The Sims 2: FreeTime

The Sims 2: FreeTime Developer(s) EA Games (The Sims Division) Platform(s) Windows Release date(s) February 27, 2008 Themes Hobbies Creature Genie Neighborhood Desiderata Valley Patch · Cheats

The Sims 2: FreeTime is the seventh expansion pack for The Sims 2.

Official description

"Now your Sims can enjoy hobbies! Your Sims will have fun taking up a variety of creative, intellectual, or active leisure-time pursuits. They can even meet Sims that share their interests and expand their social relationships. Develop your Sims' skills while they pursue their true pastime passions. Will your Sims stumble reaching for new goals or find a new sense of fulfillment?"

Features

• Sims now have a wide range of new activity types, which are divided into ten groups - Cuisine, Film and Literature, Games, Tinkering, Science, Arts and Crafts, Sports, Nature, Fitness and Music and Dance.
• Completing hobbies offers lifetime rewards. As Sims master activities they will unlock new aspirations, earn rewards, and uncover secret lots.

• Once Sims build up their skills, they can sell their arts and crafts or enter them into competitions for dance, food, and video game contests.

• There will be a new 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 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.

• New group activities let Sims spend time with family and friends. There are new special activities for kids and toddlers.

• 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.

• The 'Grilled Cheese' aspiration is unlockable and selectable, even if Nightlife isn't installed.

• 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'.

• There are five new careers with their respective rewards - Oceanography (Koi Pond), Entertainment ("Starstruck" Personal Fame Stars), Architecture (Drafting Table), Dance (Better Barre) and Intelligence (Audio Augmenter Earpiece).

• A new neighborhood, Desiderata Valley, is included.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Life skill: Parenting

• Two pre-made, fully furnished houses are included in the Lots and Houses bin (Players with Nightlife or a download which allows cars without Nightlife should note that one, the "Bohemian Bungalow," does not have room for a driveway).

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 Collecting
• Dance, Cooking and Video Game competitions
• Serve food platters
• Tinker
• Participate in a Book Club
• Watch movies on TV

Gallery

• Ballet dancing

  Ballet dancing