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*Each sim has their own special DNA
*Sims can age from baby, toddler, teen, adult, old farts (old farts sooner or later die)
*You can cut your sims hair
*The kids look like their parents
*Houses can have a basement and up to 4 levels
*It is 3D
*Sims actually cook stuff such as lobster
*Each food your sim cooks you have to go gocery shoping for the ingriedents
*The higher cooking skill your sim has the more stuff they can cook
*Sims are more aware. example: If a girl sim is taking a bath in front of a window a boy sim can look in and watch
When you create your sims you will be able to chose eyes and their colour, hair syle and it's colour, make up, and with the nose, cheeks and lips you can stretch them, make them thinner or fatter, wider, etc .Your sims can age- baby/toddler/child/teen/adult/grandparent/death (you can turn the aging off)
.Sims have weekends
.Your sims will have a diary and they record special moments like their first kiss etc
.Teens, adults, and grandparents can get jobs
.Your sims will have DNA so they look like their parents
.You can have three stories to a house (not 4, that's are rumour)
.Houses can be built on hills
.Doors and windows can be placed diagonally
.There are tons more interactions! Like a 'Grandma hug' which a kid will give it's granny.
.The Sims 2 is totally 3D.
.You can zoom in very close and turn the camera round at ease (not 3 zooming in and 4 rotations)
.Sims are more life like eg they have facial expressions and fingers.
.Sims hair will swing when they walk and they will act appropriatly around different people.
.You will be able to tell if a sim is shy or lazy etc by their body language. For example, a shy sim might rub their arm or look down.
These are only a fraction of the improvements on The Sims 2, to find out more go on to
www.thesims2.ea.com or
www.the-sims-2.com
There you will find screenshots, videos and news about The Sims 2!
Also if you want to see some pics of creating a sim then go onto
http://www.itavisen.no/art/1301209.html (it's in a different language but their are some good pictures)