Sims 3 Ambitions. Your Sims have been able to go to work for some time now, but it hasn’t really been a highly interactive experience for the player. Sure, you get to make some decisions about how they handle issues on the job, but the interactions have been minimal at best. That has all changed with the latest expansion Sims 3 Ambitions.

The Sims 3 Ambitions expansion adds professions to the game. Professions are just like careers, except you get to steer your sim through the actual process of performing tasks in their given profession. If your sim is a tattoo artist, you can actually have them tattoo other sims. If they’re a private investigator, you get to take them out and actually do some investigating. Best of all, if your sim is a ghost hunter, you can actually go and bust some ghosts.

It may be a benefit, or a detriment, depending on how you play the game, but we found our sims to be pretty good at handling their professions without our help. When left to their own devices, they did a great job of performing all the tasks they had to in order to get their job done. Sure, they wandered off a couple of times to play some video games, but really, who can blame them for that?

The one major flaw with this expansion is that it’s a little light on content. Sims 3 Ambitions brings just seven professions (ghost hunter, firefighter, private investigator, fashion advisor, doctor, inventor, and tattoo artist), and a handful of items to the game. We’ll admit, they picked seven awesome professions, but it just doesn’t seem like enough.

Some of the professions seemed somewhat shallow. While the commercials for Ambitions showed firefighter sims running through burning buildings to save trapped sims, firefighting isn’t actually that exciting. Basically, you go into a burning building, put out the patches of fire found throughout the building, and then make your way to each trapped sim to let them know it’s safe to leave the building. Not only is firefighting not as exciting as the commercials made it seem, it’s actually a little repetitive.

Being a tattoo artist was also a letdown. EA heavily promoted the tattoo artist profession before Sims 3 Ambitions launched, but as it turns out, it’s not really all that exciting. Your sim can give themselves, and other sims tattoos after buying all of the tattoo equipment, but they can’t actually make a living at it.

Sims 3 Ambitions bring a lot of good ideas to Sims 3, but none of those good ideas feel fleshed out. We might even be able to forgive how hollow some of the experiences feel if it weren’t for the fact that there are just seven professions to dive into. If you really feel like you NEED more to do in Sims 3, then you’ll get a few hours worth of enjoyment out of this expansion. Otherwise, we’d hold off until the next expansion, and see what else EA has to offer as Sims 3 Ambitions feels quite repetitive after a while.

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Review: Sims 3 Ambitions, 3.7 out of 10 based on 3 ratings

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