Customer Reviews

Sims 2 Pets (Prima Official Game Guide)

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This really doesn't have enough information on game cheats and strategy in my opinion for the money. I think they should just give these away with the purchase of the game.

Also, this book has no index. Which really makes it difficult to find specific information. This was the first guide I've bought for my Sims 2 games and will be the last.

While I can figure out a lot of things playing the Sims 2, the Prima guides are very helpful. In particular I learned that when a pet is doing a behavior that can be reinforced they get a little mark by their picture and if you reinforce the behavior with praising or scolding while the pet is doing that behavior..then you can train them.

The Prima Guides for Sims 1 were packed with information that wasn't easy to find in-game. I consider those guides almost essential -- and fun, too!

The writing style of the Sims 2 Prima Guides is completely different. It is too "chatty and chummy" and meanders around before actually getting to a point. And it doesn't actually seem to make many gaming points! They seem to want to talk about the game, and be cool, rather than actually assist players.

I find the writing and formatting styles so distracting that I can't actually read this guide without my mind wandering off. It is difficult to locate information I need. And it doesn't really tell me much that I can't easily find on my own while playing.

I have the Pets guide, the Nightlife guide, and the basic Sims2 guide. I bought them all at the same time. Otherwise, if I'd gotten one, then others, I wouldn't have gotten others!

This book has a huge amount of very detailed information for PC players, and would no doubt answer any questions you might have about the computer version of the game. Unfortunately, I play the console version of the game, and there is nowhere near as much information about that in the book.

The PC version takes up about three quarters of the book, with the console version in the last quarter. The information provided about the console version is still good, there just isn't as much detail here as I would have liked. And if you are playing the PSP version of this game, this book won't help you much at all. It devotes one single, solitary page to the PSP version - disappointing.

In summary, if you play this game on your PC definitely get this book. If you play on a console, only get the book if it's really cheap (I paid 24 cents for it), and if you play on a PSP, don't bother at all. Online guides would be of far greater use to you there.

Helpful with cheats for the new add on but also has some info about the basics.

I read the guide to pets, it was some help, it gave the basics of the pets expansion pack. I was expecting a little more.

This is one of many of the Sims 2 expansions. Pets is all about how the animals that you bring into your Sims life will react with each other.
The game has animals wandering in and around your environment. What you do with it is your adventure.

My parents and I didn't know if this would arrive before we went to celebrate my niece Holly's tenth birthday, but it did. She goes ape over Nintendo DS, especially animal games! Thank you.

Everytime the SIMS comes out with a new expansion pack there are always nuances to the game that aren't so obvious. I have bought a prima guide for every expansion pack I own. I strongly recommend it.

The game guides always have information that would be hard or impossible to figure out on your own. I buy one with every expansion.