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The Sims 2: Seasons
The Sims 2 Seasons
Enjoy All Four Seasons with Your Sims!
Developer(s) Electronic Arts
Publisher(s) Electronic Arts
Series The Sims
Release date(s) NA March 1, 2007

PAL March 2007

Genre(s) Social simulation
Mode(s) Single-player
Ratings ESRB: Teen
ACB: M
PEGI: 12+
Input methods Keyboard and mouse
Themes Weather
Creature PlantSim
Neighborhood Riverblossom Hills

The Sims 2: Seasons[1] (Sometimes spelled as The Sims 2: Seasons, TS2 S or simply Seasons) is the fifth expansion pack in The Sims 2. The following flyer promoting the expansion pack shipped with The Sims 2: Pets. It followed the same route set by its predecessors; it contains more than 125 new items and more intricate gameplay options. The game was released March 1st 2007 for North America and March 2nd 2007 for Europe.

Description

Head outdoors for year-round fun with your Sims! New seasonal activities await your Sims including snowball fights, chasing fireflies, jumping in leaf piles, and more. Strengthen family ties in Winter, let romance bloom in Spring, deepen the bonds of friendship in Summer, or fast-track your career in Fall. Your Sims can now explore new careers and master new talents throughout the year, but beware freezing, heatstroke, sneezing, and other unexpected weather effects! Dress your Sims appropriately or face the consequences!

Riverblossom Hills

Main article: Riverblossom Hills

Riverblossom Hills is a new neighborhood shipped with The Sims 2: Seasons. Its main theme is a countryside-theme, where most houses are decorated with country theme and lots of them have gardening area. This little town also has unique seasonal progression, which is Winter, Winter, Spring, and Fall, with no Summer. The neighborhood features a few community lot, one of which contains an ice skating rink.

New Features

Promotion flyer

Seasons

Main article: Weather

Season is now the part of gameplay. Seasons can be set individually for each neighborhood from Season Chooser. The Season Chooser determines what seasons is allowed to be present in the neighborhood. There are 4 seasons; Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. Each season has its own benefit and uniqueness, nourishing the gameplay and storyline.

Weather

Weather adds more realism as an occurrence of precipitation. Weather also determines whether the outdoor is cool, warm, too hot, or too cold. The precipitation also occurs unpredictably, making every day is not the same day. Is it safe enough to play when there's no hail outside, or are the crops not overwatered by the recent rainstorms; all is controlled by the weather. Sims can check the weather forecasting from TV or newspaper. When the weather is too cold, Sims wear new type of clothes, Winterwear.

Temperature

There are 2 kinds of temperature; Sims' internal temperature and outdoor temperature. The outdoor temperature controls how fast Sims' internal temperature will change whether they are doing interactions or not. Unlike outdoor temperature, Sim internal temperature is different from each Sim. Sims who are too cold from playing snow can get freezing and Sims who are too hot from drinking hot chocolate in the middle of the Summer can get heatstroke.

Gardening

Sims can now do real gardening. Fertilize plots, plant crops, water plants, tend garden, and finally, harvest the fruit. Gardening no longer only pulling the weeds and cutting the hedges. Gardening is also a way to earn money. As a reward of the hard work, Sims may join the Garden Club and earn the benefits. Harvested fruit can also be sold out or made juices.

Fishing

With Seasons, ponds are now stocked with fish. Sims can fish if the pond is big and deep enough, and the slope isn't too steep. Sims also gain Fishing Talent Badge when they fish long enough. Fish can be cooked, grilled, stocked in the fridge, or hung on the wall.

PlantSim

Main article: PlantSim

The new life state introduced in the Expansion Pack is PlantSim. PlantSim is half-Sim and half-plant. As PlantSims, Sims require water, sunlight, and love as their needs. PlantSim is a gardening master, making them acquire Gold Gardening Badge. They can talk to plants, respectively. PlantSim can spawn spore baby instead of being pregnant and give birth a normal baby. Spawned PlantBaby will eventually grow up into PlantSim.

New Additions

Minor Features

  • Tree leaves will fall on Autumn and needs to be raked. Conifers and cacti won't have falling leaves.
  • Set hairstyle per outfit[2]. Sims can now set different hairstyles each for everyday outfit through winterwear.
  • Pets don't have internal temperature.
  • Stackable inventory[2]. Inventory no longer needs to be scrolled all the way back just to find an apple. With this, same objects will be stacked in the inventory to save the space.

New Build Mode Additions

  • Roof

Roof is now a crucial element as part of weather and climate changes. From now, "Indoor Space" is defined not only a room covered by walls, but there also must be roof. Being in a closed indoor will keep Sims away from cold temperature. Roof keeps the elements out, so rain and snow won't get inside house.

  • Roof Objects[2]

Any one-tile objects can now be placed on the roof. Anything; sculptures, chairs, flamingos, end tables, and even arcade machines. With this, decorative roof objects such as weather vane, lightning rod, and solar screen[TS2:MGS] can make a nice additions to the roof.

New Objects

New Interactions

Sim-based
Object-based
  • Bug catching.
  • Sims can pay all bills without having to look for them first. This is useful when the bills are placed somewhere uncharted.[2]
  • Sims can store leftovers to the fridge so they wouldn't waste the food.[2]
  • There are many interactions that can be done with snow, including making snowmen, snow angles, snowball fights, and so on.
  • Toddlers and dogs can eat snow.
  • Cat can chase butterflies.

Gallery

Video

<videogallery> Video:The Sims™ 2 Seasons Official Trailer|The Sims™ 2 Seasons Official Trailer Video:Lily Allen - Smile (in Simlish) - using Sims 2 Seasons|Lily Allen - Smile (The Sims 2 Season) </videogallery>

External Links

Reference

  1. ↑ Spelled as The Sims 2 Seasons ingame and on EA's website.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 This feature is carried forward to later Expansion Pack.
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