EA talks details about the new rereleases in their official blog.
It’s official. EA has just announed The Sims 1 and The Sims 2 Rereleases, AVAILABLE NOW!
The Sims 1 Rerelease is available with all 7 Packs for $19,99, The Sims 2 Legacy collection with all most Stuff Packs (IKEA missing) and EPs for $29,99 – and both Rereleases together for a special Birthday Bundle for 40USD!
We have a full FAQ Thread list on Sims 1 and Sims 2 Rerelease System Requirements and Feature Improvements. check it out here!
Take a look at the official blog announcing the return:
The Sims 1 and The Sims 2 Are Back
It’s hard to believe that it has been 25 years since The Sims made its debut, but we’re so grateful to have shared this incredible journey with so many of you. No one does life like The Sims, and as we gear up for next week’s celebrations, what better way to kick things off than with a cultural comeback?
That’s right – we’re taking it back to where it all began with the launch of The Sims 25th Birthday Bundle! You’ve been asking for it, and we’re thrilled to finally return to the days when we first reimagined the ways people play with life.
To celebrate our legacy and honor the incredible fans that have been with us along the way, we’re re-releasing two fan-favorite titles that contain familiar neighborhoods and beloved characters – such as the sneaky burglar, unpredictable genie, and Sunny the Tragic clown – that started it all. Rediscover the nostalgia and magic of the classics that welcomed so many of you into our amazing community.
The Sims 25th Birthday Bundle includes The Sims and The Sims 2, featuring all the iconic characters, music, and gameplay you know and love, plus bonus content! You can also purchase The Sims: Legacy collection* and The Sims 2: Legacy collection** separately. We’re so excited for you to play, create, and relive the fun across re-releases of these beloved games, rolling out globally on Windows 10 and 11 beginning on January 31, 2025.
Hit The Mother Lode with The Sims: Legacy collection
Party like it’s Y2K all over again with The Sims: Legacy collection! Picture this: baggy jeans are all the rage, bedazzled flip phones are the “it” item, and everyone’s favorite pop star has chunky highlights.
Build an entire neighborhood of Sims and take control of their lives – whether you build them up or cause mayhem is completely up to you. Shape every aspect of your Sims, from their personalities and appearances to their careers, friendships, swoonworthy romances, and more.
Return to the original create-a-Sim to design your Sims, choose their outfits, and allocate personality points to determine what makes them tick. From there, it’s time to welcome them into their humble abode. Select from pre-built homes or construct their dream house from the ground up. Appease your Sims with comfortable rooms and nice furnishings – maybe even throw in a hot tub or heart bed to shake things up.
In The Sims, you can run your Sims’ lives or ruin them. Lead your Sims to happiness by fulfilling their needs, pursuing careers, making friends, and finding romance.
… Or let chaos unfold, the choice is yours!
*The Sims: Legacy collection includes The Sims and the following bonus content: The Sims: Livin’ Large, The Sims: House Party, The Sims: Hot Date, The Sims: Vacation, The Sims: Unleashed, The Sims: Superstar, The Sims: Makin’ Magic,along with The Sims 4: Throwback Fit Kit.
Fulfill Your Sims’ Dreams with The Sims 2: Legacy collection
Are you ready to break generational curses or keep the cycle going? What legacy will your Sims leave behind? With The Sims 2: Legacy collection, craft new stories as you guide your Sims over a lifetime and determine which traits and characteristics will be passed down through generations. Your Sims now have a purpose, and it’s up to you to decide if you’ll help them achieve their dreams or let chaos reign supreme once again.
In The Sims 2, your Sims inherit physical and personality traits from their elders, offering endless storytelling possibilities as you build family legacies and evolve their family trees. Use create-a-Sim to design unique Sims from head to toe, with a variety of hairstyles, facial features, and stylish outfits. Then, build dream homes and design entire neighborhoods – the creativity is limitless!
Destiny awaits your Sims as they pursue aspirations: Is it their life’s ambition to be popular, become filthy rich, find romance, have a large family, or obtain ultimate knowledge? It’s all in your hands!
Will your Sims be left at the altar or inherit a fortune and become fabulously wealthy? Witness the big moments that make every Sim’s life uniquely memorable and capture them with The Sims 2’s movie-making feature. create the cast, set the stage, take control of the camera, and record your own Sims films in action!
**The Sims 2: Legacy collection includes The Sims 2 and the following bonus content: The Sims 2: University, The Sims 2: Nightlife, The Sims 2: Open for Business, The Sims 2: Pets, The Sims 2: Bon Voyage, The Sims 2: Seasons, The Sims 2: FreeTime, The Sims 2: Apartment Life, The Sims 2: Holiday Party Pack, The Sims 2: Family Fun Stuff, The Sims 2: Glamour Life Stuff, The Sims 2: Happy Holiday Stuff, The Sims 2: celebration! Stuff, The Sims 2: H&M Fashion Stuff, The Sims 2: Teen Style Stuff, The Sims 2: Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Stuff and The Sims 2: Mansion & Garden Stuff, along with The Sims 4: Grunge Revival Kit.
The Sims 25th Birthday Bundle includes The Sims: Legacy collection* and The Sims 2 Legacy collection*. The Sims 25th Birthday Bundle retails for $39.99 SRP and will be rolling out globally on Windows 10 and 11 beginning on January 31, 2025 on Pc via EA app™, Epic Games Store, and Steam®. The Sims: Legacy collection is available to purchase separately for $19.99 SRP and The Sims 2: Legacy collection is available to purchase for $29.99 SRP.
EA Play Pro*** members on the EA App can celebrate with unlimited access to The Sims: Legacy collection and The Sims 2: Legacy collection starting January 31st.
