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The last month I had the
opportunity to join The Sims 3 Simposium at
Redwood Shores - San Francisco. The event lasted
2 days (10/29-30) and producers showed me and
other simmers all the features of the first
expansion pack of The Sims 3, World Adventures.
It has been an amazing
experience and I must say that the new expansion
pack and Create a World tool impressed me a lot.
The Sims division is trying
to give us all that we need to customize the
game even more and to make our Sims live new
experiences.
During the event I
published many info and images on
Edenstyle's facebook page,
so here I'll highlight just the most important
features and my feelings about the EP.
WORLD ADVENTURES
What I like more about the
new expansion pack is that it introduces
something really new in the game.
Thanks to the adventures
system, The Sims 3 can now be played as an
adventure game. We'll have to solve enigmas,
find a way to open secret doors, get rid of
traps...
When EA announced that the
first expansion pack was about travelling, many
people started to think that it would be a "Bon
Voyage" remake. It is not true, World Adventure
is totally different from any The Sims 1 or The
Sims 2 expansion pack.
Travelling system
Our Sims can now travel to
3 different locations:
Champ Les Sims
(France),
Al Simhara
(Egypt) and
Shang Simla
(China).
Every location is a
different city, with houses, monuments, museums,
shops, tombs and other community lots.
Once arrived to the
destination, you'll find your Sim in the base
camp, that looks like an hotel in France and
China and like a tent camp in Egypt.
To go on vacation, you just
have to take the phone and decide the
destination. If you are a worker, you don't have
to ask for days off, since the VISA level is the
one that decides how many days of vacation you
can take. At the beginning you can have 3 days
only, but the more you travel, the more you can
increase your VISA level (up to 15 days).
In travel journal you can
find the statistics related to your travels.
At the
base camp you can check a board and get a new
adventure. Adventures are similar to
Opportunities, but they are much longer and
exciting and they can ask you to explore a tomb
and find a treasure. Every time you fulfill a
part of the adventure, a message will show up
telling you what's the next step.
You'll have to discover how
to enter a tomb and then find your way to the
treasure room. You'll face secret doors that can
be opened with a special key, by walking on a
special floor tile or by moving a statue on the
tile.
Around the tombs there are
many traps, like fire traps. To avoid them you
should wet yourself in a fountain or do other
tricks.
The game
doesn't have an "Adventurer" career, but you can
have your Sim be an adventurer and earn a lot of
money finding hidden treasures.
If you want to relax, you
can visit museums, parks, shops and other
community lots.
You can enter destinations'
shops and buy items by clicking on the merchant.
A window similar to the one that we have in the
supermarket will pop up, showing what you can
buy.
Some goods can be bought
with ancient coins only, that you can collect
while visiting tombs.
In France you can make and
buy nectar, using the new grape variants and
fruits.
Mummies
Mummies are the new
creature of the Expansion pack.
You can
find them by opening a sarcophagus in Egypt and
also in the museums of the other destinations.
They are quite slow, but if
they catch you, you are in a trouble!
A Sim can be cursed by a
mummy... and if he doesn't go to the Sphynx in 2
weeks and try to solve an enigma, he will die.
Details
World Adventures contains many other features.
There are new skills (Photography, nectar
making, martail arts), new traits (Disciplinate,
Adventurer, Photographer's eye), many beautifil
CAS items (hairstyles, clothes) and so on.
You can find more info and pictures about those
details
here.
Buydebug Cheat
Thanks to "buydebug" cheat
you can unlock a new slot in Buy mode with many
debug objects. To enable it, press Ctrl + Shift
+ C and write Testingcheatsenabled true. Then ,
go to buy mode, press Ctrl + Shift + C again and
write Buydebug.
In the debug slot yo can
now find tomb objects, collectibles spawners and
decorative or special objects. In this way you
can create amazing locations to explore using
the same tools and items that developers use.
To program enigmas, just
place the special objects, click on them and
decide what's happen when someone use it. For
examaple you can decide that if a Sim step on
the tile, a door will open... or you can place a
treasure chest and set the treasures.
Gems, rocks, flowers,
fishes and insect spawners are special items
that you can place in your lots. You cannot see
them in live mode, but they'll make the game
spawn the collectibles in the places where you
put them.
These are just few things
you can do with Buydebug objects... just try it
and enjoy!
CREATE A WORLD TOOL
During the event we also had the chance to try a
new tool that will be released for free on the
official website in December.
Create a World
tool is a new official program that lets you
design and create a complete world from scratch
or from premade worlds.
A very interesting
thing is that it's the same tool that developers
use to create the cities of the game (like
Sunset Valley).
We'll be able to add
mountains, lakes, roads, trees, landscape items
and much more.
We can also decide where to
put the various lots and place some special
spawners that will spawn collectibles
(butterflies, stones, seeds...) in that certain
area.
To know more about that tool, check the
album I published live during the event.
WHAT ABOUT THE FUTURE?
For the future, they will
try to create expansion packs like this one,
that introduces something totally new to the
game. They have many ideas, but every time the
add things that make sense with EP theme only,
of course.
What I can say? We are in
good hands! ;)
Wanna
know more and see the pics? Check the
reportage
I posted live on facebook during the event...
Enjoy!
-Eden |
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