The Sims: Unleashed

Expansion pack for

The Sims: Unleashed

Box art for The Sims: Unleashed
Development
Developer(s)	Maxis
Publisher(s)	Electronic Arts
Ratings	ESRB: T
Release date(s)	September 23, 2002
Game features
Genres	Life simulation
Themes	Pets, Gardening, Cajun
Related pages
Patches and updates
Cheats

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 as well as 5 brand new careers. However, the main new feature is the ability to own pets: cats, dogs, birds, fish, or reptiles. The concept of owning pets are later reintroduced in The Sims 2: Pets, The Sims 3: Pets, The Sims 4: Cats & Dogs and The Sims 4: My First Pet Stuff. Its theme of gardening and farming crops later reappeared in The Sims 2: Seasons, The Sims 3 and The Sims 4.

Features[edit | edit source]

New neighborhoods[edit | edit source]

Old Town

New objects[edit | edit source]

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

New families[edit | edit source]

New NPCs[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

New building themes[edit | edit source]

French Quarter

Other new features[edit | edit source]

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.^{[n 1]}

Trivia[edit | edit source]

A picture of the icon of the upside-down face plague.

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.^[1]
The Sims Unleashed is the only game in The Sims series to change its intro video.
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.^{[citation needed]}

Gallery[edit | edit source]

A picture of the icon of the upside-down face plague

The Sims Unleashed TV Commercial

The Sims: Unleashed TV commercial
The Sims Unleashed Review

The Sims: Unleashed review
The Sims Unleashed Official Video Trailer

The Sims: Unleashed official trailer