In a nutshell:
Help your Sims start their own business by buying a plot of land or working from home. From restaurants to toy shops and everything in between your little computer people can now build a business empire to make Alan Sugar proud.
The lowdown:
Playing The Sims 2 as a business tycoon game may seem odd but this is a surprisingly fun and accessible expansion. Although you can stay at home and create items to sell most businesses are run from a new shopping centre area, which you can also visit separately. To run a shop you buy objects as normal and then display and price them individually or in bulk for your store. Running a restaurant or other service is more a case of creating the right mood with furniture and staff. You can hire and fire employees as you want but it’s worth being as hands on as you can because you gain a wide range of new skills from the work you do.
Most exciting moment:
Starting with a lemonade stand and building up your business empire until you can afford to buy any plot of land in town.
Since you ask:
As well as all the business tycoon elements the game also features 125 new items, including display cases, workbenches, cash registers and more.
The bottom line:
Another surprisingly generous and innovative expansion pack.
HARRISON DENT
