At last on the following night I met a vampire called Daisy (yes really!) but this being the Sims completely failed to make friends with her, but this is when my experience playing the game really counted, as I immediately went home, phoned her and talked her ears off, until she at least vaguely liked me! I was very thankful that vampires had phones! Ok, but at least I knew they really existed now and was determined not to give up. until finally I saw a vampire just got in my car to go home! Aaaarrgghhh! Lucian went to a different venue each night, but still wasn't having much luck. I went out every night after work, which was quick and easy to do thanks to my new car. I gave the Gypsy just over 1000 and my date turned out miserably, so a lesson quickly learned!Īfter being dragged out on several more Outings, I still hadn't found any vampires, so I decided I would put more effort into it. So Lucian and company all went to a Bowling Alley, I was happy to find that the Group Outing meter was surprisingly easy to fill and both my sim and I had a great time.įor a while I worked at my job and skill points, to make some more money and then decided to try the Gypsy Matchmaker where you can choose to donate up to 5000 simoleans you can choose whether your date is male or female. You are given a certain amount of time to fill a meter to indicate various levels of happiness. The first big difference I noticed is that my sim's friends kept phoning him up and asking him if he'd like to go out Downtown so I agreed and this is when another of the new features kicked in it seemed I had to make sure all my sim's friends had a good time. Soon after moving in, a Gypsy Matchmaker called by offering to set Lucian up with a new date, but I decided to leave that for a while and I quickly got back down to living the life of a normal sim and making new friends. So Lucian moved into his new house, which I decorated in suitably sombre colours, then I also brought him a new black pickup truck and took the criminal career path, as if Lucian was planning on becoming a vampire, I guessed I had better work nights? I also selected the new life Aspiration of Pleasure, which seemed to mean it was hard to keep my sim at home for any length of time! Several new clothing options are also available. When creating a sim, new options are now available, like choosing what turns your sim on and off when finding a date of course I immediately choose vampirism as one of my sim's turn-ons. I decided to create a new sim, in the new Downtown area and gave him the incredibly bad name of Lucian Vampyre. The look is dark and rather ominous, so appealed to me straight away. Downtown has a small area with houses but is mainly community lots featuring nightclubs and restaurants and places to take your sim out on dates. On entering the game I headed straight for the new Downtown community, which is linked from the main areas, the same way as the University expansion. So upon reading a bit more about the Nightlife and the enclosed manual, I like many others new to this expansion, was immediately attracted by the idea of becoming a vampire and owning my own car! Things were already starting to look up! Although I had to sacrifice another 1.5GB of hard disc space to the game. My PC is rather old (1.2 Athlon, 800mb memory, G-Force 2), but Sims 2 has always run pretty well and the new expansion happily did not cause any problems, other than being rather slow in the community lots. Nightlife installed easily enough, much smoother and quicker than the main game and the University expansion did. Also compared to the last expansion nothing much new seemed to be added other than a new community lot area, so I came to Nightlife with rather low expectations. The first Sims 2 expansion Sims 2 University, offered a whole new gaming experience, one that I still haven't completely got to grips with, but was loads of fun nevertheless so when I first heard about the Sims 2 Nightlife I was a little disappointed, as the whole idea of your sim going on dates was covered in an expansion pack for the first game. I have been a huge fan of the Sims from the very beginning and have become equally addicted to its sequel The Sims 2.
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