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There are toilets at work, computers in the library, and I can always pull off a guerrilla shower whilst visiting a mate's house. I don't need a house now I've got a tent.

Why, I can sleep anywhere! Outside the bookshop! In the park! In my ex-girlfriend's garden! In the graveyard. My little one-man pyramid of canvas was bought so as not to waste precious hours returning to the hotel whilst out on a long expedition, but it was upon realising it was in my Sim's inventory on my return to homely Riverview that I realised its true worth. While these 'FedEx' adventures do have a place in World Adventures, they aren't so frequent to be annoying, and the ability to speed up time makes them even more painless.It's worth it for the tents alone. It took a little while to realize that relics could be purchased from a merchant. This was much less clear as the map provided no locations. Once I collected them and reported to the person a second time, she asked that I find her two relics. From there, I was told to collect three types of stones, which was extremely easy since the zoomed-out view of the map points to where you can get them. For example, upon accepting a new opportunity from the mission board at my base camp, where you go to receive a bulk of your adventures, I was told to go see a local townsperson. However, while some can be interesting, such as navigating a tomb by solving all its puzzles and uncovering a certain artifact, others can be mundane, and will remind well-rounded gamers of the dreaded 'FedEx' quests seen in MMORPGs. From navigating tombs to competing in martial arts tournaments, there are a variety of quests. World Adventures focuses on providing adventures for the player to experience. The vacation locations are meant to be explored, not just tacked on for a few minutes of entertainment before getting bored. Instead, they not only want you to visit the new locations, but invest time and money into them, which is a good thing.

#SIMS 3 WORLDS REVIEWS UPDATE#

If World Adventures was simply a content update with additional towns, then the charm would be non-existent, and EA probably would have benefited from simply adding the content to its online store. While some may see such steps as a game design flaw, wondering why you couldn't have access to the new content right from the start, I think it helps develop the charm of the new content. As soon as I revisited China, I went straight to the merchant, bought a training dummy, and put it in my house upon returning. A 20-second search under the Help menu revealed that I would need to purchase any foreign furniture or items from merchants in that location. Unfortunately, when I got back and brought up the Buy Mode menus, I noticed that those items weren't available. For example, after visiting China for the first time and acquiring the Martial Arts skill by training using a training dummy and chopping block, I wanted to purchase those items and place them in my home so I could train while not on vacation.

There are tips that will pop-up and explain some of the new features, but there are a few things that you have to figure out on your own. The amount of time it takes to load each location (France, Egypt, and China), is slightly shorter than the time it takes to load your main game from the main menu.ДЄccessing the expansion pack's content isn't absolutely clear upon startup. Loading can sometimes be an issue, but that is simply a result of each vacation destination being nearly the size of your main town. Once you select where you want to go and for how long, a cab arrives to pick you up, it drives for a short while, and then your staring at a loading screen. One click and your character calls up the travel agent to book your destination and length of stay. For example, the main addition in the expansion pack is the added 'Travel' option on your PDA. Most of the game's menus remain exactly the same, with only added features. The expansion pack delivers more than some internationally-themed furniture to buy or new characters to meet. World Adventures is an expansion pack that does something rather experimental with the franchise by giving it some light puzzle-solving and questing mechanics. Only a few months after the third installment's release, gamers are treated to World Adventures, which is designed to not only provide new content, as any self-respecting expansion pack should, but also new gameplay elements that focus on more than going to work, getting money, and buying new stuff. It didn't take long for EA to release the first expansion pack for The Sims 3.

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