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EA and Maxis are celebrating the 25th anniversary of The Sims franchise with a very wonderful shock. Today, each The Sims 1 and The Sims 2 can be found on PC as soon as once more via two Legacy Collections and The Sims 25th Birthday Bundle.
EA has introduced that it is releasing The Sims: Legacy Assortment and The Sims 2: Legacy Assortment at this time on PC. The two can be found individually in addition to mixed for $40 in The Sims 25th Birthday Bundle.
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Each video games embrace all expansions and nearly all stuff packs, because it seems like The Sims 2: Legacy Assortment is lacking the IKEA House Stuff pack from 2008. However in any other case, all the pieces’s there. In reality, each collections embrace some bonus content material, with The Sims 1 getting one thing referred to as Throwback Match Equipment and The Sims 2 receiving a Grunge Revival Equipment on high of all the opposite add-ons.
EA’s re-release of the 2 older The Sims video games marks the primary time in over a decade that each gave have been available to play. The Sims 1 was solely ever launched on disc, so for years now except you have been ready to observe down an previous bodily copy and in some way make it run on a contemporary Home windows machine, there was simply no means to get ahold of it (and that does not even embrace the enlargement packs!). The Sims 2 was obtainable extra lately in 2014 via an Final Assortment on EA’s Origin retailer, however the Final Assortment was taken down some time in the past. So except you took benefit of it at the time, The Sims 2 remained unavailable to you except you possibly can equally discover a bodily disc. With these two new collections, all 4 The Sims video games are actually simply purchaseable and playable once more by way of digital storefronts.
We gave The Sims 1 a 9.5/10 and The Sims 2 an 8.5/10 waaaaay again within the day after we first reviewed them each. Whereas the sequence has added quite a few new options and ironed out numerous kinks since then, the originals are nonetheless value testing for his or her goofiness, relative simplicity, problem, and legacy.
The Sims: Legacy Assortment and The Sims 2: Legacy Assortment are each obtainable now on Steam, the Epic Video games Retailer, and by way of the EA app.
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