Product Description

The Sims 2: Pets gives your Sims the chance to raise & care for a pet! Choose from a variety of existing breeds, and hot designer mixes, but they'll also be able to personally design their new friend. Teach them new tricks, take them for a romp in the park, outfit them with new pet accessories and even give them a job! As in real life, your Sims' pet will require care and training. A neglected cat with an urge to scratch might claw up your new couch if you aren't careful, and leaving your dog unattended near a freshly planted flower bed probably isn't wise. With so many different animals to choose from, there's no telling what could occur!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17510 in Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Model: 15245
• Released on: 2006-11-07
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Game Boy Advance
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .80" h x 5.00" w x 5.00" l, .10 pounds

Features

• Pick from dozens of dog and cat breeds, or customize features with the Create-A-Pet feature
• Your Sims can encourage and discipline pets, training them to shake, roll over, play dead, and more
• Give you pets a little training when they dig in the yard, claw the sofa, or topple the trash
• Use special codes to share unlockable pet accessories, fur types or markings with other The Sims 2 - Pets players

Customer Reviews

BORING!!!
After having purchased the previous Sims games for Game Boy Advance, I was eagerly looking forward to this game, wondering what they could do with it. Don't expect the narratives and tasks that came with the previous games -- this is more like the PC version of The Sims, only without the creativity. If you have a choice between this version and the PC version, pass on this one and head straight to the computer -- it's more fun.

"You're a quasar! No, you're a Supernova!"---Otis after you win the Joker Competition
I just finished Sims2 Pets for Game Boy Advance (well, I won the final competition but the game tells me it's only 96% completed; I'm not sure what else to do) so it's time to review. I can't get enough Sims games for gba. Since Pets is a Sims game, I enjoyed it but not as much as I enjoyed The Urbz, Bustin' Out, and Sims 2. The following is how I compare Pets to the other Sims games.

I do not recommend owning pets in The Urbz and Bustin' Out as they are just mess makers and are not fun to have at all (except to watch the monkey butler clean up their mess). In this game, of course, you are forced to own a pet but there is a purpose. You teach your pet tricks to compete in competition. These competitions consist of timing games (like the guitar game in Bustin' Out). Certain keys (Left, Right, arrow keys, `A', `B') move up the screen and you have to press them at the right time. The more difficult tricks your pet learns (flips, yoga, fire breathing), the more challenging the timing as you may have to hold one key down with one hand while pressing a tricky combination of keys with the other, etc.). Before competing, you need to "teach" your pet the trick by repeating commands and praising or scolding the pet appropriately. There are only 4 jobs. One is the competitions, the others are walking animals, destroying fleas and other nasties at the vet clinic, and parapsychology (a strange and challenging game) at the cemetery. Unlike other Sims games, you advance by amassing a certain amount of earnings, so you don't have to be super good at anything to advance, but the jobs--except parapsych--are not difficult.

The communication style is different again. Here, icons move across the screen and you choose one. They could be topics of conversation, juggling acts, smiley or angry faces, rock-paper-scissors games, etc. so there is more variety but the characters, to me, seem much more impersonal than in Bustin' Out and Urbz. There are none of the familiar characters like Dusty Hogg and Giuseppi Mezzoalto. You cannot live with anyone either. You can change your popularity very easily, though. Usually picking the faces will work (some characters like the evil faces but most like the happy ones). There is usually a blank row, so you can be selective. I went from a
-50 popularity all the way to +100 in a single conversation.

The one thing that really bugs me about the game is that, no matter where you save, you always end up back at your house when you restart the game. That's annoying. Also, once you move to a better house, your pet won't stay at home anymore and is constantly underfoot. There are not many places to go. The neighborhood is very small compared to the other games (there is no motor bike but, actually, you wouldn't really need it anyway). There is a lot to buy but not many cool things. The best graphics are in the park area. The house furnishings aren't as nice but are an improvement from Sims2.

Pluses are you do get cleaning and mechanical points when you clean and repair things which is a nice addition. There are also numerous ways to get skill points which is also good. The recyclables are always worth the same which is different from the other games. Another part I like is that your pet can hunt and dig up items (but your pet usually doesn't stay focused very long). After winning the top competition, nothing happened. No cool closing scene. There may be some secret I haven't found, though. Maybe you can finally use that boat that is down the stairs. I can't believe it is there but you can never use it. If that is the case, what's up? In sum, I recommend it because it is a Sims game, but it's not as good as the other Sims games (well, except SimCity 2000).

Not Happy.
I am an AVID Sim player. Any form of the game that I can get I will. I have the The Sims Bustin Out, Urbz, and Sims 2 on the game boy advance system. Naturally I was estatic about this game being released since I am also a pet lover.

What was so majorly disappointing to me on this game is the lack of consideration to the previous games. All your familiar (and favorite) characters are gone: Dusty Hogg, Misty Waters, Daddy Bigbucks, and so on. There is no fun type plot to this game like in Urbz or Sims 2 but to teach your pet tricks and win competitions. You also only have a few "jobs" but they are not even HALF as fun as the mini games in the other two.

The only good thing I found with this game is the opportunity to have a pet but I would rather stick to Nintendogs than buy this again. And since your pet is the sole purpose of the game (besides little things here and there) you'd think you'd have some sort of relationship points with the animal. No.

Worst of all is the conversations with other Sims! It is like guessing pictures and has NO CHARACTER whatsoever! No funny jokes or whimsical insights into that sims mind.

I am VERY unhappy with this game.