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De Sims 3 Wereldavonturen is al over een paar dagen verkrijgbaar, op 19 november. Bereid je Sims vast voor met deze twee GRATIS voorwerpen!
De Strakke Slaper is een strak Aziatisch bed, waar je superstrak in kunt slapen.
De Kelderboog is een stevige duurzame boog die niet mag ontbreken in je catacombe.
De Sims 3 Wereldavonturen is al over een paar dagen verkrijgbaar, op 19 november. Bereid je Sims vast voor met deze twee GRATIS voorwerpen!
De Strakke Slaper is een strak Aziatisch bed, waar je superstrak in kunt slapen.
De Kelderboog is een stevige duurzame boog die niet mag ontbreken in je catacombe.
Gamespot has posted their full extended hands-on preview of The Sims 3 World Adventures. Highlights include adventure game play and new skills for your sims!
By Andrew Park
We get our hands on this soon-to-be-released expansion and spread our wings into Europe and the Far East.
The Sims series has let players control the tiny little lives of little computer people for years, and this year's The Sims 3 took the series to a whole new level. It introduced revamped goal systems, new personality and socializing systems, and a revised career system, among other things. And with the first expansion pack, World Adventures, your sims can branch out into a very different profession--that of globetrotting adventurer. Sure, the expansion adds various new additions to the base game that are quite helpful and useful, such as an expanded in-game tutorial system and the ability to build basements in your house. But, the real attraction is flying out to one of three international locations (Egypt, France, and China) and becoming a tiny, gibberish-speaking Indiana Jones.
We've already extensively catalogued our time in Egypt in our previous coverage, so this time around, we'll focus on China and France. Unlike Egypt, where the geography is built around a few major dig sites, the China adventure area is laid out in a mostly even split between unspoiled wilderness and community lots (including peaceful parks for meditation, ancient tombs to explore, martial arts academies, and merchants). The France area, however, is laid out like a country villa--there are small clusters of community lots separated by long country roads. Fortunately, in all lots, your sims can quickly travel from place to place by way of bicycle or scooter (which they'll use automatically), and at these different locations, they'll be able to not only seek out new adventures in ancient tombs but also partake in local color.
The expansion offers new cultural options that start all the way back with character creation--your sims can choose Egyptian, French, or Chinese music as their personal favorites, as well as new cuisines, such as crepes and dim sum. There are even new traits, such as "adventurous" (a sim recovers well from jet lag to travel more often and improves visa level more quickly) and new life goals, such as fully exploring all major tombs or reaching physical perfection as a martial arts master.
However, the culture really starts to come into play once you begin your travels abroad and meet new sims that look very different from the ones that live in Sunset Valley. These include the kung-fu monks in China's monasteries and the beret-wearing "nectar" tasters in the French vineyards. You can also soak up local culture by exploring new social options that are unique to those regions, such as challenging another martial artist to a sparring session or learning a French country song from the local vintner.
Our own outing began with a trip to China to start training in the ways of the warrior and maybe get some really good egg rolls. Landing at any foreign location will start your sims out in front of the adventure board--a bulletin board where tomb-raiding missions are posted. We quickly found our first mission: a notice to recover an artifact from a local tomb. Once we accepted the quest, the new adventure journal appeared onscreen and let us simply click on the name of the quest giver to automatically route our sim there by bicycle. In no time, we were being briefed on the mission by the crabby old man who posted the notice (and also automatically added him to our sim's contact list to develop as a potential friend--or enemy--later).
Then, we headed out to the ancient tomb itself to loot it. Fortunately, because this was a beginner tomb that wasn't terribly involved, we didn't have much trouble defusing the few traps, pushing sliding statues onto pressure plates, and eventually looting the place of its ancient coins. These coins are World Adventure's new currency, which lets you purchase special adventure-specific items. The first tomb areas in each foreign country will necessarily be shorter and easier because your sims will start out with a "visa level" of zero. This means that they'll be able to stay for only three in-game days, though after completing various exploration quests, they'll be able to extend their visas further to take longer vacations and even purchase vacation homes on foreign soil.
To be honest, we were less interested in exploring tombs this time out and more interested in soaking up some local color. To this end, we sent our sim directly to the local martial arts academy in China to pound away at a wooden training dummy until he increased his skill in martial arts. This is one of the new career-related skills that will not only let your character perform cool moves and animations, as well as spar with other martial artists, but it will also let you rack up any number of statistics (such as the strongest board you've ever broken or level of martial arts belt achieved). It will also let you hold martial arts tournaments--with various achievements to unlock along the way.
