Video Games : The Sims 2: Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Stuff

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: The Sims 2: Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Stuff

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Binding: Video Game
Brand: Electronic Arts
EAN: 0014633157802
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Format: CD
Label: Electronic Arts
Manufacturer: Electronic Arts
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Sales Rank: 484
Studio: Electronic Arts

Features:

Give your Sims the right attire and accessories to enjoy their brand-new kitchens and bathrooms including a hair turban, spa mask, cooking aprons and luxuriant cashmere pullovers for around the house.
Update your Sims' kitchen with that sleek new look you've been dreaming about with a stylish refrigerator, food processor, toaster oven, and more.
Renovate the kitchen into the warmest room in the house with romantic touches including new themed wallpaper, wood-carved counters, and ceiling-mounted hanging pot racks.
Make your Sims' bath time a modern experience with contemporary design options such as elegant sectional mirrors, quad-quadrant ceiling lighting with a modern flair, and graceful countertop basin sinks.
Indulge your Sims in a romantic bathroom complete with cozy new tiles, fancy towel racks, romantic paintings, designer rugs, and much more.

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Must-Have Stuff to Redesign Your Sims' Kitchens and Bathrooms!

Electronic Arts continues to release solid expansions for the ever popular Sims series and Kitchens and Bathrooms is definitely no exception. Redesign your Sims' essential living areas into the most luxurious of spaces. Transform the bathroom into a romantic getaway with charming claw-foot bathtubs and calming lighting fixtures or give it a contemporary twist with beautiful glass showers, basin sinks, and more. Renovate your Sims' home and really begin to class up their lives with tons of different appliances and clothing to choose from.

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Create Elegant Bathrooms...
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Redesign your kitchen as you upgrade it with sleek appliances on granite counter tops or romantic natural wood cabinets next to wrought iron stoves. Outfit your Sims in the perfect clothes and accessories to enjoy their lavish new rooms, from sumptuous spa robes to designer cooking aprons. Be your Sims' personal interior designer! Give them the kitchens and bathrooms of their dreams with a variety of new furniture, décor, and outfits! With Kitchen & Bath Design Stuff your Sim life will have even more options available with the incredibly popular franchise.

Game Features:

Outfit your Sims— Give your Sims the right attire and accessories to enjoy their brand-new kitchens and bathrooms including a hair turban, spa mask, cooking aprons and luxuriant cashmere pullovers for around the house.
Contemporary Appliances— Update your Sims' kitchen with that sleek new look you've been dreaming about with a stylish refrigerator, food processor, toaster oven, and more.
Charming Kitchens— Renovate the kitchen into the warmest room in the house with romantic touches including new themed wallpaper, wood-carved counters, and ceiling-mounted hanging pot racks.
Modern Bath Designs— Make your Sims' bath time a modern experience with contemporary design options such as elegant sectional mirrors, quad-quadrant ceiling lighting with a modern flair, and graceful counter top basin sinks.
Bathroom of your Dreams— Indulge your Sims in a romantic bathroom complete with cozy new tiles, fancy towel racks, romantic paintings, designer rugs, and much more.

System Requirements:
Requires The Sims™ 2, The Sims™ 2 Special DVD Edition, The Sims™ 2 Holiday Edition, or The Sims™ 2 Deluxe to play.

OS: Windows Vista, XP, Me, 2000, or 98
Installed: The Sims 2 for Windows
CPU: 1.0 GHz or faster
RAM: 256 MB or more
Disc Drive: 8x or faster CD/DVD drive
Hard Drive: At least 350 MB of free space
Sound: DirectX 9.0 compatible
Video: DirectX 9.0 compatible
Video card must have 32 MB or more memory and one of these T&L capable chipsets:
ATI Radeon 8500 or greater; NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS or greater;

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- It comes broken from EA Games - Disappointment!
Pros:

The items are more modern, and probably account for the most coordinated group of The Sims 2 objects EA Games/Maxis has ever put out. I was under the impression for years now that Maxis employees were all locked in separate rooms and given separate assignments and not allowed to know what their co-workers were creating so nothing would be able to match!

So it was a nice surprise to find coordinating appliances and floor and wall treatments.

Cons:
Do you have the Seasons and FreeTime Expansion Packs installed? If you do, you will find that the new interactions that these two add-ons bring to the game are *not usable* on Kitchen and Bath Interior Design Stuff pack objects.

That's right - if you have Seasons, you can't get leftovers out of the new K&B fridges. If you have FreeTime, you can't Tinker with any of the K&B appliances or fixtures.

And because it is a Stuff Pack, EA Games does not provide a patch. Your best bet is to download a patch from a third party custom content site. I had to use object editor tools to fix the interactions on custom fridges I had. There is a patch out for FreeTime that might correct this, but I'm not sure since I had already fixed it by another method by the time the patch was put out by Maxis/EA.

I somehow expected better from Maxis fridges, especially since Seasons and FreeTime have been out long before Kitchen & Bath was released.

While not a show stopper for some, it was sloppy work by Maxis/EA to not make the objects fully compatible with other The Sims 2 expansions they had already published.

Rating:

- Not feeling the love here...
For whatever reason, people have gone gaga over this pack, yet I found it to be extremely disappointing, at least in comparison to my fave Stuff packs (Glamour Life, H&M, Teen Style).

The idea this time around is to provide users with (supposedly) four new sets - romantic kitchen & bath, and modern kitchen & bath. My disappointment comes from the extreme amount of overlap between these four seemingly different themes. Aside from that, the new objects aren't even all that different than existing objects! The 'modern' shower is a simple black shower identical to the high-end shower that comes with the base game. The new 'modern' kitchen set looks suspiciously like a recoloured version of the kitchen set that came with Free Time.

Even then, items for the Romantic and Modern sets overlap between one another - the same counter is applicable to nearly every set, ditto to the (non-matching!) floors and walls. Additionally, it would have been nice to include a new dining table set for the new kitchen, even if it was just a tiny dine-in set.

There are some other new additions I guess to try and make up for the lack of object additions - a couple of new hairstyles, some new clothes (mostly in the cozy family i.e. sweaters, bath robes, or working ensembles) etc. but nothing special or notable.

Overall I was quite disappointed with this pack, and very surprised at the relatively warm reception its received. I'm glad that Maxis/EA tried to make a pack for a much overlooked area of the game, but they really could have done more with it. I do like the new colour schemes for the modern kitchen - but I can't say I love anything else that came with this game.

Rating:

- Good overall stuff pack
I am somewhat new to the Sims 2 and have bought a couple stuff packs and expansions. This particular stuff pack appealed to me because I didn't feel there was enough kitchen and bath stuff. It also adds some extra clothes and what not. I'd recommend this pack.

I have Teen Styles stuff pack, but it more for my daughter than myself [...] as the Kitchen&Bath stuff pack

Rating:

- Sims Kitchen & Bath
This was a gift. She has already remodeled All her Sims baths & kitchens & is creating more so she can make theirs beautiful too. It's a wonderful game.

Rating:

- DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY!
I own all the Sims2 expansions and stuff packs, and this is the WORST. You can download most of this online for free, and none of it even coordinates well in the game. Save your money for SIMS3!


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