The Sims 3: Showtime

by Electronic Arts

• Your Sims can live the dream as Singers, Performers, Magicians, and DJs. Watch them rise to fame - or go down in flames as they perform for other Sims.
• All-new social features: chat with friends, post to their walls, give status updates, and create friends lists.
• Send your Sims to a friend's game and have your friend's Sim come to your game!
• Create your own venue! Build a swanky concert hall, a massive stadium, or an indie club. How the stage is built will influence your Sims' performance and career progression.

Product Details

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• ASIN: B006D3JT0U
• Item Weight: 12.3 ounces
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Release Date: March 6, 2012
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (70 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,512 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
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Product Description

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Your Sims eat, sleep, live and love in the world you've created for them in The Sims 3. It's a great place to live, and they've got ordinary lives, just like the real world. But you don't want your Sims to be just ordinary. It's time to spice things up a little. This Expansion Pack lets you give your Sims the chance to chase down — and catch — their dreams of riches and fame. Enter a whole new world where your Sims can groom their hidden talents to become all-star singers, acrobats, magicians and DJs. Will they rise to fame and enjoy a lasting career? Will your Sims get rich quick and fizzle out? Or, will they crash and burn before they even get a chance to strike gold? There's only one way to find out.

Rise to Stardom

Customize your stages

Become a popular DJ

Synopsis

Your Sims were born to be stars - let them live out the rags-to-riches story with The Sims 3: Showtime Expansion Pack, where they'll get the chance to perform as singers, magicians, acrobats or DJs for other Sims. Nourish your Sims' talents in the all-new world of Starlight Shores, where they'll find new venues and objects that can help get them ready for Showtime. Make brand-new Sims with new tools using traits and Lifetime Wishes. Once your Sim is ready for the spotlight, build customized stages for just the right look - then sit back and see how the crowd likes the show as your Sim performs in sold-out arenas - construction will dictate how well your Sim performs and how his or her career progresses. Receive access to an exclusive bonus venue and stage with this Limited Edition. With the innovative SimPort feature, you can send your talent-groomed Sim to a friend's game to perform gigs in his or her town, go on tour and even get reviewed. Search for new friends, stay connected, post stories of your Sims' successes, share strategies and techniques and more with the in-game news feeds and live updates. Your Sims have the desire and the talent. Will it be enough to earn them a spot among the stars? Sit back and relax - it's Showtime.

Key Features:

• Watch your Sims rise to stardom, revel in the limelight or crash and burn as they perform as singers, acrobats, magicians or DJs for other Sims (requires The Sims 3 to play, not included)
• Explore a brand-new world, Starlight Shores, where you'll find new venues and new objects to sharpen your Sims' talents
• Create new Sims using more tools with new traits and Lifetime Wishes
• Construct your own custom stages, from a swanky concert hall to a massive stadium or an indie club to create the perfect show, and then watch your Sims perform in front of packed crowds in sold-out arenas
• Send your all-star Sim to a friend's game to perform in his or her world, book gig's in your friend's town, go on tour and even get reviewed using the all-new SimPort feature
• Tap into the in-game news feeds and live updates to search for and make new friends, stay connected, spread stories of your Sims' successes, share gameplay techniques, create wish lists and more
• Complete special challenges and accomplish certain goals to earn rewards, and track and share them via in-game social wall posts

Product Description

Live the rags to riches story with your Sims while being connected to your friends! Experience the rise to stardom as your Sim performs on stage from one venue to the next. And for the first time, The Sims 3 Showtime introduces social features, including Passport, an all-new feature that lets you send your Sims to a friend's game! There, your Sim can perform at your friend's venue in front of your friend's Sims! You will also be able to chat with friends and post messages and screenshots on your friends' walls.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

108 of 112 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Ok... March 10, 2012

By MK

Fun: 4.0 out of 5 stars   

I have to say, I was really excited for this expansion pack (regardless of some of the lackluster packs we've been getting lately). It brought me back to the original Sims: Superstar, one of my favorite original packs. And the Sims 3 has had some good packs out so far (Pets, Ambitions, World Adventures) in my opinion! But Showtime doesn't really cut it.

The new town is nice. I like it. The new premade houses are nice and actually kind of spacious instead of being awkwardly shaped or sized. Some of the job locations are now melded into one big building - for instance, say, science and medicine in the same building, not a separate hospital and science institute (that's just an out-of-nowhere example, not factual from the game). It's a little different, but still okay. One thing this town is surely NOT lacking is entertainment venues. Which is, you know, the whole point. I'd give the new town 4/5 stars.

There are some okay new hairstyles and clothing options too. Not the best, but by far not some of the worst I've seen. As far as new traits go, I've only seen three: diva, born performer, and social butterfly. I immediately tried out the diva and social butterfly traits - and boy, is social butterfly annoying! If they aren't constantly talking to people, they get a negative moodlet. My sim will wake up and have an automatic negative moodlet just from not talking to people in her sleep. That's a little ridiculous. Diva, I'm enjoying a little more, mainly because of other sims' reactions to my sim's divalicious interactions, haha. Altogether, the new create-a-sim stuff, I'd give 3/5 stars.

The new careers seem interesting, and I was excited to try them out. My only problem is that they're professions - not careers.... You get a weekly stipend and go out and perform randomly when you get the opportunity. That's not necessarily a bad thing, and for those jobs, I understand it's probably more realistic, but I prefer the jobs to professions. I'd give the new jobs 4/5 stars.

