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  • Enjoy a unique all-star soundtrack of songs, especially recorded in Simlish for the expansion.
  • Accept challenges, find treasures, discover the dangers lurking in hidden caves and more as you and your sims explore famous landmarks in China, Egypt, and France.
  • Learn new skills like photography, martial arts and nectar making (a favorite sim beverage) as your sim pursues new opportunities.
  • Meet new Sims from exotic locations and share their cultures.
  • Get $10 worth of free SimPoints for use at The Sims 3 Store.

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  • ASIN: B002NILFB0
  • Item Weight: 3.2 ounces
  • Media: DVD-ROM
  • Release Date: November 17, 2009
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (135 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,428 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

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The Sims 3: 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.

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The parisian countyside seen from a scooter in The Sims 3: World Adventures Expansion Pack
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Haggling at the antiquities marketplace in The Sims 3: World Adventures Expansion Pack
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The Grim Reaper having lunch at a cafe in China in The Sims 3: World Adventures Expansion Pack
Meet and create unexpected new sims.
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Using your martial arts skills on a mummy in The Sims 3: World Adventures Expansion Pack
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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.

System Requirements:

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OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 Mac OS X 10.5.7 Leopard or higher
Processor: 2.0 Ghz P4 for XP or 2.4 for Vista or 7 Intel Core Duo Processor
RAM: (XP) 1GB / (Vista/Windows 7) 1.5GB 2GB or more
Disc Drive: 8x DVD-ROM drive
Hard Drive: At least 3.5 GB of free space with at least 1GB additional space for custom content and saved games..
Video Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible Video Card with 128 MB of Video RAM and support for Pixel Shader 2.0 (GeForce 6100 and 7100 cards not supported) ATI x1600 or NVIDIA 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100 (Game will not run on PowerPC (G3, G4, G5) based Mac systems (PowerMac))
Input Device: Mouse and keyboard

* Requires a copy The Sims 3, or The Sims 3 Collector's Edition for play.

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Features include:

•Enjoy a unique all-star soundtrack of songs, especially recorded in Simlish for the expansion.
•Accept challenges, find treasures, discover the dangers lurking in hidden caves and more as you and your sims explore famous landmarks in China, Egypt, and France.
•Learn new skills like photography, martial arts and nectar making (a favorite sim beverage) as your sim pursues new opportunities.
•Meet new Sims from exotic locations and share their cultures.
•Get $10 worth of free SimPoints for use at The Sims 3 Store.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Not 100% what I had hoped for; but pretty dang close., November 18, 2009
= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 
This review is from: The Sims 3: World Adventures (DVD-ROM)
I own every single Sims game, and had owned all of the Sim City series as well. With that said, let's move on to the review of EA's latest product, The Sims 3: World Adventures. I had high anticipation because I am used to the massive amounts of new things we got with the Sims 1 & Sims 2 expansions, which were offered at much lower costs. However, do not let this deter you. While you may not get a ton of new items, you do get adventure as promised. The pros:
1. You do get to travel, and there are goals when you do so. I didn't care for the way the Sims 2: Bon Voyage, didn't really give you a goal. It was go to a new place, relax, stay for a huge amount of time and leave. World Adventures gives you goals, while allowing you to visit various places if you would like. And in time you can buy a vacation home and spend more time there. You have to build up your "visa" to have stays longer than 3 days in each location, and you do this by completing adventures. I had a great time wandering around the maze like tombs, and avoiding torching myself.
2. There are indeed a few more items, and they have country themes. In the past few games we have really only had Asian oriented items; I love decorating the house with flaming chandeliers like the ones seen in the tombs.
3. I have not found all of the new social interactions, but so far there have been about three.
4. Basements! Yes you heard right, you can actually have basements to your house now; not only that but you can build "tombs" under your home.
5. A few new traits and music tastes.
6. Your sim, when they learn a new song, may come home singing- which I find very cute.

