The Sims 2 boasts itself as a “life” simulator, promoting the development of people through the various stages of life; baby, toddler, child, adult, elderly and ultimately death. Death is one of the most prominent parts of the game, as you spend most of your time playing trying to prevent it, unless you’re a sadistic son of bitch. Like me.

It is in this game aspect that many players find appealing, doing what ever they can to cause it, or merely being neglectful. Exploring the different ways to kill these virtual people is indeed interesting, and difficult. In this sequel, there are more ways to die apart from the standard starving, fire, drowning, electrocution or disease of the first Sims.

Starvation:
The easiest of all deaths, in order to achieve this death all one merely has to do is prevent ones sim from eating, be it not fill the refrigerator, or lock them in a room without doors or furniture (this being the more enjoyable option due to the fact that at some point the sim will piss themselves then pass out in it).


Fire:
This is also an easy death as it is the most likely to happen without your help. The sim will casually be cooking their food and the oven will burst into flames, the sim panics and stands, mere inches away from the fire, screaming at it. If you have a smoke detector, or are willing to call the fire department, they will put out the fire and your sim will be safe. Additionally your sim could put out the fire themselves, or you could have the decency to move them away and let the fire burn itself out. But that would be human, so we don’t do that.


Drowning:
One of the harder of the original sim’s deaths, you must go to the effort of having the sim swim around in their pool till they tire themselves out and succumb to their fatigue. Important note: you must remove any exits from the pool or else they will get out.


Electrocution:
Another hard death, but very straight forward in its execution (no pun intended). Simply all you have to do is have a sim repair and electrical appliance when the sim has no skill points in mechanical. The difficulty comes from the rarity of its occurrence, and due to the fact that once you repair a few things you’ve gained skill points in mechanical and the chances of this happening greatly decrease.

Disease:
A simple death. You get sick. You don’t let your sim get better. He dies. Simple.

Now. On to the new additions.

Fright:
Sims hate death, as evident in this death. If your sim witnesses a ghost…probably one produced by you killing another sim, they are frightened and their needs go down a little, their needs are too low, they die. A hard death to come by as ghosts are a rare commodity, and as a natural death you didn’t cause, less enjoyable.


Flies:
If your sim's home is messy you will get roaches and flies. Roaches can lead to disease and the flies will eat your face. Once again a very straight forward death, don't clean your sim's home, but once again time and chance have some fairly solid imput.

Satellite:
By far the funniest of all deaths. Naturally your sims crave enjoyment, one way to fulfill this need is let them watch the clouds. What’s that in the sky? Why it’s lady death. In the form of a satellite. This death is caused purely by chance, but can be influenced by time. If you allow your sim to watch clouds long enough, the satellite is sure to crush them, sooner or later.


Old Age:
The most productive of all deaths, old age means you did well in the game. If your sim started as a baby and made it to old age, you are a productive player. Well screw that. Kill ‘em why their young…they can take it.