The Sims Complete Collection

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Product Features

• The Sims -- the phenomenon that started it all! Completely build and customize your Sims' homes, decide their career paths and romances, and choose from hundreds of items to keep them happy. Their lives are in your hands.
• The Sims - Livin' Large gives your Sims the wild life! A wider range of objects and styles allows even the most timid Sim to cut loose and live it up.
• The Sims - House Party lets you throw the ultimate theme party. Engage in new group activities, and rock the house with different Music and dance styles.
• In The Sims - Vacation you'll choose whether your Sims will spend the weekend at a beach resort, rough it in the woods, or chill out in a winter wonderland.
• The Sims - Hot Date takes you from candlelit romance to cuddling on the couch. Let your Sims enjoy downtown delights as their relationships heat up.

Product Details

• Our recommended age: 12 - 20 years
• Manufacturer recommended age: 0 months and up
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000EXW524
• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Release Date: March 20, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,927 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)

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Product Description

Product Description
The Sims Complete Collection includes The Sims, and all seven expansion packs -- all in one convenient package. An entire world of Sims awaits your quirky command. It's your neighborhood, they're your Sims, and whether they prosper or perish is completely up to you! With The Sims - Unleashed you'll add a furry friend to your Sims family. Housebreak your pets, train them to do tricks, buy them toys, and do your best to keep them from destroying the house! The Sims - Superstar lets you experience the lifestyles of the rich and famous and guide your Sims to superstardom. Become a movie star, rocker, or supermodel and spend your cash on extravagant new items for your home. In The Sims - Makin' Magic you'll cast spells, hypnotize friends, and even turn a neighbor into a frog. But watch out, spells can go haywire if you're not careful. The neighborhood will never be the same!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great fun, but Mac owners beware when upgrading!, October 1, 2007

By	gunngirl (Chicago, Illinois USA) - See all my reviews

Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

In case mac owners don't know, if you own Mac OS X and are running Tiger or higher you will have a problem in the "Create a Sim" screen. What will happen is that when you switch through outfits, the last outfit won't leave the screen and all them will overlap over each other making it hard to see them, the same will happen when the sims change clothes in the game and when you want to buy a pet at the pet stores.

It is not the worse thing in the world and will not crash your game, but is very annoying and should be known before anyone spends their money. I'm using Panther. Anything before Tiger is fine. JUST BE WARNED!


<on to my review>


After buying just a few of the expansion packs, I FINALLY decided to get the Complete Collection only after buying an external hard drive. I don't know about anyone else, but there was no way almost 4 gigs would fit on my G4 imac. Although, even on the harddrive the game does slow, but is still playable. I am often surprised that I can stay Downtown, Studio Town, etc. so long. That is a real treat.

Bad side? There is too much to do. I have yet to do anything in Magic town nor Vacation, and the idea of being able to renovate all this and add my own touch is overwhelming.

I had plenty of problems previously with my other expansions, and crashing was one of them. I don't know why, but objects that I had before, then put them back in my game a second or third time (after needing to reinstall) made the game crash. Frequently, the sofas and paintings just would not pull into the game and when they did it crashed when I tried to save. Now, everything pulls into the game and saves with no problem.

I think that having all the expansion packs made the game more stable--for me and possibly for macs in general, I don't know, but I know that all the packs seemed to help with the crashing.

Overall, there is little cons to owning this. One thing I will say is that Non-Unleashed fans will tire quickly of stray pets wondering around the lots and into the house.

Still, worth the money to have all 7 packs on one disc, just make sure you have the hard drive space-- and spare for downloads-- and you'll be fine.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Buy!, March 8, 2007

By	M. Lewis "EyeShine79" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This game is a MUST HAVE for any Sims lovers! With all the expansion packs mixed into one game, you'll have hours of fun! There's ALOT of options! I'm hooked and I LOVE the Sims :) It is working perfectly on my computer too. I'm running a MAC OS 10.3.9 with 140GB Total Memory, 1 GB DDR SDRAM, and 1.25GHZ processor speed. Hope that helps!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great Game, Great Price, Some Small Problems, February 16, 2009

By	Charles J. Haviland "CJ" (Charlotte, NC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

My girlfriend was very excited to see this game come out, she was always a fan of the original Sims game but all of her old disks were scratched and replacing them all would have cost a small fortune, this game was the perfect solution so I bought it for her!

The only problem is that she has a MacBook, The Mac version of the game seems to have some display issues on Mac laptops, She read around and didn't find any real solutions to the problem-- The game only shows up on a square that covers about 2/3 of the screen, even in fullscreen mode you can still see the apple desktop in the back. Even the "window" mode isn't resizable and the controls to toggle between the views don't work. This also gets complicated/annoying if you don't have your dock hidden.

Anyway, she emailed Aspyr about the issue and they were very nice about it but said there wasn't much they could do to fix it, they did give her a helpful hint though; if you hold down the "command" key while you click on the game you can actually get into the view settings and change the screen size (they suggested 800x600 resolution) and choose window or full screen.

Other than that little problem the game works fine and everything is just how we remembered it! Addicting and tons of fun!!