The Sims 3: Generations [Mac Download]

by Electronic Arts

• Sims of every age can enjoy new activities! Kids can hang out with friends in tree houses. Teens can pull hilarious pranks. Adults can suffer midlife crises. And so much more.
• Whether it's a raging all-teen party while the parents are out, a high school graduation or an official wedding ceremony, new celebrations make every age more fun.
• From bachelor party hi-jinks to getting in trouble for bad grades to hearing rumors around town about Sims who cheat on their spouses, hilarity ensues when new drama unfolds.
• Sims will enjoy all-new ways to be creative including tinkering with chemistry sets, making their own home movies that they can watch on their own TVs, playing make believe as an astronaut, dinosaur, princess, and more.
• All of the new activities, celebrations, and drama are easier than ever to remember and reminisce about with a new Memories system that keeps track of major life moments and also lets you share them on Facebook or your Sims My Page.

Product Details

• Downloading: Currently, this item is available only to customers located in the United States and who have a U.S. billing address.
• Note: Gifting is not available for this item.
• ASIN: B004ZUFN62
• Release Date: May 31, 2011
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,108 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
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Product Description

Platform: Mac Download

From the Manufacturer

The Sims 3: Generations is the fourth expansion pack for popular single player Life Simulation game The Sims 3.* Through it players can dramatically expand The Sims 3 gameplay with a generationally oriented focus on new activities, celebrations, and opportunities for drama and creativity. With this new expansion players' Sims can experience the gameworld from multiple perspectives, including childhood, the teenage years, young adult to adult, and the senior years. Each of these has a different general focus that players can of course alter as they see fit.

Experience the Life of Sims Across the Generations

Enjoy a whole spectrum of rich life experiences with your Sims. Start off in the imagination-fueled world of childhood and embrace the drama of the teen years. Experience the complicated realities of adult life, then reap the benefits of growing up in each life stage. A wealth of new options and activities makes your Sims' lives more meaningful than ever before, whatever their ages. With new celebrations, dramatic life events, and all-new ways for your Sims to express their creativity, The Sims 3 Generations lets your Sims live life to the fullest.

Enhance your The Sims 3 experience as you explore the world as a child, a teen, an adult and the later years of life.
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Tailor unforgettable experiences for your Sims.
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About The Sims 3

The freedom of The Sims 3 will inspire you with endless creative possibilities and amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief. Create millions of unique Sims and control their lives. Customize their appearances and personalities. Build their homes - design everything from exquisitely furnished dream homes to quaint cottages. Then, send your Sims out to explore their ever-changing neighborhood and to meet other Sims in the town center. With all-new quick challenges and rewarding game play, The Sims 3 gives you the freedom to choose whether (or not) to fulfill your Sims' destinies and make their wishes come true.

Key Game Features

• New Activities - Sims of every age can have fun. Kids can attend ballet class, hang out in tree houses, or have fun on new playground equipment. Teens can host raging parties, pull pranks, and attend school dances. Adults can suffer mid-life crises, and those who engage in extramarital affairs will face the rumor mill. And so much more.
• New Celebrations - Whether it's a hilariously out-of-control bachelorette party, an all-teen party while the parents are out, or a high school graduation, new ways to celebrate life will make every age more fun.
• New Drama Unfolds - From snubbing school peers to being the focus of neighborhood gossip and even bachelor party hi-jinks, hilarity will ensue when life goes off the beaten path.
• Find News Ways to be Creative - Sims will be able to tinker with chemistry sets, play in forts, and record with video cameras. Additionally, the new memories system allows players to build a scrapbook and post their memories on Facebook for all of their friends to see.

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* The Sims 3 is required for play, and is sold separately.

System Requirements   Minimum Specifications: OS: Mac OS X 10.5.7 Leopard or higher Processor: Intel Core Duo processor RAM: 2 GB Hard Drive: 2 GB with at least 1 GB of additional space for custom content and saved games Video Card: ATI X1600 or Nvidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100. This game will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems, or the GMA 950 class of integrated video cards. Additional Info: Requires The Sims 3 for play

Additional Information
Some Mac users may experience an issue with their Sims 3 launcher after installing Generations.  If you experience game launch issues, please follow the instructions found here.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars One-off May 29, 2012

By NuEngland

Platform for Display:Mac Download|Amazon Verified Purchase

I call this game a one-off because after you do everything the first time you will probably be uninterested in doing so again. There are a lot of new features to this game but most of them are for the sake of your children. If you don't like having children lingering as such for days upon days--like myself--you won't get much use out of this pack.

Shiny new stuff--one of the coolest aspects in this pack is all the new kid gadgets you'll accumulate. Playground stuff includes sandboxes, 3 types of tree houses, mechanical horses, spaceships, and cars the children can ride, a seesaw, slide, hopscotch court, and various children's toys.

Clothes--The first thing I noticed about playing Sims 3, and I am relatively new as a Sims gamer, is the lack of children's clothes. With this expansion pack being geared toward children/teen years you'll find much improved in cute/adorable outfits for your toddlers. The teens have some very cool new additions too, along with appropriate hairstyle options.

IMAGINATION--One of the biggest and most intriguing aspects of this game is how imaginative the creators have gotten. They've created a very rich world for your toddler, child, and teen that can make for lots of fun on the first go round. For instance, the tree houses are not just places where kids can climb up to and sit. They can host tea parties, play space pirates, ban boys or girls from coming up, play pranks or even sleep in the tree houses. Children can pretend to drive cars by just sitting on a couch, play royal over a court by standing on a chair, or have tea parties with their stuffed toys.

