The Sims: House Party: Prima's Official Strategy Guide [Paperback]

Mark Cohen (Author)

Book Description

Series: Prima's Official Strategy Guide | Publication Date: April 5, 2001

Party 'Till Your Sims Drop

• Details on every party theme and guest, from caterers to crashers
• Advanced methods for keeping your Sims healthy and happy
• Tips for managing group dynamics, motivation, and personalities
• The ultimate party checklist included
• Extensive information on all new objects, skins, and more
• Cheat codes!

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Party 'Till Your Sims Drop

Product Details

• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: Prima Games (April 5, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761535497
• ISBN-13: 978-0761535492
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,775,458 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars *tsk *tsk *tsk, August 2, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Sims: House Party: Prima's Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

I bought this book, hoping that it would give me some insite into certain questions I had on little 'trivial (yet annoyingly persistant) question that arose with the House Party expansion pack.

This book was obviously nothing near what I had been hoping for! Yes, it gave you a printed out list on the pricing of ALL the objects in the game, but who on Earth would need that?!?! I derived nothing I did not allready know from this game, which made me a firm believer I had wasted my money.

The Sims is not an RPG, there is no *MIND BOGGLEING* test that you must accomplish to be able to proceed in the game. Having a guide takes away from the experience of discovering new things to do--BY YOUR SELF!

Heed my warning, avoid this book and discover things for yourself!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This book has mistakes in it and left out several secrets!, July 7, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Sims: House Party: Prima's Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

This strategy guide is good for those who have limited experience with The Sims. I'd say 95% of the book is common knowledge for those who have been playing the game for a while. The party score section is useful, but the book has several mistakes in it. For example, it states that there is 1 way to have a baby in the game, there is actually 3; it lists 10 career tracks but there are 15. I buy these guides for the hidden stuff and I was extremly dissapointed with this one. The book only discussed in full the campfire secret, it completely overlooked the pink gorrilla, boxer etc.. and did not give any details about the celebrity guest other than to acknowlege that he's in the game. Buy House Party, don't buy the book.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars One star for having the game on the book., October 9, 2001

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Aaron Russell (IL, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Sims: House Party: Prima's Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

It's not that it's poorly written or even that it doesn't have info but I guess I was expecting something that would help me. If you want to learn some strategies don't buy this book. common sense will tell you what they did. I was hoping for some real good stragegy but there isn't none. But if you do want to know little stats like how much your social goes down when you're at work then yeah this is for you. and the thing on the ghost with the campfire was neat. That's about it. But don't waste your money. You can figure this stuff out at the sims.com..