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'''''The Sims 2: FreeTime''''' is the seventh [[expansion pack]] for ''The Sims 2''.
'''''The Sims 2: FreeTime''''' (also known as '''''TS2 FT''''' or simply '''''FreeTime''''') is the seventh [[expansion pack]] for ''[[The Sims 2]]''. It was released on February 26, 2008. It mainly features group activities and hobbies for [[Sim]]s.


==Description==
==Description==
''[[File:The Sims 2 FreeTime Logo.png|100px|left|link=]]
[[File:The_Sims_2_FreeTime_Logo_(Original).png|left|90px]]
Now your Sims can rediscover the joys of leisure time! Awaken your Sims' true passions in life as they discover and excel at all-new activities. Whether they're tossing a football with the family, practicing ballet, restoring cars with friends, or building train sets, your Sims now have more ways to build skills, enhance friendships, and make their lives more successful. Craft new, unique items for your Sims to use in their daily lives including clothing, pottery, and more. Your Sims will even unlock secret rewards by mastering their hobbies and advancing all-new careers. Explore a wide variety of new hobbies that will change your Sims' lives!''
''Now your Sims can rediscover the joys of leisure time! Awaken your Sims' true passions in life as they discover and excel at all-new activities. Whether they're tossing a football with the family, practicing ballet, restoring cars with friends, or building train sets, your Sims now have more ways to build skills, enhance friendships, and make their lives more successful. Craft new, unique items for your Sims to use in their daily lives including clothing, pottery, and more. Your Sims will even unlock secret rewards by mastering their hobbies and advancing all-new careers. Explore a wide variety of new hobbies that will change your Sims' lives!''


==Desiderata Valley==
==Features==
{{Main|Desiderata Valley}}
Desiderata Valley is the new [[neighborhood]] shipped with ''The Sims 2: FreeTime''. It mainly focuses on the residents' leisure activities and pastimes. All families are at moderate economic status; not too rich and not too poor. There are a number of community lots where Sims can do many activities, such as gallery, sport park, community kitchen, and so on.


==Game Features==
* Sims now have a wide range of new activity types, which are divided into ten groups - [[Cuisine]], [[Film and Literature]], [[Games]], [[Tinkering]], [[Science (hobby)|Science]], [[Arts and Crafts]], [[Sports]], [[Nature]], [[Fitness]] and [[Music and Dance]].
===Lifetime Aspiration===
* Completing hobbies offers lifetime rewards. As Sims master activities they will unlock new aspirations, earn rewards, and uncover [[Secret Lots|secret lots]].A lot.
{{Main|Lifetime Aspiration}}
Sims now have a new bar between the daily [[aspiration bar]] and the [[Influence]] bar, the Lifetime Aspiration bar. This bar indicates how happy a Sim has been throughout their life. The longer the daily aspiration bar is kept high, the more points the lifetime aspiration bar is awarded. Sims who reach the maximum Lifetime Aspiration will be rewarded with [[Perma-platinum]] mood.<ref name="carry forward">This feature is carried forward to later Expansion Packs</ref>


===Lifetime Aspiration Benefit===
* Once Sims build up their skills, they can sell their arts and crafts or enter them into [[competition]]s for dance, food, and video game contests.
The higher a Sim's lifetime aspiration bar is, the more [[aspiration benefit]] points they can spend. Sims who spend their aspiration benefit points will be given special personal abilities and advantages. For example, slower needs decay, making friends faster, smooth talking, higher salary, etc.


===Secondary Aspiration===
* There will be wooo a new [[Aspiration bar|Lifetime Aspiration bar]], which fills when a major goal in a Sim's life is fulfilled (e.g., marriage). Goals depend on the Sim's aspiration. Points earned from these goals can be spent on [[Aspiration Benefits|benefits]], such as the ability to not get fired, slower motive decay, and even the ability to have a [[secondary aspiration]]. Some benefits also depend on the Sim's aspiration.
The [[secondary aspiration]] unlocks Sims' possibilities for new [[Wants and Fears|wants and fears]] that are outside their primary [[Aspiration (The Sims 2)|aspiration]]. Sims can choose their secondary aspiration as an aspiration benefit.


===Hobby Enthusiasm===
* New group activities let Sims spend time with family and friends. There are new special activities for kids and toddlers.
The new simology includes [[hobby]] [[enthusiasm]] for each Sim. Sims who do activities relevant to a particular hobby will gain enthusiasm in that hobby, and will be able to unlock more and more benefits as they become more enthusiastic in that hobby. There are 10 hobbies: [[Cuisine]], [[Film and Literature]], [[Games]], [[Tinkering]], [[Science (hobby)|Science]], [[Arts and Crafts]], [[Fitness (hobby)|Fitness]], [[Nature]], [[Sports]], [[Music and Dance]]. Each Sim has a predestined hobby, and Sims will build enthusiasm for that hobby faster than for the others.