As it happens, the athletics skill from the original Sims 3 plays into your martial arts skill, and thankfully, the monasteries in China are stocked with the latest in exercise equipment to help your Chuck Norris wannabes strengthen their bodies and skills all at once. Then again, China is also home to other attractions, such as the peaceful Scholar's Garden (which grants all sims an enhanced mood thanks to its meditative silence), a fortune-cookie maker, and even a fireworks display your characters can use.
Once we'd increased our martial arts skills and conquered our first Chinese tomb, we headed back to Sunset Valley on our expired visa but were soon hopping aboard a plane again. This time, we headed off to the French adventure area. France seems like a more laid-back, residential area where instead of kicking, people use their feet to stomp grapes. We decided to try our hand--and feet--at the art of making bottled "nectar" by visiting the local vintner shop, which has dozens of bottles of the stuff on racks for you to peruse, taste, and purchase. You can also achieve a minor mood boost from the "nectar" because it is so "sugary" (wink, wink). There's a merchant who will happily sell you a portable nectar-making still to bring home with you, as well as different bottles of vintages, and various types of grapes. We also decided to use the picturesque French countryside to launch our sim's new photography hobby by purchasing a store-bought camera and snapping a few shots from the new first-person interface. Each location will actually have a number of set pieces that you can capture to rack up special achievements and unlock awards. The easiest include snapping photos of people and landmarks, but there will be some very challenging hidden photo opportunities scattered throughout the world.
Once you stock up on grapes, you can then dump 10 bunches of various combinations into the tub of a still and get stomping, though if your nectar-making skill is low, your sims will probably end up falling flat on their rears in the process. However, once you increase your skill enough, the nectar you can create will fetch a nice asking price. In fact, the new expansion's skills offer a viable new way to make a living without having to report into the office each day.
From what we've seen, World Adventures will have a lot to offer--new areas to explore, new people to meet, new socializing systems to learn, and lots of brand-new ways to play The Sims 3 offers plenty of opportunities to grow and expand your sims, as well as their skills, along familiar-but-different paths. The expansion will ship later this month.
Gamespot has posted their full extended hands-on preview of The Sims 3 World Adventures. Highlights include adventure game play and new skills for your sims!
By Andrew Park
We get our hands on this soon-to-be-released expansion and spread our wings into Europe and the Far East.
The Sims series has let players control the tiny little lives of little computer people for years, and this year's The Sims 3 took the series to a whole new level. It introduced revamped goal systems, new personality and socializing systems, and a revised career system, among other things. And with the first expansion pack, World Adventures, your sims can branch out into a very different profession--that of globetrotting adventurer. Sure, the expansion adds various new additions to the base game that are quite helpful and useful, such as an expanded in-game tutorial system and the ability to build basements in your house. But, the real attraction is flying out to one of three international locations (Egypt, France, and China) and becoming a tiny, gibberish-speaking Indiana Jones.
We've already extensively catalogued our time in Egypt in our previous coverage, so this time around, we'll focus on China and France. Unlike Egypt, where the geography is built around a few major dig sites, the China adventure area is laid out in a mostly even split between unspoiled wilderness and community lots (including peaceful parks for meditation, ancient tombs to explore, martial arts academies, and merchants). The France area, however, is laid out like a country villa--there are small clusters of community lots separated by long country roads. Fortunately, in all lots, your sims can quickly travel from place to place by way of bicycle or scooter (which they'll use automatically), and at these different locations, they'll be able to not only seek out new adventures in ancient tombs but also partake in local color.
The expansion offers new cultural options that start all the way back with character creation--your sims can choose Egyptian, French, or Chinese music as their personal favorites, as well as new cuisines, such as crepes and dim sum. There are even new traits, such as "adventurous" (a sim recovers well from jet lag to travel more often and improves visa level more quickly) and new life goals, such as fully exploring all major tombs or reaching physical perfection as a martial arts master.
However, the culture really starts to come into play once you begin your travels abroad and meet new sims that look very different from the ones that live in Sunset Valley. These include the kung-fu monks in China's monasteries and the beret-wearing "nectar" tasters in the French vineyards. You can also soak up local culture by exploring new social options that are unique to those regions, such as challenging another martial artist to a sparring session or learning a French country song from the local vintner.
Our own outing began with a trip to China to start training in the ways of the warrior and maybe get some really good egg rolls. Landing at any foreign location will start your sims out in front of the adventure board--a bulletin board where tomb-raiding missions are posted. We quickly found our first mission: a notice to recover an artifact from a local tomb. Once we accepted the quest, the new adventure journal appeared onscreen and let us simply click on the name of the quest giver to automatically route our sim there by bicycle. In no time, we were being briefed on the mission by the crabby old man who posted the notice (and also automatically added him to our sim's contact list to develop as a potential friend--or enemy--later).
