Customer Reviews
Worth every penny £ $ - By: , 27 Oct 2008 
Brill game worth every penny may slow up your game but worth the wait so much is added belladona cove is a amazing neighbour hood brillant would recomend this game to sims2 & non sims2 fans alike so worth everything.
STILL WAITING FOR IT TO ARRIVE - By: annoyed customer, 25 Oct 2008 
I ORDERED THIS ITEM IN SEPTEMBER & WITH IT NOW BEING OVER A MONTH I'M STILL WAITING FOR IT TO ARRIVE EVEN WITH 1ST CLASS POSTAGE - & NO REAL EXPLANATION FROM AMAZON - JUST AN AUTOMATED RESPONSE!
Better than it sounds - By: Ms. C. A. L. Turner, 25 Sep 2008 From the blurb on EA's site, I wasn't expecting great things from this expansion. It sounded as though you just get a new building type, but there's much more to it than that.
Sure, a large element is the apartments, but even those are better than I anticipated. If you've ever been stuck with a homeless family with low funds, or if your single guy is friendless, apartments provide the perfect solution. If your sim feels lonely, they only have to go & tap on someone's door (at a reasonable hour), & some apartments cost less than 1k a week.
There's also a hint of magicin the air, but I suspect that it takes more than the hour that I played to find that
Apartment life - By: , 13 Sep 2008 
I Think this is the best expansion pack yet,I love playing on the Sims & this really expanded the level of play!
The only downside is that it really slowes down the loading time evenin the simplest of tasks inclueding make a family
but a few more min waiting is nothing compared to how mutch fun the game is
This game is definatly worth buying
One of the better expansions - By: Jenesis, 10 Sep 2008 As opposed to the waste-of-money, product-placement-up-the-arse "Stuff Packs", most of the Sims 2 Expansion Packs actually add useful functionality & gameplay elements to an already decent game, & this is one of the best ones. If I had to recommend just one expansion, it would probably be this one (or Seasons), as it adds exciting & new, yet realistic, gameplay.
Apartment living is easy to get into. Either pick one of the premade familiesin the new neighbourhood, Belladonna Cove, or make your own Sims & move them into apartments. If you're really adventurous you can build your own apartment buildings, but this is very difficult due to the complexity neededin apartments, & you have to use a cheat to zone the apartment correctly (I think the official website has a tutorial). Apartment building is only recommended for experienced builders.
I had no problems installing or running this. One tiny complaint is the load time on game startup; if you have all the expansions or lots of custom content, or both, be prepared to stare at a blank screen for 10+ minutes while the game starts up. I run the Sims 2in a window for this exact reason - I can watch a video or browse the internet or something while the game is loading.
Overall I recommend this expansion pack. If you only have the base Sims 2 & want to add that little bit extra before the release of Sims 3, get this pack. It's the last pack that will come out & it adds (in my opinion) the most varied & useful gameplay elements. If you have all the previous packs, then why are you reading this review? You're going to buy it anyway :-)
Oh, & one final quibble: It's not an apartment. It's a FLAT. Bloody Americanisation strikes again.
