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The Sims 2: Nightlife (Prima Official Game Guide)

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I picked up a copy of this book yesterday along with the expansion. There are 135 pages dedicated solely to the Nightlife expansion pack, and the remaining 115 a brief recap of the base game the Sims 2. It goes into great detail about the sim interface panel, new social interactions, new apsiration reward object that allows any sim to change aspiration, NPCs, downtown lots, downtown sims, Vampirism and new objects. Also included are new cheats - if you're into playing with them. I recommend this book if you're like me and not into too much trial and error.

I actually don't have the game yet (nightlife), but I have this weird obsession about reading about game guides (games that I like, to be exact). But I have played nightlife at my friends house, and the guide proved to be quite useful. Nightlife introduces a whole new different gameplay, your sims are now attracted to one another. They have Chemistry, they can go on dates, and much more. This guide really helps to explain it all. It helps you create sims that have great chemistry together, it shows you how to have a great date. Which, by the way, if you have a horrible date, you'll end up with a flaming bag of poo at your front door, which hopefully you wouldn't want. This guide was a great help, even fun just to look at. Though if your not really a sims freak, i wouldn't reccomend it. But, if you are, GO OUT AND BUY IT!!~^^

This guide for Nightlife is useful for both newbies and veterans of Sims 2. It has a lot of good, useful information that will assist anyone using Nightlife; if you have a question about dating, group outings, or vampires, you can probably find an answer in the guide. Although it covers almost everything in Nightlife, you may occasionally have a question about something that isn't covered in the guide, but you can always find an answer on the internet.

This guide also contains a section about the base Sims 2 game, but unlike previous guides, the majority centers on Nightlife. This is better than the previous Sims guides; almost all of them dedicated less than a quarter of the pages to the expansion, and instead filled the guide with (sometimes outdated and incorrect) information about the base game. This guide just contains some of the basics about the original game, so I didn't feel as ripped-off when I bought it.

However, there were still pages that had color pictures of every object in the game. Although this might be somewhat useful to some people, I have never had a problem with looking at the game itself to find out how much an object costs or what category it's in. Plus, I don't really think that the guide is worth the full retail price of $20; try to buy it online or find it discounted somewhere instead.

This book follows the same format as the other Prima guides to the Sims. It has lots of tips about game play and good overviews of how the new elements of the expansion pack work. It includes tables of objects, community lots, and new commands so that you can look items up fairly quickly during game play.

The primary negatives are the lack of an index (also missing in the other Prima guides) and the repeated use of the same graphics from the game over and over throughout the book.

Still, if you are a Sims 2 fan and have the Nightlife expansion pack this is a very helpful book.

This is a really good guide for purchasers of Nightlife. Everything is explained throughly in it. It was extremely helpful to me when I first purchased the game and the tips given in the book are awesome. This is an excellent buy and I recommend this for players of The Sims 2: Nightlife.

This book is really good for those of us who don't always want to spend so much time trying to figure out what the new expansion pack brings into the game. You can just read the book and it will tell you what's new and how to best use certain things.

I've avoided purchasing Prima's other strategy guides for the Sims expansions because Prima has a habit of devoting half of their guides to the base game and the rest to the expansion pack. In the guide for Nightlife however they've improved. More than half of the guide is devoted to Nightlife: new socials, new characters, new relationships, new objects..etc. There's still information on the base game which could have been left out however overall I do recommend the guide. I don't have to skip over the first half of the book to find information on the expansion pack with this guide. Well done Prima thank you!

I hoped for more information about the game in general and less images of new products or objects from the game. There were not enough tricks and tricks included to make it worth the price.

I think if you want to play the SIMS for all it's worth, you have to have a Prima Guide.

These guides are worth every dollar if you want to get the most out of your game.