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Recently I had the bright idea to install The Sims onto my laptop computer. Why would I do this when the Sims 2 is already out and it's clearly superior? Well, first of all my laptop doesn't have an advanced video card in it, only a GeForce 4 GO. Don't get me wrong, this isn't a bad video card, just not fast enough for The Sims 2. Plus, I want to be able to take it along with me one of these days when I see my girlfriend. She enjoy The Sims and I think The Sims 2 might be a little too complicated for her... at this point anyways.
The install took forever by the way. I had to install the original game, and then go through the seven add-on packs, swapping CDs, typing in registration codes, and saying No to repeated attempts to install America Online on my computer. It's a very long process starting from scratch.
As I was installing The Sims on my laptop, I installed The Sims 2 on my desktop computer. It happens to have a ATi Radeon 9800 PRO; more than enough for any Sims game. I've only played a little bit of both, and I can see that The Sims 2 has some definite improvements over the original. While I'm not a big Sims fan, I think these improvements do make the game more fun. Unfortunately it only took seven add-on packs and a completely new sequel for them to figure out what to do. The worst part is that The Sims 2 doesn't have many of the new things that were added throughout the long Sims franchise, like the ability to have pets. Most families in the United States have pets, so it's a wonder why they were left out, especially since they were added in The Sims: Unleashed.
I hope to learn the Ins and Outs of The Sims 2. I bought it when it came out but I never really gave it a chance since it didn't seem to like the DVD player in my computer. Now that we have The Sims 2: University, I can play it without too much hassle. Maybe I'll even make a cool house and create some videos for it. Who knows? At least I'm going back to give it another chance right? The first time around, I absolutely hated it! We'll see what happens now that I have better hardware to play it on. I might even come to like it... It will never take the place of SimCity though!
