The Pets expansion adds an interesting wrinkle to The Sims 2 but won't set the world, or even your sims' house, on fire. The Sims 2 remains a popular and difficult-to-describe strategy game that lets ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The virtual world of The Sims 2 will become home to all sorts of animals with the release next month of The Sims 2: Pets, the fourth expansion to EA's ...

Little boxes with pictures of your pets appear to the right of your normal Sims. Even though you can't issue commands from your pets' point of view, you can still examine their need meters and so on.

Pets come to you like annoying babies: they know very little about their place in society and merely live by instincts. Training is much more direct with pets than human babies, Sim babies or ...