The Sims first released back in 2000, whereas The Sims 2 followed in 2004. That means it’s been a while since many of us have experienced these entries in The Sims franchise.

Unlike The Sims 1, luckily The Sims 2 does have a couple cheats for controlling your sims' moods. It refers to a sim's needs as "motives" in cheats parlance.

The Sims 2 offers high-paying careers like natural science, education, and intelligence. These top-tier jobs bring the biggest paychecks and rewards.

The re-release comes just as “The Sims 4,” the current iteration of the franchise, has celebrated its 10th anniversary and EA has revealed its plans to continue with expanding that title and ...

Update 1/28/25 2:06 p.m. ET: The release dates for The Sims 1 and 2 as well as what each bundle includes have leaked.Both games launch on PC on January 31 around 11:00 a.m. ET. The Sims 1 includes ...

In The Sims 2, this cheat is instead for literally moving or deleting any object in the world. Interface cheats in The Sims 2. That last cheat is of particular interest to us here.

Maybe, but The Sims 2 is hardly an esport, and if I wanted to be subject to reality’s every cruel whim, I’d go outside. For now, it’s back to the weather control machine.

Any The Sims 2 playthrough is incomplete without using some cheats, whether it’s for a money code or building code. We list all The Sims 2 cheats in our guide.

The Sims 1 & 2 have, of course, long been unavailable in an official capacity, with the 25-year-old original never getting a digital release and its sequel's short-lived Ultimate Collection being ...

The Sims 2 Legacy Collection Visual and Filmmaking Cheats. True cinema (Image credit: EA) BoolProp enablePostProcessing [true/false] - This must be set to true to allow the following cheats to work; ...