sims 2 mansion & garden stuff

Electronic Arts released the 9th and (what can only be assumed to be) final Stuff Pack for the Sims 2 this week with Mansion & Garden Stuff. This add-on features mostly new and improved garden plants, flowerbeds and decorations as well as some new building options. Piggy-backing on the addition of building embellishments from Apartment Life is a whole new Build Mode section for Architecture, which includes the new vent systems and other structural decorations. The new pack also comes with three new building themes: Moroccan, Second Empire and Art Deco. I haven’t built much yet with these new themes but I do love the new garden stuff and also that kids can now slide down stair banisters! Cute. Still, perhaps a little tacked on and maybe overflow of leftover AL additions, but if you’re like me you want the whole collection so you’ll get it anyway. I will always prefer EA made content to custom so honestly if they came out with another TS2 pack before the Sims 3 comes out, I’d probably buy it.