The Sims 2

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ON OTHER PLATFORMS: PC, PSP, DS

GAME INFO
publisher: EA
developer: Maxis
genre: Management

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
PIII 800, 256MB RAM, 3GB HDD, 32MB video card

ESRB rating: T
homepage:
thesims2.ea.com/

release date: Sep 14, 04 (released)

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ACTIONTRIP'S REVIEW Steve: John, the weirdest thing happened to me. John: What was it, Steve? Steve: I had to overclock my PC to play The Sims 2. Did you just make that bubble? Yes. Ewww! I hope they used a mint before this. John: So what'd you put in? Steve: Unleaded of course...

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Jan 09, 04

The Sims 2 Preview
What makes a game sell? We've asked ourselves that same question dozens of times and, for some deranged reason, the word "Sims" always comes up. The Sims games have always been a good example of art imitating life. Let's face it; almost any simulation out there has a reasonable chance of doing well on software sale charts. The Sims accurately mimics real life...

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»	May 29, 03 The Sims 2 Preview The full blown sequel to The Sims, one of the most popular video games in the world, was showcased at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2003. Even though The Sims hasn't always been the hardcore gaming crowd's favorite... » MORE

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»	Oct 05, 2010 Civ V No. 1 in the UK The weekly UK sales (provided by ELSPA) have shown that UK gamers prefer playing Civilization V these days. Well, F1 2010 was the top seller in the UK last week and it looks though the game didn't make into the top 10 this time around. » MORE

»	Oct 21, 2009 Aion Tops PC September Sales We saw this one coming and so have you guys. NCsoft's MMO Aion topped PC sales charts in the US, according to statistics provided by NPD. Here's the full chart (thanks EdgeOnline): 1. » MORE

Aug 05, 2009

The Sims 3 Sells 3.7 Million
The worldwide phenomenon that is The Sims continues to be as financially successful as ever. The Sims 3 sold over 3.7 million units during the product's release month (June 2009), making it one of the fastest-selling PC titles of all time (damn, how many times have I heard that one).

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»	Jul 23, 2009 The Sims 3 Tops June PC Sales Of course it does. Nobody expected otherwise. Check out last month's PC sales (via Gamasutra): 1. The Sims 3 (EA The Sims Studio, Electronic Arts) 2. » MORE

»	Jun 15, 2009 The Sims 3 Completely Outsells Everything Well, last month's sales have shown a more or less traditional bunch of PC games in the chart of top-sellers in the US. However, the latest weekly PC sales prove that gamers are out there buying The Sims 3 like crazy. » MORE

»	Jun 08, 2009 PC Sales: The Sims and Delightful Knitting Patterns While many people have turned to the E3 for the latest scoops on various upcoming games, others seem to enjoy sitting at home and thinking of extremely interesting knitting patterns. » MORE

May 27, 2009

PC Sales: Empire: Total War Returns
As we've witnessed last week, PC gamers are still taking interest in Valve's Left 4 Dead. This week, apart from the usual hypnotized masses that keep buying WoW and The Sims, it looks like gamers are grabbing Empire: Total War off of store shelves once again.

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»	May 19, 2009 PC Sales: L4D Back in Action Let's have a look at another PC weekly sales chart for the US. Things are pretty much the same as always, with WoW and The Sims flooding sales. However, this week Valve's Left 4 Dead is back and the classic Fallout trilogy is still on the chart: 1. » MORE

»	May 15, 2009 PC April Sales: It's Time For Blizzard Again Unlike last month's PC sales chart, which had Creative Assembly's Empire: Total War as the best-selling PC title, the April chart for PC top-sellers in the US shows that Lich King is King once more: 1. » MORE

»	May 13, 2009 PC Sales: Interplay's Fallout Trilogy is Back Well, how about that. The classic Fallout trilogy winds up in the latest weekly PC sales charts for the US. Check it out: NPD's Top 10 (4/26 - 5/2) 1. » MORE

»	May 04, 2009 WoW, It's The Sims! Demigod and Empire: Total War are still selling okay, but it didn't take too long for Wow and The Sims titles to get back on top of US weekly PC sales. » MORE

»	May 01, 2009 Sims 3 to Sell 4M in 2009 Analyst Mike Hickey predicts that EA's approaching game The Sims 3 -- slated to launch during June -- could sell up to 4 million units this year. This means it would surpass sales of The Sims 2, which sold 3. » MORE

»	Apr 27, 2009 PC Sales: Demigod Starts Well In an everlasting battle of weekly PC games sales, mostly occupied by WoW and The Sims releases, there seem to be a few games that managed to break the monotony. » MORE

