Starting with a personality that you give them, or that they inherit from their parents, your Sims will develop in unique ways based on your choices and influence.

As they progress through life, your Sims will collect memories which shape who they are, what options they have and how they behave.

These experiences can have a short or long-term effect on relationships between family members and friends.

Experiences between Sims when they are children can affect their relationships as teens and adults. Your Sims can have casual friendships or make life-long enemies.

Rounding out the experience, The Sims 2 delivers dozens of features requested from fans over the past four years.

Features:

• Your Sims live in a realistic and vivid 3D world of your own creation. When you build their homes, you'll have new options that will allow you to create decks, attics, and build on hillsides.
• You'll be able to choose from hundreds of new objects, many of which can be customized from within the game.
• And once you've built the perfect home, you'll be able to zoom in close to see every detail of Sim life, from the food in the refrigerator to the expression of moods and feelings on your Sims' faces.
• A new "Create-A-Sim" feature will allow you to easily make unique and detailed character faces with a variety of hair styles, facial hair, make-up and accessories.
• You'll also be able to choose from a wide selection of casual, formal, cool and crazy clothing styles.
• And carrying on the tradition of giving players the ability to customize their game, The Sims 2 is designed to allow players to easily integrate content created by players outside the game.