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Rating:  - If you are running Win2K, watch out!
Bought the game for my roommate because she is a Simaholic. She loves unleashed, and it seems to offer new interesting new features that people like. There are a few problems though:Don't count on Windows 2000 compatibility. While Amazon says it's for Win2k, EA/Maxis says it's not compatible with Win2k. I installed the game, and it ran fine for a couple months, but suddenly, the game just wouldn't start. Crashed on loading. Followed EA's recommendations for correcting the problem, uninstall and reinstall everything, no luck. Just by chance I checked compatiblity, EA says no, it won't run on Win2k. I had to revert to the hated Win98 on that PC so she could play. Bad, bad move, EA *smack*. This expansion pack is unacceptably hardware intensive. If you don't have some pretty intense hardware, please, take a shower or walk your dog while it loads... it may be ready by the time you are finished. All in all, if you can live without pets, and the "Old Town" addition, you don't need this at all. Oh, be ready to upgrade your hardware.
Rating:  - The best expansion pack yet!
I received The Sims: Unleashed for Christmas and I love it! Unleashed creates a downtown area where the Sims can buy pets such as cats, dogs, iguanas, or fish, or visit gothic shops or buy seeds or vegetables at the market.The pets can be trained to use the bathroom outside or in the litter box and play and interact with your Sim families. The pets will help keep pests away or retrieve the newspaper and you can enter your pet in the Pet Show to win prizes to display in your home. The thing that I was looking forward to most of all is growing your own vegetables. After buying seeds at the market, your Sim can plant and tend to their own vegetable garden. The vegetables can be stored in the pantry and meals can be prepared just from these vegetables, saving your sims some money if you want them to be just vegetarians. The only thing I've noticed is that it seems to take longer for the Sims to become full from the vegetables than from the refrigerated food. This expansion pack also adds in five new career paths and new social interactions. The pets have personalities of their own and respond in their own ways to different things. You also get 30 new residential lots and 5 community lots and over 100 new items. Overall, a great expansion pack. There are a couple of bugs I've noticed, such as floods flooding under objects where Sims can't mop, but the Sims website has the patch fix for this problem.
Rating: - The Sims UNLEASHED
What's been missing in your Sims' family life? Pets of course! For the first time ever, The Sims Unleashed will give your Sims the chance to add a furry friend to the family. Visit the pet store to pick a dog or cat for your Sims. Then run their pet lives and fulfill their pet needs as you increase the fun and social life of the whole Sim household. Housebreak your pets; train them to do tricks; play with them; buy them toys, treats, and accessories; and do your best to keep them from destroying the whole house! Your Sims will have plenty to do while taking care of their pets. An expanded neighborhood with 15 additional residential lots and five community lots featuring parks, cafés, and a vegetable market will give your Sims and their pets a variety of places to meet their neighbors.Add a pet to your Sims family: visit the pet store and adopt a dog, a cat or another pet
Expanded neighborhood with 15 new residential lots and five community lots featuring parks, a cafe, shops and market
Fifty new jobs in five new careers: Animal Care, Culinary, Circus, Fashion, or Education
150 new objects: grow a harvest of vegetables in the Vegetable Garden or get soaked trying to wash your pet in the Pet Bath
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