The Sims 2 FreeTime Now Available in Stores

EA has announced that the seventh expansion pack for The Sims 2 series is now available in store. Sims fans can pick up The Sims 2: FreeTime, which ads leisure activities that will enrich your Sims both culturally and monetarily.

KEY FEATURES

• New Gameplay Elements Tied to Hobbies. Your Sims can discover the activities that they’re most passionate about! Addition of a wide range of new activities, including sports, music & dance, arts & crafts, science, film & literature and more, all add new storytelling options tied to your Sims discovery and pursuit of specific hobbies. Sims can now participate in contests to win prizes and Simoleons, or they can master interests, practice and improve their skills, and get in “the zone!” Your Sims can enrich their lives by creating items to use or sell, like pottery or cars. These new hobbies can strengthen friendships and uncover secret lots.
• New Lifetime Aspiration Meter. Your Sims can measure the progress of their aspirations over a lifetime and unlock special rewards and interactions!
• Five New Career Tracks and their Reward Objects. Oceanographers can earn a koi pond, entertainers can get their own star of fame, architects can use their own drafting table, dancers can receive a ballet barre and intelligence agents can use a listening devise.
• All New Objects and Outfits. The Sims 2 FreeTime introduces brand new items, including a basketball hoop, pottery wheel, toddler activity table, modular synthesizer, hobby train table and much more.

While The Sims 3 is reputedly in the works, there are still a few elements of gameplay from the original Sims series that haven’t been added to The Sims 2. Translations of Superstar and Makin’ Magic could be used to squeeze out a couple more expansion packs.

In the meantime, a new stuff pack is already on the way out. The Sims 2: Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Stuff will be out in North America April 8, 2008. Guess what it contains.

via Business Wire