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The Sims 2: Pets is a great expansion pack full of live and companion ship. Your pet may chew up your virtual bed, pee on your virtual floor, and roll in your flower beds, but that won’t keep you from coming back again and again just to play this great game. The Sims 2 Pets allows you to create, train, play with, and care for that pet that you always wanted. Your pet represents your family, so take care in what animal you create. Building a pet is a lot like creating a normal Sim except you’re adjusting how long your pets tail is or how big he is or what his fur looks like. In the Sims 2 Pets there are only more responsibilities for you and your Sim to deal with.
It seems that with every expansion pack they come out with there are more responsibilities. From feeding your animals, to keeping care of that garden, to installing security devices in your car. The list can just keep going on with all of the chores that EA can dream up for you and your virtual person to do. Pretty soon you’ll be paying taxes… hold on, isn’t that what all those bills that come to your house are! Well doing the same stuff over and over again can get pretty boring so I suppose a verity might help you last a little longer. So in Sims 2 Pets there are more service options along with the expansion pack. You can adopt pets or put pets in for adoption. You can hire an obedience trainer to keep your pet off of your bed and from destroying your furniture. You can also call the Pet Registry to register your pet as Perfect and it will show up when you create more pets. A new aspect to the game that can quickly form is the fact that if you treat your pet poorly enough it may very well just run away. If it happens to you then immediately consult your local Lost Pet Center and hope for the best for your lost animal. The Lost Pet Center might not always find your pet so don’t count on it all the time and start treating your pets a little better. With the new expansion of Sims 2 there are more jobs available. But they aren’t available for your Sim, they’re for your pets. Your adorable poodle can get any of three jobs. You could turn it into a vicious guard poodle in the security job career. Or your lovely dog could help in human services doing who knows what. And finally your vicious sewer cleaning poodle could be a celebrity on talk shows or in movies. Teaching your pets tricks is another big part of this great game. You can teach the usual tricks like sit and stay but as you go you can teach them to jump, to shake, and to do even cooler and harder tricks to impress your friends. All of the jobs that your pet also allow your pets to get promoted. Relationships can change how people act or what they become. So it’s obvious that our pets must need relation ships to to shape who they are. There are 3 levels of friendship for pets, being friends, being best friends, and being completely bonded. I as a gamer have not completed enough of the game to have bonded with my pet and I’ve had the game for about three weeks, so it must take a more powerful force to allow your Sim to bond with your animal. I’m not saying it can’t be done, I just haven’t been able to do it yet. Personality affects what people do and how they act all of the time and it’s the same way with pets. there are five categories of personality that your pet can have. Being a Genius or a Doofus, being Hyper or lazy, being independent or friendly, being aggressive or cowardly, and being a pigpen or finicky.
One more feature that you might not like is that you can not control what your pets to like you can control what a Sim does. The nice thing about this is that you have one less thing to worry about controlling, but the bad thing is that your pets can go on a rampage destroying everything in their path and if your at work there is nothing you can do about it except regret that you didn’t pay for a pet trainer earlier. All and all The Sims 2 Pets is a great game that the whole virtual family that you created on the Sims 2 can enjoy.