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The Sims 2: FreeTime
The Sims 2 FreeTime
Move your Sims into the close-quarters drama, humor, and excitement of apartment life!
Developer(s) Electronic Arts
Publisher(s) Electronic Arts
Series The Sims
Release date(s) NA February 26, 2008

AUS February 28, 2008

EU February 29, 2008

Genre(s) Social simulation
Mode(s) Single-player
Ratings ESRB: Teen
PEGI: 12+
Input methods Keyboard and mouse
Themes Hobbies
Creature Genie
Neighborhood Desiderata Valley

The Sims 2 FreeTime[1] (Sometimes spelled as The Sims 2: FreeTime, 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

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

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.

New Features

Lifetime Aspiration[2]

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 living throughout their life. Its accumulation depend on the daily aspiration bar. The longer the daily aspiration bar is kept high, the faster the lifetime aspiration bar accumulates. Sims who reach the maximum Lifetime Aspiration will be rewarded Perma-platinum mood.

Lifetime Aspiration Benefit

The higher the lifetime aspiration bar a Sim has, the more aspiration benefits he/she can spend.

  1. Spelled as The Sims 2 FreeTime ingame and on EA's website.
  2. This feature is carried forward to later Expansion Pack