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The Sims 3: Generations
- Sims of every age can enjoy new activities! Kids can hang out with friends in tree houses. Teens can pull hilarious pranks.
- Whether it’s a raging all-teen party while the parents are out, a high school graduation or an official wedding ceremony
- From bachelor party hi-jinks to getting in trouble for bad grades to hearing rumors around town about Sims who cheat on their spouses
- Sims will enjoy all-new ways to be creative including tinkering with chemistry sets, making their own home movies that they can watch on their own TVs
- All of the new activities, celebrations, and drama are easier to remember and reminisce about with a new Memories system
Enjoy a whole spectrum of rich life experiences with your Sims! Start off in the imagination-fuelled world of childhood and embrace the drama of the teen years. Experience the complicated realities of adult life, then reap the benefits of growing up in each life stage. A wealth of new options and activities makes your Sims’ lives more meaningful than ever before, whatever their ages. With new celebrations, dramatic life events, and all-new ways for your Sims to express their creativity, The Sims
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A lot more content then you might think,
Some people keep complaining about the lack of content in this expansion pack, calling it a “glorified stuff pack”. There is actually quite a lot more there than one might think. Therefore, since someone asked me to post this, here is a pretty nice list of what you can expect to find in this pack:
This list was not compiled by me, but by a Sims fan-site [...]
‘ There is not a new town for Generations. The town shown in photos and videos is Sunset Valley.
‘ There are 10 new community lots added to Generations.
‘ They have not added any new Rabbit Holes. (Still unknown if they have opened any existing ones)
‘ One of the new community lots added is a Playground complete with a Sandbox, Swing set, Seesaw, Playhouse Set, Spring-Rides, and a Treehouse(?)
Sims & CAS
‘ Body hair is a feature that has been added to CAS
‘ New accessory for Elders: Canes
Build Mode Features
‘ Spiral Staircases
‘ New type of Window
New Objects
‘ Usable Strollers to transport your toddlers. One per stroller. For more than one child, multiple strollers will have to be used with other sims pushing them.
‘ Bunk Beds and Loft Beds which can be used by Sims of all ages
‘ Tree-houses
‘ New Playground equipment
‘ Sandbox
‘ Water Slide which can be used by all ages (Slip n Slide) not a pool slide.
‘ Video Camera
‘ Chemistry Set to make lots of new potions
‘ Sleeping bags
‘ Children’s toy boxes have been improved with costumes so kids can play dress up.
‘ Pink Limousines
‘ Costume chest
‘ Different sized picture frames
‘ Lava Lamps
New Interactions,Features & Events
‘ Children and teenagers can play pranks on strangers, neighbors, and even other family members.
‘ The Sims 3 Generations has two kinds of mischief: Traps and Pranks in public places
‘ Pranks & Traps include: booby traps, Water balloons, covering a neighbor’s house in toilet paper (or TP’ing), Stink Juice (bombs), Flaming bag of poo, Ding Dong ditch, adding hair dye to shampoo, Throwing eggs, making the toilet explode, pouring buckets of water from the tree-house onto someone, messing with the sink to make it spray someone when they attempt to turn it on and whoopee cushions under the sofa!
‘ “Ninja Vanish-Potion” is used to disappear from the scene of a prank. Chemistry skill required to make the potion.
‘ Children & Teens can be grounded for mischief, have a timeout or have their video games banned.
‘ Pranks can contribute to your teen’s social standing and will actually let you build up a reputation as a master prankster and local legend to the other kids at school.
‘ Children can sleep outside in their backyard and tell ghost stories. (Flashlight included!)
‘ Stories will effects how your sim sleeps at night.
‘ Sims can now have Nightmares.
‘ Children can have sleepovers and slumber parties!
‘ Children can dress up and be a “King or Queen” and reign over their subjects.
‘ Sims keep memories, so you can go back and review your Sims’ milestones when you feel like reminiscing. Memories of significant life moments will be recorded in their Scrapbook.
‘ Adult Mid-Life Crises
‘ Pillow Fights have returned!
‘ Older Sims can interact with toddlers now by performing “claw” movements while in their arms. (most likely an add-on to tickling)
‘ Children can now have pirate attacks in their Tree-houses. A skull and crossbones flag is hoisted above the tree house, it hisses and pops on the inside and fire and smoke emerge from the windows.
‘ Children can now have Sci-Fi adventures in their Tree-houses. They dress as astronauts and UFO’s appear.
‘ Children can now have “clubhouse” type adventure in Tree-houses where they spy on neighbors through a telescope to see what others are up to!
‘ If your sims decide to throw a wild party. a police car may show up! But don’t be fooled as they are not real cops! They are there to add to the parties atmosphere.
‘ Grown-ups can now have elaborate bachelor and bachelorette parties before marriage, which include all manner of festivities like pink limousines, sexy dancers and plenty of “nectar”.
‘ Bachelor parties, will include hiring a female “dancer” to pop out of a wedding cake and spray the lucky bachelor with a bottle of “nectar”.
‘ Parents have the ability to send children and teens to different boarding schools. They can choose anything from military school to the sports academy, and has plenty to choose from to give their…
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|Another good expansion pack from The Sims!,
The Sims 3: Generations is the fourth expansion pack the the Sims 3 series and I must say, it’s pretty good. I got it on the day of its release via Amazon. Now I’m no game reviewer as I’m more of a music reviewer (aspiring music journalist here) but I’ll try my best to describe this game. Like with most expansion packs for the Sims, make sure you got your favorite families or games backed up on CD-Rs or whatever you back them up on. I’ve been doing this since Ambitions came out a year ago since I learned the hard way when one of the sims in my family wasn’t moving. Alright, now to the game itself.
