The Sims 3 Ambitions Makes Its Way Home To The App Store
September 16, 2010
Electronic Arts has released The Sims 3 Ambitions, and it's one of the most in-depth Sims titles yet. Along with the regular Sims action, you now will need to choose and maintain a career, create a full family, and improve your complete lifestyle.
The center of The Sims experience is creating your Sim. Choose amongst the pre-configured career Sim, or go completely custom. Create your appearance, choose your persona, pick up to five traits, and assign your Sim a name.
The biggest addition to The Sims gameplay in The Sims 3 Ambitions is the chance to pick your passion, make a career out of it, and don't get fired. Choose to be an artist, athlete, chef, firefighter, musician, or teacher. Each career requires your full attention and patience to earn your way to the tippy-top. Practice your skills, find a job, be on-time, and get promoted.
Having a career can take plenty of time and effort, but life isn't all about work. Expand your Sim's social skills, meet new people, purchase necessities, maintain household appliances, and even upgrade your home. With moments of just "getting by" financially, it may begin to feel a little too real. Relationships can even lead to children. You heard correctly, babies! You may be a parent after all.
Most of the controls will likely seem familiar. Tap on an empty portion of your map to send your Sim to that location, use two fingers to pan the camera, zoom in and out with the slider on the right side of the screen, and interact with objects or people by tapping on them. The in-game menu provides statistics for your Sim's physical and emotional needs, career progress, skill levels, relationships, wishes and goals, and inventory.
Gameplay offers pause, play, and fast-forward. The game will auto fast-forward when your Sim sleeps, eats, and goes to work. Sometimes, I wish I could do that in real life. Queue actions during any speed of play, including when the game is paused. Red and green icons indicate mood, attention required for your Sim's basic needs, and progress bars will provide assistance in attempting to keep things straight.
As far as general options and the main menu go: create and maintain up to seven different games, enable or disable tutorials and hints, enable or disable music or sounds, and enable or disable the autonomous system. If you're hardcore Sims fan, The Sims 3 Ambitions features the ability to import and export any Sim amongst any of the other The Sims 3 iOS games. iPod integration lets you listen to whatever music your mood requires, taking away that possible repetitive elevator music effect that some of us find to become droning.
I can't seem to disagree with EA about this being the most complete Sims experience yet for the iPhone, accounting for nearly everything in your Sim's little world can keep you more than sufficiently occupied for hours.
The Sims 3 Ambitions is compatible with iPhone and iPod touch running iOS 3.0 or later, and available in the App Store for $4.99.
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