Share the Story of Your Sims’ Rise to
Fame!
Here is your chance to become a star and tell the
story of your journey! Live out the rags to riches
story with your Sims while being connected to your
friends. Using new and innovative social features
such as individual in-game news feeds and live
updates, players are connected to each other like
never before.
The Sims 3 Showtime allows you to share
with your friends and fellow fans of The Sims
without ever leaving the game. Venture into a new
world and live the dream as singers, acrobats,
magicians and DJs. Using the all-new SimPort
feature, send your Sim into a friend’s game to
perform in their world, book gigs in your friends’
town, go on tour and be reviewed. Along the way,
earn rewards for achieving goals and accomplishing
special challenges that can be tracked and shared
via in-game social wall posts. Post your Sims’
successes, share gameplay techniques, create
wishlists and send gifts, search for new friends and
share memories through in-game news feeds and as
e-cards.
Visit venues, book new gigs and build custom stages
to watch how your Sim measures up against the
competition. Will they succeed or will they fail? The Sims 3 Showtime allows you to live out
your dream of becoming a star and share the story of
your rise to fame.
KEY FEATURES
Rise to Stardom: Venture into a new
world and live the dream as a singer, acrobat,
magician and DJs. Watch your Sims rise to fame—or go
down in flames as they perform for other Sims. Create New Sims: New traits and
Lifetime Wishes give players more tools to tell
their stories the way they want to A Whole New World: The new
Expansion pack includes a brand new world called
Starlight Shores, with new venues and new objects to
hone Sims’ talent at and rise to success Rise to Fame: Players can build
their own custom stages and see their Sims perform
in sold-out arenas and in front of packed crowds Book or Host Gigs: Using the
innovative SimPort feature, send your Sims to a
friend’s game or book friend’s Sims for a gig in
their game Be Connected: Make new friends,
connect, and share your stories and experiences
without ever leaving the game. Using the new
individual in-game news feeds and live updates, post
your Sims’ successes, share gameplay techniques,
create wishlists and gifts, search for new friends
and share memories. New Achievement System: Earn
rewards for achieving goals and accomplishing
special challenges that can be tracked and shared
via in-game social wall posts. New achievements will
be introduced on a regular basis.
Although it comes packed with several new career paths
and a brand new town, Showtime is really still just a
few more goodies in the Sims universe. Good for fans,
but won't win over any converts.
It’s familiar, comfortable and as traditionally
expansive as you’d expect, for better or worse. Those
still holding off from jumping on The Sims hype train
won’t be sold by this expansion pack and are better off
waiting for The Sims 4, but for everybody else
dangerously addicted to living virtual lives you can’t
go wrong with more fun for everyone.
The game has changed a lot since the original was
released, but in many ways has become so complex that
simply getting a Sim through his day to day routine
becomes very hard and tedious. When Real Life™ beckons
it just becomes harder and harder to focus on your Sims’
life.
Although a lot of the new content is pretty fun, unlike
some of the best expansions, Showtime doesn’t feel
particularly integrated with the rest of the Sims world,
an aspect I always look forward to when I get a new
expansion.
Not the best expansion for The Sims 3, but still one
with some fun new extras and interesting ideas - many of
which hint at a new direction for the series.
The Sims 3: Showtime is another solid addition to the
fold. With this being EA's sixth add-on to the game,
fresh ideas are beginning to look thin on the ground
with concepts from previous packs re-emerging. That
said, Sims fanatics will always be hungry for new
content, so there's no reason why this won't be another
roaring success.
So, is The Sims 3 Showtime worth getting after all of
that? Well, yes it is. It gives just enough to the
player to make it worth picking up and the new jobs, as
well as their play mechanics, are a good addition.
For dedicated fans of the series, Showtime is a worthy
add-on, chock full of new diversions and clearly on a
mission to take its audience out of the bedroom and into
the wider world.
I would say that if you're an experienced player looking
for more from the game, go ahead and get it, you'll
enjoy yourself, but if you're less experience/devoted
you won't really be missing out on all that much.
As with the previous expansion packs, The Sims 3: Showtime provides many hours
of new content and storytelling options for those who enjoy The Sims 3, with the
additional perk of allowing players to interact with each other while they game.
Admittedly, many of the experiences might feel familiar if you’ve already played
previous expansions and Sims iterations, but it also brings back some fan
favorites and is all in all a decently solid addition to the Sims fan’s library.
It's a nice change to dream big with Showtime, but
unless you are really into show business or willing to
fully utilize the SimPort feature, you'll probably find
little use in this expansion pack.
Between the new professions, the SimPort feature,
the new world, and all of the added objects,
Showtime is an above-average expansion pack,
with some thought-out additions to the game.
Thanks to
Metacritic,
GameRankings
and Google News Alerts
for pointing me to some of these reviews
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