The Sims 2 (console): Difference between revisions

'''The Sims 2''' is the fourth title in ''[[The Sims (series)|The Sims]]'' console series. ''The Sims 2'' was released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance, PSP, and mobile phones in the fourth quarter of 2005. The console versions include a story and gameplay similar to previous versions of the game, while the DS, PSP, and GBA contain their own storylines.

This game lets you control the Sims directly rather than through point and click movement, which had mixed reactions from fans. The game also carries many things over from [[The Sims 2]] on PC, likesuch as [[wants]], but does not carry onover the aging aspect.

Several aesthetic improvements were made, likesuch as being able to customize your SimsSim's meal.

Bands such as Paramore provided simlishSimlish versions of their songs for the game.

==GamePlayGameplay==

There are 12 variousdifferent locations to whichthat Sims may travel to throughout the course of the game. In order to unlock a new location, you need tomust complete Golden Wants (basically, a Want that is a mission). If you are playing two2-player, only player 1 has Golden Wants. As a Sim advances through the game, new locations will become available. There are eight main and four small locations in ''Story'' Mode and four others in ''Free Play'' Mode. [[File:Example_of_a_Golden_Want.jpg|thumb|The first Golden Want player 1 has in Story Mode.]]

There are a variety of different ''[[List of Sims from The Sims 2 (console)|characters]]'' in different ''[[lot]]s''. Some are NPCs and some are playable. Characters have their own personalities, aspirations, goals and fears. [[Don Lothario]], [[Dina Caliente]], [[Nina Caliente]], [[Patrizio Monty]], [[Isabella Monty|Isabelle Monty]], and [[Goopy GilsCarbo]] all appearedappear as characters in certain locations.

The game features music performed by Paramore, Ryan Ferguson, Trivium, and more recording artists (all songs recorded in the Sims language "[[Simlish]]"). The Humble Brothers donated heavily to the game.

The Nintendo DS version of ''The Sims 2'' begins with the player's car breaking down in [[Strangetown]]. Upon arrival, an anonymous donor grants the player the deed to a hotel which can be operated and customized at the player's discretion.

Your job is to bring life backing into Strangetown by encouraging people to come to your hotel, you do this by upgrading it and making your guests happy. There are several ways in which you can make Strangetown a nice place to warm up in., Butbut it is up to you to find it by making other simsSims happy, putingputting goons in jail, vanquishing aliens, shutting down robots, and doing missions for others.

The player's Sim is working for [[Daddy Bigbucks]]. His most recent scheme to make money happens to be a TV show, with the player being the main character. The player has to complete aspects of the plot in different missions, and gain bonus points at the end of each mission for talking to people badly, nicely, etc., and in the end they even offer the player to choose the people in the town or the player's Sim.

The game begins with the player's character driving through the Strangetown desert, presumably 'Road to Nowhere' in their car, when suddenly a plumbbob (the marker and logo of the Sims game)[[PlumbBob]] flies towards the player and causes them to lose control and damage their car. Fortunately, the player finds a gas station. The player takes their car into the garage. At that point the player takes control. The player is introduced to a vehicle mechanic named Oscar, who after a brief tutorial in teaching the player how to talk to NPC Sims, informs the player their car will only take a short while to fix.

It is finally known that the Green Diamond appearing throughout the game is a mind-controlling device controlled by an "outside force" (the player). The main antagonist also realize that the protagonist is really controlled by another outside force, just like playing a game. It is unknown if the Green Diamond's role applies to the other Sims games. But it may be possible since when the player changes the active simSim, the other one has free will.

There are also several changes from the PC version; Sadly,* Sims can no longer have babies nor age, but are only adults. Sims can also become ghosts and are controllable and must get enough points to become a regular Sim.

* There is an underwater mansion called "Bio Dome".

* There is a glitch where a simSim can take the shape asof another. For example, if you have Felicity Usher as your partner living on a lot, enter the socialSocial mode and kick her out. Go to another location where you had Felicity and make sure you have Ossie Madison as your current partner. Then, talk to "Felicity" and look on the thumbnail picture and notice that it has Ossie instead of Felicity You can also notice that "Felicity" walks, and talks similar to a male Sim.

* There is also another known glitch where a Sim can have the phone stuck in their hands. WhenTo youdo this, cancel the action "Call..." while the simSim is picking up the phone this will happen. This may sound fun at first, but then the telephone will be stuck forever in their hands and there is no way you can make your Sim's hands normal again.