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The Sims 3: World Adventures Expansion Pack Description:
The Sims 3: World Adventures Expansion Pack is the 1st expansion pack for the The Sims 3. Playable both on PCs and Macs, it concentrates on a range of travel opportunities available to your sims, which let for everything from nice family vacations, all the way to an adventure filled, possibly dangerous Indiana Jones like adventures. Along the way your sims can gather distinctive expertise and abilities, learn about new cultures, enjoy a distinctive soundtrack of real songs recorded in Simlish and get $10 worth of free SimPoints for use at The Sims three Store. .caption font family: Verdana, Helvetica neue, Arial, serif, font size: 10px, font weight: bold, font style: italic, ul.Indent list style: inside disc, text indent: 15px, table.Callout font family: verdana, font size: 11px, line height: 1. 3em, td.Vgoverview height: 125px, background: #9DC4D8 urlimages.Amazon.Com/images/G/01/electronics/detail page/callout bg.Png repeat x, border left: 1px hard #999999, border right: 1px hard #999999, padding left: 20px, padding right: 20px, padding bottom: 10px, width: 250px, font family: verdana, font size: 12px,

The Sims 3: World Adventures Expansion Pack Reviews:

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107 of 114 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of five stars
Not 100 what I had hoped for, but pretty dang close.,
November 18, 2009

By&nbsp,G. S. Davis “Sun Bear” Cincinnati, OH See all my reviews
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Fun:4.0 out of five stars&nbsp,

I own every single Sims game, and had owned all of the Sim City series also. With that said, let us move on to the review of EA’s new product, The Sims 3: World Adventures. I had high anticipation because I’m used to the big amounts of new things we got with the Sims one & Sims two expansions, which were offered at lower costs. But, don’t let this deter you. While you may not get a ton of new things, you do get adventure as promised. The pros:

1. You do get to travel, and there are objectives when you do so. I did not care for the way the Sims 2: Bon Voyage, did not really give you a goal. It was go to a new place, relax, stay for a big total of time and leave. World Adventures gives you objectives, while allowing you to visit different places if you could like. And in time you may be able to purchase a vacation home and use up more time there. You must build up your “visa” to have stays longer than three days in each place, and you do this by completing adventures. I had a great time wandering around the maze like tombs, and keeping away from torching myself.

2. There are indeed some more things, and they have country themes. In the past not many games we have really only had Asian oriented items, I love decorating the house with flaming chandeliers like the ones seen in the tombs.

3. I haven’t found all of the new social interactions, but so far there have been about three.

4. Basements! Yes you heard right, you may be able to really have basements to your house now, not only that but you may be able to build “tombs” under your home.

5. Some new traits and music tastes.

6. Your sim, when they learn a new song, may come home singing which I find cute.

Cons:

1. As with any EA game that just came out, there are glitches. The 1st time I started up, my sim was no where to be found. The plumbob has been deformed and I could not preform any actions. I uninstalled it, the problem still stayed. So I uninstalled the base game, that fixed that problem. Then I could not get expertise or purchase skill books. This was seemingly a clash between the new patch that is needed it looks. And game mods and many custom content. I removed by mods and custom content, now the game runs like a charm.

2. The loading time is much longer than with The Sims three base game. I have lots of memory, a new graphics card and lots of RAM. I’m above the obliged specifications with everything, but only somewhat. If you’re working with the bare minimums or just a little above, it may run a little slower.

3. I noticed it can be my computer that many of the graphics aren’t as clear, like a blurry pixelation of my sims eye sockets.

4. Still no memories.

5. Many of the new features have been hard for me to find, like the collection for photographs which is a nice new bonus.

6. Toddlers & pregnant women can not travel. I assume this is because it could be unsafe for them to be caught on fire, but it still stinks left home.

7. Many people have been having many more problems, like the game not loading, codes not working and games not saving. I have personally not had any of these problems.

I will update this as I continue to play, but so far the adventures have made to get the game worth it. I really enjoy having the objectives and feeling like I am attaining something for my sim.

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91 of 107 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of five stars
And now the Sims franchise falls to EAs iron fist!,
December 2, 2009

By&nbsp,Axle F. California See all my reviews

Fun:1.0 out of five stars&nbsp,

Like many others with The Sims Series. I have been a fan of The Sims since they 1st came out with “The Sims” and “The Sims 2″ And I could expect that with such a money making franchise as The Sims, that EA could NOT do what they have been doing. But they did.

