What is the best expansion pack for The Sims 2?

• ...and do you need just need to have The Sims 2 if you want and expansion pack or do you need another expansion?

• Answer:

  Yeah, you need the actual Sims 2 game (which is 4 cds by the way) to install any expansion packs. As for my favorite... I really think they are all awesome, but if I had to rank them: 1. Nightlife 2. Open for Business 3. University I think I like nightlife best because you get cars, inventories, and your sims can go on dates now. It also gives you a whole premade downtown area with clothing shops and restaurants, kind of reminiscent of the original Sims expansion pack, Sims Hot Date. Then, there's the fact that you can create as many custom downtown neighborhoods as you want for each main neighborhood (ok, so maybe there's a limit, but I've never found it) and you can have your sims live on a downtown neighborhood. You can also do this in Open for Business, and the Shopping District neighborhoods in this game load quicker, or so it seems, than the Downtown ones. That, and the fact that having a business is really fun, is why Ofb is my second favorite. I like university, but college life can get pretty old. It's also kind of confusing if you have more than two college sims at one time. I love the new jobs you can get, and some of the awesome career rewards from those new jobs (Resurrect-O-Nomitron anyone?). But really, they're all really, really close in my opinion.