Archive for July 2010

Poll Results: Have you bought or are planning to get The Sims 3 Design & High-Tech Stuff / High-End Loft Stuff?

Saturday 10th July 2010 | 5:09 pm UK time | Categories

Yes, I really do have some results for you – you’re not hallucinating. Half of all voters have bought The Sims 3 Design & High-Tech Stuff, with a further 10% undecided whether to buy it or not. 30% aren’t interested in the items included, and 10% think it’s too expensive. To see the results in graph form and discuss them, click below.
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If a poll has ended, it must at long last be time for a new one, right? Yes – the latest expansion pack for The Sims 3, Ambitions, came out recently, so I want you to tell me this: Which is your favourite profession in it? Vote now to the right of any page – there are choices for you even if you haven’t bought it!

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New The Sims 3 Game Update Stops Sims Walking On Water

Thursday 8th July 2010 | 11:00 pm UK time | Categories

EA has released a new The Sims 3 game update, fixing a lot of issues, including these:

Dead relatives will no longer appear alive in your Sims’ family trees while traveling to Egypt, China, or France

Sketches your Sims create using the Drafting Table are now valued properly based on your Sim’s Painting Skill Level and related Profession Level

Sims will no longer walk on water to view paintings placed on swimming pool walls

Fixed an “Error 13” issue caused by saving the game immediately before having your Sim give another Sim a makeover

Ghost Hunter Sims can no longer “Show Off Banshee Banisher” to child Sims

Fixed issue that prevented players from Changing Active Household while in Edit Town mode

Before you rush off to install it though, there’s some extra steps that may need to be taken, on top of the usual ones. As usual EA have forgotten about Windows Vista and Windows 7 and provided file paths that only apply to Windows XP – the path to the The Sims 3 folder in Windows Vista and Windows 7 is C:\Users\[User name]\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 (the Documents folder appears as My Documents in Windows 7, but this path is still correct). For the extra special steps, the full list of changes, and the usual steps (in that order), click below then find the post titled “Game Update for: 1.14/2.9/3.5/4.2″:
> News at TheSims3.com (UK)

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Ambitions Reviews Wrap-Up

Monday 5th July 2010 | 5:13 pm UK time | Categories

It’s been a month since The Sims 3 Ambitions was released, and reviews seem to have pretty much stopped, so I think now is a good time to wrap-up my reviews coverage. I won’t post any more articles about reviews here, but you can still see if I’ve found any as I’ll continue to add them to the Reviews tab - changes that’ll of course be noted on the Updates page.

The Metascore is currently 75 based on 17 reviews, but I think it’s unlikely to change much in the event more are added. This is worse than World Adventures, which got a ’score of 81, and the base game, which got a ‘score of 86. This is also worse than most The Sims 2 expansion packs, with only Bon Voyage and FreeTime getting lower ‘scores than Ambitions (Apartment Life drew).

The Ranking at GameRankings currently stands at 78.58%. That’s based on six reviews but probably won’t change that much if they find any more. This is lower than World Adventures’s Ranking, which stands at 82.78%, and the base game’s, which is 86.90%. Comparing it to The Sims 2 expansion packs, this is a better Ranking than the ones attained by the Nightlife, Pets, Seasons, Bon Voyage and FreeTime, but worser than the ones attained by University, Open for Business (it’s semi-equivilent) and Apartment Life.

Click read more (or if you’re already on the full article page, scroll down a bit) for links to all the games and expansion packs mentioned on Metacritic and GameRankings. Where it wasn’t specified above, the Metascore or Ranking attained is provided in the link text.

Why not post your own review of Ambitions? Just click below, then click the link to log in with a Google, Twitter, Yahoo!, AIM, OpenID or NetLog account and type away!
> Your The Sims 3 Ambitions reviews