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The world is your entrepreneurial oyster in this all-new The Sims 2 expansion pack, allowing you to experience the victories and challenges associated with creating, owning and running your own business. From the layout and merchandise, to the employees and materials, you choose what your Sim needs to create a profitable and fun business. In The Sims 2 Open for Business, your Sims will learn what it takes to build a clientele and keep loyal customers happy while improving employee morale and managing a lucrative business. Players can even help their Sims to create and craft new items to sell and meet customer demands. As each customer is different, you’ll be able to apply sales techniques to woo even the most discriminating shopper. Dress your employees in wacky outfits to entertain cranky customers or drop the price for an unsure browser. From training, promoting, hiring and firing, you’re ultimately the boss who calls all the shots! [Electronic Arts]
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more... 92
2404.org
While Open for Business adds new places and new objects, its true value is in adding another huge gameplay element to an already outstanding title. As an expansion pack, it includes more new content and better gameplay than several other stand-alone games.
90
AceGamez
It's a fantastic expansion, probably the best to date, especially when combined with the expansion that came out prior to this, Nightlife.
 90
Gamers' Temple
The Sims 2: Open for Business opens up an entirely new and utterly fascinating aspect of play for your sims.
90
GamerNode
In the end, The Sims 2: Open for Business is definitely one of the best expansion packs to be released for The Sims series. Although earning profit can be difficult at first, it really isn't too hard managing your business.
89
Armchair Empire
Open for Business will require you to put aside the leisurely pursuits of your Sims, roll up your sleeves and put in a hard day’s work to succeed. But in gameplay and fun, this is the most rewarding payday you’ll find in any Sims game.
88
PC Gameworld
If you want to turn your Sims 2 game into a business management simulation with more details and customization features than you can shake a stick at, then Open For Business is for you.
86
Cheat Code Central
There is just enough realism in Open for Business to make this challenging even for boring economic students, but it's still a lot of fun for Sims fans that have come to know and love the wacky characters and unpredictable situations that you run into in The Sims universe.
86
My Gamer
This game is what you make it- if you find you're not enjoying it, try something drastically different. As in all Sims titles, the only limit is your imagination.
83
Pelit (Finland)
Yet another decent add-on for The Sims 2. However, the theme is not as interesting as the previous two, and sometimes it feels like there are too many things for the virtual people to do. [Mar 2006]
82
Game Chronicles
This new expansion adds a new level of challenge to the game and a significantly fresh aspect of gameplay, though few new items and ordinary social interactions, so you may want to keep this in mind if you’re considering investing in this particular expansion.
80
Next Level Gaming
If you are a fan of the series then my guess is that you already have this expansion and are enjoying it. If do not have the original then I would recommend picking yourself up a copy.
80
eToychest
A deep and imaginative addition that anyone addicted to the Sims 2 will want to pick up. If you're not in that category, this expansion offers very little to you.
80
GameSpot
By introducing new job-related skills, the ability to hire and fire employees, and a healthy number of new items, Open for Business makes it fun to put your sims to work.
80
GameSpy
By itself Open for Business may not be a must-have, but paired with "NightLife," the two packs together will probably add hundreds of hours of gameplay to the series. Running a restaurant, building a trendy nightclub, creating a megastore, opening a cozy little coffee shop -- these kinds of challenges will keep you entertained for months to come.
80
Yahoo! Games
The economic model is robust enough to keep things interesting and the complexities of running a business will keep players hopping.
80
Loaded Inc
Open for Business isn’t one of those expansions that are so good that they make you want to go out and buy the original game just so you can play it. Having said that, this title is the best of the three expansions currently available for "The Sims 2."
80
G4 TV
Far from a frivolous extra, Open for Business delivers as much fresh gameplay as many “complete” games.
80
DailyGame
A perfectly logical expansion, if not a perfectly intuitive and enjoyable one at times. In other words, it's like real life.
78
IGN
This is probably my least favorite of the expansions to this point. That's not saying it's bad, it just takes more work than I want to put into it.
74
PC Format
Playing shop is fun and there's enough here for Sim-ophiles. [Apr 2006, p.91]
72
PC Zone UK
Even though it feels so very wrong to say this, Open For Business is a Sims expansion worth buying.
70
Game Informer
Open for Business doesn't take advantage of the Sims' best qualities and also falls short as a stand-alone idea. [Apr 2006, p.131]
70
1UP
It's a tougher -- and leaner -- game than its older expansion-pack siblings, but isn't starting your own business all about being the toughest and leanest?
70
PALGN
One of the best expansion packs released for The Sims yet. Letting your Sims have their own businesses seems like a natural progression and the business element is deep, it isn't just a tacked on inclusion.
70
EuroGamer
Anybody with an actual Sims fetish will love it to bits. Granted it can be fiddly and confusing to start with (why hide so much of the critical new stuff in the depths of the catalogue?), but once you're up and running there's a definite attraction to it.
70
VideoGamer
For once, it's an expansion pack that does exactly what it says on the box. It broadens the experience of the already panoramically wide core game enough to justify a purchase.
70
Computer Games Magazine
There's enough new stuff to see to last maybe three or four sim lifetimes, which is a pretty good deal for your $35. [July 2006, p.58]
64
PC Gamer UK
While everything works, there are a few odd quirks which don't exactly break the game but do make it a little bizarre. [May 2006, p.89]
62
PC Gamer
Unfortunately, there's so much frantic micromanagement involved in keeping your biz going that you scarcely have any time to do anything that feels like play. [May 2006, p.102]
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