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Sims 2 to Start Shipping Soon

Sims 2 to Start Shipping Soon

by , 3:00 PM EDT, May 27th, 2005

Aspyr Media on Friday announced that The Sims 2 has reached Gold Master status and will start shipping soon. The publisher said it will provide an exact shipping date next week. Aspyr licensed the title from Electronic Arts, which has published the game for the PC as well as consoles.

This sequel to the best-selling computer game in history greatly expands on the original's premise. Now players can follow their Sims from the cradle to the grave, choosing one of five aspirations to work toward and monitoring the characters' wants and fears. The Sims also now feature digital DNA that they pass on to their offspring, with the possibility of playing through almost limitless generations of the digital people.

The Sims 2 also offers improved house-building functions, new neighborhoods already populated by pre-made characters and the ability to import towns from Sim City 4, another EA game released for the Mac by Aspyr. Gamers can also now capture in-game footage with The Sims 2's virtual camera and use editing software, such as iMovie, to create their own stories.

The Sims 2 is rated "T" for "Teen" and is available now for pre-order at US$49.99. System requirements call for Mac OS X v10.3.8 or higher, a G4 or G5 1.2GHz processor, 256MB RAM, 3GB free hard drive space, a DVD drive and a 32MB video card.


As in the first game, not all Sims like each other

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Close Name:Guest
Subject: And it will be full of bugs

Aspyr is notorius for not updating their software. Dont expect version l.0 to run, if at all, smoothly. And if you have a strange config of PCI, USB, FW devices, kiss the compatibility of your machine goodbye.

F>UCK YOU ASPYR SUCK MY HAIR BALLS!

Close Name:Guest
Subject: price

i know it takes time to port a game but why charge full retail on an old game?

Close Name:Dean Lewis Posts: 162 Joined: 29 Sep 2001
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Guest wrote:
i know it takes time to port a game but why charge full retail on an old game?


1. It's not old to Mac users.

2. Aspyr paid for the privilege of bringing this game to us. The price they paid was independent of PC game prices and profits. Aspyr has to set their own price and recoup their own costs, from the cost of getting the rights to port it to the porting costs themselves.

Close Name:Guest
Subject: G4 G5

Will it work on my G3 at all???? The Sims 1 worked on my G2 but it said it needed a G3.

Close Name:Intruder -   TMO Mac Specialist Posts: 3149 Joined: 07 Jul 2004
Subject: Re: G4 G5

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Anonymous wrote:
Will it work on my G3 at all???? The Sims 1 worked on my G2 but it said it needed a G3.


G2?

Close Name:Guest
Subject: shipping

will my sims 2 for Mac arrive earlier than it hits stores (june 17)? Please reply at transylvanian_patootie@yahoo.com
thanks

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