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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $17.00
You Save: $2.99 (15%)
New (9) Used (4) from $15.58
Avg. Customer Rating:  74 reviews
Sales Rank: 956
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 4.9 x 0.6
MPN: 100730
Model: 14633151299
UPC: 014633151299
EAN: 0014633151299
ASIN: B000ANYFVM
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 "That animal was on the verge of ruining all my DEVIOUS PLANS...to watch television"---Optimum Alfred April 16, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I started this game two weeks ago and just finished it (you can continue the game after finishing the missions by pushing "Select" during the credits). It is awesome! I had also finished Sims2 for Gameboy Advance (three times!) and, if you're not sure whether to get the DS version too, definitely get it! It is a completely different game. All the characters are there like Tristan Legend, Giuseppi Mezzoalto, Sancho Paco Panza, Frankie Fusilli, the mummy guy, Lord Mole and even Emperor Xizzle but, instead of acting in a reality show, you run a hotel.
As hotel manager, you check people in, they'll call you on your cell phone with complaints and requests, and you run around to cater to their every whim. These Sims have a lot of emotional problems. They need to be restrained, calmed down, and cheered up constantly! You also build attractions for your hotel. My favorite is the art gallery. You get to create actual paintings to put on display and sell. You can draw some pretty funny stuff if you know what I mean (nudge, nudge, say no more). You'll get calls on your cell phone from Sims who've bought your works. I've often run back to the art gallery to find out which painting was purchased. You can also save a favorite work of art and hang it in your room.
Another cool thing you can do is create music. In the lounge there is a keyboard with several songs already installed. You can use the keys, sound effects, and mixers to create your own song, record it and play it back! How cool is that! Other neat features in this game are the vacuum cleaner and metal detector. The vacuum is used on dust bunnies throughout the hotel which sometimes include valuable items you can grab for Simoleons. The metal detector is used in the desert to find spaceship parts, silver, copper, and gold bars, and other items you can cash in.
Sometimes you have to use a super soaker on aliens (led by Emperor Xizzle) who are invading the area. This takes patience as I've found the best strategy is to stalk them out and target one alien at a time before they can inform the others of your presence. It can be pretty challenging. The alien autopsy game is also a major challenge that I'm still trying to figure out. You also get to play a superhero, though I'm not sure about that rat suit!
The graphics are awesome! It's in 3D. The communication is better than the GBA version. You react to the body language of the Sims so it's not a guessing game to raise your social levels. One thing that could be better are the items you can buy. Sims games have never repeated the variety of things you could buy in "The Urbs: Sims in the City." Also, the skill levels, save for one, don't seem to have any effect on the game unless I missed something. Anyway, I won't give away too much stuff. The missions are easy to follow with just a little bit of thought. If you have Sims2 for GBA, here's a hint: insert the GBA cartridge in the system in addition to the DS. It will open up a game in the casino.
 Good in concept. April 2, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This game has a lot of aspects that are enjoyable and when it was running it was fun to play. There are quite a few glitches in this game that cause it to freeze and when I tried to access the options menu it blacked the screen having to be reset. If you play this game save often, otherwise you spend most of you time doing the same missions over and over.
 Fun but not the best March 27, 2008
The title of this review pretty much says it all. The game is pretty fun but it certainly isn't on my favorites list.
Basically you're stranded in Strangetown and are keeping a hotel clean / making the people happy, which honestly is very repetitive. But somehow it stays pretty fun. Everytime I play it I pretty much do the exact same things that I did the last time I played. Normally that would make a game boring, but somehow this game doesn't get that way.
Although, I do really wish there was more character interaction. All you can do with the other characters in the game is check them into a room, let them boss you around, and get them to stop throwing a fit. You can't really become friends and there's not much of a romance system. When another character wants you to, you can kiss them but that's pretty much it. Wow... kissing. How exciting -_-
Overall I'd say it's worth buying, but I might suggest that you get it used or renting it first, just to be sure.
The Sims 2 DS February 26, 2008
It was an okay game, I havn't been able to beet it because i got bored and lost it, but it is very entertaining for a while, but unless you wait a couple days, you have to play this retarded card game to make money to run the hotel. And if you don't play it like at least every other day all your customers go away bedause you need to clean it the hotel, check in and out customers, and stock the furnace.
very boring January 25, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this game because I really liked the Urbz but this was almost nothing like it. I don't know if there is an end to it but it takes forever to get new missions. I do not recommend this game.
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