Product Description

The addition of a new friend is guaranteed to enrich the daily lives of your Sims! Not only will players have the opportunity to choose from a variety of existing breeds, and hot designer mixes, but they`ll also be able to personally design their new friend with the Create-a-Pet feature. The ability to customise gives fans the opportunity to create their ideal pet by choosing their body shape, unique markings, even their pet`s personalities! With so many different animals to choose from, there`s no telling what unpredictable experiences could occur!

Players will also be able to teach their pet new tricks, take them for a romp in the park, outfit them with new pet accessories and even give them a job! As in real life, your Sims` pet will require care and training. A neglected cat with an urge to scratch might claw up your new couch if you aren`t careful, and leaving your dog unattended near a freshly planted flower bed probably isn`t wise!
 

• Sims Have New Friends - Pets! Sims can share their lives with their new pets and add more fun to the Sims experience. From dogs, cats, caged animals and more, your Sims share new friends to experience life`s precious moments. With so many different animals to choose from, there`s no telling what unpredictable experiences could occur!
• Create-A-Pet: Choose from dozens of dog and cat breeds or customize features for a one-of-a-kind pet. You can even modify your pet`s body shape by choosing from specific colours and unique markings. Don`t like the way they act? Change their personality from smart and sweet to silly and sloppy anyone can create their ideal animal friend in The Sims 2 Pets.
  "Sit, Spike, Site: Your Sims can encourage and discipline pets, training them to shake, roll over, play dead, and more. Unruly pets might dig in the yard, claw the sofa, or topple the trash. Thankfully, a little training can go a long way.
• Classic

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1070 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2006-10-27
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review:
In a nutshell:
The PC and console worlds combine thanks to man’s best friend and a mouse’s greatest enemy. Create, pamper and train your favoured furry companions in the latest The Sims 2 expansion.

The lowdown:
After years of trying to create less complex, mini-game orientated spin-offs it seems EA are now keen to see the PC and console The Sims games converge. This new iteration is an expansion pack on the PC but a full price, stand alone game on the consoles. As the name subtly hints the main addition to the game this time round is a number of four-legged friends, plus fish and birds (although it’s really cats and dogs that get most of the attention). You can also create your own personalised pet via a complex customisation tool that’s just as versatile as the one for humans and on the PC version you can even send your four-legged friend to work!

Most exciting moment:
On the PC this is a perfectly welcome but very narrow expansion. However the full price console version is actually a considerable improvement on the original with an easier-to-use interface, better artificial intelligence and even reduced loading times.

Since you ask:
The next PC expansion pack is called In Season and seems to be roughly analogous to The Sims expansion On Holiday, in that it’ll focus on exterior objects and locations. It’s not yet clear whether there’ll be a console version.

The bottom line:
Finally, The Sims is made to work on consoles!-HARRISON DENT

Manufacturer's Description
From scampering pooches to cuddly kittens, now you can add a new furry friend to your Sims' lives. Choose from popular dog and cat breeds like Golden Retrievers, German Shepherds, Persians, and Siamese or customize their appearance and personality to create a unique pet for your Sim to raise as one of the family. Your Sims will enjoy teaching their pets tricks, taking them to the park, caring for them, and outfitting them with new accessories. But keep one thing in mind Sims' pets have minds of their own, so be sure to expect the unexpected!

On Nintendo DS as the town vet of Whiskerton, nestled in the hills of Paw Valley, you'll have a chance to heal, train and care for a wide variety of local dogs and cats.

Customer Reviews

Sims 2 Pets DS
Very disapointing, you can only go in your house or to a deserted park.No town to visit or people to meet, only clients. I have looked forward to this thinking it would be like Urbz or Sims In The City, but it's not.I can't wait for PSP version where you can visit town and meet people.

Nintendo DS Sims 2 pets review
I purchased this game with hope that it would be a mixture of the DS under the knife operation game, a bit of Nintendogs and a bit of the sims flare.

How wrong can you be!

The graphics are terrible. Its nothing like the quality you get with Nintendogs, everything is poorly done and it looks like EA games haven't even attempted to try. You can either be a male vet or female with about 3 faces and 3 hair do's and then a couple of outfits... nothing like the amount of options you get in the PC games. The characters face is very strange and looks like they have tried to make it realistic but its all gone terribly wrong.

The pets you can choose are a cat or a dog! These are cute but once you get them in your surgery you can't do an much with them until they get sick. I lasted about 30 mins trying the game and then took it back the next day and bought the PC version.

Now thats briliant and the graphics are amazing... don't buy this game unless you want to be really disappointed.

Buy the PC version its brilliant and the animals do so many things to amuse you and act just like real pets.

What a let down!
Im a huge sims fan owning every single game ever released, and once i got my DS i figured, genious! I can keep my addiction intact when away from my PC! But no! This game is a joke! Its so limited its disgraceful. Especially after playin the PC versions. There is no opportunity to let your pets make mischeif because you cant even let them out into your house! You can barely customise them, and the training took me all of 5 minutes to complete! The house you start with is so small with no room for improvement meaning you can only care for 3 pets at a time, limiting your income as the vet, and therefor raising enough money to move to a different house takes FOREVER!
Im realy upset that so many retailers are selling this game as part of a deal with the DS. So many people are going to be let down just like I was, when they realise their first and only game they get with it, keeps them entertained for an hour at the most.
Both the retailers and EA should be ashamed.