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 activities. Whether they're tossing a football with the family, practicing ballet, restoring cars with friends, or building train sets, your Sims now have more ways to build skills, enhance friendships, and make their lives more successful. Craft new, unique items for your Sims to use in their daily lives including clothing, pottery, and more. Your Sims will even unlock secret rewards by mastering their hobbies and advancing all-new careers. Explore a wide variety of new hobbies that will change your Sims' lives!
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DeveloperMaxis
PublisherElectronic Arts
ReleasedFebruary 28, 2008
StatusReleased
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About This Game
FreeTime introduces hobbies as a formal system, filling idle hours with activities that can improve Sims' lives in concrete ways. The options range widely: basketball, soccer, and hiking on the athletic side; pottery and cooking for the creatively inclined; and stargazing and video gaming for quieter temperaments. A Sim's early attempts at any hobby are appropriately rough—misshapen pottery, accidental poison ivy on a hike, first losses in a game tournament—but persistence leads to genuine skill and tangible rewards.
As Sims develop their chosen hobbies, new possibilities unlock. Skilled crafters can sell their work for profit, talented cooks can enter competitions, and dedicated gamers can join tournaments. Enough dedication can unlock new aspirations, reveal hidden lots in the neighborhood, and even open new career paths. The expansion frames leisure not as wasted time but as a meaningful investment in a Sim's long-term happiness and direction.