Aspyr Media Inc. on Friday announced that its long-awaited Mac conversion of The Sims 2 has gone gold master, and will soon begin shipping. Aspyr will provide further details including a ship date sometime next week.
The Sims 2 is the sequel to the blockbuster game that puts you in charge of Sims, simulated people who live out their lives in your computer, pursuing careers, creating families, making friends and more. The Sims 2 is an entirely new game using a sophisticated new 3D graphics engine and introducing many new attributes to the game that will challenge experience Sims players.
“This game uses the most sophisticated 3D graphics we’ve ever put in a game,” Glenda Adams, Aspyr’s director of development, told MacCentral . The detailed OpenGL shaders used in the game exceed even that seen in Doom 3, she said. Despite that, the game runs well on a wide variety of Macintosh hardware thanks to myriad optimizations.
In The Sims 2, players pick one of five “aspirations” that will take their Sims through an entire lifetime: Popularity, Fortune, Family, Knowledge and Romance. Every choice you make affects the Sim’s fulfillment and happiness. Also new in this release is genetics, which passes the DNA of Sims from one generation to the next.
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The Sims 2 is rated T for Teen by the ESRB and costs US$49.99.
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Aspyr Media Inc. has confirmed plans to publish a Macintosh version of The Sims 2. It's the sequel to the best-selling PC game of all time and an enormously popular Mac game as well. The announcement indicated that Aspyr is developing the game at its own internal development studio -- Aspyr indicates that the company will release the game in May, 2005.
The Sims 2 is a virtual life simulation game, where you create and influence the actions of simulated people -- Sims -- as they live, work and interact with each other. The Sims 2 extends the concept of the original game literally from cradle to grave, and adds more life-like qualities in Sims like aspirations -- Popularity, Family, Fortune, Knowledge and Romance. What's more, The Sims 2 employs genetics, so the DNA of Sims is passed down from generation to generation.
A new 3D engine powers the game, and users can make their own Sim films with a new movie-making feature that lets you create a cast, set the stage, control the camera and set your own screenplay in motion. The new 'Create-A-Sim' feature lets users develop their own Sims' facial features, hairstyles and outfits. You can also create custom homes and dwellings for your sims using new building, design and home furnishing options.
The news first came to light early Tuesday when a press release published by the UK arm of game publishing giant Electronic Arts indicated that Aspyr will indeed publish the Mac version of The Sims 2. It appears that EA's enthusiasm about the Macintosh version may have gotten the better of EA and Aspyr. Historically, Aspyr has always published its own press releases announcing its publishing schedule. Since originally publishing this article earlier today, MacCentral has received confirmation from Aspyr that it is publishing The Sims 2 and has posted a mini-Web site with a few more details.
It's no secret that EA has had its eyes on a Mac version of The Sims for a while. As a privately held company, Aspyr doesn't share its openly share its sales numbers, but most people in the industry consider the Mac version of The Sims to be the Mac game industry's best-selling title ever. Earlier this year in an online interview Maxis general manager Neil Young confirmed plans to bring the title to the Mac platform, though he stopped short of offering any specifics. This is the first time either company has offered concrete information about The Sims 2's Mac status.
System requirements for The Sims 2 call for Mac OS X v10.3.4 or later, G4/1GHz or faster, 256MB RAM, 4.2GB free hard disk space, ATI Radeon 8500 or Nvidia GeForce2 MX or better 3D graphics with at least 32MB VRAM and DVD drive. Aspyr's own Project Status Web page indicates that the game is currently in early development and will be published in May, 2005.
Updated 3:20PM 10/19/04: Official information from Aspyr added, including system requirements and release date.
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- I don't have a Mac, but I can tell you that both of those (Apartment Life, and Free Time) will add quite a bit of enjoyment to your game. To give you a little bit of an idea of what they will add, you can check out these links.
http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/The_Sims_2:_FreeTime
http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/The_Sims_2:_Apartment_Life - I don't have a Mac, but I can tell you that both of those (Apartment Life, and Free Time) will add quite a bit of enjoyment to your game. To give you a little bit of an idea of what they will add, you can check out these links.
http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/The_Sims_2:_FreeTime
http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/The_Sims_2:_Apartment_Life
It is possible to purchase a Windows license and install Windows though Boot Camp but you'll need to own The Sims 2 on PC (such as the CD/DVD or Ultimate Collection) to play it.
In addition to The Sims 2 FreeTime and The Sims 2 Apartment Life, there are also Stuff Packs that are released on Windows.1 - I have been wondering it too. I have a mac and I did bootcamp mine. It caused lots of issues and in the end I had to rebuild my macbook pro. which meant loosing sims 2 UC I had been playing. I'm looking at getting the super collection because of this and the desktop I'm trying to get to work won't on the install. I have thread on that if anyone thinks they can help.0
- It's definitely worth it! I've had it for a year now, and I've been playing non-stop. Yeah, Apartment Life and Free Time made Sims 2 really fun, but it's still good without those two EPs.
- I have it, and it's worth getting if you loved Sims 2. It's a little disappointing not having the other stuff packs and expansions, but the game runs beautifully.
- Honestly I find it satisfying. Having had the Mansions and Garden stuff, I miss the building capacity that title permitted in the series, and I also had H&M fashion stuff too. The visuals are far better than I remember them being, despite having a very high end HP PC back in the day on my New MacBook Pro, it looks every bit as stunning as on my older MacBook Pro. I just wish there would be a bundle or a pay to play extra which would include the rest for like 20 or 30 more bucks. I would have been okay way that. AT LEAST custom content can be downloaded via some of the good sites like thesimsresource and parsimonious and modthesims.
- It's super worth it, it runs surprisingly well on the mac. Those 2 EP's are fun, but they aren't compatible with mac. So if you're looking for the sims 2 that'll actually work for you, it's pretty much your only option that isn't gonna either not work on your computer at all or seriously mess up your computer in the process
- It is definitely worth it but I have started contacting Aspyr to see if Freetime & Apartment Life will be ported for Mac in the future.
Any Sims game is worth it!
I thought I’d follow up on my earlier first look at The Sims 2 with a final review of this sequel to the very popular Mac game. The Sims 2 follows the same ground rules as the original: you must guide simulated people called sims through their daily lives, helping them make decisions that will affect their careers, emotional well-being, and relationships.
Version 2 adds the concept of Aspirations—your sims now come with dreams and goals that you must try to fulfill. The game also has a genetics component that lets sims pass their own traits down to their kids. You can even create custom sims that look like you.
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All told, The Sims 2 is a technically impressive game that adds many new features to an already proven formula. And believe it or not, The Sims 2 uses some of the most sophisticated and demanding 3-D graphics ever seen in a Mac game. A 1.2GHz or faster machine is absolutely mandatory. Owners of ATI graphics cards will want to update their cards with the latest drivers and firmware from ATI —this made a big difference with my X800 card.
The bottom line
The Sims 2 provides many more challenges for ardent fans of this simulated life genre, provided your Mac has the horsepower to run it.
The Sims 2
RATING:
PROS: New 3-D engine; support for genetics and aspirations adds to the challenge.
CONS: Higher system demands than the original; old expansion packs aren’t compatible.
PRICE AS RATED: $50
OS COMPATIBILITY: OS X 10.3 and higher
COMPANY: Aspyr Media Vice city game.