Resurrecting Random Premades Part 1

Every Sims 2 game comes with premade neighborhoods with residential lots filled with sims that you can play as. After owning the game for quite some time, I can honestly say that I have played with every premade family at least once and messed up their lives in one way or another. I hardly ever do what the family story tells me to do and I usually wind up making the family crazy somehow. One of my most favorite things to do to mess up the storylines is to resurrect as many random relatives that I can that have died some way or another prior to when the game began. First stop, Pleasantview!

There are only three pre-deceased sims in Pleasantview that you can resurrect (as in they actually have character data in the game): Darleen Dreamer (the wife of Darren Dreamer, mother of Dirk Dreamer), Skip Broke (husband of Brandi Broke) and Michael Bachelor (Bella Goth’s older brother).

Resurrecting Darleen is quite easy, first you need to enter the Dreamer lot, and then all you need is a Grim Reaper phone (which you can get by obtaining a job in the Paranormal career and getting to a high enough level to unlock it). Of course, you need the Sims 2 University to get the Resurrect-o-Nomitron, but your sims don’t necessarily have to graduate from college to get it (you can always cheat by pressing CTRL + SHIFT + C and entering “boolprop testingcheatsenabled true” into the cheatbox and SHIFT + right clicking on the newspaper, then selecting paranormal under the “get adult jobs for” category. You can also change the level of the job by pressing the “Select Job Level to…” opinion, with one being the entry level job and 10 being the highest job in the given career track). Then all you have to do is have Darren or Dirk call the Grim Reaper and pay a decent amount of money so that Darleen doesn’t come back as a zombie. The closer to $10,000 you pay the Grim Reaper, the more complete Darleen’s resurrection will be.

Since the Calientes kind of bored me (and I had no clue what to do with him), I haven’t resurrected Michael Bachelor yet. But his resurrection requires the “move grave” method, which I will be discussing in more detail in my next entry.

Skip Broke can only be resurrected using the Resurrect-o-Nomitron or the Tombstone of L & D if only the Sims 2 and Sims 2 University are installed. If any expansion packs are installed that are Nightlife or later, Skip Broke will not be able to be resurrected without the use of a third program known as SimsPE. Poor Skip.

This concludes my entry about legal resurrections in Pleasantview. Next time I will be trying to tackle resurrections in the next neighborhood, Strangetown (and trust me, there are a lot of dead premades roaming around Olive’s garden).