»	Apr 22, 2009 PC Sales: Hello Nancy & CoH This week's PC sales charts show that Relic's standalone expansion Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor squeezing into 3rd spot, right behind Blizzard's ever-popular Lich King and EA's never-ending life simulation The Sims 2. » MORE

»	Apr 17, 2009 Empire: Total War Outsells WoW in March During March 2009 Creative Assembly's strategy Empire: Total War has been outselling Blizzard's Wow week after week. NPD's chart for the best selling PC games in March, shows the excellent strategy on top of the bunch: 1. » MORE

»	Apr 13, 2009 The Sims Strike Back Last week's charts have shown Blizzard's WoW back on the top as the best selling PC game, with Creative Assembly's Empire: Total War falling into second place. » MORE

»	Apr 07, 2009 Lich King is King Again NPD, once again, releases the weekly PC software chart. During the week of March 22, Blizzard's World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King is back on the top of top ten PC best sellers in the U. » MORE

»	Apr 02, 2009 Empire: Total War Still PC Champion Marketing research firm NPD reminds us that it's time to, once again, go through the list of the best-selling PC games in the US (for the week of March 15). » MORE

»	Mar 24, 2009 Empire: Total War Still Top PC Seller The second week of March shows Creative Assembly's strategy Empire: Total War as the best-selling PC game (chart, as usual, provided by NPD): 1. Empire: Total War 2. » MORE

»	Mar 18, 2009 Empire: Total War Tops PC Charts Empire: Total War makes a splendid debut, securing the first spot on NPD's chart for best selling PC games in the US (for the first week of March): 1. » MORE

»	Mar 12, 2009 Top 20 PC Best-sellers for February New to NPD's monthly top 20 best-selling PC chart are F.E.A.R. 2 and Dawn of War 2. The rest are more or less the same as in last month's chart. Check it out: 1. » MORE

»	Mar 09, 2009 Dawn of War 2 Tops PC Sales Again Relic's real-time strategy Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War 2 was recently became the top-selling PC title in the US, in addition to conquering PC sales charts in other countries (UK, France, Germany, Spain and Australia). » MORE

Mar 02, 2009

Dawn of War 2 Conquers US PC Sales
Monolith's shooter, F.E.A.R. 2, which almost reached the top of the US PC sales last week, has gone down all the way down to number 8. This latest weekly sales (February 15-21, 2009) show that Relic's real-time strategy Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 2 topped all current PC releases.

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»	Feb 24, 2009 PC Sales: F.E.A.R. 2 Almost Tops Lich King Weekly PC game sales (during the week of February 8) show a very good start for Monolith's horror-themed shooter, F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin: 1. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King 2. » MORE

»	Feb 18, 2009 WoW's Unstoppable NPD's latest PC sales chart -- covering the week of February 1 - 7 -- shows that no PC releases have managed to match the success of Blizzard's World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. » MORE

Feb 13, 2009

Top 20 PC Best-sellers for January
Marketing research group NPD released a list of the best-selling in the U.S. during the entire month of January 2009. Well, as one would expect, the list hasn't changed much since last month and once again we witness franchises like The Sims and WoW: 1.

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»	Feb 02, 2009 The Sims Top PC Sales Again NPD's top 10 best selling US PC games (January 18-24th) clearly show that The Sims still manage to outperform World of Warcraft and other PC titles. Check it out: 1. » MORE

»	Jan 17, 2009 The Sims & WoW Heaven You don't want to see this sales chart from NPD, believe me. Oh fine, be like that. Here are the top 20 best-selling PC games in the US during December 2008: 1. » MORE

»	Jan 16, 2009 Best-Selling PC Games of 2008 What on Earth have PC gamers been buying the most in 2008. Well, let's have a gander, shall we (the words, Battle Chest, Sims & Warcraft keep coming up very often): 1. » MORE

»	Jan 12, 2009 The Sims 2 Overthrows Lich King It's a fact. The Sims 2 conquered the PC weekly sales chart (Dec. 28 - Jan. 3), overthrowing Blizzard's popular expansion pack World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King: 1. » MORE

»	Jan 08, 2009 Lich King & The Sims Rule PC Holiday Sales Sales data from NPD shows that World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King and The Sims 2 Double Deluxe (what else?) were the top-selling PC games in the US during the week ending December 27: 1. » MORE

»	Jan 03, 2009 Most Played PC Games of 2008 Take a wild guess. No, seriously, I'm sure you know which game takes the first spot. Look: Top 10 PC Game Titles in the U.S. 1. World of Warcraft (2004) / Blizzard Entertainment 671 Avg Minutes Played Per Week / 0. » MORE

Dec 22, 2008

PC Game Sales: So Much for GTA IV
The PC version of Rockstar's action adventure Grand Theft Auto IV entered PC sales charts last week. Not so this week. The game is nowhere to be seen. Here are the latest weekly top-ten best-sellers for the United States retailers (from December 7-13, 2008): 1.

