Customer Reviews

The Sims 2: Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Stuff

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In real life, my two favorite places are the kitchen and the bathroom. So naturally, I enjoy creating the same for my Sims. I hadn't really enjoyed how limiting it could be before to really give a homey kitchen and relaxing bathroom. Whether the Sim gods heard me or I just got lucky, Kitchen and Bath is a welcome addition.

You have loads of new objects for your kitchen and bathrooms to make them romantic or stylish. And the Sims benefit too with new hair styles, bathrobes and pajamas (finally adults get new jammies that don't look like like long underwear), and, of course, new wardrobe. Even 2 new houses to fit the romantic or modern mood.

At this point, there's very little that I could say is bad about the new expansion, however, with so many new objects for your Sims, you might find yourself not knowing where to begin. But hey, them's the breaks.

Overall, while nothing completely extraordinary about the newest pack, I have to agree that your Sim game library will definately benefit.

Pros:

The items are more modern, and probably account for the most coordinated group of The Sims 2 objects EA Games/Maxis has ever put out. I was under the impression for years now that Maxis employees were all locked in separate rooms and given separate assignments and not allowed to know what their co-workers were creating so nothing would be able to match!

So it was a nice surprise to find coordinating appliances and floor and wall treatments.

Cons:
Do you have the Seasons and FreeTime Expansion Packs installed? If you do, you will find that the new interactions that these two add-ons bring to the game are *not usable* on Kitchen and Bath Interior Design Stuff pack objects.

That's right - if you have Seasons, you can't get leftovers out of the new K&B fridges. If you have FreeTime, you can't Tinker with any of the K&B appliances or fixtures.

And because it is a Stuff Pack, EA Games does not provide a patch. Your best bet is to download a patch from a third party custom content site. I had to use object editor tools to fix the interactions on custom fridges I had. There is a patch out for FreeTime that might correct this, but I'm not sure since I had already fixed it by another method by the time the patch was put out by Maxis/EA.

I somehow expected better from Maxis fridges, especially since Seasons and FreeTime have been out long before Kitchen & Bath was released.

While not a show stopper for some, it was sloppy work by Maxis/EA to not make the objects fully compatible with other The Sims 2 expansions they had already published.

EDIT: While I hand corrected the interactions on custom fridges, I was not about to do that to the maxis objects. There is a creator out there called "Lord Darcy" who does make patches to Maxis created/broken objects. You can google this name with "The Sims" and find his fixes easily.

There are quite a few nice looking items to spruce up our sims kitchens & baths. Lovely walls and floors and a couple of nice hairstyles too, which is a plus. I definitely wouldn't pay $19.99 for it, or for any other stuff pack. I always try to find the best sale I can because I think twenty dollars is too much for a stuff pack.

That being said, there's a small issue that seems to indicate a rather sloppy oversight. The refridgerators do not have the options from Seasons to get leftovers and they do not have the options from Free Time to make snack platters. You'll need Lord Darcy's fix from MoreAwesomeThanYou to be able to have those options. Would be nice if EA provided a fix but they never fixed the Celebrations Stuff wedding arch so that it could be used for weddings on community lots (a feature added with Bon Voyage), the Teen Style Stuff computer is missing options included in other expansions, and the Glamour Life special TV you could get from BestBuy is missing Free Time options to watch movies. I'd be surprised if they fix this. Luckily they've all been fixed by Lord Darcy though.

That being said, it's still a pretty nice stuff pack. EA, in the future would you please check stuff like this? Seems to show a real lack of consideration for your fans that you didn't take 5 minutes to check that options from previous expansions would be available on the new objects.

For whatever reason, people have gone gaga over this pack, yet I found it to be extremely disappointing, at least in comparison to my fave Stuff packs (Glamour Life, H&M, Teen Style).

The idea this time around is to provide users with (supposedly) four new sets - romantic kitchen & bath, and modern kitchen & bath. My disappointment comes from the extreme amount of overlap between these four seemingly different themes. Aside from that, the new objects aren't even all that different than existing objects! The 'modern' shower is a simple black shower identical to the high-end shower that comes with the base game. The new 'modern' kitchen set looks suspiciously like a recoloured version of the kitchen set that came with Free Time.