Imaginary friends-- One of the best features included in this pack has got to be the imaginary friend.... You'll receive a doll in a the mail from a long lost, relative who you had no part in creating once your child is born. Some people have said that their child never got a doll. I've had that happen, but then I also had a female Sim have fifteen children and all of her children got a doll so I think the odds are good. Anyway, the child must play with this doll OFTEN. As the child grows so does the doll. You will find out later the ways in which a teen or a young adult can actually turn this doll into a human. At some point this doll will start to walk around and interact with only the Sim child or young adult (other Sims cannot see this doll which is where the imaginary friend part comes into play). You can choose the sex of the doll so that when it is turned human it will be either male or female. Child Sims now grown into adults have built such a relationship with this doll--now turned human--that they could marry him or her and have an instant companion. Also, once human, dolls have the ability to change back into dolls. (The children of DTH can also be dolls)

Activities: Besides the plethora of ways for children to play and be happy, teen Sims can now be taught to drive, and they can go to prom (you still can't see inside the school, though), date, throw parties when their parents are on vacation, teepee or egg neighbors houses, set pranks up in your own house, and graduate from high school directly after aging up to a young adult.

new traits: I think there are two new traits: rebellious and nurturing.

new professions: along with the nurturing trait Sims can now be babysitters. I tried it once. It's very time-consuming and your Sim can barely do anything (cook, clean, chat w/other sims) w/o having to pick up and put down children.

adult stuff: Most of the the teen clothes can be doubled for adults as well. Adults can now have a midlife crisis--which sometimes includes cheating on their spouse O_o. Adults also get two new, fast, but relatively ugly designed sports cars. Adults can now ground their children or put them in time out. I once had a Sim put her teen son in the corner. They can also get married in style. Unfortunately you won't find any new wedding dresses. I think its part of a ploy to get you to buy some from the main site. You will get a additional generic wedding cake and wedding decor. As far as I know there is no option for honeymoons.

School: You can send your child/teen Sim to boarding school where they will not only grow up but develop traits and skills according to where you send them. If you choose to keep your children at home you can sign them up for after school activities or more classes.

The partying, the graduation, and the pranks all grew old fairly quickly for me but I still say Sims Generations is worth the price if its reasonable. Note: Amazon runs sells on an undecipherable schedule. I bought Generations for 13 and change but I see its now close to $40. I'd advise any buyers to wait for a price drop. Read more ›

18 of 23 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Downloading is not for everyone June 22, 2011

By Kelly Levy

Platform for Display:Mac Download|Amazon Verified Purchase

I usually buy the game itself but I thought I would download it this time, Big Mistake! I'm not saying this would happen to everyone but for me it was disappointment after disappointment.
I have a 15" MacBook Pro and all the specifications for this download including high-speed wireless internet, and the download took 6 hours! After waiting all day to play it, I go to install the game software and it tells me that the Sims 3 I have is not compatible with this game and that I have to download extra stuff. Well, I have the original Sims 3 and all the expansion packs, so I'm not sure what the issue is. So I have to download this new item and the download keeps crashing after about 30 minutes of downloading.
Needless to say it has taken me all day to figure this out and it probably would have been easier for me to get the actual game and wait a day for shipping.

I'm not saying this will happen to everyone, I mean it could have been a bad day for me. And like the review before me says: download times are different for everyone. Just don't go into the download purchase lightly.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars sims 3 generations July 16, 2011

By britt

Platform for Display:Mac Download|Amazon Verified Purchase

The Sims 3 generations is a pretty good game. It download pretty quickly and was easy to setup and install. The game provides a lot of cool items for kids and teens. However, as an adult there isn't really an improvement. This game is geared towards the younger generation in the sims. I would have liked to have seen more products for adults. Overall, the game is pretty fun.

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars No worries with the Mac download ;) June 13, 2011

By KC

Platform for Display:Mac Download|Amazon Verified Purchase

I'm giving this 5 stars in terms of how quickly it took to download/install/ and run this expansion.
I've read reviews that the download was giving people issues on Windows so I downloaded this for my Mac. (I dualboot).

Anyhoo, on my 2011 15" MacBook Pro (Intel Core i7 Sandybridge series) I had no trouble installing, getting the updates, and running the game without the disc. (I purchased it and was running it a little under 30 minutes later... but I guess THAT would depend on your processor/ram/internet.)

The download isn't too bulky (a disappointment, really.) Only 1.5GB to download.
Everything seems to be in working order thus far so if you were hesitant to getting the download from Amazon for Mac OSX, don't worry about it.
The best part about this of course is that I can finally play without that darn CD! I think I've used my CD input since I had this computer to hold Night Life. It's good to know I can freely run Sims without stupid mods to remove the disc. Plus, now me and my sister can play this simultaneously! :D

Happy Simming!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great!!! December 30, 2011

By kitana_79

Platform for Display:Mac Download|Amazon Verified Purchase

Bever shall I disk again. I bought this game when it first came out. I needed to do a complete reload since I purchased Sims Pets (wish I cold take that one back). Well my disk doesn't work anymore. I use a mac and Origins doesn't support Mac digital download and its been way past 90 days to get a new disk from these guys and everywhere else this game still costs full price. Found this but for half the price I was skeptical, but I did my research and it came up that it was ok to download from here. Saw the mixed reviews and decided to take a chance. Well I started this transaction at 6:54pm and ran the game and 7:25pm. Yes that quick. Amazon walks you through the download process which on my iMac took about 10 to 15 mins, they provide you with a key code upon completion of download for you to use when you begin installing, which is just like if you had a disk. And since the info is already on my computer install took about 2 mins! Started the game right up to check it out and everything is working fine and great and all with out a disk. Best thing I can download this again if I need to or put it on my other PC.