Then, we headed out to the ancient tomb itself to loot it. Fortunately, because this was a beginner tomb that wasn't terribly involved, we didn't have much trouble defusing the few traps, pushing sliding statues onto pressure plates, and eventually looting the place of its ancient coins. These coins are World Adventure's new currency, which lets you purchase special adventure-specific items. The first tomb areas in each foreign country will necessarily be shorter and easier because your sims will start out with a "visa level" of zero. This means that they'll be able to stay for only three in-game days, though after completing various exploration quests, they'll be able to extend their visas further to take longer vacations and even purchase vacation homes on foreign soil.
To be honest, we were less interested in exploring tombs this time out and more interested in soaking up some local color. To this end, we sent our sim directly to the local martial arts academy in China to pound away at a wooden training dummy until he increased his skill in martial arts. This is one of the new career-related skills that will not only let your character perform cool moves and animations, as well as spar with other martial artists, but it will also let you rack up any number of statistics (such as the strongest board you've ever broken or level of martial arts belt achieved). It will also let you hold martial arts tournaments--with various achievements to unlock along the way.
As it happens, the athletics skill from the original Sims 3 plays into your martial arts skill, and thankfully, the monasteries in China are stocked with the latest in exercise equipment to help your Chuck Norris wannabes strengthen their bodies and skills all at once. Then again, China is also home to other attractions, such as the peaceful Scholar's Garden (which grants all sims an enhanced mood thanks to its meditative silence), a fortune-cookie maker, and even a fireworks display your characters can use.
Once we'd increased our martial arts skills and conquered our first Chinese tomb, we headed back to Sunset Valley on our expired visa but were soon hopping aboard a plane again. This time, we headed off to the French adventure area. France seems like a more laid-back, residential area where instead of kicking, people use their feet to stomp grapes. We decided to try our hand--and feet--at the art of making bottled "nectar" by visiting the local vintner shop, which has dozens of bottles of the stuff on racks for you to peruse, taste, and purchase. You can also achieve a minor mood boost from the "nectar" because it is so "sugary" (wink, wink). There's a merchant who will happily sell you a portable nectar-making still to bring home with you, as well as different bottles of vintages, and various types of grapes. We also decided to use the picturesque French countryside to launch our sim's new photography hobby by purchasing a store-bought camera and snapping a few shots from the new first-person interface. Each location will actually have a number of set pieces that you can capture to rack up special achievements and unlock awards. The easiest include snapping photos of people and landmarks, but there will be some very challenging hidden photo opportunities scattered throughout the world.
Once you stock up on grapes, you can then dump 10 bunches of various combinations into the tub of a still and get stomping, though if your nectar-making skill is low, your sims will probably end up falling flat on their rears in the process. However, once you increase your skill enough, the nectar you can create will fetch a nice asking price. In fact, the new expansion's skills offer a viable new way to make a living without having to report into the office each day.
From what we've seen, World Adventures will have a lot to offer--new areas to explore, new people to meet, new socializing systems to learn, and lots of brand-new ways to play The Sims 3 offers plenty of opportunities to grow and expand your sims, as well as their skills, along familiar-but-different paths. The expansion will ship later this month.
Hallo,
Beleef samen met je Sims het avontuur van je leven! In De Sims 3 Wereldavonturen bezoeken je Sims bestemmingen die afgeleid zijn van echte locaties op de wereld. Ze kunnen nu hun waardevolle momenten vastleggen met behulp van de fotografievaardigheid; fotografenblik.
Je kunt nu camera's kopen op de markt van de Warenhuishandelaar die je op de drie verschillende tegen zult komen: Al Simhara in Egypte, Shang Simla in China en Champs Les Sims in Frankrijk. Je kunt je vaardigheid nog verder ontwikkelen door een vaardigheidsboek over fotografie te lezen of de meest geavanceerde hulpmiddelen vergaren door naar Al Simhara in Egypte te reizen, waar ze de duurste camera's ter wereld hebben. Zo gauw je de vaardigheid onder de knie hebt, kun je speciale foto's maken in bijvoorbeeld foto's in sepia, vignetfoto's of foto's van panoramaformaat. Je kunt geld verdienen als fotograaf en als je vaardigheid echt goed ontwikkeld is, kun je veel geld vangen door het verkopen van je foto's! Maar je hoeft geen professional te zijn, want je kunt ook verschillende fotocollecties compleet maken of je foto's aan de muur hangen zo gauw je weer thuiskomt van een reisje, zodat je weg kunt mijmeren bij al je herinneringen en terug kunt denken aan je geweldige avonturen.
