Now your Sims can rediscover the joys of leisure time

Reward your Sims with a variety of fun, new activities! Now your Sims can rediscover the joys of leisure time! Awaken your Sims' true passions in life as they discover and excel at all-new activities.

Whether they're tossing a football with the family, practicing ballet, restoring cars with friends, or building train sets, your Sims now have more ways to build skills, enhance friendships, and make their lives more successful. Craft new, unique items for your Sims to use in their daily lives including clothing, pottery, and more.

Your Sims will even unlock secret rewards by mastering their hobbies and advancing all-new careers. Explore a wide variety of new hobbies that will change your Sims' lives forever!

Here are some key features of "The Sims 2 FreeTime":

· Discover your Sims' passion from a wide range of new activity types, from sports to science to arts and crafts. All-new hobbies include basketball, soccer, restoring cars, ballet, even searching for stars and planets!
· Hobbies offer lifetime rewards. As your Sims master new activities they'll unlock aspirations, earn rewards, and uncover secret lots.
· Once your Sims build up their skills, they can sell their arts and crafts or see how they stack up against the competition by entering dance, food, and video game contests!
· All-new group activities are a great way for Sims to spend time with family and friends. There are even special activities for kids and toddlers, including an activity table for drawing and playing with blocks!
· Hobbies can be full of unexpected moments, especially for Sims with low skill levels. Your newbie Sim might sew a bear with one eye, make a lopsided jar on the pottery wheel, get poison ivy while hiking, or who knows what?!


Requirements:

· 1.3 Ghz processor (2.0 for Vista)
· 512 MB RAM (1GB for Vista)
· Windows(R) Vista, Windows XP, Windows ME, Windows 98 or Windows 2000 Operating System.
· 8x or faster CD/DVD drive
· At least 1.5 GB of additional hard drive space (5.0 GB total is required if installing both The Sims 2 and The Sims 2 Bon Voyage Expansion Pack at the same time.)
· A T&L-capable video card with at least 32 MB of video RAM.
· Supported video cards:

· ATI Radeon(TM) series 8500 or better (9600 or greater required for Vista)
· 8500, All-In-Wonder 8500
· 9000, 9200, 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800
· X300, X600, x700, X800, x850
· X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950
· NVIDIA(R) Quadro(TM) series
· Quadro, Quadro2, Quadro4
· NVIDIA GeForce series GeForce2 GTS and better (GeForce 6200 or greater required for Vista)
· GeForce 2, 2 GTS
· GeForce 3, 3 Ti
· GeForce 4, 4 Ti, 4200, 4600, 4800, MX 420, 440, 460
· GeForce FX 5200, 5500, 5600, 5700, 5800, 5900, 5950
· GeForce PCX 5300, 5900
· GeForce 6200, 6600, 6800
· GeForce 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950
· S3 GammaChrome
· S18 Pro
· S18 Ultra
· Intel(R) Extreme Graphics
· 82865, 82915 and above