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Press Release Source: Electronic Arts Inc. On Thursday March 4, 2010, 8:00 am EST

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The EA Play Label of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS – News) today announced that The Sims™ 3 Ambitions Expansion pack* is in development and will launch in June 2010. As the second expansion pack to The Sims 3, the best-selling PC game of 2009**, The Sims 3 Ambitions allows players to pursue a variety of exciting paths and careers in their Sims’ lives that in turn affect their overall gameplay experience and neighborhood. While on the job, the player has direct control over their Sims’ work and can choose how to spend their days. Players can opt to make house calls and save lives as a doctor or choose the devious route and test experimental medicine on patients, be the hero firefighter tackling raging infernos or smashing everything in sight at the victim’s home with an axe, or take a shot at solving cases as an investigator, nicely convincing sources to divulge secrets or roughing up perpetrators in a dark alley to get information.

“The variety of careers to choose from is unmatched and we’ve never given players the opportunity to follow their Sims to work and affect their actions on the job,” said Scott Evans, General Manager of The Sims Studio at EA. “The Sims 3 Ambitions changes that. Players’ actions at work now directly affect their lives, community and neighbors and become an extremely important part of how the game is played.”

Players can now experience some of the most exciting and varied jobs. In The Sims 3 Ambitions, players can choose to hunt down vengeful spirits as the ghost hunter, invent brilliant and potentially destructive gadgets as an inventor, craft glorious masterpieces as a sculptor, and solve riveting cases by any means necessary as an investigator with dozens of cases to solve and numerous clues to find. Additionally, players will be able to change the look and feel of their town by becoming an architect and directly affecting the neighborhood around them leveraging Build and Buy mode. The stylist career and new tattoo system allow players to make over their Sim neighbors in fashionable or catastrophic ways. For the first time, players will be in charge of how their Sims’ career progresses and decide if they will work for good or evil, pursue creative endeavors or technical affairs, climb to the top quickly, or be a slacker. The future of a Sims’ success or failure is entirely in the hands of the player.

The Sims 3 Ambitions will also be available for feature phones, iPhone and iPod touch in late 2010 from EA Mobile™. These versions will have customized mobile gameplay features which will be revealed in the coming months and will not require a base game to play. For information on carrier availability and pricing for all EA Mobile games, please visit www.eamobile.com.

For more information about The Sims 3 Ambitions or The Sims 3, please visit www.TheSims3.com. Developed by The Sims Studio, The Sims 3 Ambitions for PC/Mac has not yet been rated by the ESRB. To download artwork, please visit www.info.ea.com.

*Requires The Sims 3 for PC/MAC to play.

**According to NPD data.

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You will not get as much with a stuff pack than you would with an expansion pack. A stuff pack usually consists of new décor options and objects for your Sims to interact with….  An expansion pack will give you new décor options and objects for your Sims to interact with as well as completely new interactions and gameplay.

In fact, most Sim players already gave out a verdict with Sims 2: Stuff packs are a waste of money!  And considering that EA has given us a Sims 3 store, I can’t even begin to understand what is the point of coming out with a stuff pack when they could have sold all the items in the online store!

So why bother buying a stuff pack?  If you can’t afford it, then don’t bother.  Some of the free downloads that you will see around are build from objects in a stuff pack, so if you don’t have the original mesh you will not be able to download custom contents made from High-End Loft items.

With the gazillions of absolutely fantastic free downloads available on the Internet,  you are still a winner by not buying the High-End Loft Stuff pack (also called The Sims 3: Design and Hi-Tech Stuff by the way).  But if you are like me, a hardcore Sim player, then you just have to own it!

Though I also know a few people who will not -or will not let their children – download anything from the Internet and would rather physically buy games and add-ons…  So we have to cater for different people though I doubt Electronic Arts would have taken that point into account…

The only really good thing about this pack is that your Sims will an aquarium which can hold up to eight fishes of any type, replacing the single fish bowl.

