The Sims: Livin' Large: Prima's Official Strategy Guide [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

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The Sims: Livin' Large—Prima's Official Strategy Guide covers both the original Sims game and the hot new expansion pack, Livin' Large! This valuable guide will help you create and manage your instant family, as well as provide needed parenting tips. Detailed strategies will help you deal with all new gameplay elements—from bad chemistry to life as a slacker. The guide offers:

Coverage of the original The Sims plus the Livin' Large expansion pack
Secrets of Sim personality, mood, and motives revealed
Useful Sim cheats and lots of quick-start tips
Foreword by Sims creator Will Wright
Extensive tables for all new architecture, careers, Sim catalog objects, and more
Strategies for overcoming new disasters—from roach infestations to alien abductions
Tips on customizing faces, skins, and textures

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Prima Games; illustrated edition edition (August 25, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761530878
• ISBN-13: 978-0761530879
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #401,545 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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35 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Definately worth it-for the young/old,experienced/beginners!, February 24, 2001

By A Customer

This strategy guide is great! Are you one of those people (like i WAS) where you have the list of cheat codes yet you dont understand what they're for (if not, oh well)? This book explains what each code is for. It also gives you excellant quick start tips (those, alone, are worth the money!). If you are not the kind of person who likes to cheat, this book also explains, in greater detail, the "works" of the game (example - dealing with the expansion pack - do you know EVERYTHING that the robot can do? i bet not, but this book explains it, along with all the other items). But, for all those pessimists out there reading this, (and for the optimists who want to know the good and bad about the book) about, oh, maybe 1/5 (one fifth) of the book talks about things such as "why do sims choose to dance to the music instead of playing pool" - a lot of autonomy stuff. Also, there are a lot somewhat confusing tables full of info the average person wouldnt need. But, just remember this: the "goodies" of this book outweigh the bad stuff in this book 10 to 1 (which is why i give this book a 5 star rating)! i encourage you to get the book - no matter how long you have been playing the game (there is always something to learn, since not even half of it is mentioned in the manual that comes with the game). It is definately worth it!

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hints and tips to get you started on your Sim journey., June 15, 2001

By	Julie Lovisa (Indiana USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The first time I played The Sims was using Bob and Betty Newbie as a practice run before I committed to making my own families. I was so busy running them ragged trying to raise the hunger, fun, and bladder motives that their comfort and energy was less than zero! I just couldn't organize myself enough to keep them satisfied while I tried to figure out what everything was supposed to do.

Enter this strategy guide which offers tips from the creators and testers of The Sims. It assumes that you have read the game manual that came with the software and expands on it by giving in depth explanations of each motive and personality trait in order to better understand your Sims autonomy, or lack thereof. It also covers building homes, each object and it's value and interaction, and a basic tutorial on how to create your own skins and objects.

It is also full of tables and graphs, a few of which are informative and few of which are kind of difficult to understand. The main reason to buy this book would be for the notes and tips that are scattered about that give you an inside peek at the motivations of your Sims and a few ways to manipulate the game.

I'd recommend this book as a way to become "friends" with your Sims so that you can give them better social interactions, better homes, and happier personalities.

43 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Nothing New in this one, September 30, 2000

By A Customer

If you have been playing the game for a while you know all this stuff, for new tips on livin large you can find this info on any sims website, nothing new here, save yourself a few dollars and by pass this one.