So why did I give the game 3 stars and not 4? Well, it's simple - had Late Night and Showtime been combined, I think they would've made a killer expansion pack. As it is, there simply aren't enough new features in Showtime. Some of the items you get in Showtime, I think you should've gotten in Late Night. Had they put the Showtime stuff in with Late Night, everything would've fit perfectly. There's just not enough here to constitute a new expansion pack, in my opinion. Don't get me wrong - the stuff is cool, and if you're a true fan, like me, you'll buy the game anyways. But be warned - it's probably going to be less new stuff and things to explore than you're used to. Read more ›

90 of 98 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars EA leaves us with another disappointment! March 13, 2012

By Kayla

Fun: 1.0 out of 5 stars   

Let me just start by saying it's ridiculous how expensive these expansion packs are, and the lack of content you are getting with them. I've been playing The Sims since the very original. The Sims 1 was so much fun, The Sims 2 was great, and now here we have the Sims 3. They are honestly going downhill with each expansion pack. We expect NEW CONTENT with expansion packs, not useless social features. Everyone is wondering "Hmm, why wasn't this stuff included with "Late Night?" Well, allow me to enlighten you. MONEY! Money, money, money. EA is so money hungry that they have to cheap out on these expansion packs, cut content, and then try to sell it back to us. Honestly, it makes me sad. I used to LOVE The Sims, and now I can barely play for more than a half hour without getting bored. These new expansion packs just don't have the same feel as they did with TS2 or even TS1.

To wrap this up, this expansion pack was disappointing. There are tons of things I would love to sit here and complain about, but I won't. All you're really getting is 3 new careers, some unattractive hairs and clothes, and some objects. I really think EA needs to go back to their roots and make Sims expansions that are actually fun and worth the money. (Or better yet, bring Maxis back!) If not, they will be losing a lot of customers, including me!

110 of 122 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Not worth the money. March 7, 2012

By snowbun0269

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Fun: 2.0 out of 5 stars   

I was so excited to recieve this game, like I always am for every Sims game. I waited for it load and to download the extra venue. After playing the game for about 30 minutes, I realized this game is just a small add off of the hobbies concept. Three new jobs and that's it? I can be part of a band and save $39.99 if I would have skipped this expansion pack and just kept my old ones. I wish EA would come out with a really awesome expansion pack that you can't really live without. I remember how awesome each of the expansion packs for sims 1 were, I even liked the sims 2 expansion packs, but this one was a huge disappointment. After you complete the three jobs, that's it you're done and there's nothing else added, where is the months of fun in that until the next lack-luster expansion pack comes out. I have to say I would love to see an expansion pack like Makin' Magic from Sims 1. I don't care how old that game is, it was the best expansion pack.

Please do better next time EA.

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars YAWN*** Really? Where's the show in Showtime? March 23, 2012

By SoulfulSistah

Fun: 2.0 out of 5 stars   

OK. So where do I begin? I have been playing the Sims games for 12 years. Sims 1 straight up until Sims 3 I became disappointed with the Sims 3 franchise after "Generations," which had soo many problems it wasn't even worth it. Anyway, for those of you who are seriously considering purchasing the Sims 3: Showtime, there really isn't anything to celebrate. For example, if you have the "Adventures" expansion pack, when your sim travels as a so called entertainer, be it the dj, singer or acrobat, (you only have 3 new career options) they automatically appear as unemployed while on vacation. When I say vacation I use the term loosely, because the Sims 2 Vacation expansion beats Adventures by a long shot! Anyway, so if your sim is an entertainer and let's say, a level 10 performer, they have to work their way up all over again in one of the adventure worlds which is totally ridiculous! You would think that the expansions would be more cohesive, but they really aren't. Just like with the Pets expansion, you can't bring pets on vacation, in this game, if you want to travel as an entertainer, you have to start all over again. Furthermore, you have to place the new objects/buildings in the adventure world to allow your sims to perform.

Next: The celebrity "star" feature, if you purchased the Late Night expansion ( a great expansion pack), doesn't go well with the Sims Showtime at all! The agent still has your sim running around performing celebrity tasks that may not even be related to your career choice. Also, the geniuses who created this game forgot to provide a new service- an assistant! I mean, every so called celebrity has one. I mean sheesh. Late Night allowed you to get a butler, Generations a nanny, but no assistant for Showtime?...

Also- the pay is a weekly stipend which is ridiculous. The singer career also doesn't go well with the musician career that was already in the game. The performance, songs and outfits are all lame. If you want real outfits and hairstyles you may have to get it from the Sims store which is exactly what they want in the first place, by providing purposefully lackluster content.

They don't have different song genres for you to perform, say if you want your sim to be a country star or even a soul singer, you sim is stuck with singing what sounds like lame pop anthems. Though they do offer multiple songs, they sound lame. At least in the Sims 1 Super Star, they had different genre options. Also when your sim has an event, don't be surprised if only one or two people are in the crowd. Another lame aspect of the game.

There are new food options which is cool- they have more vegetarian selections- one item is even misspelled,lol. I have to try out the acrobat and dj career, but I honestly doubt they will be incredible.

The sims boasts a new "Sim Port" feature where you can travel to a friends game- which is cool, however, you simply watch the performance and can't interact with the performer to even ask for an autograph. This is what is considered a "tour" in the game. Your sim will leave town in a limo and you can't play with your sim until they return. Keep in mind tour- is just via Sim port not with the Adventure expansion pack- as I mentioned earlier. Your sim, if a celebrity, will only be a celebrity in Adventure, but has to start from the bottom, if you want to perform in the other worlds.

Your sim can sell their cd which is basically, you selecting another sim and selecting the option "sell cd." You have new traits, like social butterfly and diva- which is funny to watch. I rate this game a 2 b/c it hasn't been well thought out yet. It seems like the Sim folk put more thought in the Store than the expansions.

If your a sim fan and have a few bucks to drop, buy it- but don't be surprised if Showtime isn't the type of show you signed up for. Read more ›