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: The Sims Revised & Expanded: Prima's Official Strategy Guide

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 794
EAN: 9780761537144
ISBN: 0761537147
Label: Prima Games
Manufacturer: Prima Games
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: July 27, 2001
Publisher: Prima Games
Release Date: August 21, 2001
Sales Rank: 227956
Studio: Prima Games



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Product Description:

All new section on downloadable skins, objects, houses, and families
Step-by-step info on creating families and homes, and dealing with disasters
Advanced methods for keeping your Sims healthy and happy
Cheat codes exposed
Complete tables for every Sims career
All new Political career diary: tells you how to shake the right hands on your way to the Mayor's mansion



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - The Front Half of every other Sims Prima Guide.
Being "Revised & Expanded" I hoped would give extra info on the Game..
If you've ever purchased any Sims Guide for the Newer Expansion Packs, you basically have all this in the first half of the guide.

Prima assumes that you just bought The Sims & The Expansion Pack that you are buying the Prima guide for..

If no more expansion packs for Sims 1 are coming out, I would appreciate a large one volume Prima Guide, Instead of wasting paper on the first half of the guide, book after book after book...


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Nothing but worthless or wrong information
I ordered this book expecting something comparable to Prima's strategy guide for SimCity 3KU (which is huge, rich, and utterly indispensible). Not even remotely. I knew I was in trouble when the table of contents did not match the pagination of the book (and it was way off -- not just by a page or two).

Most of this too-slim-for-the-price volume is pure filler: a grainy B&W photo catalog of all the objects Sims can buy (information which is readily accessible within the game, and of little strategic value anyhow), and way, way too many tedious B&W screenshots of the author's own gameplay, supposedly for illustration.

It contains a few bits of useful information -- such as detailed tables of the Careers (jobs, hours, salary, promotion criteria) -- all of which and more is available on the Web.

It also contains enough glaring falsehoods (e.g., that Sim kids can't use dishwashers) to suggest that the author played the game just long enough to crank out this piece of softbound kindling .

If you're really interested in getting the most out of the game, do yourself a favor: give this book a miss and head for one of the thousands of fan sites and BBSs instead.


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Sims guides ??
cool stuff, but how much of this isn't available free, online, if you bothered to look ?? A great purchase for the lazy (and Newbies - Bob or otherwise) but if you have the slightest motivation Google has cleared it all up for you already.


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Good - But there is better
If you want this book - and you have any of the add on packs - buy The Sims: 5 Complete Strategy Guides, it is cheaper than buying any 2 of the other packs together, and you can get them special with sims unleashed(lets all see how long that lasts). But this book alone is a great buy, even with an add on pack.


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Sims Guide: Looks good, does nothing
This book isn't a very good guide. much of the stuff in it you can work out yourself. it is good for a first time player perhaps, but it can be boring with small print, lots of tables and charts, and only small black & white pictures. if youre an experienced player, give it a miss

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