I haxed it and am kinda glad I did. I was very excited and planning to buy it... but honestly, I was almost immediately underwhelmed by it. There are features even from vanilla TS2 that aren't available and doing certain things (like split-level homes) isn't an option even manipulating cheats for things like turning of terrain constraints.


I'm also unhappy with what EA is trying to do with their silly store. It seems they are really trying to rip people off honestly.

Perhaps I'll buy a legal copy around the time they release an expansion pack if they actually fill in some features.


All of that said, there are some very positive things to be said for it. The seamlessness of the neighborhood is pretty cool. I like the achievement style stuff for different skills and enjoy the silly little things like bug collecting.