Widen your Sim’s horizons
with a bunch of killer new career opportunities.
With The Sims™ 3 Ambitions, decide whether your Sim
will be the brave town hero or cause loads of
mischief among their neighbours. Make your Sim save
the day as a fearless firefighter, change the town
as an ace architect, or live on the edge as a tattoo
artist.
Will your Sim find success as a billionaire
high-tech inventor or eke out a living as a bumbling
mad scientist? Will they uncover secrets as a
private investigator by dusting for prints or
roughing up a suspect for information? Their future
is entirely in your hands!
The Features
For the first time ever, you control your
Sim’s actions and interactions while they’re on
the job.
Be a hero or mess with the neighbours as a
firefighter, private investigator, doctor, ghost
hunter, and more!
Choose how your Sim’s career progresses —
will they work for good or evil, pursue creative
endeavours, rise to success as a mogul, or shirk
responsibility as a slacker?
Your Sim’s on-the-job choices now change
their town and affect other Sims as well. Modify
the town’s structure as an architect or set
neighbourhood fashions as a stylist.
Enjoy all-new skills and activities! Master
the arts of inventing, sculpting, and tattooing,
and use your skills to earn Simoleons.
While it’s fun to catch ghosts, put out fires, and
give Mohawks to everyone in town, The Sims 3: Ambitions
is still marred by bugs, a time-management system that
makes playing a chore, and the feeling that you should
be getting all of this as a free update.
The limited playable professions seem likely to expand
with more online or future expansion packs. Players can
switch jobs easily and experiment with positive and
negative reactions, which has always been one of the
strongest appeals of this amazing “sandbox” simulation
series.
The Sims 3: Ambitions adds just a little more depth to
gameplay and fans should find enough here to keep them
playing until the next expansion pack comes out.
Yes, EA did a great job in making your Sim’s career more
interactive, but at the same time turned it into a
chore. When the line between my real job and my Sim’s
job begins to blur, it’s time to stop playing!
It's certainly one of the meatier expansions in the
franchise's history in terms of sheer gameplay benefits,
but it may segment its audience a bit too much, as not
every profession will be enjoyable for every player.
While the town of Twinbook is lovely and a lot of fun to
explore, there isn’t much fun to be had by playing the
careers for more than an hour or two. It’s definitely
worth playing if you are already a huge Sims fan, but
there is a certain amount of much-needed depth missing.
For now, though, I am willing to have faith that any of
those little niggles will be smoothed out by a patch and
the game itself will continue to go from strength to
strength.
In short, The Sims 3 Ambitions is a fine specimen of a
Sims expansion that introduces fresh, fan-requested
gameplay options to the core game, as well as many
smaller tweaks that make the game more fun as a whole.
The Sims 3: Ambitions isn't an outwardly dramatic
addition to the Sims universe, and technical problems
could potentially get in the way of your fun. Yet this
is a thoughtful and delightful expansion, full of wit
and character, and it gives you even more control over
your sims' daily lives.
Are a handful of new toys and a few jobs you'll get
tired of really worth $40? I’m not sure there is enough
content here to appease all but the most diehard Sims
fans. After what I thought was a pretty good add-on in
World Adventures, this second Sims 3 expansion just
feels uninspired and lacking.
Although Sims 3 never managed the global domination of
its predecessors, there's still no other game quite like
it and this expansion adds just enough to the original
formula to make it well worth a look.
When so many Sims expansions have seemed relatively
inconsequential, Ambitions stands out for how
substantially it alters a key component of the game.
The new profession system will doubtless keep Sims 3
fans busy for many more hours, and the other
additions included will also give players plenty of
new stories to tell for Sims both new and old.
Thanks to
Metacritic,
GameRankings
and Google News Alerts
for pointing me to some of these reviews
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