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3 of 8 customers found the following review helpful:
 When Sims get better an better and...., 2006-11-09
Maxis has always done good games, but adding the university life to the sims was one of the best ideas they had. 2 thumbs up!!!
14 of 19 customers found the following review helpful:
Fun stuff, 2006-11-09
The University expansion pack is fun. You get to pick majors for your Sims, but you have to make sure that they do their term papers and study or else they get kicked out of college. There are also interesting scholarships that your Sim can qualify for, like one for alien abductees. I would recommend that you only try playing a couple of Sims at a time or else you will probably end up getting some of your Sims expelled due to Academic Probation.
4 of 18 customers found the following review helpful:
 hmmmmm, 2006-11-02
I purchased sims 2 nearly a year ago, but ignored all the expansion packs because, i felt i was satisfied building houses, raising a family, trying to get mi kids in private school etc(all the neat stuff SIMS 2 has to offer). But then i thought, why not just get an expansion pack and enjoy SIMS2 in a whole different way...so I purchased Sims university. (This is hard for me to say cause I love SIMS 2 soooo but....) having sims university was a HUGE let down. First of all, I think they should have given more career choices relating to an individual's major. Take for example as a lit major, one of my career choices is a CRIMINAL...why would I want to go to college to be a CRIMINAL!!!
For Real I didnot enjoy Sims University...I should have waited for Sims pets (being an animal lover and all). Surprisngly I gave this expansion pack a 3....only because it is a SIMS.
2 of 24 customers found the following review helpful:
To be honest it was a little boring , 2006-10-24
This is Natasha Enya Luchow,it looked so fun but it wasn't what I was expecting.It was only college life.It wasn't a "GIVE ME MORE" game,it was a "WHAT A SNORE" game.
It was ok.
19 of 21 customers found the following review helpful:
Some good, some tedious, 2006-10-03
This expansion adds some good things, like extra aspiration slots and multiple aspiration locks, some good new items and social interactions (Hang Out in particular is nice so that you don't have to babysit your sims' chatting).
The college part, however, is tedious. It's optional, of course, but your sims do get some reward for going - the extra aspiration slots are available only to college graduates, as are the new jobs. The thing about it is that, in the non-university portion of the game, a day of sim time is roughly equal to about a year of a sim's life (baby phase is about 2 days, toddler about 4, child about 8, teen about 14, adult about 27, and elder [unfortunately] lasts somewhere between 30 and 33 days). While the correlation between sim days and years is not exact, it's close enough.
The university part, however, is eight semesters, each weighing in at 3 sim days, plus an optional 3 days after graduation before you have to leave campus. Using the 1 day = 1 year idea, your sims go to college for somewhere between 24 and 27 years!! The problem is that Maxis chose to focus way in on a small portion of the sims' lives, where they really aren't doing very much besides studying.
I don't play the Sims 2 regularly, but when I do play it I usually start out sending a few sims to college and then progressively getting more and more sick of how much that portion of the game takes over. I either just stop sending my sims to college or I use a cheat object to get things over with in a more timely fashion. This expansion would have been far more tolerable if they had not tried to break it down into four years with two semesters each. College should only go for about one quarter to one half the time that it actually takes, and unfortunately, that makes it very boring after you send a couple sims there, especially if you have any interest in keeping the various sims in your neighborhoods aging at a somewhat realistic pace relative to each other.
One other point of note is that the dorms put a serious performance burden on the game. My normal households run pretty smoothly, but the dorms are really choppy, probably because there are usually some 12-15 sims in them at any given time.
Bottom line: the items and interactions that come with this expansion pack do make it somewhat worthwhile, but the University portion itself was not thought out very well. It tends to bog down gameplay more than help it, unfortunately.
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