Product Description

• Includes
• The Sims 2 - Create unique Sims with personalities and life goals. Fulfill their dreams and build their ultimate home as you design their world.
• The Sims 2: Nightlife Expansion Pack - Send your Sims on an epic night out. Hit the downtown hot spots, play the dating game with your Sims, and live the Pleasure Life Aspiration.
• The Sims 2: Celebration Stuff Pack - Host the social event of the season. Must-have stuff to throw the ultimate weddings, birthday parties, and fiestas for your Sims.

Enjoy all the fun and creativity of The Sims 2 in The Sims 2: Double Deluxe. Create your own houses, neighbourhoods, Sims, and family dynasties - then watch it all come to life! Will your Sims experience the rewards of a life well lived? Or will you choose to neglect their needs, indulge their fears, and see what happens? As your Sims' family grows, you'll see them pass on genes from one generation to the next. The Sims 2: Double Deluxe also contains The Sims 2: Nightlife Expansion Pack, The Sims 2: Celebration Stuff Pack and a bonus DVD.

Take your Sims downtown in their new cars to all the after-dark hot spots! Whether they're dancing 'til dawn on a guys' night out, romancing that special someone by candlelight, or throwing strikes at the bowling alley, it will be a night to remember.

Then host the social event of the season with The Sims 2: Celebration Stuff Pack. Host an elegant wedding, decorate their house and garden to throw the ultimate fiesta, or throw the biggest birthday bash with all-new items including birthday cakes, party balloons, and more!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #628 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2008-04-25
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Platform: Windows XP

Customer Reviews

excellent game, endless fun
The first thing I noticed about this game is the great improvement over the original Sims. The pack is awesome, it has the Nightlife, and the Celebration Stuff Expansions. They really add a lot to the game. Visually the game is brilliant, very captivating, and you can spent hours customizing it to look just like you imagine it. You start off by choosing your neighborhood, and here you have three ready ones, or you can make your own from scratch. Then you can start making your own sim, you can choose everything, from hear color, to jaw width, skin tone, makeup, absolutely everything. This is a really fun part, and probably the most enjoyable part of starting the game. Then you start building a house for your beloved sim. I am not so great at making houses, so I just chose a very basic one, and fiddled around with the options. The menu is laid out very well, I found it quite easy to navigate, choose wall types, for instance, and what kind of wallpaper I like, etc. I found it a bit confusing when it comes to furniture and rooms, cause they are a bit mixed up, but I think you can just put anything you fancy anywhere really.
Then you start taking care of your Sim, meeting goals, and needs like sleeping, and eating, and showering, etc. These keep your Sim happy, and then you have to start looking for the aspiration meter and fill that up in the best way possible.
I did not very much enjoy the fact that there is a lot to do, but time passes really quickly which is a shame really, if you get a job for instance, that is half a day gone, then the struggle is to try and meet all these basic needs and trying to fill the aspiration meter gets very tricky. Cause if you need to meet the hunger, hygiene, and comfort needs, that would alone take the rest of the day. So that makes it a bit repetitive, and would not leave you time to do some real fun stuff with the Sim. The expansion packs are brilliant, especially the nightlife one, you can take your sim, (you could buy a car for it), and go to a nightclub, have some fun.
Really brilliant game, you can spend hours one it, and this is just this version, not to mention the other expansion packs available. I would recommend that you start off with this one, even if you have never played the Sims, this will get you hooked, and if you get bored of it, which I doubt, you can install other expansion packs. Excellent game, and real fun.

Special Features
I recently purchased this item and am very pleased with it. There is a lot you can do and certainly more items and features. It includes Sims Nightlife which means VAMPIRE SIMS! I know right, sounds cool (:
You can become a vampire, bite other sims and fly around the place as a bat.
Be sure not to venture outside in the daylight - you will perish.

Hours of fun!
My 24 year old daughter has not spoken to anyone since she received this for Christmas! I think she is an addict.