Cons:
1. As with any EA game that just came out, there are glitches. The first time I started up, my sim was no where to be found. The plumbob was deformed and I couldn't preform any actions. I uninstalled it, the problem still remained. So I uninstalled the base game; that fixed that problem. Then I couldn't get skills or buy skill books. This was apparently a conflict between the new patch (that is required it seems.) and game mods and some custom content. I removed by mods and custom content; now the game runs like a charm.
2. The loading time is much longer than with The Sims 3 base game. I have plenty of memory, a new graphics card and plenty of RAM. I am above the required specs with everything, but only slightly. If you are working with the bare minimums or just a little above, it may run a little slower.
3. I have noticed (it may be my computer) that some of the graphics are not as clear, such as a blurry pixelation of my sims eye sockets.
4. Still no memories.
5. Some of the new features have been hard for me to find, such as the collection for photographs (which is a nice new bonus).
6. Toddlers & pregnant women cannot travel. I assume this is because it would be unsafe for them to be caught on fire, but it still stinks leaving them home.
7. Some people have been having a lot more problems, such as the game not loading, codes not working and games not saving. I have personally not had any of these problems.

I will update this as I continue to play; but so far the adventures have made getting the game worth it. I really enjoy having the goals and feeling like I'm achieving something for my sim.
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71 of 82 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars DO NOT BUY IT!, December 6, 2009
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I just came online after angrily quitting the Sims 3: World Adventures. When I first bought the game it was a nice change to be able to go to different parts of the Sim world. It was a welcomed change. However, that was before I discovered all the glitches and bugs this expansion pack introduced to my Sims 3 game. I deeply regret buying it.

A few things that have gone wrong since I installed it:

- If a Sim has been in an area too long (ie Egypt) that sim will out of nowhere have a family located in that area. My sim girl was in Egypt a lot because the mummies and tombs were fun to me. After a while I looked at the family tree and she's somehow already married to an old man and they have a kid together? What the?! I can't break up the marriage so she can't marry anyone ever. (See Picture I Uploaded)

- My sim guy "went steady" with a girl from China. When he got home, the girl disappeared so now my guy can't marry anyone because it still shows that he's in a relationship with this girl. I can't reach her by phone or go to China because she vanished.

- There is a car stuck outside my sim's homes and I can't do Move Objects On to remove it.

- If my Sim asks a foreign sim (from China for example) to get married, the game glitches so that they marry but the Chinese sim doesn't move in. I can keep marrying them but they never move in, it just glitches and sends them flying around the house.

- Lastly, the glitch that made me upset the most is that I was in Egypt exploring tombs when all of a sudden the game glitches and nothing, I mean NOTHING, is clickable anymore. I can't use my cell to get out of there, I can't make my sim walk anywhere because not even the floors are clickable. I just said forget it and quit the game.

These glitches have ruined the game for me. It was a big mistake trying out the game with my favorite family. Now they're all messed up and I cant do anything to fix it. This expansion pack was MAJOR FAIL. I advise you NOT to get it and only do so when *everything* is fixed. Save your money until then! The game itself is pretty fun if you're looking to trying new things and introduce new challenges for you and your sim but like I said, it's better to wait until its problems are fixed.

Update 7/14/10: Might I add that since writing this review I've had to restart a new game from scratch 3 times. I'm not sure if it was because I uninstalled World Adventures, or because the Sims 3 game is so full of glitches that crash the game itself but the game won't load up on my laptop anymore. I'm left with two "games" I regret spending money on.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Don't get it until it works, November 29, 2009
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This review is from: The Sims 3: World Adventures (DVD-ROM)
Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT buy this until they have the bugs worked out and it works. It might be a fun game if it would work properly but it doesn't.

I can not just save my game anymore, I have to "Save As" each time and then the game will still sometimes crash while saving. It also randomly crashes just during gameplay. I read on the official forum that this could be due to high FPS so I used my nifty Nvidia V-sync as suggested and nope, it still crashes away many, many times.

There are also reports of TONS of other bugs which I have been lucky enough to not have happen to me yet. Some people report their Sims completely vanishing or of an "evil twin" that shows up when they come back from visiting one of the 3 countries. They also have random spouses and children they never had before. The list goes on and on. Bad, stupid bugs here.

On the positive side, the destinations themselves are gorgeous. However, the adventuring you do there gets so repetitve and boring. I've only had this one day and am already thinking, "How many times do I have to explore tombs to look for stupid loot?"
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