Bij deze nieuwe vaardigheid horen nieuwe taken, kansen en levenswensen die je kunt vervullen. Je kunt nu bijvoorbeeld een fotografiewens als 'een foto van een piramide maken' vervullen, of een kans zoals 'geef fotografieles op school om een beloning te verdienen' aangaan. Voor sommige avonturen zal je Sim een foto moeten maken van een bepaald voorwerp. Er zijn nieuwe levenswensen, die verbonden zijn met fotografie, zoals 'Visionair: Niveau 10 bereiken van de vaardigheden schilderen en fotografie.' Je zult tijdens je reizen allerlei bekende monumenten en bezienswaardigheden tegenkomen, zoals de Sfinx, een piramide, de drakengrot, een Chinese tuin, de markt en meer!
De Sims 3 Wereldavonturen zal vanaf 19 november 2009 verkrijgbaar zijn.
Hallo,
Beleef samen met je Sims het avontuur van je leven! In De Sims 3 Wereldavonturen bezoeken je Sims bestemmingen die afgeleid zijn van echte locaties op de wereld. Ze kunnen nu hun waardevolle momenten vastleggen met behulp van de fotografievaardigheid; fotografenblik.
Je kunt nu camera's kopen op de markt van de Warenhuishandelaar die je op de drie verschillende tegen zult komen: Al Simhara in Egypte, Shang Simla in China en Champs Les Sims in Frankrijk. Je kunt je vaardigheid nog verder ontwikkelen door een vaardigheidsboek over fotografie te lezen of de meest geavanceerde hulpmiddelen vergaren door naar Al Simhara in Egypte te reizen, waar ze de duurste camera's ter wereld hebben. Zo gauw je de vaardigheid onder de knie hebt, kun je speciale foto's maken in bijvoorbeeld foto's in sepia, vignetfoto's of foto's van panoramaformaat. Je kunt geld verdienen als fotograaf en als je vaardigheid echt goed ontwikkeld is, kun je veel geld vangen door het verkopen van je foto's! Maar je hoeft geen professional te zijn, want je kunt ook verschillende fotocollecties compleet maken of je foto's aan de muur hangen zo gauw je weer thuiskomt van een reisje, zodat je weg kunt mijmeren bij al je herinneringen en terug kunt denken aan je geweldige avonturen.
Bij deze nieuwe vaardigheid horen nieuwe taken, kansen en levenswensen die je kunt vervullen. Je kunt nu bijvoorbeeld een fotografiewens als 'een foto van een piramide maken' vervullen, of een kans zoals 'geef fotografieles op school om een beloning te verdienen' aangaan. Voor sommige avonturen zal je Sim een foto moeten maken van een bepaald voorwerp. Er zijn nieuwe levenswensen, die verbonden zijn met fotografie, zoals 'Visionair: Niveau 10 bereiken van de vaardigheden schilderen en fotografie.' Je zult tijdens je reizen allerlei bekende monumenten en bezienswaardigheden tegenkomen, zoals de Sfinx, een piramide, de drakengrot, een Chinese tuin, de markt en meer!
De Sims 3 Wereldavonturen zal vanaf 19 november 2009 verkrijgbaar zijn.
Pak je eetstokjes, spring op je scooter en ga vanaf 19 november 2009 op avontuur in eeuwenoude tomben in De Sims 3 Wereldavonturen
The Sims Studio van EA kondigt vol trots aan dat De Sims™ 3 Wereldavonturen* het eerste uitbreidingspakket voor De Sims 3, goud status heeft gehaald voor de PC en Mac. De game zal vanaf 19 november 2009 in de winkels liggen.
Sims kunnen nu het avontuur van hun leven beleven in De Sims 3 Wereldavonturen. Sims kunnen in Al Simhara in Egypte voor mummies op de vlucht slaan, vuurwerk afsteken dat ze van de plaatselijke bevolking in Shang Simla in China gekocht hebben en de kunst van het brouwen van nectar leren in Frankrijk. Tijdens het spelen kunnen je Sims alle grappige, enge en spannende momenten vastleggen met de nieuwe fotografievaardigheid. Spelers kunnen nadat ze klaar zijn met hun zoektocht de gevonden schatten mee naar huis nemen, zodat ze die kunnen koesteren en aan anderen kunnen laten zien. Wanneer spelers hun PC-/Mac-versie van de game online registreren, ontvangen ze exclusief extra gamemateriaal dat uit de Avonturenschatset en 1.000 SimPoints*** bestaat. Dit materiaal kunnen ze in De Sims 3 Store gebruiken om hun game aan te passen met aanvullende voorwerpen die in de game gebruikt kunnen worden.
