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The Sims 2: Apartment Pets

Your Sims are leaving the suburbs for the hustle and bustle of apartment life! They're moving into a apartment building full of interesting neighbors and a wide variety of pets. Your Sim can adopt pets of…

30 26 August 2008

The Sims 2: Apartment Pets is a simulator developed by Full Fat, released 26 August 2008 on Nintendo DS.

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What The Sims 2: Apartment Pets is

The Sims 2: Apartment Pets is a simulator game developed by Full Fat and released in 2008. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game begins with your Uncle Bill going on an expedition and leaving you to take care of the apartment. You can also take care of the pets already in the apartment of the beginning of the game. Soon after the game starts, the janitor will tell you about a lost puppy, and give it to you until the owner is found. This pet and more are ones that owners and various people will drop off, asking for you to take care of the pet for a few days.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

The Sims 2: Apartment Pets holds a critic score of 30 out of 100. That places it above 2% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 35 points below the year average.

What it launched against

The Sims 2: Apartment Pets launched on 26 August 2008, within three weeks of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut, Braid, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky and Rock Band 2. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut, Braid, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, Rock Band 2.

Official trailer

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When did The Sims 2: Apartment Pets come out?
The Sims 2: Apartment Pets was released on 26 August 2008 for Nintendo DS.

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