===Secret Hobby Lot===
* Hobbies can have unexpected moments, especially for Sims with low skill levels. Beginner Sims might sew a bear with one eye, make a lopsided jar on the pottery wheel, or even get poison ivy while hiking.
{{Main|Hobby lot}}
Sims who have gained enough enthusiasm in a hobby will discover a secret [[hobby lot]]. The instructor for that hobby will give the Sim membership in the hobby club, which will grant them entry to the secret lot. The hobby lot can only be visited by Sims who have a membership, though they can bring other Sims with them.


===Best Friends Forever===
* The '[[Grilled Cheese]]' aspiration is unlockable and selectable, even if [[The Sims 2: Nightlife|Nightlife]] isn't installed.
BFF is a new [[Relationship#The Sims 2|friendship]] level. Two [[Sim]]s who are best friends long enough will develop the BFF relationship. BFFs will have a slower daily relationship decay, and will never fall out of friendship, even if they are [[Fury|furious]] with each other. BFFs also have benefits, such as an autonomous "far away greet" interaction, and the ability to tell inside jokes.<ref name="carry forward" />


===NPC Aging===
* The new [[life state]] (and creature NPC) is a [[genie]], however, it isn't selectable. It is delivered in a lamp by a gypsy, which randomly appears, and grants three wishes to its 'master'.
Sims' [[townie]] friends no longer remain the same age forever. Whenever a Sim grows up, they can choose any 3 townies they know to grow up together. With this feature, childhood friends can grow older, and teen couples can get married when they're old enough.


===Genie===
* There are five new careers with their respective [[Career rewards|rewards]] - [[Oceanography]] (Koi Pond), [[Entertainment]] ("Starstruck" Personal Fame Stars), [[Architecture]] (Drafting Table), [[Dance]] (Better Barre) and [[Intelligence]] (Audio Augmenter Earpiece).
{{Main|Genie}}
Genies can grant three wishes to Sims who have received the [[Antique Lamp#The Sims 2: FreeTime|Dusty Old Lamp]]. Sims cannot become genies, nor are genies playable. A family whose members have high hobby enthusiasms are more likely to have the lamp delivered to them by the [[gypsy matchmaker]].


==New Additions==
* A new [[neighborhood]], [[Desiderata Valley]], is included.
* '''New Life State''': Genie
* '''New Careers''': [[Architecture]], [[Dance]], [[Entertainment]], [[Intelligence]], and [[Oceanography]]
* '''New Lifetime Wants''': Become City Planner, Become World Class Ballet Dancer, Become Prestidigitator, Become Head of SCIA, and Become Hand of Poseidon
* '''New NPCs''': Food Judge, [[Hobby#Instructors|Hobby Instructor]], [[Rod Humble]]
* '''New Skills''': Nursery Rhyme and [[Life skills|Parenting]]
* '''New Radio Station''': Indie Wave
* '''New Talent Badges''': [[Pottery]] and [[Sewing]]
* '''New Meal''': Grandma's Comfort Soup
* '''New TV Channel''': [[Movie]]
* '''New Video Games''': MySims, FIFA 08, Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, Spore, and The Sims 3


===Minor Features===
* Sims will now be able to become 'BFFs' with any Sim. The option to tell an 'inside joke' will become available under Entertain if they're BFFs with someone.
* [[Rod Humble]] will come to greet newly moved-in family and drop off a gift. The gift will contain a free computer and a [[video game]] of the preview of ''[[The Sims 3]]''.
* Advanced Neighborhood Options.<ref name="carry forward" /> Players can create new [[neighborhood]]s, add [[sub-neighborhood]]s, or switch between other neighborhoods without having to go to the neighborhood view.


