Review of The Sims 2 and comparison to the original Sims

When is a Sims more than a Sims? When it's a Reality Sims! The Sims and its expansions have sold tens of millions of copies worldwide since the original's release in 2000, making it the best-selling PC game of all time and attracting a wide diversity of players, many of them first-time gamers. And so it is that I, like multitudes of my fellow The Sims fans, have spent the last several months in eager, drooling anticipation of getting my sticky fingers on its 3-D sequel, The Sims 2.