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De Sims 2: Huisdieren for PlayStation 2
De Sims 2: Huisdieren for the PlayStation 2 adds cats and dogs to your Sims' lives. You create a household, furnish a home and choose animals with their own appearance and character. A dog needs attention and training, while a cat also explores on its own. Meanwhile, food, work, rest and social contacts remain important for the people in the house.
You control your Sim directly and influence the animals through actions and interaction. You therefore do not play as the dog or cat yourself. Spending time with an animal lets you teach tricks and encourage desired behavior. Neglect affects the surroundings: an animal may damage furniture or make a mess. Food, toys and attention therefore belong in your planning just as much as a meal for your Sim.
In the central park and shopping area, you meet other Sims and find products for your pets. You can spend pet points on accessories and care supplies. There is also room for building, relationships and discovering recipes. This is a standalone single-player game on PlayStation 2. Especially if you enjoy gradually shaping a household to your taste, you can keep developing the bond between Sim and animal.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 2 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
De Sims 2: Huisdieren for PlayStation 2 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of De Sims 2: Huisdieren
Electronic Arts released De Sims 2: Huisdieren for the PlayStation 2 in 2006. The same theme also appeared as an expansion for the PC version of De Sims 2, but the console edition was a standalone game. EA described pets as a much-requested addition and gave cats and dogs their own appearance, personality and behavior within the Sims' existing social life.
The PlayStation 2 version built on direct Sim control from De Sims 2 for consoles. Much of the design now revolved around interaction with animals: they need care, respond to training and can independently do something that changes your plans. Create-a-Pet allowed adjustments to body shape, coat and characteristics. The animals thus became personal residents of a household you assembled yourself.
The different platforms received their own content. The home console version used a central park and shopping area for encounters and purchases, while the PC expansion offered other possibilities. The handheld games also followed their own approach. On PlayStation 2, Huisdieren remained a single-player experience. Daily household life and interaction with animals therefore gained more weight than the local cooperation available in the previous console edition.
Similar games for PlayStation 2
De Sims 2 for the PlayStation 2 shares direct control, house building and attention to personal wishes. It also offers a story route and local cooperative play with two controllers. Huisdieren shifts the focus to caring for and training cats and dogs. You follow your own household's routine more closely and play alone.
Erop Uit! lets you unlock other locations and objects through career steps and objectives. Huisdieren also uses visits outside the home, but the park and shops revolve around your animals. In Erop Uit!, new variety mainly comes from work and contacts; in Huisdieren, you must continually combine their care with your other plans.
The Urbz: Sims in the City makes clothing, reputation and interaction with different groups the core of progression. Huisdieren uses a domestic foundation and lets personal contacts coexist with animal care. Both give you room to shape a character to your taste, but the daily objectives arise from a different environment.
The Sims for PlayStation 2 already focuses on combining work, needs, home furnishing and relationships. Pets uses that daily foundation and makes cats and dogs additional residents needing care. The original The Sims also has local competitions and cooperative play for two players. Pets puts household planning and animal training in the hands of one player.
Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life Special Edition connects animal care with running a farm and building a family. Its animals are part of farm work. Huisdieren focuses on companion animals and their behavior in and around the home. Both require attention to recurring tasks and let your planning gradually develop its own shape.
