Product Description

The Sims are on the adventure of their lifetime in The Sims 3 World Adventures, the first expansion pack to the #1 best-selling PC and MAC game in June 2009, The Sims 3.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #75 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2009-11-20
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Send your little computer people on a holiday they'll never forget - or perhaps even survive. The first ever expansion pack for the smash hit The Sims 3 allows your sims to travel abroad to discover new cultures and visit famous landmarks.

Take in the sights, sounds and souvenirs of Egypt

Are your sims brave enough for a spot of tomb raiding?

Take a ride on the new scooter as you explore France

Learn a martial art or just enjoy the local cuisine

This isn't just a sight-seeing tour though, your sims can learn new skills and gain new life goals from their visit, as well as a suitcase full of exotic items and treasures. Whether it's learning martial arts in China, "nectar"-making in France or tomb-raiding in Egypt there's much more to do on these virtual holidays than just laze around on the beach.

Foreign sims have unique personality traits and if your sims get on with them they can invite them back home - although you may want to upgrade your house first with the new building and customisation tools. It all adds up to a dream holiday that neither you nor your sims will forget.

Key Features

• Holiday of a lifetime: Don't just send your sims on holiday, send them on a globe-trotting adventure in China, France and Egypt.
• Landmark sights: Visit real world location from the Eiffel Tower to the Sphinx and the Great Pyramids.
• Souvenir shop: Take home brand new items: from ancient Egyptian artefacts to Chinese fireworks. Or decorate your home with exotic furniture and décor.
• Vocational trip: Learn new skills like photography, martial arts and nectar-making - plus give your sims new personality traits like "adventurous" and "photographer's eye".
• Lingua franca: Amazing soundtrack includes Nelly Furtado, LeAnn Rimes, Pixie Lott, Fefe Dobson, Matt + Kim and Young Punx - all singing in the Simlish language.

About the Developer: The Sims Studio
It's more than 20 years since Will Wright created SimCity and his development company Maxis. A lot has changed in that time, including the rise of The Sims as the studio's biggest game, but after being bought by EA elements of the team still work on the series and new titles such as Spore.

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Customer Reviews

Great Concept, badly executed
The holiday expansion is great fun, with varied Adventures to suit all of the different Sims personality types: the green-thumbed can learn nectar making; adventurous ones can explore Egyptian tombs; arty-types can learn photography; as well as shops full of interesting recipes and rivers with new fish. It also opens up the possibility for a huge future market in add-on adventures. It feels fresh and new, though some of the adventuring (such as tackling fire traps and gathering ancient coins) is definitely retro.

Unfortunately, with a few hours of game-play you will come across plenty of frayed edges. The SIMS forum already has hundreds of posts about the bugs found and problems encountered. If you haven't already bought it, my advice is to wait until a couple of updates come out and the beta testing has been done.

So much information, so little comprehension
I just started playing World Adventures today and it installed and played without any problems. I have experienced quite a few glitches and bugs with Sims 3 (base game) and found myself reading up on these issues on any forums I could find which had relevant information. I had to uninstall the base game Sims 3 more than once and decided to do so in anticipation of World Adventures` release (a new start in a new town). A couple of new patches were released this week and these patches cured my game`s problems. World Adventures itself contains patches to some of the issues in the base game which (mostly) solve a lot of the issues people were having. I have to say though...to the people who complain about their game not working since the last patch or since installing World Adventures, if you use CC (Custom Content) or mods there will always be a chance it will conflict with the game.
Sims 3 is NOT like Sims 2 and CC will most likely cause issue at some point in your game whenever the game is patched or a new expansion is released...this is a widely known fact and yet people still insist on having "that hairstyle from so`n`so site". Well, if you MUST use CC then do so at your game`s risk. The key thing is to know what you are buying or what you are downloading. Google questions and answers, there is lots of information out there so no need to cut off your nose to spite your face!
The game itself?
I took my sim off to France for a three day holiday and finished my first quest and I have to say it was quite enjoyable. I was quite the cynic regarding the new direction this first expansion pack decided to take but was pleasantly surprised. The French town looks nice and I`ve probably just skimmed the surface of what is available to do when on holiday there. China is next and then Egypt. There are also lots of new things added to the game through WA (basements are much easier to do now, fences and stairs are now recolourable too and there quite a lot of new objects and house items to add to your game as well as some new social interactions), all in all it`s quite a large expansion pack. I haven`t experienced the big issues mentioned by some people commenting here and I wouldn`t want people to be put off buying the game just because some people are banging their fists rather than banging on their computer keyboard to find some easy solutions online to their problems.

Great game shame about the install problems
This WA Exp pack is great and adds a new dimension to a mega game. I did have issues installing though with it saying that the disc was region locked (another EA install issue!!) I got around it by changing a setting (search google for "wrong region sims 3") Also I experience long loading times between destinations and a couple of other minor bugs
Anyway this is a top game that allows you to waste your life way in the real world More please !!!