Fans van De Sims van over de hele wereld zullen mee swingen met de nieuwe muziek in het Simlish uit het uitbreidingspakket De Sims™ 3 Wereldavonturen. Meer dan een dozijn artiesten hebben hun nummers in het Simlish ingezongen voor de game, waaronder GRAMMY-winnaressen Nelly Furtado en LeAnn Rimes, maar ook nieuwe opkomende sterren als Matt + Kim, Fefe Dobson, Pixie Lott, Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head, Katie Melua, Esmee Denters, Young Punx!, Evan Taubenfeld, Madina Lake en nog veel meer artiesten.
*De Sims 3 of De Sims 3 Collector's Edition voor PC/Mac zijn vereist om te spelen.
**Op basis van NPD-gegevens.
**INTERNETVERBINDING VEREIST. Kijk voor meer informatie op de verpakking of lees de digitale distributieregels door.
Pak je eetstokjes, spring op je scooter en ga vanaf 19 november 2009 op avontuur in eeuwenoude tomben in De Sims 3 Wereldavonturen
The Sims Studio van EA kondigt vol trots aan dat De Sims™ 3 Wereldavonturen* het eerste uitbreidingspakket voor De Sims 3, goud status heeft gehaald voor de PC en Mac. De game zal vanaf 19 november 2009 in de winkels liggen.
Sims kunnen nu het avontuur van hun leven beleven in De Sims 3 Wereldavonturen. Sims kunnen in Al Simhara in Egypte voor mummies op de vlucht slaan, vuurwerk afsteken dat ze van de plaatselijke bevolking in Shang Simla in China gekocht hebben en de kunst van het brouwen van nectar leren in Frankrijk. Tijdens het spelen kunnen je Sims alle grappige, enge en spannende momenten vastleggen met de nieuwe fotografievaardigheid. Spelers kunnen nadat ze klaar zijn met hun zoektocht de gevonden schatten mee naar huis nemen, zodat ze die kunnen koesteren en aan anderen kunnen laten zien. Wanneer spelers hun PC-/Mac-versie van de game online registreren, ontvangen ze exclusief extra gamemateriaal dat uit de Avonturenschatset en 1.000 SimPoints*** bestaat. Dit materiaal kunnen ze in De Sims 3 Store gebruiken om hun game aan te passen met aanvullende voorwerpen die in de game gebruikt kunnen worden.
Fans van De Sims van over de hele wereld zullen mee swingen met de nieuwe muziek in het Simlish uit het uitbreidingspakket De Sims™ 3 Wereldavonturen. Meer dan een dozijn artiesten hebben hun nummers in het Simlish ingezongen voor de game, waaronder GRAMMY-winnaressen Nelly Furtado en LeAnn Rimes, maar ook nieuwe opkomende sterren als Matt + Kim, Fefe Dobson, Pixie Lott, Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head, Katie Melua, Esmee Denters, Young Punx!, Evan Taubenfeld, Madina Lake en nog veel meer artiesten.
*De Sims 3 of De Sims 3 Collector's Edition voor PC/Mac zijn vereist om te spelen.
**Op basis van NPD-gegevens.
**INTERNETVERBINDING VEREIST. Kijk voor meer informatie op de verpakking of lees de digitale distributieregels door.
Hey iphone/ipod touch Simmers… now you can make your Sim a Vampire! We have new themed packs available in the brand new Sims 3 store! Just launch your iphone app and tap the store icon on the main menu.
Themed packs include:
- Live it or Wear it Sets
- “Live it” sets contain: car, furniture, decoration, wallpaper, flooring
- “Wear it” sets contain: clothing, new CAS options, hair styles
- Themes: Vampires and Werewolves, Castle and Campus Life
Keep checking back, we’ll be adding more stuff soon!
Bereid je Sims voor op het avontuur van hun leven met deze GRATIS voorwerpen!
Het Tombe Sleebed is versierd met hiërogliefen die afbeelden hoe je het lekkerst kunt slapen. Je zult net zo vast slapen als in een graftombe, maar dan mét je organen nog in je lijf!
De Woestijneinde Bijzettafel kun je vergelijken met een oase aan het eind van de woestijn, waar je even op adem kunt komen en je kopje rustig neer kunt zetten.
Zorg dat je De Sims 3 Wereldavonturen koopt als deze op 19 november uitkomt!
Het Tombe Sleebed ophalen
De Woestijneinde Bijzettafel ophalen
