The Sims 2: Seasons is an expansion pack for the 2004 life simulation video game The Sims 2 developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. The fifth expansion pack for the game it was released 1 March 2007. Seasons introduces weather and seasons to the game as well as new gameplay features such as gardening fishing and supernatural human-plant hybrids known as PlantSims. Seasons adds a defined seasonal cycle and various weather effects to the game. This cycle affects sims' moods relationships skills and needs as well as the environment and objects. The introduction of gardening and fishing allows sims to grow plants catch fish and use them for cooking selling or decorating adding new in-game income streams and expanding the range of talents a sim can develop. Seasons is also the first expansion pack to introduce a new in-game neighbourhood Riverblossom Hills which is themed as a countryside town; it has six occupied houses and several pre-made families and characters.