Sims 1 and 2 return to the PC eventually today via Sims 25 -yrs birthday bundle

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EA and MAXIS celebrate the 25 -year anniversary of the Sims franchise with a truly excellent surprise. Today, both Sims 1 and The Sims 2 are available on PC again via two older collections and SIMS 25 -year birthday bundle.

EA has announced that it releases The Sims: Legacy Collection and The Sims 2: Legacy Collection Today on PC. The two are available separately as well as combined for $ 40 in Sims 25 -Year’s birthday bundle.

Both games include all extensions and almost All things pack as it looks like The Sims 2: Legacy Collection Missing Ikea Home Stuff package from 2008. But otherwise everything is there. In fact, both collections include some bonus content, where Sims 1 gets something called Throwback Fit Kit, and Sims 2, which receives a grunge re-re-re-enactment set on all the other additions.

EAS re-release of the two older Sims games first marks over a decade that both gave has been easily accessible to play. Sims 1 was only ever released on the disk, so for years now, unless you were able to track an old physical copy and somehow make it run on a modern Windows machine there was just no way to Get hold of it (and it doesn’t include even expansion packages!). Sims 2 was recently available in 2014 via an ultimate collection in EA’s Origin store, but the ultimate collection was taken down a while ago. So unless you took advantage of it at that time, Sims 2 remained inaccessible to you unless you could find a physical disk in the same way. With these two new collections, all four SIMS games can now be easily purchased and played again through digital shop factories.

We gave Sims 1 a 9.5/10 and The Sims 2 an 8.5/10 Waaaaay back in the day when we first reviewed them both. While the series has added several new features and stroked a lot of kinks since then, the originals are still worth checking for their goofiness, relative simplicity, challenge and inheritance.

The Sims: Legacy Collection and The Sims 2: Legacy Collection is both available now on Steam, The Epic Games Store and through the EA app.

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