The Sims 3 Showtime follows up on an expansion for the first
Sims series: The Sims Superstar. We are promised a new social feature, so that
you can share everything you do in the game, at once while you’re still
playing.
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. You can also build custom stages for your Sims
to perform on and use them for your own show later.
We are also promised new
traits and lifetime wishes, so the players have more tools to tell their story.
A new achievement system has also been confirmed and you can earn points that
you later can post to your walls of facebook, twitter or any other social
posting device. The Sims 3 Showtime is set for release in early March.
UK RELEASE: 09-March-2012 | NORDIC RELEASE: 08-March-2012
| US RELEASE: 06-March-2012
The Sims 3 doesn’t really do anything different than the
prequels, but It adds stuff and things that the prequels maybe didn’t have. You
can’t go wrong In a game like this and people seem to like this more than ever
before. The graphics have gotten a pretty good lift since The Sims 2 and the “sims”
looks more lively now. The world that before was only in your house is now
everywhere. You can go everywhere in the neighborhood and travel various
places, without loading times. So it’s pretty great.
Workout: It is now possible to go and work out at a gym, at the game thankfully, not in real life!
Basic farming: You can "play" that you have a farm.
The Sims 3 also got a new personality system to make sims
from. You choose from a bunch of preset personality moves and makes your sim
special when you put this together. The producers didn’t rest their case in
making expansion packs either and we have now have opportunity to travel to a foreign
country (Egypt, France and China), Go on the job with the sims (Never been done
before), Go to a bar and maybe own a bar someday? The last installment is pets,
which also came to the two prequels. The next pack, Showtime, is also an old
pack, that could be seen in The Sims Superstar.
New Skills: The new personality system seems to work pretty good. This sim is going to be a pain in the ass.
Expansion and stuff packs for The Sims 3 at the present
time:
High-End Loft Stuff
Fast Lane Stuff
Outdoor Living Stuff
Town Life Stuff
Master Life Stuff (24 January)
World Adventures
Ambitions
Late Night
Generations
Pets
Showtime (March 9)
The Sims 3 Showtime Debut Trailer
Gamescore
The Sims 3 (2009) (Expansion packs are still made)
Graphics: Pretty good, but I have to say, I did want
something more. Anyways, games like these don’t need to be extreme when it comes
to graphics. 8/10
Audio: The good old sim language is back, but It gets a little boring after a
time. That’s probably why the editors took nowadays music and made it simlish. In Late Night, Rise Againsts Savior can be heard on the radio in its very own sim
language. 8/10
Gameplay: This is what you make I yourself. If you want to live a boring life
with your sims, do that. But that’s what so charming about this game, you get
to do exactly what you want to do. 9/10
Controls: Point and click with your mouse. Don’t remember if I actually touched
the keyboard during this game. 10/10
Overall Score: If you know the basics of the sims, you know
that you won’t probably see all the material in this game, because it has to
many opportunities. That’s a good thing. You basically decide yourself how
long, or how short your story or life will be. Some minor bugs have been seen
along the way, but it doesn’t take away the good feeling. The Sims 3 doesn’t
let you down. It gets better and better. 8/10
