Product Description

In Sims 2: Open For Business you'll get to design your own clothing boutique, beauty salon, florist, high-end electronics shop, bustling restaurant chain, or virtually any other type of business. Hire your staff as the business grows and put talented Sims to work making toys, running the register, crafting floral bouquets, giving sales pitches, or manufacturing robots. But watch out for slacker employees and be prepared to fire them on the spot. Will you build a thriving business empire or become an eccentric entrepreneur designing the next big thing? Over 125 new items for your Sims' business - Everything from display cases and beauty salon chair, to workbenches and cash registers

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #397 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Model: 15157
• Released on: 2006-02-28
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Platform: Windows XP
• Format: CD
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds

Features

• The third expansion pack for The Sims 2
• Turn your Sims' skills and hobbies into careers - even children can run a business!
• Cultivate an audience for your wares, from window shoppers to niche markets
• 125 new items to decorate your Sim's house or business
• A new radio station featuring famous bands singing in "Simlish"

Customer Reviews

It's fun but there's parts I don't like
I love the game it's fun managing your own business but I don't like it when it's a communtity lot you leave at noon and you leave your business at 9 pm and you go back and it's noon and your tired and it throws everything out of whack...but I guess it's the only way to do it. I enjoy it but personally I don't use it much

Best Expansion
Open for Business and University are the two most fun expansions to The Sims 2 world that have come out.

With this package, you can buy a business, build just about any business that you want, train employees, make your own stuff to sell, work from home, create a home business, buy more community property, and do just about anything which is great. Once you own a business and start making money, you can quit your job also and just focus on your business. Then you can hire a person, train them, and make them a manager and the best part about tat is that then you do not have to go to work almost ever, just call and collect profits.

If I had The Sims 2 and only one choice of expansion, this would be it with University right behind it. Also, this adds on to you system with almost no lag time to startup of the game or anything. It also adds a new district to your city, but you don't have to use it at all if you do not want. You can do everything from whichever town you live in if you would like.

Awesome.

Its pretty fun..
Starters...the game is eh...fun..ish? But it is so hard to run a business; specifically a restaurant business or bakery (or maybe it is just hard for me..only).. The customers are so damn picky and nag whenever the slightest little thing bad happens to them...uh? get over it please, this is hard. If you are doing too many screw ups, you lose customer loyalties and its difficult to get to the next rank. so you need to keep them happy..kinda hard..On a brighter note, i did create a little toy shop and i am currently rank 8, running the whole thing by myself. owning shops in general is really fun, and much easier to do if its spaced well, and not too big. very fun. but after a while it can get a little boring..after making a lot of shops, dance clubs, bakeries..its like..Okay...now what do i do? I guess if you have the pets ep then you will have another business to run..but after a while you get sick of it.The robots are a cool addition. they can clean, cook and fix things for you. To have them you need to buy a robot machine and make a lot of little robots before you move on to the really advanced ones. if you are skilled enough, you can make some and put it in a shop :) I would recommend buying the seasons expansion pack first though maybe, then pets, then open for business.