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"The Sims 2 Nightlife" Strategy Guide Review

About.com Rating three out of Five

By Courtney Marchelletta, About.com

The Bottom Line

If you have hours to spend, you will eventually figure out the majority of what "The Sims 2 Nightlife" Strategy Guide has to offer. The guide is great to have when you first get the game, otherwise most of the content you can get pretty easier. Because of the cost, I recommend the guide only to fans who get to play a limited amount of time and want to get the most out of the game quickly and easily.

Pros

  • full color pages
  • covers new features in detail

Cons

  • high price
  • no index

Description

  • Publisher: Prima Games
  • ISBN: 076155145X
  • Pages: 224
  • Chapter 1: What's New in The Sims 2 Nightlife, Chapter 2: Downtown & the Sundry New Features
  • Chapter 3: New Aspirations, Chapter 4: Attraction and Chemistry, Chapter 5: Going Out
  • Chapter 6: New Objects, Chapter 7: New Socials, Chapter 8: New NPCs
  • Chapter 9: New Relationships: Furious, Rivals, and Contacts, Chapter 10: The Life Vampiric,
  • Chapter 11: Build Mode Additions, Chapter 12: Downtown, Chapter 13: Cheats
  • Chapter 14: Jobs by Career Level, Chapter 15: Social Interaction Directory, Chapter 16: Objects

Guide Review - "The Sims 2 Nightlife" Strategy Guide Review

This time the guide doesn't include all of the material from "The Sims" strategy guide. It only has a few of the chapters, namely the career track chart, social interactions, and objects. Cutting a huge amount of pages out of the guide still didn't cut the price back.

"The Sims 2 Nightlife" Strategy Guide covers the new features and the basic strategy on how to take best advantage of the gameplay, like the dating and vampires. It's good to have to learn how to set up the groups (and figure out what they are) and get some ideas on how to start dating. I would have liked to seen a sample first date with someone you still have a relatively low relationship score. The content isn't all basic info and how too. There are a few tips that you may not have noticed otherwise. The biggest example that I wouldn't have thought of is skipping out on the bill.

Instead of buying the book, I recommend buying the e-guide at the Prima Games Website. It's half the cost and a much better price for the content. Especially since you will figure out much of it on your own or read about it online.

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