The Sims: Unleashed

The Sims: Unleashed (released September 25, 2002) is the fifth expansion pack for The Sims. It adds many new features, such as farming, going to community lots, and about 125 new objects. However, the main new feature is the ability to own pets: cats, dogs, birds, fish, or reptiles.

New neighborhoods

 * Old Town

New objects

 * Pet beds, baths, bowls, toys
 * Grand Delusions Mask Display

New families

 * Hick Family
 * Charming Family
 * Kat Family
 * Goth Sr. family
 * Burb family

New NPCs

 * El Bandito, a raccoon
 * Henri LeStanc, a skunk
 * Miss Lucille
 * Tidy Heidi
 * Travelin’ Joe
 * Animal Control Evan
 * Gardener Bob
 * Sir Will of Orinda
 * Giuseppi Renni and Mr. McCutch, his monkey
 * W.C. Friendly

New careers

 * Animal Care
 * Culinary
 * Circus
 * Fashion
 * Education

New building themes

 * French Quarter

Other new features

 * Adopt Pets: Adopt a cat or dog from the local adoption center.
 * New skills for pets: Train your Pets so that they can have skills like housebreaking, hunting, obedience, and tricks.
 * New interactions: Rubbing, playing, clapping, praising, and scolding. Pets can even enter a pet show.
 * Inventory: Sims also have an inventory, where Sims store objects such as pet collars, vegetables (grown from gardens or bought from a market), and pet treats.
 * Build on vacant lots: Players can now build houses on vacant residential lots, and can modify unoccupied houses.

Trivia

 * The Sims: Unleashed is featured in episode 3 of the 4th season of "Six Feet Under."
 * There is a bug in the game, sometimes referred to as the Upside-down head syndrome or Upside-down face disease (among other names), which causes the Sim icons to change into incorrect images, or for the Sim heads to become invisible. The bug is caused by corrupted character files. The only verified solution is to delete the character file, though if a backup of the character file exists, it can be imported into the game after the corrupted file is deleted.
 * The zydeco music introduced in The Sims: Unleashed was written and performed by the Zydeco Flames, a real-life zydeco band. They were the first music artists who re-dubbed their original songs into Simlish for the game.