PC Game: The Sims 2Nightlife Expansion Pack

	Publisher:	EA Games
	Developer:	Maxis
	Genre:	Strategy/Simulation
	Release Date:	September 13, 2005
	ESRB Rating:	Teen (13+) Crude Humor Suggestive Themes Violence

I bought the Nighlife expansion pack yesterday. Spending most of my game time building houses, I want the expansion pack because it allows you to put in a garage. That also means the sims can now own cars and use them too to visit community lots instead of calling for a taxi. This is in contrast to the car objects in the original sims which were merely decorative. Another thing I like is that one can now have restaurants in community lots, as the podium and industrial stove objects automatically gives you a chef, at least one waiter/server, and a host.

For those who like to play characters, they would enjoy the dating feature ... there is even a gypsy matchmaker to help sims look for dates. For those who don't like ordinary human looking sims, they can have their sims transformed into a vampire. As another website noted, the Sims2 initially gave us aliens, then University gave us zombies, now Nightlife gives us vampires.

How I ended up buying Nightlife

I was in the mall, there was an hour before the movie starts, so I end up going to the computer game store to see if they've got Nightlife. Ended up buying myself a copy.

For someone who's mostly into building SIM houses, I just love the half walls, the additions to the pool tools (I've had enough of the drab square and rectangular ones), the driveway/garage builder, and the new furniture. Seeing the neighbor's house is also one cool trick.

Had to uninstall the old SIMS game though to make space for more expansion packs. I play SIMS2 mostly anyway.