DO NOT purchase THIS GAME!!!! it’ll destroy anything you have done in The Sims three so far and is buggy beyond belief!

If you want to know how I really feel. Then think about a time you got that feeling in the pit of your stomach, that made you feel sick because you had just been blatantly ripped off or betrayed. That is how I feel!

It isn’t a VACATION expansion. It’s an ADVENTURES “add on” taking a fun non linear game and making it into a console game where you really have to go from point a to point b.

It is just downright inhuman what EA does with employees, and how it impacts the finished product.

They constantly lay off hard workers because they’re scared that if anybody works on a game for too long that they may attempt to leave and start their own company. So EA moves development teams in six week to six month shifts. Rotating them from project to project. That means that every time they “rotate” the new team has to somehow pick up where the old team left off, relearning and trying to figure out what goed on before the “rotation”. And this creates big ISSUES. EA also rushes things to release dates against the development teams wishes to hold off release so they can make a more polished product. EA doesn’t care! they’re all about the almighty bottom dollar! So what you get is a half finished, problem causing game, that otherwise could have been great.

Now, onto the MICRO TRANSACTIONS!!! Not only do you pay for this overpriced, half finished game.. But you’ll have to pay to “unlock” things and features that were otherwise already in the game, but hidden, because selling millions of The Sims three was not enough for EA, they now want to charge you $20 a pop of REAL WORLD MONEY to get 1000 “SIM POINTS” so you may be able to have the paired sets and things and features that should have been in the game in the 1st place. You may be able to see forum postings and reviews about the REAL COST of The Sims three here on amazon.Com

This is the 1st expansion. If you may be able to call it that, as I see it more as a step backwards. All The Sims games have had expansions that do, in fact, make the base game better and better. Like adding PETS, and a NIGHTLIFE, and real SEASONS with rain and snow and so on and so forth. The base games also had a great deal of content to start with, from tons of paired furniture to pools with slides and diving boards, hot tubs, and musical things that you may make your Sim garage band with. Then enter the Sims three with NONE OF THAT STUFF!!!

Then enter The Sims three World Adventures, Still not adding anything other than a ONE TIME adventure for your chosen Sims. Yes ONE TIME! Still no vacation. Still no hot tubs. Still no diving boards. Still no pets. No seasons. I can say it was quite fun playing through the new expansion with one of my Sims. But here is one of the many problems. My old towns and Sims have been destroyed with the addition of this expansion. Where my big town with tons of custom houses and Sims once stood are now blue property sized holes. If that was not bad enough. I create a new town and a new Sim household to go on ADVENTURES. I’m having many fun exploring and collecting goodies, and enjoying the new themes and whatnot. Till I get bored and choose to attempt ADVENTURES with a different Sim. This part makes me mad. Well more mad after losing my Sim town. I can not DO ADVENTURES AGAIN! Yes that’s right! Once you go through the tombs and discover everything with one Sim, any other Sims you attempt to do it with won’t get the same bonuses and benefits as the 1st one! All the paths remain open and revealed, all the doors stay open, all the traps found and disabled, all the ONE TIME things don’t return, as well as a obliged item called “Pengu’s Axe”. Over this is a disappearing stock glitch where every now , then, things in your Sims “backpack” up and delete themselves!

Also, get used to seeing “Error Code 13″ and “Error Code 16″ when trying to save your games. When this happens, the save game is corrupted and everything you have done has just been destroyed, and you now have to go into the game save directory and HOPE that there’s still a working backup copy you may be able to restore with many less that user friendly editing.

I could go on and on about other glitches and bugs, and the fact they have Day One micro transactions on or before the release date of this expansion showing that they’re intentionally leaving things out of the game just to make more cash off the people dumb enough to pony forth said cash.

So that means that only ONE SIM HOUSEHOLD and one Sim household ONLY can get the full experience of the adventures. Any others after that just walk through the already explored tombs with nothing to do and nothing that could be considered an real “Adventure.” So unless you want to constantly create whole new towns and start over again just to reset the Adventures. I say leave this game off your holiday gift list. At least till EA pulls their heads out of their donkeys and fixes the glaring issues with this game.

I am 27 years old, I build high end gaming computers, and I have only had to call tech support seven times in my life. Once ten years ago for Windows ME, and six times in the last six months! Each of those six times for separate EA games that either did not work because of something in the game itself, or that relies on many sort of stable connection with ea servers, or was so flawed and buggy that it annoyed me to the point I really broke down and called them.

