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The Sims (Prima's Official Strategy Guide)

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This book is really very helpful! It tells what those little thought bubbles mean, what the Sims are chatting about, what will make them mad, who gets along with who, etc. Also a great career guide and what skills you need to achive them. There is too much info in the book to go over here, but it was definetly worth the money. Nice lay out, although only b&w pictures.

Playing The Sims can be both fun and frustrating. Why can't I get enough food into these people? How exactly do personality traits like being playful and being active affect moods, job performance, and social skills? Why is it really important to get a food processor?

The book explains everything that the manual neglects. Did you know that each job has ten position levels? This guide shows you every level, the pay scales, and the needed requirements to progress from one position to the next. You are given much information on the results of almost every activity that the Sims indulge in. What effect does bragging have on building a social relationship? How do diagonal walls affect room scores? How can you get rid of Sims that you don't want? One technique is to have the tiresome Sim go swimming. When he/she is in the pool remove the pool ladder. When the Sim runs out of energy he/she will drown.

Having read this guide I am now a calm, assured leader of my Sim population. I am sure that my Sim family is grateful for my improved skills - except when I drown one of them in the swimming pool. This is not one of those padded, useless guides that often accompany computer games. To me it's a must buy.

When I first bought the sims (LIke the review below mine) I killed my family, got my child taken off to military school, got robbed and many other things. I was not aware there was a strategy guide until one day in Best Buy I was looking for another game, and i saw THE SIMS: Prima' Official Strategy Guide. I was likw woah. I picked it up and skimmed through it. BOY! What was I doing playong without this. It had every little detail in there. A Job chart for every level of your sims job, what the little bubbles mean that pop up out of their head, a review and statistics on every item in the game, and just good old startegy. Now i have owned the game for about 1 month and the strategy guide for 2 weeks. One of my families have 2 top jobs (mayor, General) have 1,00,000+ and have lived in their home 1,274 days exactly all with out cheat codes. Abd they are always in a good mood. I would recomend this Manual to anybody that is a little confused, or a lot, an that needs a little help to do better, or to anyone that is great at the game and just needs or wants to see if they are doing everything right. Thank you for your time.

Prima's official strategy guide offers a lot of insights in playing the Sims game. Picking up right where the game book leaves off, this guide adds onto the game playing strategy without overlapping.

There are codes to help with certain tasks, full breakdowns of the careers, match-ups of personalities, details on how each item effects the Sims overall attributes, etc.

Highly recommended.

We became addicted to the SIMS game as soon as we got it, and eventually knew we needed to learn to understand our little people a lot better.

This book helped, but it isn't fantastic. Much of what you'll find in here you can find at the SIMS home page, and some you'll figure out by yourself, through trial-and-error. Some is common sense (before making any major change, SAVE your work so you can always go back).

It offers some things, but omits others. For example, it gives a handy chart for skill levels needed to get promotions - what is missing is how to do what is hardest, develop and maintain friends, since having a lot of friends is both required for a lot of the SIMS to 'get ahead' AND is extremely difficult to do!

Some of the cheats are OK, but the best ones you'll find through other sources.

For SIMS beginners (perhaps as a gift for someone who just got the game), or those who can't get on-line, this would be helpful. For those who have been playing for awhile, or are on-line, this book would probably be a disappointment.

When I first started playing this game, I made a family of eight people. Two kids. I didn't know about fire alarms or cooking skills. Four people (my men) all died. Then the others wouldn't work because they were too depressed. They spent free time wallowing in self-pity, mourning over the tombstones, and getting stuck behind furniture (and I couldn't figure out how to get them out).
I played the game for a year, figuring it out pretty basically, still not able to get past the rusted-up carpool car. I knew things got better for some people because I downloaded families that were rich and happy.
That didn't last long - I just plain wasn't good at the game.
Then, a light in the darkness, was this book! It was totally awesome! Whatever I needed help with was IN THERE. Now I've got happily married six-people families who are always happy! . Now I only trust maxis-mades, BTW.
If you think you're an expert or not, everything really lies in this book.

This has to be the best startgy guide I've ever read. Bu Prima master Rick Barba, The Sims stratgy guide provieds ton of info mixed with witty humor. This is highly suggested if you buy the game.

This is a really great strategy guide. whether you are just starting or even a pro you should get this book! It helped me become the sim champ I am today as well as offers a good laugh too.

For all the vaulable insights included in this book, this is a steal! I tried playing this game without it at first and was only moderately successful. With it, my relationships are better, I got a better job, and just about everything else improved in my game. If it wasn't a stategy guide, you might also find this in the Self-Help/Improvement section of your local bookstore! Definitely recommend if you want to have the best Sim-life!

This book is very easy to understand and you can start using it's tips right away. It explained why my Sims acted like they needed shrink, couldn't keep a job and lost boyfriends faster than they caught the kitchen on fire. I had to knock off a star because they didn't include the money cheat (but do a good web search and you can find that one out easy enough). SIM SIM