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The Sims 2: Open for Business Expansion Pack | 
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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy Used: $10.95
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Rating:  78 reviews
Sales Rank: 601
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Windows Xp
Genre: strategy_games;action_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 999
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 1.2
MPN: 302
Model: 15157
UPC: 014633151572
EAN: 0014633151572
ASIN: B000CR27OS
Release Date: February 28, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: CD has very light scuffing; doesn't seem t affect play. Includes instruction booklet. Shipped First Class Mail for speedy delivery. Pre-owned. Must register to access online features. Includes single-user access code which may have already been registered. Carefully wrapped and promptly shipped.
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| Features:
| | The third expansion pack for The Sims 2 | | | Turn your Sims' skills and hobbies into careers - even children can run a business! | | | Cultivate an audience for your wares, from window shoppers to niche markets | | | 125 new items to decorate your Sim's house or business | | | A new radio station featuring famous bands singing in "Simlish" |
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Product Description
In Sims 2: Open For Business you'll get to design your own clothing boutique, beauty salon, florist, high-end electronics shop, bustling restaurant chain, or virtually any other type of business. Hire your staff as the business grows and put talented Sims to work making toys, running the register, crafting floral bouquets, giving sales pitches, or manufacturing robots. But watch out for slacker employees and be prepared to fire them on the spot. Will you build a thriving business empire or become an eccentric entrepreneur designing the next big thing? Over 125 new items for your Sims' business - Everything from display cases and beauty salon chair, to workbenches and cash registers
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| Customer Reviews: Read 73 more reviews...
 I almost didn't even buy it October 27, 2006
Oni No Koneko (Michigan)
22 out of 23 found this review helpful
I am a huge Sims freak. For months I just looked at OFB sitting on the shelf thinking that I wasn't really all that interested....maybe I wouldn't get this one....but then Pets came out and I got hit by the desire not to have missed one of the expansions and not wanting to have to start from scratch if I ever got OFB later and would have to reinstall the whole Sims block on my hard drive. So I bought it, and ohh man, I wish I had gotten it sooner. Now I've got dozens of ideas of cool new businesses and I don't know where to start. The actual game play of running the businesses is totally different than I had envisioned it. It's Sims in a whole new way, it adds a new dimension in how we as players, and our play style, effect the outcome and success of our Sims. For once, our timing and choices in dictating Sim behaviors/interactions actually become a key part in the success of the business. It also add an aspect of real business management, deciding pay wages, trade skills, employee duties. It's still Sims, with all the same wonderfully addictive feel and game play, but it's in a whole new arena and more challenging. Same great car, new street to drive on. I recommend it to any Sim-ers. Even if you decide against actually running a business in game, your Sims will still love all the new shops, actions, items, and so forth.
SUPER fun!! August 4, 2006
G. Hebert
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
With the Sims 2: Open for Business, you get to create any business you like, or buy one from the brand-new town, Bluewater Village. New families live there along with so many different shops, the possiblities are endless! You can also have a home business, which I like because you don't have to go to the community to play the shop. Also, if say a women owned the business, then got married and had kids, once the kids are teens, they can work at the shop and so can the husband. A new feature which saves time, is an option for the phone, instead of clicking the phone and then "Community" there is an option now called "Call Taxi" where you can go to the exact location immediately, instead of going to community, THEN clicking on the shop. Ofcourse, same with any other expansion pack, there are a lot of new items, including smaller dressers, which I also like, to save space. There are also new haircuts and many more clothing styles. People can also have talent badges which new bosses will like to know of. You can also have chemistry with Sims now, having little hearts or x's above their head when they see a sim they are very attrated or unattracted too. I think its extremely fun and you should buy it! :D
Adds to the Sims experience while fixing pesky Night Life bugs March 2, 2006
R. Blocker
31 out of 37 found this review helpful
One of my biggest concerns regarding Open for Business was that it would drag down loading times and exacerbate the bugs I've been seeing since Night Life came out--no more work uniforms, Sims arriving home from work (sometimes even getting promoted) and not getting money for it, townies getting stuck on my property and unable to move...
I've had the game one day so far, and I'm happy to say that those particular problems have been done away with. Not only that, but the installation process and loading times are surprisingly quick and painless for such a vast expansion pack.
Game performance on the large business lots, I've found, is a tad bit less jumpy than it is on the large Night Life lots: Fewer hangups when you rotate the camera, fewer split-second paused screens. The smaller business lots run almost like a normal house-lot.
The expansion pack itself is every bit as fun and addictive than the others, if not more so. Your Sims now have the option of buying an already-established business, starting one from home, or purchasing an all-purpose starter lot to make the business of their choice. Running a business itself is challenging enough to be fun, but not so hard that you feel overwhelmed by all the duties you have and 'little things' that you, as manager, have to keep a constant eye on.
Get ready to get down to business March 22, 2006
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
"Open for Business" is a great expansion for you and your sims you only require the Sims 2 to play this great expansion. If you like making a big business empire or driving other people's business down the drain this is the thing for you!
Open for business has great graphics. New objects such as.... *Flower Arranging work station to arrange the most exotic flowers in a great big vase.
*An electronics work station to create robots that help or destroy you with your life.
*Toy crafting work station to invent the most craziest toys like.. evil jack in a box.. electricuting kites and much, much more....
Get this game or preorder it and get a free download with mascot suits!!
Enjoy! Happy Simming
THE BEST EXPANSION SO FAR! April 11, 2006
T. Sada (Seattle, WA)
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
This is by far the best SIMS 2 expansion! If you don't have any expansions, at least get this one! Love it, I opened up plenty of shops and business is doing goooood! You get to open up your own shop from the community lot or run a home business. You decide what store you want to run: floral shop, toy store, clothing store, hair salon/spa, restaurant or all of the above! You can hire and fire employees, change their wages, assign the employee's outfits (new outfits included in this expansion). You decide what to charge on items you are selling at your store and what items to sell (some new items included in this expansion as well). A definate must buy for all Sims 2 fans!
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