Basic Info & Commentary on The Sims 2, Expansion Packs, & Stuff Packs.
BeosBoxBoy:
The Sims 2: Glamour Life Stuff
Release Date: August 13, 2006
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[*]"模擬市民2：時尚生活組合" -- Chinese Title (Traditional)
[*]"ザ・シムズ２ ゴージャスパック" -- Japanese Title
[*]"De Sims 2: Glamour - Accessoires" -- Dutch Title
[*]"Die Sims 2: Glamour-Accessoires" -- German Title
[*]"Les Sims 2: Kit Glamour" -- French Title
[*]"Los Sims 2: Todo Glamour Accesorios" -- Spanish Title
[*]"Os Sims 2: Glamour Acessórios" -- Portuguese Title (Portugal)
[*]"The Sims 2: Glamour Coleção de Objetos" -- Brazilian Title
[*]"The Sims 2: Glitter og Glam Stæsj" -- Norwegian Title
[*]"The Sims 2: Glitter & Glamour Prylpaket" -- Swedish title
[*]"The Sims 2: Szyk i elegancja - Akcesoria" -- Polish title
[*]"The Sims 2: Pro luxusní život - Kolekce" -- Czech title
[*]"The Sims 2: Glamour Life Xtra Pakke" -- Danish title
[*]"The Sims 2: Glamour Kamasetti" -- Finnish title
[*]"The Sims 2: Csilli-villi Cuccok" -- Hungarian (Magyar) title
[*]«The Sims 2: Гламурная жизнь – Каталог» -- Russian title
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Beosboxboy says:
known custom content cataloguing bugs - often cannot be resolved while SP is installed - occurs far less frequently than in earlier SPs
Last edit: 22. March 2007 - corrected and added non-English names
BeosBoxBoy:
The Sims 2: Happy Holiday Stuff & Mini (2006) • Mini is Web Purchase Only
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[*]"模擬市民2：冬季派對迷你組合" -- Chinese Title (Traditional)
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Beosboxboy says:
does not seem to be as flawed as the 2005 Holiday release or the Holiday Sims combo-base game (which incidentally has been removed from distribution)
BeosBoxBoy:
The Sims 2: Celebrations Stuff Pack
Release Date: April 3, 2007
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[*]The Sims™ 2 Pojdme slavit! Kolekce - Czech
[*]The Sims(TM) 2 Celebration!Xtra Pakke - Dansk
[*]Die Sims(TM) 2 Party-Accessoires - Deutsch
[*]Los Sims™ 2 ¡De Fiesta! Accesorios - Español
[*]The Sims(TM) 2 Juhlien! Kamasetti - Finnish
[*]Les Sims(TM) 2 Jour de fête ! Kit - Français
[*]The Sims(TM) 2 Bulis! Cuccok - Hungarian (Magyar)
[*]De Sims(TM) 2 Feest! Accessoires - Dutch (Nederlands)
[*]The Sims(TM) 2 Fest! Stæsj - Norsk
[*]The Sims™ 2 Impreza! Akcesoria - Polski
[*]The Sims(TM) 2 Celebrações! Coleção de Objetos - Portuguese (Brasil)
[*]Os Sims™ 2 Celebrações! Acessórios - Portuguese (Portugal)
[*]The Sims(TM) 2 Fest & bröllop! Prylpaket - Svensk
[*]Дополнение «The Sims(TM) 2 Торжества! Каталог» - Российская
[*]ザ・シムズ２ ホームパーティーパック - Japanese
[*]模擬市民2：玩樂派對 - Chinese (Traditional)
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Beosboxboy says:
known custom content cataloguing bugs - often cannot be resolved while SP is installed - the lot that is included with the SP may cause problems and may corrupt neighbourhoods - not really much is in this one that is worth the effort of installing it. It obviously needs a fix patch, but so far EA shows no signs of making one for it.