Other features of the High-End Loft Stuff pack that sounds better than it actually is:

• Add a sleek, high-end, tech-inspired look to your Sims bedroom, living room, bathroom, office and den.
• Upgrade your Sims’ wardrobes with forward looking apparel, tailored suits and sophisticated outerwear.
• Transform your Sims’ homes into cutting edge spaces with contemporary inspired furnishings, eclectic art and modern designs.
• Give your Sims coveted electronics including high-tech, ultra-slim TVs, video game systems, stereos and more.
• As a special 10th Anniversary gift this pack includes three coveted items from The Sims and The Sims 2 games: The heart shaped vibrating bed, the electric guitar, and the aquarium.

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EA is expecting to release The Sims 3 in Q3 of 2010. No details about the game has been released yet.

Although the Fiscal Report stated “The Sims 3 on Console Title TBA”, we can expect the game to be release on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. No platforms have been confirmed, and the update is listed merely as “The Sims 3 on Console Title TBA” for both “Console” and “Handheld” – the game is already available on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

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The original Sims 3 gaming title for iPhone put you in control of a virtual Sim character in the virtual Sim world. You could customize the look of your character’s appearance and even give your Sim different personality traits that would allow you to explore the Sim world in different ways. You decided when to sleep, how much money to spend on furniture, and whether or not you want to be a jerk or Mr. NiceGuy. The Sims 3: World Adventure picks up where the original game left off and puts you in control of your Sim as they travel between three distinct “worlds.”

The Sims 3: World Adventure features a completely animated world, a new airport for your travels, and a bunch of new mini-games to keep you busy for house. You can create your Sim as you see fit and take him between The Sims 3: World Adventure and the original The Sims 3 game, if you have both installed on your iPhone. And, with even more character customization options (literally billions), you’ll never run out of personality options.

EA Mobile says The Sims 3: World Adventure will be available soon on the iPhone AppStore. Stay tuned!

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If you don’t already know it, here’s what you get with this new expansion pack…

World Adventures Expansion Pack is the first expansion pack for the The Sims 3. Playable both on PCs and Macs, it focuses on a range of travel opportunities available to your sims, which allow for everything from pleasant family vacations, all the way to an adventure-filled, possibly even dangerous Indiana Jones like adventures. Along the way your sims can accumulate unique skills and abilities, learn about new cultures, enjoy a unique soundtrack of real songs recorded in Simlish and get $10 worth of free SimPoints for use at The Sims 3 Store.

Explore realistic environments set in France, Egypt and China. View larger. Enjoy Indiana Jones like adventure. View larger. Develop new skills and abilities. View larger. Meet and create unexpected new sims. View larger. Put your new abilities to use. View larger Story and Gameplay Like every The Sims game, the story behind the World Adventures Expansion is whatever you want to make of it, but in this case within the realm of international travel. And why not, since what sim doesn’t need a vacation. Players choose from environments set Egypt, France or China, with the possibility of others via download. Similarly, gameplay follows the same well-worn path familiar to veteranThe Sims players, and easy to pick up for those coming to the franchise for the first time. Players create their sims as they like, customizing everything from physical characteristics, all the way down to personality traits, habits, etc. They can mix with other sims, build relationships, start families and even die. Because this expansion is based around travel, your sims can also discover rich, new cultures, develop brand-new skills and abilities and explore and adventure through realistic environments. New skills related to these destinations include photography, martial arts, and nectar making (a sim beverage) among others. As part of of the exotic locales available, sims can get adventurous and explore the caves and tombs of Egypt and China. Here they will put their new adventure related abilities to work as they participate in Indiana Jones like adventures full of excitement and even danger, including some not-so friendly mummies and the Grim Reaper. Unique Simlish Soundtrack Just as with travel, every sim has his/her particular musical tastes. With that in mind the World Adventures Expansion Pack features an all-star soundtrack of real songs, recorded by the original artists in the sims native tongue of Simlish. These tracks include: Audrye Sessions – “Turn Me Off” Broken Hearts Club – “Na NA NA” Esmee Denters – “Outta Here” Fefe Dobson – “I Want You” Friday Night Boys – “Can’t Take That Away” Nelly Furtado – “Manos al Aire” Stefanie Heinzmann – “No One (Can Ever Change My Mind)” Pixie Lott – “Mama Do” Madina Lake – “Lets Get Outta Here” Manchester Orchestra – “I’ve Got Friends” Matt and Kim- “Daylight” Katie Melua – “If the Lights Go Out” Metalkpretty – “Wake Up, Wake Up” Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head – “Me + Yr Daughter” Hot Chelle Rae – “Say” LeAnn Rimes – “You’ve Ruined Me” Cassie Steele – “Summer Nights” Evan Taubenfeld – “Pumpkin Pie” Young Punx – “Juice and Sim” Key Features Accept challenges, find treasures, discover what’s lurking in hidden caves and more. Explore famous landmarks in China, Egypt, and France. Learn new skills like photography and pursue new opportunities. Meet new Sims from exotic locations and share their cultures. Get $10 worth of free SimPoints for The Sims 3 Store. Enjoy a unique all-star soundtrack of songs, especially recorded in Simlish for the expansion.