==New Objects==
*If a Sim becomes good friends with a townie, when they grow up the player can have the townie grow up as well. This option only allows up to 3 townies to age simultaneously.
* ''[[Basketball#The Sims 2: FreeTime|H-O-R-S-E of course Basket Ball Hoop]]''
* [[Soccer goal|''The Goal of Paul'' Soccer Goal]]
* ''Mechanical Stitching Machine by Antique Artifacts'' Sewing Machine
* ''Upright Pottery Wheel by QuicKraft''
* ''Basic Barre by Deuxjoint Ltd.'' Ballet Barre
* [[Restorable junk car|''One Man's Junk Car from Mechanically Minded'' Restorable Car]]
* ''Round and Round Model Train Set''
* ''Don't Wake the Llama'' Board Game
* ''The Formidable Formicarium'' Ant Farm
* ''Teeny Tykes Activity Table''
* ''[[Violin#The Sims 2: FreeTime|Simavarious VII Concert Violin]]''
* [[Synthesizer|''The BOB 3942 by SoundEscapes'' Synthesizer]]


==New Interactions==
*''FreeTime'' adds two new talent badges - [[Pottery]] and [[Sewing]]. However, these and the ''Open for Business'' badges were glitched, making gaining new levels very hard.
;Sims-based
* Sims can birdwatch outdoors.
* [[Hiking and jogging]].
* [[Bug collecting#Bug Hunting|Bug Hunting]].
* Older Sims can teach a Nursery Rhyme to [[toddler]]s.


;Object-based
*[[life skills|Life skill]]: Parenting
* Sims can enter [[Competition|contests]] and win prizes.
* Crafted paintings can be framed.
* Drawings drawn on ''Teeny Tykes Activity Table'' can be hung on wall.
* Sims can tinker on most appliances, plumbings, and electronics.
* Sims can discover new comets and planets that will grant §500 for the discovery.<ref name="carry forward" />
* The [[ReNuYuSenso Orb]] can be used to reset [[Aspiration benefit]]s.{{vgversion|TS2:NL}}


==Trivia==
*Two pre-made, fully furnished houses are included in the [[Lots and Houses bin]] (Players with ''Nightlife'' or a download which allows [[car]]s without ''Nightlife'' should note that one, the "Bohemian Bungalow," does not have room for a [[driveway]]).
* This pack, along with ''[[The Sims 2: Apartment Life]]'' are the only expansion packs in ''[[The Sims 2]]'' as well as the entire [[The Sims (series)|''The Sims'' series]] never to be released for Mac. It was planned to release both packs for Mac but this never happened. It remains unknown why they were never released for Mac.

Additionally, there is an NPC named [[Mr. Humble]] that will show up for every family. He drops off a gift which happens to be a new computer with a preview of ''[[The Sims 3]]'', which was in development when FreeTime was released (''The Sims 3'' was released in June of 2009).

== New Objects ==
* Basic barre, Violin, Synthesizer
* Pottery Wheel, Sewing Machine

* Activity Table (children and toddlers only)
* Frames
* Soccer Net, Basketball Court
* Stationary Bike
* Ant Habitat
* New Video Games, ''MySims'', ''FIFA 08'', ''Spore, The Sims 3, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars''
* ''Don't Wake the Llama'' board game
* Model Train set
* Restore-able Junk Car

== New Interactions ==
* Nursery Rhyme (toddlers only)
* Football Toss
* [[Hiking and jogging]]
* [[Bug Catching|Bug Collecting]]
* Dance, Cooking and Video Game [[competition]]s
* Serve food platters
* Tinker
* Participate in a Book Club
* Watch [[movie]]s on TV


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
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FT5.png|Using the new sewing machine!
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TS2FT Gallery 10.jpg
TS2FT Gallery 11.jpg
TS2FT Gallery 12.jpg
TS2FT Gallery 13.jpg
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Hobby Arts and Crafts.jpg
Hobby Cuisine.jpg
Hobby Film and Literature.jpg
Hobby Fitness.jpg
Hobby Games.jpg
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Hobby Nature.jpg
Hobby Science.jpg
Hobby Sports.jpg
Hobby Tinkering.jpg
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FT Comic - Fortune.jpg
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The Sims 2 - FreeTime Official Trailer|''The Sims 2: FreeTime'' Official Trailer
Natasha Bedingfield - Pocketful Of Sunshine (Simlish)|Natasha Bedingfield - Pocketful Of Sunshine (''The Sims 2: FreeTime'')
Datarock - Fa Fa Fa (Simlish)|Datarock - Fa Fa Fa (''The Sims 2: FreeTime'')
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==Video==
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|''The Sims 2: FreeTime'' theme
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|[[File:Ts2 Sims 2 FreeTime Theme - They Might Be Giants.ogg|noicon]]
|-
|''The Sims 2: FreeTime'' Loading Screen
|[[File:The Sims 2 Freetime Startup Theme.ogg|noicon]]
|-
|Bouncing the Sphere
|[[File:Ts2 bouncing the sphere.ogg|noicon]]
|-
|Tinkering for Toiletries
|[[File:Ts2 Tinkering for Toiletries.ogg|noicon]]
|-
|Candy Maker's Delight
|[[File:Ts2 Candy Maker's Delight.ogg|noicon]]
|-
|Fa-Fa-Fa
|[[File:Ts2 datarock - fa-fa-fa.ogg|noicon]]
|-
|It's A Party
|[[File:Ts2 fire flies - it's a party.ogg|noicon]]
|-
|Into The Sun
|[[File:Ts2 great northern - into the sun.ogg|noicon]]
|-
|Britney
|[[File:I'm from barcelona - britney.ogg|noicon]]
|-
|Take Out The Trash
|[[File:Ts2 they might be giants - take out the trash.ogg|noicon]]
|-
|Pocket Full Of Sunshine
|[[File:Ts2 pocket full of sunshine.ogg|noicon]]
|-
|Busy (Adam Freeland mix)
|[[File:Ts2 adam freeland - busy.ogg|noicon]]
|-
|Sim The Builder (Hyper mix)
|[[File:Ts2 hyper - sim the builder.ogg|noicon]]
|-
|''The Sims 2: Nightlife'' Theme (Junkie XL mix)
|[[File:Ts2 junkie xl - sims 2 uni theme.ogg|noicon]]
|-
|''The Sims 2: Nightlife'' Theme (Timo Maas mix)
|[[File:Ts2 timo maas - sims 2 theme.ogg|noicon]]
|}


