The Sims 2: Nightlife

Your Sims are on the town hitting all the swanky hot spots in The Sims 2: Nightlife, the second expansion pack for The Sims 2. Whether they're dancing until dawn, romancing that special someone, or striking…

67 13 September 2005 7 cheats

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

The Sims 2: Nightlife is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Maxis, released 13 September 2005 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). This page lists 7 cheat codes for it.

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What The Sims 2: Nightlife is

The Sims 2: Nightlife is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Maxis and released in 2005. It was published by Aspyr Media. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on The Sims 2 Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Sims head out for a night on the town in this socially inclined add-on for the successful sequel, Sims 2, bringing many new objects, interactions, and other features. With Nightlife, Sims 2 characters can go on dates in a new downtown area, full of restaurants and nightclubs that players can edit or rebuild as they desire. The success of a date is tracked, from moment to moment, and two Sims who hit it off will soon find new social interactions available to them, to help them develop their romantic relationships even further. Many of the expansion's new objects, such as the dining booth and the bowling alley, can be used to help Sims improve their relationships with one another while they…

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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: Nightlife is the 18th of 227 entries we hold in the The Sims series. It arrived 6 months after The Sims 2: University. The next entry was The Sims 2 in 2005. Its critic score of 67 is 4 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: Nightlife holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 26% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

The Sims 2: Nightlife launched on 13 September 2005, within three weeks of Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), Indigo Prophecy, Fable: The Lost Chapters and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), Indigo Prophecy, Fable: The Lost Chapters, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.

Cheats and codes

We have tested and published 7 cheat entries for The Sims 2: Nightlife — 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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