The Sims 2: FreeTime

Now your Sims can rediscover the joys of leisure time in The Sims 2: FreeTime, the seventh expansion pack for the The Sims 2! Awaken your Sims' true passions in life as they discover and excel at all-new…

60 28 February 2008 ESRB T 7 cheats

Role-playing (RPG) Simulator Strategy Comedy Fantasy Romance Sandbox

The Sims 2: FreeTime is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Maxis, released 28 February 2008 on PC (Microsoft Windows). This page lists 7 cheat codes for it.

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What The Sims 2: FreeTime is

The Sims 2: FreeTime is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Maxis and released in 2008. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on The Sims 2 Engine. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

This expansion pack introduces various activities that have potential to bring happiness, new friendships, and even a profit of cold hard Simoleans to Sims characters with idle hands. New pastime activities include sports such as basketball and soccer, dancing, hiking, and other physical activities, arts and crafts such as pottery or cooking, and even recreations such as stargazing or video gaming. A Sim's dedication to a chosen hobby can unlock new aspirations and life goals, reveal new "secret" lots in the neighborhood, and may even lead to new career paths. As with other Sims 2 skills and activities, part of the fun is in watching characters develop and improve. The first few tries at…

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are comedy, fantasy, romance and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the The Sims series

The Sims 2: FreeTime is the 49th of 227 entries we hold in the The Sims series. The next entry was The Sims 2: Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Stuff in 2008. Its critic score of 60 is 11 points below the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is The Sims 4: Parenthood at 90.

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How it was received

The Sims 2: FreeTime holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points below the year average.

What it launched against

The Sims 2: FreeTime launched on 28 February 2008, within three weeks of God of War: Chains of Olympus, Audiosurf, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 and Penumbra: Black Plague. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: God of War: Chains of Olympus, Audiosurf, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2, Penumbra: Black Plague.

Cheats and codes

We have tested and published 7 cheat entries for The Sims 2: FreeTime — 6 cheat codes and 1 tip. Each one lists the platform it applies to, the exact input, and whether it disables achievements.

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