The Bottom Line
"The Sims 2 Strategy Guide" is a must have for Simmers who are just starting to explore the game and/or love to pour over the tables of data about interactions and careers.
Pros
- full color pages
- covers a large range of topics from pregancy to interactions
Cons
- much of the material can be discovered through normal gameplay
- no index
Description
- Publisher: Prima Games, ISBN: 0761542922, 366 full color pages
- Part 1: The Basics, Getting Started
- Part 2: Creating Neighborhoods, Families, and Sims
- Part 3: It's a Lot Like Life; covers aspirations, six ages of life, skills, and more)
- Part 4: All in the Family
- Part 5: Beyond the Game; covers build mode, story mode, The Sims 2 Body Shop.
Guide Review - "The Sims 2 Strategy Guide"
"The Sims 2 Strategy Guide" is typical of other strategy guides created for "The Sims" series. The chapters start out covering the basics of creating a family, getting a job, and the stages of life. The majority of the information can be discovered through normal gameplay without any experiments.
The guide is good sized at over 300 pages. Finding specific information, however, is not always easy. The table of contents does not get specific and there is no index. Which means to a lot of flipping through pages and time waste.
If the book had an index it would almost be perfect, besides the few errors found in the book. Which is expected since strategy guides are often written before the game is in its final stages of development. The guide is handy to have while playing and to skip the trial and error process that comes with learning a new game.
