The Sims 2 (PSP)

The Sims 2 (PSP) is the first of The Sims series for the system. It takes place in Strangetown, but unlike the GBA and DS versions, the PSP version is based on the computer game graphics engine. This is the only PSP Sims game that is minigame as well as mission based. (The Sims 2: Pets is not mission based). The mission and minigame type of style is very similar to The Urbz and Bustin' Out. 
It could be purchased from the PlayStation Store and downloaded on both Sony's PSP and PS Vita handheld video game consoles. However, this game has been removed from the store as of 2014 by EA as The Sims 2 is no longer supported. Luckily, people who purchased the game before the discontinuation on the original UMD or from the PSN can still play/download the game on the PSP or PS Vita (digital only). On the PS Vita, the game has enabled double texture filtering and scaling to the HD resolution.
The Sims 2 features 6 minigames (the other 2 are skill building and socializing). Players can only have 3 Sims per Memory Stick regardless of capacity, and 4 saves per Sim.
The Sims 2 on PSP includes Human Sims, Zombies, Ghosts, Aliens and Vampires.
==Story==
The game begins when the player's Sim, the protagonist, gets a flat tire on their car while driving through the Strangetown desert, ending up at the Silver Rocket Service Station, next to mechanic Oscar Del Fuego's workshop. While the latter fixes the car, the secrets and social game mechanics are introduced. When the player returns to check their car, they discover that the entire workshop has disappeared, and in it’s place is a phone on the ground where Dr Dominic Newlow calls from, offering the player a job. The player is then forced to reside in Strangetown in an Estate sold by Bella Goth, and solve the various mysteries of the townsfolk until they can find out who took their car and made the workshop disappear.
==Gameplay==
The Sims 2 for PSP has combined control style from both the GBA and DS versions. For example, L and R rotates the camera and "Circle" is used for Perks (similar to the Tools from the GBA version).
At the start of the game, your protagonist will get a zodiac sign and one of 3 aspirations (money, social or knowledge) via a personality test from Mambo Loa. The aspiration will determine your protagonist’s wants, available perks and aspiration goals, and fulfilling them will build up the sanity meter. The sanity meter falling too low will prevent your protagonist from doing certain tasks, then eventually they will be institutionalised at a cost of 500 simoleons. You will gain sanity points for fulfilling wants which can be used to gain special perks. 
The protagonist also has 8 urgencies (needs) to be taken care of; hunger, fun, bladder, energy, stinkiness, nausea, headache and debt. When an urgency falls too low, it will appear on the screen, and affect the protagonist’s ability for tasks and their sanity. Eventually it will start to flash. The hunger urgency falling too low is a cause of death. The debt urgency falls low after your sim becomes in debt from not having enough money to pay the hospital after losing sanity, or not paying bills, and it affects the headache urgency until coming out of debt. 
There are 6 skills that can be built up by learning them through certain objects; cooking, body, mechanical, creativity, logic and charisma. Building skills can help with doing certain mission tasks and also with the social game (some characters require you to have a higher skill level in order to be successful.)
===Social game===
This social game emphasizes quick action and observation. A speech bubble containing a picture will appear over Sims, and players must press the corresponding button that matches either the same icon or one closely related. It resembles the social game in The Sims 2 for Nintendo DS, in which the player must select the appropriate interaction guided by the other Sim's gesture. There are three different social games; chat, flirt and intimidate. Chat and flirt each have 4 levels whilst intimidating only needs to be done once for the dark secret. 
Social game is the main system through which to discover Sims' secrets.
==Differences between The Sims 2 PSP, GBA and DS==
*ESRB Rating: The Sims 2 for PSP is rated Teen while The Sims 2 for GBA and DS is rated E10+.
*Start and Select: Unlike the GBA version of The Sims 2, Start brings up the menu whereas in the GBA version, Start shows Goals, Pockets, Relationships, etc.
*The PSP game has a completely different plot and mostly different cast of characters.
*All three games contain a form of unlockable secret, but in the The Sims 2 (PSP), each Sim has up to four secrets that can be sold for cash. These secrets are unique to The Sims 2 (PSP) and unlocking them are important parts of progression, while in the other games, they are more-so considered "rewards."
*When your Sim's sanity reach to the bottom in The Sims 2 for PSP, they will be "committed" for a second and being send back to somewhere else, then, your Sim's sanity will raise for a bit and 1000 Simoleons will be spent, however, in DS, the player may be thrown in jail and lose 200 simoleons for bail. If the player has insufficient funds to bail themselves out, Mamma Hogg will bail them out. Otherwise, they will pass out and are returned to the Manager's Suite by the Grim Cowboy.
