Every neighbourhood has one, everybody knows one, and I don't know many people that like them - they're the people who think that they're better than everyone else. They have four other houses, dotted around the most expensive picturesque locations of Europe, they import their coffee from Italy, they will only eat organic vegetables and in their presence you feel patronised and inferior. Of course, there really is no need to feel inferior - they live on the same street as you after all and you saw them down the local supermarket the other day. But it's their slightly posh accent and their constant boasting that surrounds them in a shroud of posh mystique.

Toffee Nose, as he's known to the residents of PleasantView, recently built a new house in the neighbourhood. Of course, this is his holiday home - he has a much bigger one elsewhere and his eight Ferraris and four Porches can be found on his private racetrack, somewhere in the south of France. To our dismay, and you can read about our previous adventure by navigating to the Open For Business review, Toffee Nose appeared once the new 'stuff pack', The Sims 2 Glamour Life Stuff, was installed. Boasting 60 new items of pure elegance for The Sims 2, Glamour Life can bring that element of snobbery to any household. Nobody in PleasantView could really afford any of the items that the stuff pack offered though, which is one of the fundamental flaws of this mini expansion. New posh walls and flooring come at a price, as do the massive stretches of art that hang on those posh walls, along with statues, ornaments and fountains, all coming in at price tags higher that the latest and greatest HDTV, tables and fancy chairs, windows and doors - are you prepared to sell your soul for these items?

Toffee Nose did. In selling his soul however, he seemed to become consumed with anger and intolerance for anybody who doesn't appreciate the more expensive things in life, such as modern art. What is modern art anyway? A turd in a bucket? A pair of worn out boxers, stained and framed? No wonder everyone disliked Toffee Nose! He was a snob and his attitude stank of pretentious modern art as bad as the aforementioned bucket. Just because he had 60 items more than anybody else, a lot of those items being useless, or rarely making an appearance in his house, he thought he was better than everybody else.

Some people went over to welcome Toffee Nose to the neighbourhood. Some might have been curious to see what elegance looked like, some might have wanted to muscle in on Toffee's life and try and tap a bit of the old stash - but we sent Geoff, the man with the green top, with a smile to charm a million - and Geoff wasn't there for any of the reasons above. He was on reconnaissance. Could Geoff actually make friends with Toffee Nose?

"Hi, I'm Geoff and…"

"…I'm sorry, did somebody say something? Oh yes. You. Did you want to know about my yacht or my private island in the Mediterranean? Or maybe you wanted to see pictures of me and my friend who owns Starbucks? Do you like my clothes? Only cost me three thou!"

It only took our trusty editor five minutes to complete his mission. Toffee was unpleasant, all me, me, me. Geoff is a man who tries to get along with everybody, but this arrogant, boasting, art-loving flamboyant cash flasher wasn't scoring any points here. And we thought he was all talk anyway.

The question is, do you want your Sims to be like Toffee Nose? Well, Glamour Life gives you 60 items that will set you on the right track to snobbery. I don't think any of the posh items in this stuff pack really fit in with the rest of the game, so unless you can design and build a house with the items in this pack alone, and live comfortably, then you're going to have a cheap refrigerator next to a piece of art that cost ten times as much, or you're going to have a white cordless phone hung on a wall that shouldn't be touched by a human hand. Fans of the game should consider whether they want £10 or $20 down in a disc with 60 items on. My complaints aren't completely fair however, because at least you can run the game off this stuff pack disc and at least the loading music and loading screen has changed to something a little more glamorous, to give it that proper expansion feel, despite only being a cheapo stuff pack. It's an improvement over the Christmas Pack I reviewed last year, but the principle is the same - it's got cash-in written all over it.

If you must bring elegance into your neighbourhood, or you must own every Sims release, or you have a partner who is crazy for Sims and you'd like to purchase them a reasonably priced gift, then The Sims 2 Glamour Life Stuff might fit the bill - but with so many snobs in real life, surely you'd be glad to escape them in the virtual life?

See the pictures down the left for images to correspond with this mini-episode of AceGamez Sims. Glamour? Get a life! Scores for both graphics and sound are taken from the last proper Sims game reviewed, as Glamour Life doesn't really change either.

Reviewed by Dexter Pearson for AceGamez (All Rights Reserved).