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The Sims 3: World Adventures Expansion Pack* is the first expansion pack for the The Sims 3. Playable both on PCs and Macs, it focuses on a range of travel opportunities available to your sims, which allow for everything from pleasant family vacations, all the way to an adventure-filled, possibly even dangerous Indiana Jones like adventures. Along the way yo… More >>
The Sims 3: World Adventures Expansion Pack
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I played this game for about 30 minutes and got bored. There are not a lot of new items in the game and gameplay gets repetitive quickly. I thought it would be as exciting as it looked on the videos and pictures.
Rating: 3 / 5
When I first heard the premise for this expansion, I wasn’t a big fan. I never really enjoyed Vacation or Bon Voyage for the other Sims games. However, this adds completely different elements of gameplay which I think all expansions should aim for. I like the adventures, relic collecting, martial arts, singing, and so forth. Honestly, I have barely played it yet but felt like I should write a review of how I do enjoy it so far. As for all the bugs, I haven’t encountered many yet. I got the save error that EA already fixed with the patch and expect future patches to fix other things I and others will encounter. I recommend giving World Adventures a try!
Rating: 4 / 5
I enjoy playing the Sims 2 because of the expansion packs. You could go on dates, go to college, etc. However, Sims 3 is like starting from scratch. Although it has a lot of cool features, such as the personality traits and difference in body sizes, it doesnt really compare to the Sims 2. SO, I got World’s Adventures and its…okay… if you want a slight change. I was really interested in having a Sims go to France but the whole place looks just like the regular Sims 3 suburbs…I was expecting more FRANCE. There is really nothing much that deferentiates it. If you go to the art gallery, all you see are Egyptian and Chinese art. If you go to do an adventure, you find an Egyptian tomb in someone’s basement. The cafe, should have been more like the Sims 2 Open for Business and the city should have been more populated. it is pretty empty. some of the residents also have houses completely empty…Making and naming the Nectar is interesting, but it does get repetative. Selling the Nectar is not as exciting as it was made to sound, you just sell it to the woman at the cash register. Not really…exciting. THe good thing is that you get to actually enter a place not wait until your Sims come out.
Oh well, what can I say? I’ll try China and Egypt but France is definetly missing that Je ne sais quoi.
Rating: 3 / 5
I have been playing the game for a day now and I think it is a big step up from just playing The Sims 3. I love the adventures and while I haven’t played all of the adventures yet I know they will keep me entertained for quite a while. It’s true that World Adventures does not come with a lot of building items or anything that most simmers would like(sure there are quite a few new outfits, accessories, a few hairstyles and some new makeup but I think the purpose of the game is the traveling part and the adventures not the stuff that comes with the game. I look forward to playing all the adventures and seeing what new things World Adventures has to offer for my sims.
Rating: 4 / 5
I’ve actually had pretty good luck over the years when it comes to the Sims games. While others complained of bugs and glitches and issues installing it and conflicts with their system, I easily installed and played my games with nary an issue. Until this one.
First the game kept crashing to the desktop after 20 minutes of playing. Also, my game would start and no sounds except for the load music would play for the first 15 minutes. I have a new computer. It more than meets the requirements to play the game. I do not have any custom content or hacks..what’s in my game is what came with it. I uninstalled and reinstalled, and that fixed the crashing and the music issue. But then I kept getting the “error 16″ save error. So I updated the game with the new patch, and that was fixed.
Now that I could play it for more than 20 minutes at a time, I set about adventuring in France. Very cool tombs and museums to explore, mysteries to solve, locals to help, and just a fun time all around. But there are still glitches. Things randomly vanish from the inventory. I cannot bring back the nectar maker from France. It does not come over with my sim when she travels home. I’ve tried twice now and it just doesn’t work. She caught a load of frogs while she was over there, and the first time she came home she managed to bring them back with her. The second time, they all vanished from inventory.
There have also been a few glitches with missions. My sim couldn’t complete one due to the “report in” action cancelling itself every time she tried. The sim she was attempting to report to never showed up anywhere again after that. There was also another mission where she returns a skeleton to a family crypt..but the mission vanished completely after she accepted it. Now she’s got a skeleton in her inventory and nothing to do with it.
It is a really fun game once you get past the glitches. Also, they have fixed the “puffy face” issue. The new sim I created does not look oddly bloated the way the sims in the base game do. The new lifetime rewards are a nice bonus and worth earning, the graphics are really beautiful, and there are a lot of new plants and trees available in build mode. There are some really nice new decorations and furnishings as well. Only a handful of new hairstyles and clothing, but some new makeup and jewelry that are nice.
It is worth it, in my opinion. It’s a fun game (I played for several hours last night and didn’t get bored), and now that my sim doesn’t look like the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man, it’s nicer to look at. But it does have glitches that I wish had been fixed before it was released.
Rating: 3 / 5