;Non-US
==External Links==
[http://thesims2.ea.com/about/ep7_index.php The Sims 2: FreeTime on TheSims2.com]
{{Sims}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:FreeTime, The Sims 2}}


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==References==
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[[Category:The Sims 2|FreeTime]]

Latest revision as of 12:52, 7 April 2021

The Sims 2: FreeTime
The Sims 2: FreeTime
Reward your Sims with a variety of fun, new activities!
Development
Developer(s) The Sims Studio
Publisher(s) Electronic Arts
Ratings ESRB: Teen
PEGI: 12+
Series The Sims
Release date(s) NA February 26, 2008
EU February 29, 2008
AUS February 28, 2008
Technical information
Mode(s) Single-player
Input methods Keyboard and mouse
Game features
Genres Social simulation
Themes Hobbies
Creatures Genie
Neighborhoods Desiderata Valley
Related pages
Patches and updates
Cheats

The Sims 2: FreeTime (also known as TS2 FT or simply FreeTime) is the seventh expansion pack for The Sims 2. It was released on February 26, 2008. It mainly features group activities and hobbies for Sims.

Description[edit | edit source]

Now your Sims can rediscover the joys of leisure time! Awaken your Sims' true passions in life as they discover and excel at all-new activities. Whether they're tossing a football with the family, practicing ballet, restoring cars with friends, or building train sets, your Sims now have more ways to build skills, enhance friendships, and make their lives more successful. Craft new, unique items for your Sims to use in their daily lives including clothing, pottery, and more. Your Sims will even unlock secret rewards by mastering their hobbies and advancing all-new careers. Explore a wide variety of new hobbies that will change your Sims' lives!

Desiderata Valley[edit | edit source]

Main article: Desiderata Valley

Desiderata Valley is the new neighborhood shipped with The Sims 2: FreeTime. It mainly focuses on the residents' leisure activities and pastimes. All families are at moderate economic status; not too rich and not too poor. There are a number of community lots where Sims can do many activities, such as gallery, sport park, community kitchen, and so on.

Game Features[edit | edit source]

Lifetime Aspiration[edit | edit source]

Main article: Lifetime Aspiration

Sims now have a new bar between the daily aspiration bar and the Influence bar, the Lifetime Aspiration bar. This bar indicates how happy a Sim has been throughout their life. The longer the daily aspiration bar is kept high, the more points the lifetime aspiration bar is awarded. Sims who reach the maximum Lifetime Aspiration will be rewarded with Perma-platinum mood.[1]

Lifetime Aspiration Benefit[edit | edit source]

The higher a Sim's lifetime aspiration bar is, the more aspiration benefit points they can spend. Sims who spend their aspiration benefit points will be given special personal abilities and advantages. For example, slower needs decay, making friends faster, smooth talking, higher salary, etc.

Secondary Aspiration[edit | edit source]

The secondary aspiration unlocks Sims' possibilities for new wants and fears that are outside their primary aspiration. Sims can choose their secondary aspiration as an aspiration benefit.

