I don't know which Sims to get

[Tom Simkins]

Life Stories is like a limited Sims 2 game for the laptop.  In the Sims 2, you can have 8 people, while is LS, you can only have 4.  It is also harder to take pictures in LS so legacies will be hard to do.  But your Sims will still grow up, have kids, and eventually die, but you are very limited on clothes, neighborhoods(only 3, cannot make any more), lots sizes (medium on Sims 2 is LS's largest), and you can not download ANY custom content or add expansion/stuff packs.  The story lines are ok, but kind of get boring (my opinion) and you cannot control the story line until the story is over.  However, LS takes up less memory, has way more hot keys, and doesn't rely on the computer mouse as much.  Still, I recomend playing the actual Sims 2, but if it doesn't work, then LS should be second best.

But to tell the truth, I liked Castaways slightly better than LS...