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Sims 2 enthusiasts are sure delighted with the announcement of the release of its expansion Sims 2 Pets by EA. Sure to be a repeat of a standalone Sims 2 version, there are a few impressions that has trickled in regarding the features of this most expected release.

In this game, you do not get to control the pets directly. As with the previous games, you effectively manipulate human Sim character lives. The Sims 2 - Pets starts off on a different tone putting you on an exciting track. As a player you first scan a community, analyze and decide on how you want to play. You have the option of choosing an empty lot to build from scratch or play with an already existing family-in-progress. You then go on to create your pets with the help of the pet creation system.

After selecting your set of loyal pals from a choice of over forty pure breeds of dogs and cats, you can mess around with them to your heart’s content, including mixing, blending and swapping them. At the onset, of course, you choose the gender. Then you go on to shape the body of the pet by defining the color, fashion, head, name and personality. This should be the most interesting part of the game, especially for a Sim fan.

Traits can be defined with the help of a wide range of options. With the help of a tab called “fashion” you can choose from a range of shoes, bandanas and collars for your pet. Your creation can be morphed in size and shape with the help of the head and body tabs. Personality can be defined with qualities like hyper, lazy, nice, snooty, doofus, smart, chill, aggressive, etc. After you are satisfied with your pet, you actually start playing the game.

Along with the human Sims as in the originals, here you are required to keep track of the needs of your pets too. You will even have to monitor their chewing and scratching traits as ignoring this will lead to a devastation of your flower garden or expensive furniture. PSP version allows you to take your pet shopping to the town square to purchase stuff like toys, food, etc in three prominent shops namely pet emporium, toy store and a bakery.

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From New York to Moscow. That’s pretty damn far. So far, in fact, that Google maps can’t even calculate an optimal travel route. But the incredible distance between the two cities is the same as if all the Sims boxes sold were queued up together in one straight line. Because the Sims have sold over 100 million units, counting all the expansions. Which means that on average every third American or every seventh European would possess a copy of the Sims. At any rate, the series is clearly the most successful game of all time, not even Grand Theft Auto comes close.

EA can of course be thrilled over their success, because, as the New York Times reports, the Sims have brought in around 4 billion dollars, or around 500 million per year. One, not unimportant, reason for the success is that the game is disproportionately beloved by children and women; something most other games cannot begin to contend. On the other hand, the PSP editions, namely Pets and Stranded, have received less success and love. But to be honest, the PSP is simply not the right console for the executing the “real” Sims experience. That’s why we can get even more excited over Sims 3 which has been announced for next year and will allow people to move around their neighbourhood for the first time. So the successor to the 100-million-boxes-from-New York-to-Moscow-game has been secured, which is sure to make many more people happy. Who knows, maybe it will be from New York to Dubai soon.

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