Apartment Life is most similar to The Sims 2’s first expansion pack, University. In University, Sim teens can add an extra phase of life – young adult – by attending college. Living in an apartment building in Apartment Life is a lot like living in the dormitories in University – only as an adult, with the ability to have children.
Just like non-playing character (NPC) dormmates in University, your Sim family may have up to three other families living on the same lot in inaccessible portions of the building. How does this benefit you in any way? First, instead of randomly generated NPCs, you can populate the apartment building with your own playable families. Further, if your Sims are concerned with popularity, having other Sims around for interaction really helps a decaying social meter. With the new reputation meter in Apartment Life, however, social interaction matters to everyone – not just socially minded Popularity Sims.
Most of you are probably enjoying the pack, but I’m still left without it. It looks to be a great expansion, no doubt at that. I’m just to cheap to purchase it for $30. I still need to pick up Ikea Stuff as well. But I’m holding off until Toys R Us has the Sim games on clearance for half off, then I’ll make my steal 🙂
I can just imagine pirates laughing their asses off reading what you wrote. They are probably bored and done with the game by now, lol. I bought mine the first day it was released. Normally I buy my copy of any Sims game the first week. I don’t have the patient you have. 🙂
And I just got the iPod Touch today for $229 with 8 GB capacity. It’s freaking awesome! It has Internet and games and everything! I am just trying to figure out what game I want. That Spore Origins seems to be one of the only ones I find interesting, the rest all suck and seem to be cheap and corny games. Are there any Sims games for the Touch or are they just for the Nano/Classic?
Nice 🙂 Man if I needed a phone and could foot the bill, iPhone would be my first choice. Congrats on your iPod Touch. Sad to say, there are no Sim games available for that iPod, but it’s EA so you know there are a few in the work. The current games from EA can be found on this page: http://www.eamobile.com/Web/ipod-game/IpodReskinView
One of my fears with a cell phone/iPhone/iPod is the fact that they are so tiny I’d probably end up losing it in a week! I’m oldschool…give me one of those 80’s cell phones LOL