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Advantages: Allows you to escape reality like never before!
Disadvantages: You may forget about reality a little too much...

...and shamelessly scribbled cheats from the internet in front of me, I have decided to break free from the magnetic suck of The Sims 2 University just long enough to draw the rest of you in.... Let's start at the very beginning: Once you have installed the Sims University and you enter a normal neighborhood, you will be prompted to choose a University for it. You get a choice of 3, all with different features, or you can make your own from scratch! If ... Read review

Advantages: Offers a pretty realistic approach to university
Disadvantages: Stops the other generations and time doesn't follow properly

...you already have. So, with the university expansion, not only do your sims get the university experience, but you get a whole host of new items, such as new furniture, outfits and places to go. The brilliance of this expansion is its close reality to the real life university experience. Your sim gets to choose its Major, and works on their assignments and goes to lectures in order to get the best mark possible. When you decide that your sim ... Read review

Advantages: Adds a new dimension to the original platform game
Disadvantages: Very time consuming to achieve results

So you bought The Sims 2, and though you were hooked for a while, you began to lose interest a bit and released that you do actually have a life of your own to run, instead of spending all your time ensuring the happiness of your Sims families. Time passes by, and you enjoy the benefits of a social life, and then... like a bat out of hell, The Sims 2 University expansion pack bursts on to the scene. "Oh no!" I hear you cry! Just as you had reajusted ... Read review

Advantages: zombies! new life stage and items, new interactions
Disadvantages: none

...adds a whole new neighbourhood, the college neighbourhood to the the game. On the sims 2 deluxe there is an icon for this neighbourhood although it doesn't load unless you have this expansion pack. The main thing this pack allows sims to do is go to college - teenage sims can go to college where they become young adults, a new stage of life introduced to the game with this pack. This life stage only happens to sims going to college though, other ... Read review

Advantages: adds to the game, more challenging
Disadvantages: can be slow, a few bugs, must have sims 2

...been living under a rock?) The Sims is the bestselling simulation game series from Maxis, a subsidiary (is that the right word) of Electronic Arts Games. Other titles include Sim City and Sim Rollercoaster, but the original Sims game was, apparently, the biggest selling game of all time, for outperforming their other simulation games., and spawning a multitude of expansion packs (inlcuding Livin' it up, Makin' Magic and Hot Date to name a few) ***System ... Read review

Advantages: great game, improves original sims 2
Disadvantages: none really

The Sims 2 University is the first expansion pack to the bestselling Sims 2 PC game, the sequal to the world famous The Sims. This expansion pack allows you to play the Sims 2 game with added features and items, which the pack adds on. For example: As well as having baby, toddler, child, teen, adult and elderly sims, you now have the age group young adult when teens go to university before becoming adults. Here they study a major found in the ... Read review

Advantages: Extra wants, more time to gain skills
Disadvantages: It can get a bit dull working through the terms

The Sims 2 is the sequel to the most popular game of all time. It is a virtual dolls' house, set in a neighborhood which you can create and modify as much as you like. With Sims 2, your sims can grow from babyhood to old age, get married, have children of their own and produce complicated extended families. The aim of The Sims 2 is to make your sims life as good as possible by fulfilling their wants and avoiding their fears. Not only will this ... Read review

Advantages: The Sims University Pack brings a whole new generation to the life of your Sims.
Disadvantages: No disadvatages that I can find in the expansion pack at all.

...to me because I have the first addition and this, as it is made to do, expands the enjoyment I already have as a Sims2 Player. I am thrilled that my Sims now have a whole new dimension to life. They can now study hard in School ... not just to stop them from being taken away to Boot Camp anymore, But to get them a good line of scholarships in preperation for University. Your Sims with enough scholarships can enter the local Sims University with ... Read review

Advantages: Lots of new features
Disadvantages: Can be slow

This is the first Sims 2 expansion pack, I made sure that I pre-ordered so it arrived on day of release. I always keep up to date with The Sims 2 news etc. and I really liked the sound of this expansion pack and I wasn't disappointed. PRICE; I ordered off the Internet for £14.99, this was the main price around England, and I thought it was great value for money. PACKAGING; With it being in a DVD case, it takes up hardly any space, and can ... Read review

Advantages: Adds more gameplay
Disadvantages: Takes longer to load pages

Fantastic game! With the sims 2 University there over 125+ new items. There is now a new stage of life, a young adult. To become this your teens will have to go to college and while they are working through their semesters, your sims back at home will not age (unless of course you play them). One of the awards sims can now get is a Cow Plant. This cow plant will eat your sims by luring them with a piece of cake. Once a sim has been eaten, other sims ... Read review

Advantages: more items/scenarios, more control, and a boost to romantics, socialites and wannabe geniuses!
Disadvantages: not exactly speedy, baby boomers cant have kids as soon as they'd like!

The Sims 2 is a fantastic game but sometimes players need to inject a bit more excitement. This extension kept me well entertained, as it gives a sense of further control over your sim's life and a sense of achievement is felt when your sim is in grad robes with a degree in his/her inventory! This extension pack really helps those who tend to opt for popularity, knowledge or romance aspirations. The chances of meeting (and kissing etc) new people ... Read review

Advantages: Great fun to play, adds to the Sims experience
Disadvantages: complicated at first. very addictive

The Sims 2 University is the first expansion pack for the Sims 2. With this expansion pack, you gain a whole new life stage "young adult". You have a choice of two Universities per neighbourhood. Teenage Sims receive a grant depending on their marks at school, and their University adventure can begin. Once they arrive at University, the game is quite realistic. Sims have a choice of living in a Dorm (Hall of Residence) or renting a house. When ... Read review