Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9152 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Aspyr
• Released on: 2006-09-01
• Platform: Mac OS X
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review:

In a nutshell:
Help your Sims start their own business by buying a plot of land or working from home. From restaurants to toy shops and everything in between your little computer people can now build a business empire to make Alan Sugar proud.

The lowdown:
Playing The Sims 2 as a business tycoon game may seem odd but this is a surprisingly fun and accessible expansion. Although you can stay at home and create items to sell most businesses are run from a new shopping centre area, which you can also visit separately. To run a shop you buy objects as normal and then display and price them individually or in bulk for your store. Running a restaurant or other service is more a case of creating the right mood with furniture and staff. You can hire and fire employees as you want but it’s worth being as hands on as you can because you gain a wide range of new skills from the work you do.

Most exciting moment:
Starting with a lemonade stand and building up your business empire until you can afford to buy any plot of land in town.

Since you ask:
As well as all the business tycoon elements the game also features 125 new items, including display cases, workbenches, cash registers and more.

The bottom line:
Another surprisingly generous and innovative expansion pack.
HARRISON DENT

Manufacturer's Description
Now your Sims can create their own businesses. They can design their own clothing boutique, beauty salon, fl orist, high-end electronics shop, bustling restaurant chain, or virtually any other type of business. Hire your staff as the business grows and put talented Sims to work making toys, running the register, crafting floral bouqets, giving sales pitches, or manufacturing robots. But watch out for slacker employees and be prepared to fi re them on the spot. From clever tinkerer to master craftsman, develop your Sims talents to best suit your business needs. Will they build a thriving business empire or become eccentric entrepreneurs designing the next big thing?

Customer Reviews

Fun but gets boring very quickly
This expansion pack allows you to set up your business. You can use any of the objects available to buy to sell in your business. You can even set up your own leisure centre charging people by the hour.
There is only so much you can do though, every time a customer gets happy you recieve a customer loyalty star, when you recieve five stars, you get a business upgrade. There arent that many upgrades though only 25. Once you recieve all of them theres not much else for you to do.

GREAT GAME
I BOUGHT THIS GAME FOR MY PARTNER FOR XMAS LAST YEAR, HE LOVES IT, HE SAYS THE GRAPHICS ARE JUST FAB, HE SPENDS A LOT OF TIME ON COMPUTER PLAYING THIS GAME, I HAVE NOT PLAYED IT YET, AS HE IS ALWAYS PLAYING WITH IT!, WOULD RECCOMEND IT FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS THEIR PARTNER OUT OF THE WAY AND PLAYING WITH THE GAME