The theme for this expansion pack revolves around the idea of life and growing up. I found this interesting for EA to base an entire expansion pack on. What about the users who like having one sim families? Well, I guess you would get some things out of the new objects. If you’re a user who likes to make families and have them go on and on, this might be the expansion pack for you. Your sims will get to keep memories of their lives (examples: Marriage, birth of a child, death, first kiss,prom etc). If you can remember in the Sims 2, your sims did get to have memories. This takes that idea and expands it. Memories can also be shared through the Sims 3 website and even Facebook! The only negative with the memories feature is that it may get annoying after a while. Also, I found this to be a bit funny: after you install the game, your sims will experience their “firsts” in just about anything. For example, my teenage sims, just about to be a young adult, kept his memory of his first day in school (when I know it isn’t because he’s been to school plenty of times before this expansion pack was released!).
New features are built around sims for all ages but for some reason, I feel like most of them are targeted for child and teen sims. For child sims, they’ll get to have a bunch of new things such as see-saws, slip n slides, tree houses, and other things. There’s also the interesting addition of imaginary friends. When your sim is just born, they will receive a gift in the mail. Its a doll, which you can give a name and have your toddler sim play with. As your sim grows up, so does your imaginary friend, based on your relationship. I’m also reading that if you keep a good relationship with your imaginary friend, they can have the chance to become real! For teen sims, they’ll get to go to prom and even graduate high school. However, there’s one disadvantage here with being a teen sim: teen sims can’t automatically drive anymore! They have to now ask their parents for lessons! The lessons don’t take very long (like 3 skill points to complete). As for other sims, there’s a new chemistry set like thing. You can make potions that can help or hurt your sims. Your sims can also give other sims gifts, which is nice to see return!
These are just a couple of things you can do with The Sims 3: Generations. So far, I’m enjoying it. When you get it and open the case, you might be a little disappointed: there’s still no $10 card for the online store, which is easy to get over. However, the booklet that comes with the game is barely even a booklet. I think the same goes for the Outdoor Living stuff pack: it just comes with an installation guide. Personally, the booklets have helped me and seeing this removed is sad. Still, The Sims 3: Generations is a great addition to the Sims 3 series.
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|Another nice addition to an already great game…,
This game gives you more then a Stuff Pack but less then an Expansion Pack. While it is similar to a normal Stuff Pack–new objects, clothes, interactions/activities–it’s lacking in new neighborhoods and only has one new job/profession ((that I’ve found))–Daycare Provider. I’m not sure what this job entails as I haven’t tried it yet. It should be similar to the other professions (fire fighter, hair stylist…). Possibly meaning working in a daycare center or having an at-home service.
A new feature allows you to adjust the length of the age stages–baby, toddler, child, young adult, adult and elder. I love this feature. I thought it took too long for babies (3 days) and toddlers (7 days) to age. Now you can shorten or lengthen to your preference. You can also dictate how long your sims will live in total (preset at 90 days). This feature is accessible through the options menu.
This game offers more towards young sims–more objects, clothing, interactions, ect. You can tell your young sim what to dream about by clicking the bed while they’re sleeping. Some dreams come true and some turn into nightmares. Teens can go to prom and become prom king/queen. Young sims can play pranks and have bad/moody days. Sims now have graduation (once they’ve aged to young adult) where they have a chance at valedictorian, being voted more popular, ect. Teens now have to learn to drive. There are more ‘Wohoo’ options now for grown-up sims. And for the elders–canes/walking sticks–wow, that’s the best EA can do, really?
As mentioned by others, memories are back but with a twist. You can now share your sims’ memories online such as Facebook. I like the memory feature but not the share. I highly doubt my friends and family care if my sim gains a skill point or marries. Luckily, you can turn off the share notices in the option menu.
Installation was smooth. The EA Download Manager didn’t install properly the first attempt but did on the next try when I restarted my computer. Otherwise, I haven’t noticed any installation or game play issues. A hiccup or two but nothing that really affects game play.
Overall, a nice addition to the great game of The Sims 3. But I’m a little disappointed. I was expecting more. I think EA could have done more with this game. Sorry EA but you really seem to be letting your standards drop for $$$. And I’ve been a fan since Simcity first came out on the SNES–I miss Simfarm.
***UPDATE 6/4/11***
I lied. The game is now crashing. It started to glitch with freezing every few minutes and one sim kept pop out of activities such as using a bed, bathing, ect. Then my pre-Generation sims became unplayable and frozen. I couldn’t even click on them. Sims acquired after installing Generations seemed okay. Now the game is AMAZINGLY slow and freezes every few seconds.
All this started after I sent a sim to Egypt. Upon returning home the game began to glitch…
I’m trying to work this out with EA customer service…
***UPDATE 6/29/11***
The only things that fixed those glitched was to uninstall and reinstall. Unfortunately, that was only a temporary fix. Back talking to EA tech support and they’re giving me the run around. If someone has had similar issues and know how to fix them please let me know.
***UPDATE 7/12/11***
After two weeks dealing with tech support they finally admitted to having a known issue with the game. They are working on a patch but don’t know when it’ll be out. Go, EA! I know have a game that’s crashing/freezing and don’t know when they’ll fix it. Teaches me for buying an EA products new. Back to waiting a few months, and then only to by used.
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|That was exactly a cool stuff and pretty good of it. Besides I am enjoying of it so much. Keep it up!