This is the second official expansion for Maxis' wildly successful life-simulation game, The Sims. As suggested by the title, many of the enhancements offered in this expansion pack involve the ability to throw large parties for the Sims. New features make it easier to invite the entire neighborhood to a party at once, or even to help them all quickly change into appropriate costumes for theme parties. The expansion also offers hundreds of new items with which the Sims can interact, whether they are crowded in an industrial storage room for an underground rave, visiting the neighbors' backyard for their bi-monthly luau, tossing back a few shots at the rustic western bar, or safe in the (relative) privacy of their own abodes.