The Sims: Unleashed is already fifth expansion to the genre-busting best-selling people simulator, The Sims. As fans of The Sims know, there has always been something missing from their virtual neighborhoods ... pets. Have you ever eaten rabbit meat? Oh, hehe sorry just kidding :) The expansion now offers you the ability to add different kinds of pets (turtles, iguanas, goldfish, parrots, cats, dogs...) to a new or existing sim family. Yeah it's cool, needless to say that the pets add a whole new dimension to gameplay. They are cute, with all of their running, jumping, playing, and sleeping animations. The Sims: Unleashed also adds Old Town, a new area to visit and a stark contrast to the vacation haunts and dating section from " tion" and "Hot Date." Old Town mostly features pet stores, parks, cafes and markets, that give the Sims and their new pets a variety of places to sniff, explore and meet their new neighbors. Pets largely come in two flavors - the interactive ones, like dogs and cats, or semi-interactive ones, like turtles, iguanas, goldfish, and parrots that pretty much stay in place. Pets help to keep your sim happy, but like the real world, they also add a lot of work, the pets require some care, so you'll have to feed them and clean them occasionally. The interactive pets (dogs and cats) have their own needs, personality, and skills, but unlike your sims, you can not take control of a pet and direct their actions. You pets have and maintain relationships with sims and other pets, so you should play with them a bit. Interacting with pets will strengthen the relationship. Once you gain the trust of a pet, you can train them to perform tricks and you can even enter them into pet contests and get some trophies from Spot's latest competition. The Sims: Unleashed adds larger neighborhood, five new career paths with 50 new and exciting jobs, over 125 new objects (walls, and floors, with many of the objects pet-related - toys, scratching posts, litter boxes, and the like), dozens of new character skins and an all-new decorator set with a New Orleans French Quarter theme. In addition, you can even buy the seeds to plant your own garden. When vegetables are harvested you can store them to use for meals or simply sell them at the market to make a little extra money. I must admit that The Sims: Unleashed isn't so revolutionary as The Sims : Hot Date, but it's brings again some enjoyable gameplay. However I hope that after so many expansions packs EA will deliver a bit more than this. Anyway, those who have purchased the four previous expansion packs will likely find this worth buying.