It’s official: EA is rereleasing The Sims and The Sims 2 (and varied respective growth packs) simply in time for the franchise’s twenty fifth anniversary.
The Sims Legacy Assortment will embody the bottom Sims sport, together with the Livin’ Massive, Home Celebration, Sizzling Date, Trip, Unleashed, Celebrity, and Makin’ Magic growth packs (and The Sims 4’s Throwback Match Equipment, in case you wished that too).
The Sims 2: Legacy Assortment will embody The Sims 2, together with College, Nightlife, Open for Enterprise, Pets, Bon Voyage, Seasons, FreeTime, Residence Life, Vacation Celebration Pack, Household Enjoyable Stuff, Glamour Life Stuff, Comfortable Vacation Stuff, Celebration! Stuff, H&M Trend Stuff, Teen Model Stuff, Kitchen & Tub Inside Design Stuff, and Mansion & Backyard Stuff, with The Sims 4: Grunge Revival additionally tacked on there.
Sadly for all LACK aspect desk followers, the IKEA Dwelling Stuff pack is lacking from The Sims 2 bundle. Each legacy collections can be found collectively by way of The Sims: twenty fifth Birthday Bundle.
The unique Sims debuted in 2000, with The Sims 2 following in 2004. Whereas the primary sport hasn’t been rereleased earlier than, EA beforehand bundled The Sims 2 packs in The Final Assortment, accessible by way of Origin from 2014 to 2018. At one level, you might get it at no cost when you proved that you just had an present disc (which led to a enjoyable cellphone name in faculty the place I had an EA rep on one line and my mom again house in my bed room on the opposite).
Even when you personal one of many early generations of Sims video games, getting it to run on a contemporary pc has been more and more tough. Hopefully these rereleases will run easily on Home windows 10 and 11 with out the dreaded black containers and pink soup graphical points.
