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The only ep that i dont reccomend buying is open for business, honestly you will look for your new content and hardly find it. Any way this expansion gives a whole bunch of new a unique options. i think it is sad how little of content you get for the price, yet somehow every time i keep vuying expansions. I draw the line at stuff packs, especially since you can download content all over the internet. New items and sone cheesey clothes.
I've been playing with Nightlife, Open for Business, and Seasons for ages, because it seemed that that was all my computer could handle. Being enthusiastic about certain things seems to give my Sims more personality. I haven't had too many problems with Free Time, other than a few long pauses, which are slightly annoying but bearable. It seems I discover some new feature every time I play. Hey, it's better than them jumping on the bed, overheating, and being taken by the Social Worker.The "enthusiasm" feature is kind of cool, too.
And I like that some of these activities can be done by kids, too. I do wish that their enthusiasm didn't decay quite so quickly. That's one advantage to getting the game so late, I guess: most of the major problems have been fixed).All in all, Free Time is a lot of fun. (I also didn't play until I'd installed the patch, so I haven't encountered too many glitches. There's lots to discover, and so many new things for your Sims to try. One thing I've noticed is that the incessant phone ringing that accompanied this friendship decay seems to be gone; I still get the pop-ups letting me know that Goopy GilsCarbo is no longer a family friend, but the phone no longer rings for eight Sim hours at a time.I like having new things for my Sims to do. After having problems with the game lagging when I installed Pets, and the game becoming completely unplayable when I installed Bon Voyage, I was leery of trying any new expansion packs.
Since The Sims 3 is out of the question (my machine doesn't even meet the minimum requirements) but I still felt I needed something to freshen my interest in the game, I decided to give Free Time a try.I'm really enjoying this expansion pack so far. I've already had a couple of little Sims who became obsessed with dance, and every time I turned around they were at the ballet barre. Any game that doesn't completely strangle my hardware is something that I'm going to look favourably upon. Seasons is my favourite expansion pack, but I think Free Time is probably my second-favourite. I know this expansion pack has been out for a while. I don't mind the extra pop-ups; I was always getting a ton of them anyway, as my Sims always seemed to lose all of their friends at the same time through friendship decay. But then, perhaps it wasn't wise to make Sims that are enthusiastic about everything; there just aren't enough hours in a Sim's day to keep up with all those interests.I don't have the best computer and, as I said before, some previous expansion packs choked my machine.
Very disappointed. It has even crashed times when I've had the game paused. Won't bother trying Sims 3, either. This would be an awesome expansion pack if it hadn't rendered my Sims 2 game completely unplayable. I thought maybe it was a memory issue but I've done a ton of things to free up more RAM and the game still crashes EVERY SINGLE TIME I try to play it. Guess I am done with the Sims.
The SIMS2 make me laugh more then the SIMS3 though. I love the SIMS2 as much as the SIMS3. And it arrived with everything I needed to start the game.
I love every aspect of this game and can't wait for it to come out for Mac, (seriously release the thing already). This expansion in one of the best ones. Every Sim has that unique hobby which catches their interest the most, based on personality points, but you don't have to focus on one or the other. Hobbies are so much fun to discover. Honestly, it's a toss up between this and Seasons. This Expansion is one of the best EP's released for the Sims 2. Freetime adds a totally new dimension to the game play, with new objects, careers, and wants. It is entirely up the simmer what hobbies the sims has.
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