The Sims. It adds an extra neighbourhood to the game, MagicTown, where several extra residential and community lots can be found. The community lots are places that Sims can visit and include shopping facilities, rides and shows. Sims can earn MagicCoins here, which are required as well as the normal Simoleons in order to purchase a house in MagicTown.

The principal feature that is added with this expansion is the ability for Sims to perform magic charms and spells, which works in a similar way to the way in which they can now also cook meals from a recipe book. Ingredients are added to a Sim's inventory, from where they are used with the correct equipment to produce an item of food or charge the Sim's magic wand with a spell. These ingredients, which are many and varied, can be purchased in MagicTown or made at home with various machines and items that can be purchased.

Details

 * Developer(s)
 * Maxis
 * Publisher(s)
 * Electronic Arts
 * Designer(s)
 * Will Wright
 * Release Date(s)
 * October 28, 2003
 * Genre(s)
 * God Game
 * Life Simulation game
 * Mode(s)
 * Single Player
 * Rating(s)
 * ESRB: Teen
 * ELSPA: 11+
 * PEGI: 7+
 * OFLC: G8+
 * Platform(s)
 * Microsoft Windows
 * Mac OS X
 * Media
 * 2 CDs
 * Installation Disc
 * Sneak Preview of the Sims 2
 * Sneak Preview of Making Magic
 * System Requirements
 * Microsoft Windows
 * Windows 95 and up, 233MHz Pentium II or faster, 64 MB RAM, 4x or faster CD-ROM drive, DirectX 6.0-compatible sound card and graphics card (card must have 2 MB onboard memory and able to display at 800x600 with 16-bit color)
 * Linux
 * Linux Kernel 2.2 or higher, Glibc 2.1.3 or higher, XFree86 4.0 or higher or equivalent, 350Mhz Celeron/Pentium II/Duron/Athlon or faster or equivalent, 64Mb of ram, 128 recommended, sound card supporting OSS or ALSA, video card capable of 16 bit color and 800x600 resolution, nvidia GeForce GPU recommended with 16mb of video ram. (NOTE: This is the ported Linux version from TransGaming)
 * Apple Macintosh
 * Mac OS X 10.0.3 or later -or- Mac OS 8.6 or 9.x with CarbonLib 1.2.5 or later, 233 MHz or faster PowerPC G3 or G4, 64 MB RAM (Mac OS 8/9) or 128 MB RAM (Mac OS X), G3/333 MHz recommended; 128 MB of RAM
 * Input(s)
 * Mouse
 * Keyboard