The Sims 2

In The Sims 2, your Sims will be more lifelike, more responsive, and more complex than ever before. You'll be able to control your Sims over their entire lifetimes, taking them from their first steps to their…

71 14 September 2004 41 cheats

Role-playing (RPG) Simulator Strategy Comedy Fantasy Romance Sandbox

The Sims 2 is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Maxis, released 14 September 2004 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). This page lists 41 cheat codes for it.

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What The Sims 2 is

The Sims 2 is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Maxis and released in 2004. It was published by Aspyr Media. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on The Sims 2 Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game starts at the neighborhood level. Here you can create a housing development from scratch or start with one of three pre-made neighborhoods, each with its own theme. From there, you'll settle on a house and a family of Sims to control. Sims now have aspirations, wants, and fears. The wants and fears are the day-to-day things that occupy their minds, like wanting to see friends or get married and fearing death or being rejected for a kiss. Satisfy their wants, and they become more efficient at completing tasks you assign them. Realize their fears, and Sims become lethargic, cranky, and unresponsive to your commands. Aspirations are the big-picture things, like raising a family…

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are comedy, fantasy, romance and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the The Sims series

The Sims 2 is the 13th of 227 entries we hold in the The Sims series. It arrived 9 months after The Sims Bustin' Out. The next entry was The Urbz: Sims in the City in 2004. Its critic score of 71 is almost exactly the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is The Sims 4: Parenthood at 90.

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How it was received

The Sims 2 holds a critic score of 71 out of 100. That places it above 39% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 75, across 552 votes.

What it launched against

The Sims 2 launched on 14 September 2004, within three weeks of Rome: Total War, Fable, Burnout 3: Takedown and Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Rome: Total War, Fable, Burnout 3: Takedown, Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald.

Cheats and codes

We have tested and published 41 cheat entries for The Sims 2 — 5 cheat codes and 36 console commands. Each one lists the platform it applies to, the exact input, and whether it disables achievements.

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