Reward your Sims with a variety of
fun, new activities!
Now your Sims can rediscover the joys of
leisure time! Awaken your Sims' true passions in life as they
discover and excel at all-new activities. Whether they're
tossing a football with the family, practicing ballet, restoring
cars with friends, or building train sets, your Sims now have
more ways to build skills, enhance friendships, and make their
lives more successful. Craft new, unique items for your Sims to
use in their daily lives including clothing, pottery, and more.
Your Sims will even unlock secret rewards by mastering their
hobbies and advancing all-new careers. Explore a wide variety of
new hobbies that will change your Sims' lives!
Features:
Discover your Sims' passion from a wide
range of new activity types, from sports to science to arts
and crafts. All-new hobbies include basketball, soccer,
restoring cars, ballet, even searching for stars and
planets!
Hobbies offer lifetime rewards. As your
Sims master new activities they'll unlock aspirations, earn
rewards, and uncover secret lots.
Once your Sims build up their skills,
they can sell their arts and crafts or see how they stack up
against the competition by entering dance, food, and video
game contests!
All-new group activities are a great
way for Sims to spend time with family and friends. There
are even special activities for kids and toddlers, including
an activity table for drawing and playing with blocks!
Hobbies can be full of unexpected
moments, especially for Sims with low skill levels. Your
newbie Sim might sew a bear with one eye, make a lopsided
jar on the pottery wheel, get poison ivy while hiking, or
who knows what?!
While some of the other expansion pack titles, to me, could
be considered optional, FreeTime is so rich with content and
gameplay features that I rate it right up there with Seasons
as one of my must-have expansion pack titles.
Overall, from its equal treatment of Sims in different
stages of life to its smooth integration with all previous
expansion packs, FreeTime is very well-rounded and better
thought-out than many of the previous expansions. The
addition of free-time activities and hobby-related objects
alone may not appeal to everyone, but the clean
implementation of synergy among expansion packs and other
solid gameplay improvements significantly enhances the Sims
2 experience.
Free Time will go down as one of the most significant
expansions for The Sims 2. It definitely blows away Bon
Voyage, and is arguably even slightly better than Seasons
simply because of the new content. The now-slightly
cluttered interface hurts, but not nearly enough to turn off
players; it just takes a little time to get used to.
The ability to rework some of the
terrain in existing neighborhoods is very nice, but it
should go a little further. Still the game does offer
something more than merely adding a new zone/neighborhood
and that makes it a solid addendum to the Sims 2 franchise.
Free Time is more a gap filler than anything else. It gives a
few more things to do and smoothes some rough edges, but there’s
a sense that EA is playing out the string here. More content is
welcome, but many of the lots just give you things Sims can do
at home with fewer loading screens. It’s good filler, but still
filler.
It's not exactly ball-busting stuff, but these are interesting
additions that keep the game feeling fresher, and make the
juggling act of moulding the perfect sim a little trickier.
Chuck in a slew of minor additions, such as extra outfits and
the ability to edit a neighbourhood's terrain after it's been
created, and there's enough here to make FreeTime a worthwhile
addition to any Sims fan's expansion collection.
Thanks to
Metacritic for pointing me to these reviews
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