| The Sims 2: FreeTime | 
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| List Price: $29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 40 reviews)
Sales Rank: 556
Category: Video Games
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Studio: Electronic Arts
Brand: Electronic Arts
Label: Electronic Arts
Format: Cd
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Xp
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: 0
Memorabilia: 0
Batteries Included: 0
Age: 12 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 15371
UPC: 014633153712
EAN: 0014633153712
ASIN: B000VSEF52
Release Date: February 26, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | Discover new activity types | | • | New group activities | | • | Hobbies offer lifetime rewards | | • | Requires select Sims 2 titles to play | | • | (See Product Description for more details) |
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Product Description
Now your Sims can rediscover the joys of leisure time! Awaken your Sims' true passions in life as they discover and excel at all-new activities. Whether they're tossing a football with the family, practicing ballet, restoring cars with friends, or building train sets, your Sims now have more ways to build skills, enhance friendships, and make their lives more successful. Craft new, unique items for your Sims to use in their daily lives including clothing, pottery, and more. Your Sims will even unlock secret rewards by mastering their hobbies and advancing all-new careers. Explore a wide variety of new hobbies that will change your Sims' lives!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 35 more reviews...
Lots of New Stuff September 26, 2008
Free Time adds many new dimensions to the Sims2 gaming experience. I did enjoy building my own robots and restoring old cars. There is so much to do now that if it were possible maybe too much.
Good but glitchy. September 6, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Sims 2: Free Time EP gives you Sim the opportunity to have hobbies. Sims can now have many interests which include Cuisine, Nature, Music and Dance, Sports, Fitness, Arts and Crafts, and Tinkering plus a few others. You can use older items from the Sims to build Sims interest in their hobbies. The easel is builds up interst in Arts and Crafts, the telescope increases interest in Science, and the swimming pool increases interest in Fitness. Sims can "tinker" with the showers, bathtubs and garbage disposals. It also inclues new items like the car for Tinkering, a pottery wheel and sewing machine for Arts and Crafts, and ballet bar for Music and Dance. When Sims build up interest (similar to building skill points) they open up different options like the ability to talk about their hobby, read about their hobby, and blog about it. They can also subscribe to hobby magazines and gain memberships to clubs on secret lots. When the interest is maxed out Sims get "in the zone" and their needs go down more slowly. Sims also get a Lifetime aspiration meter and can get a Secondary Aspiration.
This EP also includes some much wanted new items for babies and toddlers. There is a new style of baby furniture items, including a crib with a canopy, and the activity table which toddlers and children can build their mechanical and creativity skill points. The activity table is my favorite new item included in this EP.
The downside to this EP is that it has some problems. The Sims needs decline much more quickly with this EP. It's is hard to build up hobby interest when the Sims energy, hunger, and hygiene go down very quickly. Another issue is that the nannies refuse to use any of the new baby items that came with Free Time. They won't put the babies in the crib and they won't use the new changing table. Instead they lay the babies on the floor and change them in the middle of the room, leaving a dirty diaper laying there. Other people have complained that the EP is incompatible with the kitchen and bath items from the Kitchen and Baths Stuff Pack. The Sims cannot tinker with the new showers or tubs and they can't get leftovers or make platters with the new fridges. However, EA games does have a patch on the Sims 2 website that fixes some of these issues. I think this EP is definitely worth getting but it definitely requires the patch.
 LOVE IT !! August 30, 2008
This EP is soooo much fun. There are many hobbies you can get your sims into! But sometimes my sims aint got "time" to do any of them because they need to study for promotions and college! lol Anywho, you do get a lot of phone calls from "hobby people" all the time, but I ignore them. Oh and they may walk up in your sims house while sitting on the toilet. lol (ignore it). If you are able to play the Apt Life EP, you have the option to screen and silent calls. Awesome!
The secret lots in this game are alright I guess. I love doing the cook-offs and dance contests.
Cool new kitchen appliances, furniture, walls, floors, hair and outfits.
Your sims hobbies are predestined depending on personality and whatnot but I found a mod to change them at simswardrobe.com...so i'm good. lol
I'm not sure about the whole securom thing, but i have had no problems, eventhough I worry that I will have issues when I play or load a new EP/SP.
I could probably write more, but...basically I love this EP.
Freetime fun August 16, 2008
I really enjoyed this expansion and I just wish I had more free time to play it.
like the sims to have hobbies August 10, 2008
In the game the sims 2 there is a new expansion pack with stuff to do when you are not doing like games sports cusine tikering science nature music and dance and arts and crarts in the game you get to have a hobby you play the hobby intill you get into the zone there is new stuff for the game like a new toddler table new craddle and changing table violin basketball net and more if you love I think you should buy it
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