The Apartment Life extension has brought a host of new and improved features to extend your gaming experience much closer to real-time experiences. The first improvement that the game offers is the prefab neighborhood so you don’t have to do it all by yourself. The new neighborhood features a large number of apartments as well as unique townhomes. Trailer parks, libraries, coffee shops, and supermarkets have been added to the game to enhance the experience. Added a landmark in the form of a statue of Bella Goth who is a character from The Sims 2 story.
The expansion pack tends to provide a lot more in-game interactions compared to the previous version. These social interactions include “High Five,” “Earth Hug,” “Pretend,” “Kiss, Kiss, Honey,” and “Strong Handshake.” The set of interactions attracts a large number of people to the game improving the experience. There are also special interactions for children in the game. Sims of all ages, except toddlers, can participate in “Classic Dance” or “Jump Rope”.
The extension pack also gives you a way to become a witch and warlock, giving you the unique experience of being a magical creature. All different types of magical creatures have been added ranging from the unfailingly good to the outrageously evil with a unique costume for each depending on their nature. The witch’s experience is similar to what is stated in stories from all over the world with all the objects that persist in the stories like brooms and cauldrons. Spells and mystical effects have been included to make it look as real as in fictional stories.
Apartment living has arrived with a host of new additions to playgrounds including playground equipment, slides, merry-go-rounds, and monkey bars. When it comes to your apartment, new furniture has been added to the game including Murphy bed, open mic stand, break dance mat, garbage chute, apartment mailboxes, vibrating bed, vending machines, witch themed furniture , as well as new televisions. and a large fish tank.
The build mode also has a couple of additions compared to the original game. Spiral staircases, elevators, built-in cabinets, visible ceilings, ducts, vents, and heating and cooling windows have been added along with a new variety of new walls, floors, garage doors, and door styles to make it look even more attractive than before. . The two new additions to transportation are helicopters and witches’ broomsticks. The build mode features add new life to the apartment and give you options to create an apartment of your own choice with all the color customizations with the wallpapers, tiles and the like.
The apartment life extension comes with some non-playing characters as well as playing ones. These include butlers, landlords, roommates, and non-gaming neighbors. Once you move your players to an apartment, the NPCs will move to the next vacancies.
Added reward meter feature that adds to your reputation every time you engage in something positive and help someone. The higher this meter is, the more rewards you will get to improve your in-game status. You can win in terms of your occupation, inspiration and life. There are some life skills that occur naturally in your life that Sims need to learn to get better at playing the game. These include fire prevention, anger management, happiness for life, physiology, and relationship counseling.
The apartment extension also gives players the option to live in apartments with high or low rent districts, and also gives the option to play with four user-controlled families within the apartment building. The player also has the option to opt for a roommate. You can only think about the roommate and not control it, since it will be one of the NPCs. Before making the selection, you can see how satisfied the roommate is before you can finalize having them in your apartment.
The Sims 2, Apartment life brings a lot of great features to enhance the gameplay and make it an enjoyable experience for game lovers. The extension pack has almost many of the features that used to be in previous commercially available extension packs, including the elevators that were in the building extension pack and some more similar things previously offered by extension packs. The new and added features offered by this extension pack are equally attractive because they provide great gameplay features that make the game even more like real-time life experience.
Owners, new items and the reputation meter are new features that it adds and give you a close to life experience. There are a total of 14 soundtracks that this game pack includes in the package, giving you an even more engaging experience. The game is one of the top ranked on all major game rating platforms.