The developers say this is the biggest expansion pack to date, and certainly there's quite a bit here for your money. There's a good variety of pets to choose from, and whilst felines and canines are likely to be the more popular options, there's little to stop you adding something more exotic like a lizard to your Sims world. Pets are a fun addition, whether you let them roam or take an active interest in their development. While pets are the headline attraction, there's actually quite a bit more to discover in this expansion. There are extra locations and there's a new gardening element added, which is passable enough. There's the usual extra bevy of careers and objects brought into play too. There's nothing in The Sims Unleashed to impress non-converts, but it's essential for the completist and offers better all-round value than most Sims add-on packs so far. And you can't help but love those kittens

Special Features:

• Pets: Visit the pet store and bring home a dog or a cat for your Sims. Or buy a giant parrot, turtle, lizard or fish, which provide fun for your family but without needing to be housebroken.
• Bigger neighbourhoods: The Sims Unleashed gives players an expanded neighbourhood with 30 additional residential lots and five local community lots that feature parks, a new caf, shops and a market.
• Walk your dog at the park or bring your cat to the caf and build relationships with your neighbours through your love for pets.
• New Characters: Hire an amazing Pet Trainer to prepare your pet for the local pet show. Impress the Pet Judge in order to earn ribbons for obedience, tricks and good pet mood.
• There are even new animal characters, like Fifi the flirtatious French Poodle and Spike the bullying Bull Dog, for your pets to meet, too.
• Five new careers: Send your Sims down five new career tracks with 50 new jobs.
• Enter the world of fashion, become a world famous chef, take care of the neighbourhoods pets as a veterinarian, educate our future Sims or run away and join the circus.
• Gardening: Sims can now grow a variety of vegetables in their own garden plots using seeds purchased at the local garden store. Proper care of the garden will yield a crop that can be picked and stored in the new pantry.
• Hard-working families can now live off the land, or make a living by selling their home grown vegetables at the market.
• Use your pets to help chase off the rabbits and gophers.
• 125 new objects: Redecorate your Sims' home for the new pet's arrival.
• The Sims Unleashed contains dozens of new objects for pets and people plus an all-new decorator set with a New Orleans French Quarter theme.