Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #192 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2006-10-20
• Platform: Windows XP

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
Get your paws on The Sims 2 Pets Expansion Pack! From scampering puppies to cuddly kittens, add a new furry or feathered friend to your Sims' lives. Choose from dozens of the most popular dog and cat breeds like Dalmatians or the American Shorthair. Or create a unique cat or dog by modifying their body shape and facial features, choosing specific colours and markings, and more. Decide on a personality - smart, sweet, silly, or sloppy.

Your Sims can teach their pets tricks, take them for a romp in the park, and countless other things as they share their lives with their pets. But keep one thing in mind - your Sims' pets have minds of their own. Don't be surprised if cats scratch the sofa, dogs dig holes in the garden, pets sleep on your Sims' bed, or worse. Expect the unexpected.

Key Features:

Sims Have Pets
Your Sims can share a lifetime with their pets. Sims can adopt dogs, cats, birds, and more.

Create-a-Pet
Choose from dozens of dog and cat breeds, or customise features for a unique pet and then pick their personalities.

Pets Have Genetics
Cross different breeds to create designer pets or make new ones and register them to appear in Create-A-Pet as a unique pedigree.

Sit, Spike, Sit
Your Sims can encourage and discipline pets, training them to shake, play dead, and more. Unruly pets might dig in the yard, claw the sofa, topple the trash, or surprise their Sims in other ways, but Sims can change their pets' ways with the right training.

Pets Have Careers
Now your Sims aren't the only ones bringing home the bacon! Skilled pets can earn a living from three career tracks - Show Business, Security, and service - and work their way up through five job levels.

Friends for a Lifetime
Your Sims' pets are members of the family and share all of life's great moments whether it's kids training puppies, teens playing fetch in the park, adults watching TV with their cats, or elders enjoying a sunny day in park with their long-time companion.

Customer Reviews

A Great Game
The Sims 2 Pets is an excellent game. You can create your very own cats and dogs to live with your sims - it's brilliant.

Sims 2 pets. one of the best add ons ever
when i bought the sims 2 pets i didn't think that it would be anyhere near as good asa the sims 2 unleashed. how wrong was I? it adds a completely new side to the sims as the flexibility with chosing pets is splendid. i had no idea over how many breeds you could choose and you can even create your own. you can also get loads of new doors, floors etc and there are loads of unlockables to gain throughout. you can also train your pets and give them coreerers of their own and even scold or praise them.
it can be a little difficult to get the hang of but after a while it is easy. i count it as money well spent. also, breeding your pets has never been so easy and the puppies and kittens are quite adorable. in my opinion it is well worth buying, way better than university.

Same sims, new friends, new adventures
I've always been a fan of the Sims games and I was really excited to get this game and get playing!
I love this game! It is so much fun, choosing or making your own furry friends.
The graphics are still of te same standard, which is about average for a game of this kind and the pets allow for new products to buy and new adventures with your new family members.
Your pets can have puppies or kittens, you can adopt or give your pets up for adoption if your household gets too big.
Overall, a highly enjoyable game, it comes highly recommended!
Happy gaming :)