I never feel like I am doing anything new. This actually highlights a really big issue I have with The Sims franchise in general: any action is merely a new contextual menu option. The events change, but if a sim goes once and does everything, there really isn’t a need to go back again. The problem with these festivals is that they are too alike. Each seasons has a festival where sims can go and win prizes by completing events like hot-dog eating, ice-skating, playing soccer, or bobbing for apples. When you install Seasons and run it for the first time, one of the parks will be converted into a festival ground. Winter would be lame if it didn’t involve Christmas. It’s a good touch that helps make the feeling of these seasons more meaningful to the lives of your sims. Sims can go on dates on “Love Day,” exchange presents on “Snowflake Day,” or go trick-or-treating on “Spooky Day.” Holidays are fun and it’s neat to have some day-specific actions that you can do. Holidays that match real-world holidays have been introduced. It’s a welcome visual upgrade to the game’s engine. When it’s raining, they pull out umbrellas and are afraid of lightning, and when it’s snowing, they leave footprints in the snow.
Weather effects are very nice to look at, and sims respond to them well. This is worth knowing, because sims can get sunburned and eventually burst into flames if they stay out in the heat for too long (I checked this too).Īs for fall and spring, these seasons are really bland and serve as transitions between the other ones. Jumping into water can also help sims keep cool. In the summer, your sims can get a tan if they stay outside in the sun for long enough, and if it is really hot, they will switch to their bathing suits to keep cool. Sims can also catch a cold now and spread it around with germs. If they don’t wear outerwear in the cold, they can start to freeze and they will eventually die (I checked, of course). A new outerwear section has been added to clothing options, which sims will automatically change into when they go outside depending on the temperature. Winter is cold and full of snow, and sims can make snowmen or snow angels, they can snowboard, or they can build an igloo for a little winter “Woo-Hoo” (that’s gotta be cold and uncomfortable). Sims will get to experience all four seasons and the changing weather. While it’s neat to have these features, I’ll just come out and say that it’s not worth forty bucks.įall, winter, spring, and summer. It adds seasons, weather, and holidays to the game. Seasons mostly does what you would expect. Seasons adds a little bit of this stuff, but it’s mostly a passive expansion in that it adds things to the background of the sims’ lives. Usually these packs add active content like new town locations, new interactions, or new career paths for your sims. It’s part of the experience to slowly add more content to the game. The Sims series will always have expansion packs.
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