BeosBoxBoy:
The Sims 2: H & M Fashion Stuff
Release Date: June 5, 2007
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[*]The Sims(TM) 2 H&M® Fashion Xtra Pakke - Danish Title
[*]De Sims(TM) 2 H&M(R) Fashion - Accessoires - Dutch Title
[*]Die Sims(TM) 2 H&M®-Fashion-Accessoires - German Title
[*]Les Sims(TM) 2 H&M® Fashion Kit - French Title
[*]Los Sims™ 2 H&M® Moda Accesorios - Spanish Title
[*]The Sims(TM) 2 Divatos H&M® Cuccok - Hungarian (Magyar) Title
[*]The Sims™ 2 H&M® Fashion Coleção de Objetos - Portuguese (Brazil) Title
[*]The Sims(TM) 2 H&M® Fashion Prylpaket - Svensk Title
[*]The Sims™ 2 H&M® Móda Kolekce - Czech Title
[*]The Sims(TM) 2 H&M® Mote - Stæsj - Norsk Title
[*]The Sims(TM) 2 H&M® Muodin Kamasetti - Finnish Title
[*]The Sims™ 2 Moda z H&M® Akcesoria - Polish Title
[*]Os Sims™ 2 H&M® Moda Acessórios - Portuguese (Portugal) Title
[*]Дополнение «The Sims(TM) 2 Стиль H&M® Каталог» - Russian Title
[*]ザ・シムズ２ H&Mファッションパック - Japanese Title
[*]模擬市民2：H&M 流行 - Chinese (Traditional)
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Beosboxboy says:
known custom content cataloguing bugs - often cannot be resolved while SP is installed - the clothing that is included is almost entirely female, very little added for guys - the clothing selections are IMHO butt-ugly and certainly not even the better things you might find at an H&M location - the build-mode items and objects are heavily biased towards the black, white, and red H&M theme, so much so that the SP is really only good for making H&M stores in the Weimar Republic flag colours. Unless you just love to waste your money on this sort of thing, I recommend passing on this one.
BeosBoxBoy:
The Sims 2: Bon Voyage EP
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Latest Patch Version: 1.10.0.130
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The Sims 2: Limited Edition
a "combo" version of The Sims 2 & BonVoyage EP
Release Date: September 4, 2007
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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS (PC)
[*]1.3 Ghz processor (2.0 for Vista)
[*]512 MB RAM (1GB for Vista)
[*]Windows(R) Vista, Windows XP, Windows ME, Windows 98 or Windows 2000 Operating System.
[*]8x or faster CD/DVD drive
[*]At least 1.5 GB of additional hard drive space (5.0 GB total is required if installing both The Sims 2 and The Sims 2 Bon Voyage Expansion Pack at the same time.)
[*]A T&L-capable video card with at least 32 MB of video RAM.
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Supported video cards:
ATI Radeon(TM) series 8500 or better (9600 or greater required for Vista)
[*]8500, All-In-Wonder 8500
[*]9000, 9200, 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800
[*]X300, X600, x700, X800, x850
[*]X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950
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NVIDIA(R) Quadro(TM) series
[*]Quadro, Quadro2, Quadro4
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NVIDIA GeForce series GeForce2 GTS and better (GeForce 6200 or greater required for Vista)
[*]GeForce 2, 2 GTS
[*]GeForce 3, 3 Ti
[*]GeForce 4, 4 Ti, 4200, 4600, 4800, MX 420, 440, 460
[*]GeForce FX 5200, 5500, 5600, 5700, 5800, 5900, 5950
[*]GeForce PCX 5300, 5900
[*]GeForce 6200, 6600, 6800
[*]GeForce 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950
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S3 GammaChrome
[*]S18 Pro
[*]S18 Ultra
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Intel(R) Extreme Graphics (see note below)
[*]82865, 82915 and above
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NOTE: If you have a non-T&L capable video card, such as Intel Extreme Graphics, then you need at least a 2.4 GHz processor.
MAC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
not yet available
Beosboxboy says:
2 March 2008 addition: well, the fix patches are out, Pescado's corrective fixes in place, SimPE updated... I installed the EP and it's a lame goal-driven rat-maze, just like Vacation/On Holiday EP for the original game. Sadly, the whole point of a holiday is to do things like water-ski, snowboard, etc... all of which are conspicuous by their absence in Bon Voyage. No. Instead your Sims dwaddle about and learn how to fetch, roll-over, and be-a-pretty-boy-for-a-treat... not really, but if you're into that sort of sycophantic bizarreness, then you might enjoy BV.
The only parts of the BV ep I find of any merit are the camping and beach objects and the beach lots, the rest you could just as well do one time and all charm is lost. Considering all of the market hype and the numerous bugs and complaints, it just isn't worth the money. The hotel objects all look worse than stuff in The Sims (original) - which takes some considerable doing. The build mode items might hold a little more charm if the sets were in any way complete; as it is many of them "theme" sets are only a handful of items that fall far short of dressing your neighbourhoods in Mayan splendour.