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Mid-November’s DLC (downloadable content) packs for The Sims 3 for iPhone/iTouch version will give you more customization options for your Sim’s clothing and house.

These DLC packs are segregated in to “live it” and “wear it” packs for furniture and clothing. Each bundle of content will include a few different hairstyles and outfits or pieces of furniture. The first three themes that are being rolled out are the “Castle,” “University,” and “Vampires and Werewolves”.

The castle “wear it” pack will allow you to equip your sim in a suit of armor, and the vampires and werewolves live it pack will add things like coffins to your house.

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1. Teddy bears can be put into cribs in buy mode.

2. Pregnant sims who eat apples or foods made with apples tend to have boys. Same goes for watermelons and girl babies.

3. A baby’s sex can be determined before birth by a Sim in the medical career in at least the fifth level. This is found under the friendly interactions menu.

4. Click on your lights to change the color of lights and their intensity.

5. Sims can age anytime not just at the end of the age stage. Buy a birthday cake and pick the Sim you want to age to blow out the candles.

6. Childish sims can fish in pools.

7. Good sims can donate to charity. Click on a mailbox with a good Sim selected.

8. Rock stars will be cheered or booed when seen in public.

9. Handy sims can wire speakers so the whole house hears music when radio is on.

10. Sims in the Criminal career cannot be robbed.

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“With the release of The Sims 3 this past June, the franchise’s massive player base got the opportunity to dive into a less rigid, more open world than ever before. Judging by reviews and subsequent sales, pretty much everyone is happy with what Electronic Arts did to push the franchise forward while maintaining the key elements that make The Sims such a distinct gaming experience. It’s true when you say there really isn’t anything else like it.

How EA cashes in on all this success is no secret – by releasing an avalanche of expansion packs. The world of the Sims 2 was officially expanded upon eight times in three years, and the first in what we can assume will be a long chain of releases tied to The Sims 3 is coming this November. Called World Adventures, the expansion will of course enhance the virtual doll house appeal of the game with tons of new items and collectibles, but also offer players the opportunity to travel to China, Egypt, and France to dig through dungeons for treasure.

Many of these treasures can be brought back to homes and displayed there, but there appears to be a lot of gameplay packed into each dungeon section. You won’t be able to spend an unlimited amount of time in these new spaces, as you’ll be limited by your current visa level that determines the duration of your visit. Once you’re able to bump up your visa to level three you’ll be able to spend quite a bit of time abroad, as well as purchase vacation homes that should facilitate fostering new friendships or even marriages. Not hindered by such visa restrictions, I had a chance to try out a few challenge sections in Egyptian tombs, navigating past traps, investigating hidden areas, and even avoiding undead threats in the interest of uncovering treasure chests.

When you first arrive in one of these added areas, you’ll find detailed new lots to wander around. In Egypt, for instance, there are NPC Sims standing around markets in a base camp, some who offer goods and services and some who can point you to the starting level dungeons, much like in a role-playing game. There’s a progression to the challenges, so you can’t just dive into the highest level dungeon immediately. In fact, you’ll basically be questing, or adventuring as it’s called at EA, for some of the Sims standing around, and the quests are chained together, giving the progression through World Adventures more of a structured flow. You have to start small, solving simple puzzles in beginner areas that acquaint you with the types of challenges the game has in store.

What kinds of challenges? Well, let’s say you enter into a dungeon and there’s no clear way forward. There are, however, piles of debris stacked against the far walls and a statue parked in a corner. By hovering your mouse over particular spaces onscreen you’ll find all these can be interacted with. Perhaps you’ll need to grab hold of the statue and push it on to a pressure plate, or dig away the debris and reveal staircases or switches that trigger hidden doors. Uncovering the event trigger chains that eventually unlock a way forward is up to you (do you pass by or swim to the bottom of that curious looking pool?), and multiple paths of progression have been built into some of the harder dungeons.