As a video game fan, I could rather wait a longer time and PAY MORE for a better, completely polished and finished product, than to have many half done turd that needs a year worth of patches and editing to make barely playable.

I can not play The Sims three anymore because of this expansion and it is big glitches and errors, and I’m having serious thoughts about purchasing ANYTHING from EA ever again!

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40 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of five stars
Don’t get it till it works,
November 29, 2009

By&nbsp,C. Allen “media buff” Nashville, TN USA See all my reviews
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Fun:2.0 out of five stars&nbsp,

Do NOT, I repeat, don’t purchase this till they have the bugs worked out and it works. It may be a fun game if it could work properly but it does not.

I can’t just save my game anymore, I have to “Save As” every time , then the game will still on occasion crash while saving. It also randomly crashes just throughout gameplay. I read on the official forum that this may be caused by high FPS so I used my nifty Nvidia V sync as suggested and nope, it still crashes away many, many times.

There are reports of TONS of other bugs which I have been lucky enough to not have happen to me still. Many people report their Sims totally vanishing or of an “evil twin” that shows up when they come back from visiting one of the three countries. They have random spouses and kids they never had before. The list goes on and on. Bad, stupid bugs here.

On the positive side, the places themselves are gorgeous. But, the adventuring you do there gets so repetitve and boring. I have only had this one day and am already thinking, “How many times should I explore tombs to look for stupid loot?”

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1. Randy T Says:
   May 1, 2009 at 3:42 pm

   Those are mostly specs, but is there a review?

2. Dean Says:
   May 2, 2009 at 7:56 pm

   None of the stores in Baltimore had it in stock so i had to buy it from ebay

3. Sara E. Says:
   May 3, 2009 at 0:40 pm

   Your best bet is to compare the sims 3 prices on ebay

4. Karen R. Says:
   May 4, 2009 at 1:42 pm

   Not a bad price and usually you can find it discounted in outlet stores.

5. Jonathan A Says:
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   the sims 3, great buy for the money

6. Henry76 Says:
   May 6, 2009 at 2:22 pm

   Couldnt find any the sims 3 deals in Washington

7. Lawrence S Says:
   May 7, 2009 at 9:21 pm

   Well wholesale may have it cheaper than Target or Costco

8. Julia H. Says:
   May 8, 2009 at 5:33 pm

   Is online price generally better than store price?

9. Amy S. Says:
   May 9, 2009 at 3:30 pm

   Buy it at amazon, has free shipping over $50, i think

10. Russell Says:
    May 10, 2009 at 9:12 pm

    It’s on all price comparison web sites, just look around if you dont think this is the best deal

11. Norma T. Says:
    May 11, 2009 at 1:51 pm

    My local store in Walmart had a closeout sale, but online pricing was still better

12. Mona Says:
    May 12, 2009 at 10:47 pm

    Closeout prices aren’t a better deal so no point in waiting, buy it now.

13. Grady Says:
    May 13, 2009 at 1:22 pm

    Target had the best price before, buy it there

14. Theodore Says:
    May 14, 2009 at 6:25 pm

    Staples had the lowest price last month, without a rebate

15. Shirley J. Says:
    May 15, 2009 at 0:30 pm

    It’s one of the better software out there. Good Pricing.

16. Erasmo Says:
    May 16, 2009 at 5:34 pm

    My local store in Walmart had a closeout sale, but online pricing was still better

17. Heather B. Says:
    May 17, 2009 at 7:12 pm

    I have one on sale, best price, email me if interested

18. Susan B. Says:
    May 18, 2009 at 4:11 pm

    Usually has a limited availability, and when i found it, wasnt exactly the cheapest

19. Darrel Says:
    May 19, 2009 at 7:56 pm

    it’s in limited availability, and hard to find a rebate, so dont bother too much, just buy it

20. Deborah F. Says:
    May 20, 2009 at 0:45 pm

    Don’t think closeout prices are a deal, i would buy it now.

21. Philip O Says:
    May 21, 2009 at 8:50 pm

    i got it in Walmart store that had a clearance sale, but generally online deals are better

22. Otto Says:
    May 22, 2009 at 3:21 pm

    wouldnt want to get this one refurbished haha

23. Evelyn J. Says:
    May 23, 2009 at 8:31 pm

    It’s hard to find it on a discount or closeout sales

24. Blake Says:
    May 24, 2009 at 8:29 pm

    Saw it discounted somewhere, great deal but forgot where