I have to say that pound for pound, BV is almost as worthless an addition as Pets ep.
Original post: As much as I want to like this EP, it really isn't stable or sane. There are so many bugs in this EP that I have no intention of installing it on my system until after at least two patches have been released.
One Warez Group refused to "release this substandard software as the many existing bugs in the software left uncorrected by EA would result in us being blamed for the bugs and do nothing to improve our reputation." (Translated from Russian)
This EP uses SecuROM copy protection software, which is about like adding a combined spyware/virus/cancer to your computer. The concensus of gamers that have encountered SecuROM in a variety of games can be reduced to this common wisdom: Don't. Prior to this the majority of The Sims 2 components were released using SafeDisc copy protection software which is far less "dangerous".
I strongly recommend that anyone interested in buying this take a look at this review at GameZone (external link) and this discussion thread at MATY (external link, post at your own peril) before purchasing the Bon Voyage EP.
What the patch fixes:
Note: Not all fixes will take effect on existing The Sims 2 Bon Voyage saved games. If you have an existing lot, Sim, object or neighborhood that does not seem to be improved by this patch, we recommend that you replace the affected object, or create either a new family, lot or neighborhood, depending on what is affected by the bug.
[*]Sims will no longer have the option to call vacation service NPCs after acquiring the business perk "Head for Numbers" which was causing a crash.
[*]Sims will no longer have the option to "Call Taxi" using their cell phones if they have driven to the community lot with an own-able vehicle which was causing a crash.
[*]If the Sim misses the shuttle, it will no longer return to a vacation lot without the Sim at the end of the vacation. Sometimes, this caused the vacation lot to become unusable.
[*]Game will no longer create new vacation NPCs each time a lot is visited which was causing many issues due to character file overload. Any existing extra NPCs will be unlinked and their character files greatly reduced in size.
[*]Periodic Events Controller will no longer loop twice per hour through each neighbor which was causing extreme lag on certain machines.
[*]Autonomous water-balloon and snowball fights have been tuned so the interaction will occur less frequently.
[*]Housekeeper no longer repeatedly spawns.
[*]Children will no longer go on a vacation alone if their parent dies before van arrives.
[*]Riverblossomhills townies will no longer be invisible when The Sims 2 Seasons is uninstalled.
[*]Sims no longer pop out of hammock when WooHoo is rejected.
[*]Sims no longer get stuck during logrolling when trying to exit while another is entering.
[*]Children can now drink served juice.
[*]Undo and Redo can now be used on ClubCubes.
[*]Vacation guests no longer leave when a party at a vacation home ends.
[*]Locals now change back into native outfits after exiting water.
[*]Housekeeper now fills holes and fixes broken objects.
[*]Housekeeper now repairs servo.
[*]Sims no longer fall in love while chatting in a tent.
[*]Sim can now repair stereos.
[*]Pets no longer show platinum mood in thumbnail background.
[*]Bigfoot can no longer change appearance on the vanity table.
[*]Hotels no longer become Community lots after being visited by a Young Adult.
[*]Make Furry Friend vacation memento is now achieved by making friends with Big Foot.
[*]Souvenirs only restock when Sim has them in inventory.
[*]Sledgehammer Tool can no longer be used on Hotels by pressing "J".
[*]Sim no longer wants to learn a massage if they have already been learned.
[*]Polish Only: Fixed issue with hotel room pricing.
[*]You can now queue up multiple Dig For Treasure interactions.
[*]When clicking "Ready to Play" the Launcher now launches first.
[*]Sims can now be added to a group when "Walk To…" interaction is canceled and re-queued.
[*]Sims no longer become stuck in vehicle when transitioning from a Secret Lot to a Vacation Home.
[*]Customers reject a massage if the purchase price is set too high.
[*]Bigfoot can no longer be asked to go on Group Outing.
[*]Fire Dancer Mat and Food Stands cannot be placed in a Sim's inventory.
[*]Seating can now be removed from the Food Stands.
[*]Fire dancer mat cannot be set for sale.
[*]Having the Business Perks interface open when the vacation loading screen begins will no longer cause the game to freeze.
[*]Young Adults who are staying at a vacation home no longer have the option to Get Married or Move In another Sim.
[*]Sims can no longer assign others to be a masseuse.
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