==Create a Sim==
Create-A-Sim in The Sims 2 for PlayStation Portable is controlled using the , , and buttons. The first phase of creating a Sim is gender, skin color, hair, hair color, and face. The second phase has eyes, nose, facial hair or make-up, lower and upper parts of the face. The third and fourth phase has clothes, glasses (optional, includes sunglasses), and a name. will continue or start the game (in the fourth phase), while will either cancel the phase (for improvements) or cancel everything (during the first phase). Players can also customize neighbors, but cannot change their names.
==Game Locations==
*Service Station
*Paradise Place
*Espiritu Estate
*Deadtree
*Division 47
*The Monument
==Characters==
===Returning Characters===
*Mambo Loa
*Bella Goth
*Loki Beaker
*Circe Beaker
*Ophelia Specter
*Lincoln Broadsheet
*Lazlo Curious
*Pascal Curious
*Vidcund Curious
*Tycho Curious
*Mister Smith
*Jenny Smith
*Johnny Smith
*Jill Smith
*General Buzz Grunt
*Colonel Tank Grunt
*Corporal Ripp Grunt
*Nervous Subject (Deceased)
===New Characters===
*Oscar Del Fuego
*Deputy Duncan
*Doctor Dominic Newlow
*Emily Emory
*Hazel Dente
*Roland Calonzo
*Gimi Branko
*Roberta Rossum
*Isaac Rossum
*Penelope Kline
*Yeva Comonova
*Rick Wong
*Sinjin Balani
*Sara Starr
*Pita Florica
*Virginya Feng
*Hoot Howell
*Annie Howell
*Dudes in Black
===Deceased Sims===
*Nervous Subject
*Dennis Philips
*Vittorio Florica
*Kersten Spooks
*Zina Marlowe
*George Marlow
*Heber Darcy
*Emma Darcy
*Eadie Butler
*Clancy Hardwick
*Barney
*Elliot
*Gordon
*Val
*J.C.
*Christian
*Elizabeth
*Sto
*Jodi
*Jon
*RJ
*Bruce
*Geoffrey
*Sean
*Lorian
*Tristan
*Matt
*Tom
*Baity
*Jason
===Townies===
*Cristian Allard
*Marie Au Lait
*Vaughan Ferretino
*Red Sands
*Betsy Shelton
*Tureen Allard
*Jane Koch
*Tex Folsom
*Bull Dratch
*Winnie Chester
*Chet Crawley
*Jesse Lee Varmint
*Kristina Love
*Erin Philips
*Dixie Stills
*Dante Hudd
*Scoots Turnberry
*Clint Heckler
*Sten Luger
===Unused Sims===
These Sims exist within the game's files but won't appear in-game without using hacks.
* Tina Mansfield
* Ashton Felt
* Orderly Black and Orderly White
* Catelyn Lancaster
* Terri Tortuga
* Tunak Tun
* Zen Mu
* Transit Admin #7
==Soundtrack==
===Country===
*Downs and the Dirty - 'Ribeye Rodeo'
*Jim Arlen - 'You Could Have Left the Dog'
*Rusty and Dusty Parker - 'You Don't Even Have To Ask'
*Sophie West - 'Love's Having It's Way With Me'
===Hip-hop===
*Gen-3-FI - 'Park It There'
*Grass Roots - 'Baddown'
*Pantera Y Nicco - 'Wia Wia'
*Pe-Erre and Kyntero - 'Chunklingtung'
===Pop===
*Ashton Felt - 'Girl You Know'
*Elastic Rocket - 'Duck Low'
*Kitty Shack - 'Another World'
*Reggie and The Full Effect - 'Take Me Home Please'
*Tina Mansfield - 'Rub Me Right'
===Rock===
*Carbon 14 - 'Out of Date'
*Crackotage - 'Rock Rock On'
*Paramore - 'Pressure'
*Ryan Ferguson - 'Suddenly'
*The Kine - 'Asleep on My Feet'
===Techno===
*Fischerspooner - 'Just Let Go'
*Junkie XL - 'Sims Theme Remix'
*Simulakron - 'Phonographic'
*Waist of Thyme - 'Monkeysphere'
==Gallery==
The Sims 2 PSP HD Gameplay
OfficialPSPConceptArt.jpg|Official concept art of the PSP Cast
Sim kissing Pascal Curious.png|Sim kissing Pascal Curious
==Trivia==
*The Sims 2 for PSP is based sometime after The Sims 2 for PC, as Jill Smith, Tank Grunt, and Ripp Grunt have aged up one life stage, Pascal Curious' son being born, the untimely demise of Nervous Subject, and the move out of Ophelia Specter. However, it is not clear how much time has passed, but it has been speculated to be at least a year.
**The Sims 2 for PSP is also probably based sometime after the events of The Urbz: Sims in the City for handheld, given how Lincoln Broadsheet has been kicked out of Miniopolis.
==See also==
*List of secrets in The Sims 2 (PSP)
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