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»	Dec 16, 2008 Slightly Disappointing GTA IV PC Sales It seems that the heavy competition on the PC market was a bit too much for the poorly optimized PC edition of Rockstar's action adventure Grand Theft Auto IV. » MORE

»	Dec 11, 2008 The Lich King of 'Black Friday' World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King is, once again, a PC top-seller. Check out NPD Group's top 10 best selling games in the US for the week of November 23 – November 29th - so, that's counting Black Friday sales: 1. » MORE

»	Dec 10, 2008 Top 10 Pirated PC Games of 2008 Guess what, Spore was the most pirated PC game this year. According to a list compiled by Torrent-tracking blog TorrentFreak, EA's Spore was illegally downloaded over 1. » MORE

»	Dec 02, 2008 Left 4 Dead & Lich King Lead PC Sales WoW is back on top, as they say. Apart from Blizzard's latest release, Valve seems to be doing great with its PC/360 zombie themed shooter Left 4 Dead. » MORE

»	Nov 15, 2008 Fallout 3 PC Best-seller for October '08 Well, Fallout 3 turned out to be a best-seller on PC weekly sales charts. Not only that, but it also conquered PC sales for the entire month of October. » MORE

»	Nov 12, 2008 Fallout 3 Current PC Best-seller Bethesda's multiplatform RPG sold over 4.7 million units as of last week (that's counting all versinos - Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC). Fallout 3 also topped weekly PC sales. » MORE

»	Oct 21, 2008 Nancy Drew's Back Amongst PC Top Sellers While EA's Spore is still clinging to the top of the weekly PC sales chart, Nancy Drew marks a return. That's right, PC gamers are still buying that shit. » MORE

»	Oct 08, 2008 Spore Still Top Seller The weekly PC sales chart from NPD shows that EA's Spore is currently the best selling PC game. Warhammer Online, obviously, isn't doing too bad either. » MORE

»	Oct 01, 2008 WAR, Crysis Warhead & Clear Sky in PC Charts Fancy that. Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, Crysis: Warhead and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky have all made excellent debuts and have hit the PC top 10 sales chart. » MORE

»	Sep 04, 2008 PC Gamers Return to the Orange Box It seems like PC gamers haven't been into anything besides The Sims and WoW for ages. Oh and we mustn't forget those incredibly alluring Nancy Drew games, which occupied the very top of weekly sales charts for many months this year. » MORE

»	Aug 25, 2008 WoW & The Sims Outsold by Nancy Drew Nancy Drew is back on atop the throne, as the best-selling PC game... well, for the moment anyway. Check out the latest top-sellers from NPD, revealing US sales during the month of... » MORE

»	Aug 19, 2008 WoW Conquers All, Yet Again The latest weekly PC sales chart speaks for itself (this one covers the week of August 3 to August 9, 2008): 1. World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest 2. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe 3. » MORE

»	Aug 12, 2008 The Sims and WoW Still Rule PC Sales The latest NPD chart, covering the week from July 27 to August 2, show that The Sims and World of Warcraft franchises (and other titles from Blizzard and EA) continue to dominate the PC sales. » MORE

»	Aug 04, 2008 Blizzard Conquers PC Sales, But Nothing Beats Nancy Drew Blizzard Entertainment's games are still dominating PC weekly sales charts, albeit it appears Nancy Drew: The Phantom of Venice is currently the best-selling PC game. » MORE

»	Jul 22, 2008 Diablo Still Favored by PC Gamers The latest weekly sales chart from NPD Group indicates that Blizzard's Diablo Battle Chest still sells well in the US (the chart covers sales from July 6 to July 12, 2008). » MORE

»	Jun 30, 2008 Spore Creature Creator Tops PC Sales Chart EA is probably congratulating itself on a job well done. The Spore Creature Creator paid off and it represents an encouraging omen for the future release of the full Spore game. » MORE

»	Jun 11, 2008 Mass Effect and Age of Conan - PC Best-sellers According to the latest top-ten charts (compiled by NPD) for the week ending May 31, Funcom's Age of Conan and BioWare's Mass Effect are what PC gamers are buying the most these days. » MORE

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