I stopped playing the Sims after Hot Date... I felt that EA was stretching the franchise too much with Vacation, Making Magic, etc... but the Sims2 might be the game to actually get me back to the Sims... mostly because of the dna capabilities... you supposedly will be able to make, like, the guy in the center in the first pic here fall in love with the girl on the left, then they would marry, have children, and the children would have physical characteristics of both parents... now, if they really can do that on a PC game, than THAT is something to be seen. I don't know what engine they'll use for that, but just the sound of it has me trapped.