Search carefully, there will be plenty to find as you progress to more difficult tombs.

If there’s an easily identifiable switch that opens a door, you might want to look around more carefully. By mousing over a particular section of wall, you might find it can be pushed aside to reveal a secret entrance to a treasure room. Naturally, the treasure should be collected, but rushing in all wide-eyed and overeager could result in a painful death. Any game space worthy of being called a dungeon isn’t complete without its share of dangers.

Fire traps, lightning traps, and more will block your way in many instances or be positioned around items of worth. In general there’ll be a method to deactivate them, but if you’re feeling particularly adventurous it’s possible to try and leap over. This isn’t recommended, as your Sim may very well wind up getting zapped or fried (as eventually happened to me), but such is the irresistible draw of valuable baubles, which can range from trash and busted bowls to coins and gems to invaluable antiques. Keeping these in your collection can activate moodlets, or you could just sell them off.

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A Sims expansion wouldn’t be the same without a supernatural element, so fans should be happy to hear mummies have been included in World Adventures. They’re likely to pop out in dungeons, and if they manage to catch up with you, it’s possible to get hit with a curse. Visiting the Sphinx in Egypt can remove this, but otherwise an unfortunate death may be in your future. It’s also possible to turn into a mummy if you decide to take a nap in a cursed sarcophagus, a transformation I was told would be permanent.

Early dungeon experiences can be fairly brief, but the longer and more challenging ones will require you to bring along tents and dried food to keep your Sim happy. The tent can also function elsewhere in the world, allowing your Sim to rest on the road. Of course you can bring all this back to home with you, including other new stuff like motorized scooters, martial arts equipment, nectar-making gear, and photography items.

When mummies attack, you're going to need a way to fight back.

On the subject of photography, in World Adventures you can snap pictures and make a career out of it, selling the photos or using them as decorative objects. As you take photos, the game notes the situation, tagging shots of certain scenes with subtitles. For instance, if you can capture an image of a deathfish and an angelfish in an aquarium at midnight, the subject line will read “Midnight in the Aquarium of Good and Evil.” Each level of the photography skill will offer up new challenges, so the hope at EA is that players will be excited by the opportunity to try and collect as many shots as possible.

While visiting China you can check out a martial arts academy and practice against training dummies or break everything from wooden boards to space rocks (or so say my notes). If this isn’t an aspect of the game you’re thinking would be interesting to spend time with, consider that it’s possible to beat up and fight off mummies with enough practice. There’s a sparring tournament here as well, and to prepare maybe you’re the type of player who would want to meditate. I was told if you manage to mediate for long enough you’re even given the convenient option to teleport around, which may make it easier to bring home some fireworks, which when set off can activate powerful moodlets. I didn’t get any hands-on time with China, but I did get an overview of the area, which is quite different in appearance from the sandy Egyptian sprawl with lush forests and some creative dungeon entrance designs, including a giant dragon head with coulds of smoke emanating from around the front door.

One of the more creative tomb entrances in China.

A nectar-making mechanic is also included with this expansion, which EA described as an extension of the gardening system. There’ll be new fruits and vegetables in World Adventures that can be grown in each location, along with six new grape types that tie into the nectar-making. Full sets of objects with French, Egyptian, and Chinese themes will be made available for those interested in new furniture, so if you want a fancy Egyptian couch, you’ll get it in World Adventures. Maybe you can set that up in your basement, which can extend four levels underground. If you don’t feel like filling that extra space with chairs and everyday accessories, you can set up your own dungeons and trap chains using the build tool.

I didn’t get a chance to see much of France, but was told there are still tombs there, though comparatively less than in Egypt or China. Overall it seems like this should be a welcome addition for any franchise fan who took the plunge and picked up The Sims 3 earlier this year. It’s especially interesting to see how the series as a whole appears to be continuing the trend of incorporating more and more traditional gameplay elements, such as the dungeon exploration, questing, and treasure hunting, into its distinct brand of accessible, light-hearted simulation.”

[Source by Charles Onyett at IGN]