Hobby Enthusiasm[edit | edit source]

The new simology includes hobby enthusiasm for each Sim. Sims who do activities relevant to a particular hobby will gain enthusiasm in that hobby, and will be able to unlock more and more benefits as they become more enthusiastic in that hobby. There are 10 hobbies: Cuisine, Film and Literature, Games, Tinkering, Science, Arts and Crafts, Fitness, Nature, Sports, Music and Dance. Each Sim has a predestined hobby, and Sims will build enthusiasm for that hobby faster than for the others.

Secret Hobby Lot[edit | edit source]

Main article: Hobby lot

Sims who have gained enough enthusiasm in a hobby will discover a secret hobby lot. The instructor for that hobby will give the Sim membership in the hobby club, which will grant them entry to the secret lot. The hobby lot can only be visited by Sims who have a membership, though they can bring other Sims with them.

Best Friends Forever[edit | edit source]

BFF is a new friendship level. Two Sims who are best friends long enough will develop the BFF relationship. BFFs will have a slower daily relationship decay, and will never fall out of friendship, even if they are furious with each other. BFFs also have benefits, such as an autonomous "far away greet" interaction, and the ability to tell inside jokes.[1]

NPC Aging[edit | edit source]

Sims' townie friends no longer remain the same age forever. Whenever a Sim grows up, they can choose any 3 townies they know to grow up together. With this feature, childhood friends can grow older, and teen couples can get married when they're old enough.

Genie[edit | edit source]

Main article: Genie

Genies can grant three wishes to Sims who have received the Dusty Old Lamp. Sims cannot become genies, nor are genies playable. A family whose members have high hobby enthusiasms are more likely to have the lamp delivered to them by the gypsy matchmaker.

New Additions[edit | edit source]

  • New Life State: Genie
  • New Careers: Architecture, Dance, Entertainment, Intelligence, and Oceanography
  • New Lifetime Wants: Become City Planner, Become World Class Ballet Dancer, Become Prestidigitator, Become Head of SCIA, and Become Hand of Poseidon
  • New NPCs: Food Judge, Hobby Instructor, Rod Humble
  • New Skills: Nursery Rhyme and Parenting
  • New Radio Station: Indie Wave
  • New Talent Badges: Pottery and Sewing
  • New Meal: Grandma's Comfort Soup
  • New TV Channel: Movie
  • New Video Games: MySims, FIFA 08, Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, Spore, and The Sims 3

Minor Features[edit | edit source]

  • Rod Humble will come to greet newly moved-in family and drop off a gift. The gift will contain a free computer and a video game of the preview of The Sims 3.
  • Advanced Neighborhood Options.[1] Players can create new neighborhoods, add sub-neighborhoods, or switch between other neighborhoods without having to go to the neighborhood view.

New Objects[edit | edit source]

New Interactions[edit | edit source]

Sims-based
Object-based
  • Sims can enter contests and win prizes.
  • Crafted paintings can be framed.
  • Drawings drawn on Teeny Tykes Activity Table can be hung on wall.
  • Sims can tinker on most appliances, plumbings, and electronics.
  • Sims can discover new comets and planets that will grant §500 for the discovery.[1]
  • The ReNuYuSenso Orb can be used to reset Aspiration benefits.[TS2:NL]

Trivia[edit | edit source]

  • This pack, along with The Sims 2: Apartment Life are the only expansion packs in The Sims 2 as well as the entire The Sims series never to be released for Mac. It was planned to release both packs for Mac but this never happened. It remains unknown why they were never released for Mac.

Gallery[edit | edit source]

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  • Japanese box art

    Japanese box art

Media[edit | edit source]

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Track Real-world preview!
The Sims 2: FreeTime theme
The Sims 2: FreeTime Loading Screen
Bouncing the Sphere
Tinkering for Toiletries
Candy Maker's Delight
Fa-Fa-Fa
It's A Party
Into The Sun
Britney
Take Out The Trash
Pocket Full Of Sunshine
Busy (Adam Freeland mix)
Sim The Builder (Hyper mix)
The Sims 2: Nightlife Theme (Junkie XL mix)
The Sims 2: Nightlife Theme (Timo Maas mix)
Non-US
Track Region Real-world preview!
La Otra Princessa Brazil, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand
Your Forgiveness Brazil, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, Thailand

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 This feature is carried forward to later Expansion Packs
v · d · eThe Sims series
 The Sims 2
Expansion packs
The Sims 2
Stuff packs
Console games
The Sims 2 (GBA  · Nintendo DS  · PSP  · mobile)  · Pets (GBA  · Nintendo DS  · mobile)  · Castaway (Nintendo DS  · mobile)  · Apartment Pets
Holiday Party Pack  · Store Edition  · Compilation packs


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