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The Sims 2: FreeTime

The Sims 2: FreeTime
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North American box art
Developer(s) The Sims Division
Publisher(s) Electronic Arts
Designer(s) Lakshmi Jayapalan
Series The Sims
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows
Release
  • EU: February 22, 2008
  • NA: February 26, 2008
  • AU: February 28, 2008
  • EU: February 29, 2008
Genre(s) Life simulation game
Mode(s) Single-player
Aggregate score
Aggregator Score
Metacritic 74/100
Review scores
Publication Score
Eurogamer 6/10
GamesRadar 6/10
GameZone 7.0/10
IGN 8.3/10
PC Gamer (UK) 83%
PC Zone 70%
NZGamer.com 8.5/10
Game Chronicles 8.5/10

The Sims 2: FreeTime is the seventh expansion pack in the The Sims 2 video game series.

A flyer included in The Sims 2: Bon Voyage expansion pack and The Sims 2 Teen Style Stuff announced this expansion and read: "Now your Sims can enjoy hobbies! Your Sims will have fun taking up a variety of creative, intellectual, or active leisure-time pursuits. They can even meet Sims that share their interests and expand their social relationships. Develop your Sims' skills while they pursue their true pastime passions. Will your Sims stumble reaching for new goals or find a new sense of fulfillment?"

With this expansion, Sims can pursue employment in five new careers including dance, entertainment, intelligence, oceanography and architecture.

The ten hobbies included in the expansion pack are fitness, cooking, music/dance, sports, nature, science, films/literature, gaming, tinkering, and arts/crafts. Every Sim is created with a predetermined "preferred" hobby which cannot be modified by the player. While the bar is filled, the Sim is "in the zone", shown graphically as a white glow around the Sim; causing their needs to decay more slowly than usual, as to allow extra time on that hobby.


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