The Sims 2
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The Sims 2 (ESRB rating: T) is a very popular life simulation game and series of expansion packs made by EA Games and first released in 2004. You are able to create "Sims" in a family or by themselves, create neighborhoods, create houses with many options to choose from and more. It is a sequel to the previous The Sims series. The "Sims" speak in a made-up language sounding like random gibberish at times, but it has been reported that Sims have spoke English words before in situations when one would say something like what is heard. Mostly when Sims talk, a speech bubble pops up above them with a picture relevant to the subject they are talking about (e.g a soccer ball for soccer). Thought bubbles are also sometimes present, usually containing a picture relevant to a maxed out skill, a memory or just an object or person around them. Many expansion packs and "stuff packs" (just expansion packs adding more items) have been released and there will most likely be many more to come.
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Criticism
Homosexuality
There is at once great potential and great disappointment in the game's treatment of homosexuality. Sims clearly treat their sexual preference as a choice, rather than an inborn characteristic assigned when they are created. However, the game includes few mechanisms to enforce any restrictions once a choice has been made. Even if a player tries to make his sims exclusively heterosexual, without constant vigilance they are still vulnerable to the advances of other same-gender Sims. The game glorifies this union with the "woo-hoo" feature: when any Sims lie in bed together--male or female--the player is forced to sit through a close-up, cinematic rendering of their activities.
Pornography
Expansion packs include options to "woo-hoo" in hot tubs or elevators. Combined with "cheat cracks" downloadable from the internet that allow a player to remove Sims' coverings, this game stops barely short of marketing pornography, and many have agreed that it is actual pornography.
Satanism
The Sims are matched together not based on realistic aspects, but on their astrological sign. Also, it's possible to mate with aliens, demons, vampires or even the Grim Reaper.
Blasphemy
The Sims bodies are not those God made for Adam and Eve, but Eunuchs and Barbies. Also, despite the sponsorship of homosexuality, the game blurs the human bodies, as if God's creation was something that should be banned.
Amorality
The Sims can chose any career they want, and there's no morality in this choice - it's as normal to chose to become a doctor as to become a criminal.
Unhealthy habits
Sim women never breastfeed - babies are always bottle fed.
