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 3 Generations
lets your Sims live life to the fullest!
KEY FEATURES
Sims of every age can enjoy new
activities! Kids can hang out with
friends in tree houses. Teens can pull hilarious
pranks. Adults can suffer midlife crises. And so
much more!
Whether it’s a raging all-teen party while
the parents are out, a high school graduation or
an official wedding ceremony, new
celebrations make every age more fun!
From bachelor party hi-jinks to getting in
trouble for bad grades to hearing rumors around
town about Sims who cheat on their spouses,
hilarity ensues when new drama
unfolds!
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, playing
make believe as an astronaut, dinosaur,
princess, and more!
All of the new activities, celebrations, and
drama are easier than ever to remember and reminisce
about with a new Memories system that keeps track of
major life moments and also lets you share them on
Facebook or your Sims My Page!
As an expansion, Generations is probably the least
satisfying of the bunch to date. There are no immediate
changes to be seen in the game and it sometimes feels
like it's nonexistent.
Whether you're capturing the essence of a child at
play or playing with your Sims through their crotchety
octogenarian phase, Generations adds great depth and
refinement to the world of The Sims that you'll wonder
why it took so long for these additions to be made.
Generations goes for the typical expansion suggested
retail price of $39.99 and may be hit or miss for you,
depending on what you like about The Sims 3 and whether
you’d appreciate the more understated improvements of
this expansion pack.
With its reputation system and life stages, Generations
is a solid, if not stellar, expansion. Its features are
more subtle than those of previous expansions, being
more behavioral than item-oriented and because of this,
gamers looking for a slew of new locations or a
truckload of new furniture are likely to be
disappointed.
Glitches aside, Generations adds entertaining moments to
a franchise that turns routine duties, like taking
showers and tossing salads, into compelling delights,
but these new moments are too infrequent and
unexceptional to justify the high price tag.
If you are a Sims fan this expansion will surely be of
great appeal and I can recommend it for all the little,
nearly imperceptible changes. Everyone else should wait
for the Sims 3 Complete Collection Chest and install it
all at once.
If you're looking for an addictive game that will make
time pass very quickly and possibly make you feel like
you have some control over life, check out The Sims 3:
Generations today!
As we said, on its own Generations isn't going to do
much for your experience, but in conjunction with
everything else it just makes for a more interesting
experience. The Sims 3 was always going to be a long
term investment - and this is just one more step on the
road.
But what’s there doesn’t always feel like enough to
justify this full price of an expansion pack, especially
when so much has been added in past products. Unless
you’re desperate to add a little life to your sims’
youth, you might be able to pass on this one.
After completed The Sims 3: Generations a few times, I'm
still amazed at the number of antics your Sims can get
involved in. Best of all, it crosses all generations
well so not only does it increase the scope of the Sims
quite considerably, it makes a good game ever better.
It's not the best of The Sims 3's expansions by a long
shot, and compared to the other packs seems quite
expensive for what it is -- but fans of the series will
enjoy the deeper experience it offers.
To answer my original question: as a stand-alone
expansion, The Sims 3: Generations leaves much to be
desired. After playing it, I found myself wondering what
is keeping EA from releasing the Pets, University and
Open For Business expansions and that’s never a good
thing.
It brings new humour, new methods of interaction,
and a much more fleshed-out portrayal of personality
for your Sims. In fact, it can be argued that this
is the desert-island expansion pack; the pack you’d
choose if you could only pick one. If you own the
Sims 3 you need to buy Generations.
Thanks to
Metacritic,
GameRankings
and Google News Alerts
for pointing me to some of these reviews
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