More information including official features, assets and coverage to follow soon. Stay tuned!
Do we know if it will have wide-screen support? The description says nothing, also we don’t know if they bugs were fixed
Sims 1 has widescreen support but it’s very basic actually disappointingly basic. There aren’t any options for exclusive full-screen and the UI bar is pretty small on a large monitor.
so it’s basically same as the fan made widescreen patch
I never tried the patch but it seems like it.
Here is a screenshot of wide-screen support on a 1920*1080 monitor. It’s pretty underwhelming for $40.
it is a 25 year old game. so the graphics are going to be a little under whelming
I play lots of retro game releases they have options like full screen and the text is clearer.
This is the neighborhood menu.
That’s honestly disrespectful. The fan made patch looks better
Ugh, it really does.
EA and respect for fans? Hha, good joke
where and when do we buy them? are they going to be on EA?
It’s available on Steam, Epic and EA app. But if you buy it on Epic or Steam it still requires EA app to be launched just like TS4.
Unfortunately The Sims 1 isn’t working for me. The game won’t even open. What a bummer!
It won’t open for me either. Nice one EA.
i wonder if its because so many people are trying to access it. where did you go to purchase it?
could be because alot of people are buying it at the moment
It can’t open after being installed already
The EA app.
I can’t open it either
Lol. I have the free Sims 2 collection they handed out years ago and it has IKEA and did I mention it was FREE?
To charge 30 bucks for the Sims 2 missing the IKEA stuff pack that was given for free before, is a big fat NOPE.
They couldn’t include it due to licensing issues, they also cut some songs for the same reason. They charge the same amount of money like Aspyr does for Mac version of TS2. The Legacy collection at least has all expansion packs.
they could always renew the licenses, but as usual EA decided they wouldn’t do it
The Sims 2 was never officially free. It was only free for people who had physical copies of the games. At some point, they stop asking for proof and people took advantage of that, but it was never intended to be given away. I don’t know why people are expecting a company to give stuff away for free like that…
Yes it was free, EA published that with I-Love-The-Sims cD KEY, you can have the game added to your origin library.
It’s disappointing that IKEA stuff is not included in the Sims 2 legacy edition.
so if anyone already owns ts2 ultimate collection or even the physical cd copies like me, no this isn’t updated for our current systems and runs the same way it has before; total bummer :/ mine literally still has the worst res and I refuse to pay $30 for a game I already owned for decades now.
I haven’t yet tried ts2 but 1 is pretty disappointing. Hopefully, 2 will at least run better on Windows 11 than the ultimate collection did.
Knowing EA they probably didn’t even bother to fix the shadow bug that was in Sims 2 (fortunately, there’s a mod for that) 🙁
They seem to have permanently disabled shadows as the “fix.”
oh nooooo
Typical EA 🙁
You need to go into a lot to change the shadow setting. The outside sim shadows do look fixed for me (On the high setting).
Does anyone know, for sure, if the 25th Birthday Bundle includes the all the expansion/stuff packs? I’m assuming that’s what they mean by “bonus content”, but I don’t want to waste money on it if that isn’t the case.
i am wondering that too- as it gave separate prices but is the $40 include everything for sims 1 and sims 2…
On The Sims Instagram they commented on the post and said “The Sims 25th Birthday Bundle includes all the content in both legacy collections.” So, I would say it’s safe to say the $40 includes everything.
yes it does, it also contains 2 kit for ts4
Okay, cool. Thank you!
So I’m reading the comments trying to decide whether to buy the rereleases or just download the free games available on the internet… you who have bought, is it worth it?
I wish I held off until we get some clarity if anything from the UI will be improved.
tbh that re-release is a unfunny joke to me, cuz for Polish users it costs much more – 220PLN (ca. $55)
no it does not, it’s 175 PLN for me
179 i meant, which is exactly the 40 usd with polish VAT amount
Barring any discussion about “what’s the point”, what if you already have the Ultimate collection, which includes Ikea, and decide to pay the lovely amount for this new Sims 2 collection that doesn’t have Ikea, will your old version be replaced and result in the loss of Ikea? I assume there is no upgrade to the graphics and that the new version is just about compatibility.
It’s not even about compatibility, it is the same version as Uc, but without Ikea, ad a few songs
With the IKEA pack being excluded from the re-release, people will just stick with the ultimate collection.
will it still be available to buy sims 1 and sims 2 in March when I buy it with my birthday money?
The Bodyshop is included in this rerelease of The Sims 2?
They had the chance to really win over a lot of lost fans in the midst of TS4’s shortcomings and the waste of development time that is Project Rene. Instead, they took the classic EA route of cutting corners for a quick buck.
This should’ve had remastered graphics. Absolutely not buying this.
but what could they do about graphics, besides adding filters. Game runs on the engine and render it does. Maybe textures at most updated to higher quality, and models. but for a game this big, it’s 18 separate games in one
WHERE IS IT FOR MAc???!!!!
Here’s how to get the IKEA stuff into the game if you already own it.
I still have it on cD from back in the day, so this is how I did it:
Find where the new game is installed. I bought on Steam, so it is here: c:/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/The Sims 2 Legacy collection
create a folder “SP8”
Extract “compressed.zip” from the cD into this folder.
IKEA items show up in game.
I bought both of these games, that I actually already owned. I am very surprised to see that for the legacy edition of the game, The Sims 2 Store Edition’s content, as well the the official pre-order bonus content, are missing! Why is so? They said that it contained EVERYTHING except for the Ikea Stuff Pack. Ok. But it should then include BOTH the Store Edition’s content AND the official pre-order bonus! Too bad!