Help your Sims step out in style! The Sims: Livin' Large–Prima's Official Strategy Guide covers both the original Sims game and the hot new expansion pack, Livin' Large! This valuable guide will help you create and manage your instant family, as well as provide needed parenting tips. Detailed strategies will help you deal with all new gameplay elements–from bad chemistry to life as a slacker. The guide offers: • Coverage of the original The Sims plus the Livin' Large expansion pack • Secrets of Sim personality, mood, and motives revealed • Useful Sim cheats and lots of quick-start tips • Foreword by Sims creator Will Wright • Extensive tables for all new architecture, careers, Sim catalog objects, and more • Strategies for overcoming new disasters–from roach infestations to alien abductions • Tips on customizing faces, skins, and textures