Even then, items for the Romantic and Modern sets overlap between one another - the same counter is applicable to nearly every set, ditto to the (non-matching!) floors and walls. Additionally, it would have been nice to include a new dining table set for the new kitchen, even if it was just a tiny dine-in set.

There are some other new additions I guess to try and make up for the lack of object additions - a couple of new hairstyles, some new clothes (mostly in the cozy family i.e. sweaters, bath robes, or working ensembles) etc. but nothing special or notable.

Overall I was quite disappointed with this pack, and very surprised at the relatively warm reception its received. I'm glad that Maxis/EA tried to make a pack for a much overlooked area of the game, but they really could have done more with it. I do like the new colour schemes for the modern kitchen - but I can't say I love anything else that came with this game.

This stuff pack has some really nice meshes, though the textures are fairly garish and weird. Still, there are some nice recolors to be found in the modding community and having Maxis meshes means being about to get rid of some of my downloads without sacrificing what I want in my game, which is always a good thing. If this is on sale, pick it up. There are some neat clothing meshes here, too.

The Sims games have often basically ignored the bathrooms and kitchens. In the basic "Sims 2" game there are, if I remember right, about five different ovens, three fridges and about three toilets. Only two kinds of showers. This does not lend itself well to customization.

Thankfully this pack corrects those flaws, finally enabling your Sims to feel like they live in a Kolher commercial (though slightly less pretentiously). Lots of new fixtures and appliances, as well as plenty of decorative gewgaws to make even the most jaded Sim happy!

Buy this pack and soon your Sims will have the kitchen and bathroom of their dreams! Now if only we can get something to provide a decent basement...

I am somewhat new to the Sims 2 and have bought a couple stuff packs and expansions. This particular stuff pack appealed to me because I didn't feel there was enough kitchen and bath stuff. It also adds some extra clothes and what not. I'd recommend this pack.

I have Teen Styles stuff pack, but it more for my daughter than myself [...] as the Kitchen&Bath stuff pack

I have been waiting for more stuff to be added in this realm of the game and this "Stuff" pack is well worth it if you are into The Sims 2 and really into homebuilding and designing.

There is a lot of cool stuff that they finally added into this game as well as a lot of choices and whatnot. Overall, I love adding more stuff to my game because I think I have more fun building and designing the houses then actually playing them.

If you are more interested in the lifestyles and storytelling of The Sims, then you might pass on this, but if you like choice of things in the game, go for it.

I am a big Sims 2 Fan and when I added the "Kitchens and Bathrooms Interior Design Stuff" Pack to my game, it really didn't do that much for the game play over all. Like all "Stuff" packs, they just add new stuff to give you more items for your kitchens and bathrooms. Would I recommend the item for other Sims2 fams? Yes, but with most stuff packs I found out there are a few bonus items used as insentive "not" included that should be. For example like most packs there maybe an item missing and special codes to obtain to get the items. When I was looking for bonus items eariler I came accross many items that I never realized were offered with each expansion or stuff pack as bonus offers. With the purchase of the pack you should get a code to unlock the item or items. I ordered the Kitchens & Bathrooms Interior Stuff Pack and never got a bonus code to give me a poster or a toilet paper holder or even some neat clothing. The only way I got the bonuses were to look for them as a large pack. Would I recommend this for you? Only if you are a hardcore simmer would I recommend If you got by without the new stuff before then you'll do just fine.

There are a few nice objects in this stuff pack. I especially enjoyed the inclusion of such items as bathrobes and sleepmasks! However, I downloaded the majority of this stuff (towel racks, stove hood etc) long ago from various fan run Sim sites. I only recommend this pack for anyone too paranoid to download from places like Mod The Sims, or for those who (like me) collect 'em all so I can get even MORE downloads without having to worry about not having the original object it's based on.