The developers behind the game have done an excellent job with their first expansion for The Sims 2. They already had a brilliant game to begin with, and the aspects they have added with University only work to increase that brilliance.
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GameSpy
Ah, college! Those four perfect years between being an angry teenager and a disappointed adult. Years where you let slip the surly bonds of your parents and discover a social life with no curfew and an unimaginable workload that you blow off to play
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Armchair Empire
While there’s plenty of new items that fit into the consumer demographics of the college-age Sims such as mp3 players and cell phones, and chances to experience full-blown Animal House-style college days, it’s hard to take advantage of those chances
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Game Vortex
One of the many additions to The Sims 2 was aging. As the game progressed, your Sim would get older. However, a major part of life was missing. Sims went from adolescence into full-blown adulthood. With The Sims 2: University, you can now send your Sims
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They grow up so fast, don’t they? First you’re clapping and cooing over their cribs when they’re infants and then they’re tying their shoes on their own. Next thing you know they become teenagers ready to go off to college
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The expansion neatly captures the frenzied pace of college, the numerous things you can discover and do, the strange secrets every campus is rumored to have, and of course, streaking.
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music is definitely one of the things that impressed me most in this expansion. There are more theme tunes now instead of always the same one and they are well done also; upbeat and in sync with the University theme.
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my MP3 player. As usual, the accompanying animations for these new objects are awesome. This is the only game I know of where zooming in and sitting back and watching is just as entertaining as actually playing. The Sims 2 University preaches to the conv
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While some features reflect the students' life accurately, the general atmosphere makes the experience rather childish and not very varied, as there are simply not enough elements from the college life.
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Sims get schooled in this first expansion pack for the best-selling social development sequel. The Sims 2: University adds a new "Young Adult" life stage for Sims 2 characters, and a new "College Town" environment tailored to all their young adult fears
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