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The Sims: Makin Magic Expansion Pack (PC)
Electronic Arts (
31 October, 2003 )
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A Magic Game!  |
When I first heard about this game I was sceptical - have they gone to far and are now scraping the barrel a bit? I thought it sounded like a poor Harry Potter rip off and would not appeal to me a adult Sims player. I am very glad I was wrong!This game is actually far better than anticipated. Each household will now get a free Magic Set to start them off, they can keep it or get rid of it depending on if you want them to be a magic family/person or not. They can make a spell with their first ingredients and then go to Magic Town for other ingredients. There a two ways into Magic Town - a balloon via the phone, which takes the whole family, or an individual magic Sim can jump through a hole in the ground. Whilst there they can earn and spend magicoins, plus complete challenges set my Magic vendors to get unusual ingredients. You can have some fun with your combinations of ingredients, which sit in the Sims inventory. You can use them to bake in pies as well, in the new baking set, for some funny results (My Sim got a donkeys head). Sims can also grow their own wine. There is not a negative that I can say about this game (I have played it lots over the last two weeks). The only disadvantage, like with all the Sim expansion packs, as that it takes time to load. Even with Sims 2 I dont think I will stop playing this game, it is still a lot of fun.
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Looking good, but sadly overshadowed by The Sims 2  |
Unfortunately, EA ruined this, in a way, by showing some brilliant screenshots of The Sims 2 even before they revealed Makin Magic. Although the graphics are incredible on Sims 2, it feels a little irritating, owning almost the whole Sims 1 series myself, that my version should become obselete in 2004. Are Maxis resorting to more desperate measures to squeeze every last penny, as existing in the physical universe, out of the original Sims series?Having seen some rather nice screenshots on their website, it would appear that the rather unoriginally named Magic Town will offer an environment not unlike Studio Town, but just more magical. It is shaping up to be a rather good expansion pack, or E.P. for short, but is it worth your money when a new, incompatible series comes out just a short time later? Probably not. But it does provide a sufficent way to leave the Sims 1 series, in style. Not to mention that it appears that there is a machine to manufacture a completely new mood, by changing the diamond that spins on top of their heads to a shining green colour, using spell ingredients. This may possibly be the most useful object ever devised. One little question to the developers: please will you look into creating an upgrade package to update the Sims 1 into the Sims 2?
I, and others, would feel a little cheated by series 1 becoming useless. N.B. This was written before the expansion pack, and The Sims 2 were released. This is only the impression given by the screenshots and other reviews.
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I loved this game so much! I got it for Christmas and since then I have been playing it like mad! At first I wasnt sure how to make potions but it was so easy once I knew! Just make sure that you dont get beeswax mixed up with butter ( dont worry im not mad - these are types of ingredients you have to collect to make potions!)because i did and i had to clear out my contents of the spell maker!It is such a fun game and it is brilliant!
To collect the ingredients you have to go to Magic Town and do quests for the people at the stalls, some include the dispersing of clouds and others include chalenging people to duel.
There are also house on the edge of the view in magic town and you need several magicoins ( the currency in which you use to obtain the ingredients that you use to make spells and charms)ranging from 1000-1500 to buy the house.
There are easy ways to get Magicions but it involves work and effort and can only be recieved if your sim is in a good mood.
1. As a child player, I find this highly amusing and would recomend it to anyone!
CJ
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